u/Revolutionary-Gap494

We all have been watching Wu's performance over the past weeks. He's flourishing on his potting ability, technique and cueing. Add to that his fearless demeanor and at times remaining calm and playing along the tight gameplan shows his freshness and maturity in this year's World Championships. It's the perfect balanced ingredients towards success.

When improving break building skills I always get this textbook kind of shots that have to be played throughout the break. Certain shot selections, positions, kisses, canons, etc. you name it. When looking at Wu, I noticed and the guys in the commentary booth and doing the analysis say it as well: Wu's not always playing the right shots in his break, but he sees things a bit differently and not always set himself with ideal position and thus has to play a more difficult shot. It does work with his game. It's a more aggressive, atypical approach. More like: "If I have a shot at the next ball, I can make it and continue on."

I sometimes play the odd shot during my breaks and at times it does frustrate opponents, because they are thinking: "Why do you play that for?" because it's not textbook, but it works because you know how well you are cueing and you have the confidence in committing to those more difficult, atypical shots.

What you get is the remark of being under pressure. Highly likely you will miss it, that's why you should make it yourself as easy as possible.

So I wonder if there's a right or wrong in break building or is that difference between right and wrong evolving more and more, because potting abilities are just getting better and better with each generation of players? Is textbook break building getting rewritten continuously?