Developing lane sense

I devoted the best part of practice today to lane play, particularly keeping in mind a few pointers “CoachJim” gave me last night about developing a sense of the lane’s break point (the point where the ball begins its move into the pocket). The first game was easy, as I played the lane as I normally begin to play it, and I had a clean 200 (the clean game being saved at one point by a conversion of the 5-7 split). I began using the pointers when I determined I had to move, and though my scores didn’t necessarily show it (due to bad shots, not enough carry, and missed spares), I thought I was beginning to develop that sense of the break point, as at the end of the practice, I flushed my first two balls in the 10th frame on shots standing on the 18 board before I missed my last shot right and slid past the break point. I will continue to keep the pointers in mind in my next practices.