[Bigwill]

Well tried this out. I have a friend who I play at pool and we do these types of things to each other all the time as part of the fun - so its a good enviroment for testing experiment no.1. I have to say it really does work - bugged the hell outta him everytime he missed a shot and he heard me click my fingers which enhanced the negativity more and more with each shot he missed. Then when I used it before a shot, it really did trigger him back into a poor mental state. Since we do off-putting things to each other - we are both quite conditioned to falling cues, well timed chalking, standing and moving infront of pockets..etc and it has been a long time since anything has really gotten under his skin this badly. Even he thought it quite funny 'afterwards'..lol

I was hardly subtle so now I need to test out a less noticable application to see whether it has a similar effect without detection so need to test on new subject.

Something else to consider. In performing an experiment like this, how would you be able to tell whether or not the cue is working as a trigger, as opposed to simply being an irritant itself?