Luck is when preparations meets opportunity

Gdyby nie napisał tego Mika Immonen nie zwróciłbym na to uwagi pewnie, przecież to zwykły truizm, a jednak warto go przywołać tłumacząc niektórym grę w bilarda
http://icemanmika.blogspot.com/2010/08/luck-is-when-preparation-meets.html

Mika pisze jasno, wygrywał tyle turniejów, że uznał że mu się wygrywanie należy, nie musi nic robić by dostawać kolejne nagrody, to plus niekonsekwencje organizatorskie w światku bilardowym spowodowały, że przestał trenować. Rezultatem zaczeły być częste porażki oraz brak frajdy z gry.

Recepta na to wszystko jest prosta, więcej treningów.

Bo szczęście jest wtedy gdy okazja spotyka przygotowania.

Dear all,

It has been a strange season. Strange, meaning pretty fruitless. I’m not sure exactly why but there could be a few reasons.

I guess for one, I took a conscious break from practicing. I was playing so many tournaments and winning so many last year that I almost got immune to it. I guess as crazy as it sounds, I might have taken winning for granted as it was happening. It’s almost as if I needed to loose a few times again to be able to appreciate the winning ways. Awful, isn’t it? Hell yeah it is because I took quite a few beatings. I’m tired of it. 

Secondly, I was a bit discouraged to play because I didn’t even get paid yet from my World 10-ball Championships in Manila last December. Can you imagine all the hardship you have to go through to win? Just to have them play strange delay-tactics on me? 

It kind of took the wind out of my sails. I am still wondering where the money is. 9 months and counting. 

I have a plan. As I would like to see myself as a honorable man, I hereby promise to do the following things to improve my chances to win tournaments in general:

1. Practice (a lot)

2. No partying, if any, before the tournament is over. (why would I? LOL)

3. Make favorable travel plans. For example, don’t show up one day before the tourney specially if it’s on the other side of the world. 

4. Stop giving myself excuses why and if I would be playing bad. 

5. Exercise moderately on the day of tournament, hard on the day off. (or “hard” after the match that day) 

6. blog more

7. Suggestions?

I did already do some of these things here and ended up victorious in Louisiana! Me and Rodney “The Rocket” Morris won the doubles event and I ended winning the singles as well by beating none other than Shane Van Boening 10-3 in the finals! Pretty sweet…

Ok, its time for me to go to work.

-ICEMAN-