20 Tips for Improving Your Game

Scratch85 said:

PoolDawg sends out e-mails periodically that have instruction from their PoolDawg Academy. I always find them interesting and take the time to read them. Today's e-mail was titled "20 Tips for Improving Your Game."

Tip #7 is: "When you need to send an object ball along the rail with speed, jack up your cue slightly to help avoid "wiggling" the ball in the pocket jaws; it also eliminates throw."

I don't understand this. What about "jack up your cue slightly" (Which makes the shot more difficult for me) helps avoid rattling the ball in the pocket?

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Bit odd advice that, jacking up the cue would either give you a slight jump, masse or draw, none of those will help with making the ball. And draw shooting down the rail will actually make the ball harder to make unless you stoke it clean and pure.

I always thought using follow when the object ball is frozen to the rail helps it stay closer to the rail on its way to the pocket.

Kris_b1104 said:

I always thought using follow when the object ball is frozen to the rail helps it stay closer to the rail on its way to the pocket.

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Me too.
He must be really good to do that using draw.

lol I love pool advice like that: It makes no sense, and no explanation of how it's supposed to work is given. In other words, about half of all pool advice.

Kris_b1104 said:

I always thought using follow when the object ball is frozen to the rail helps it stay closer to the rail on its way to the pocket.

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have heard that too, and it seems to work for me.....not sure why.

edit - I have heard that a "firm" hit works better too (better than a soft hit).

This is an appropriate thread to post about another ridiculous "tip" I saw on facebook today that made me shake my head.

A pool related facebook page posted something similar to the following: "The tip shaper your using is mishaping your tip." Posted with no context or explanation.

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hang-the-9 said:

...And draw shooting down the rail will actually make the ball harder to make unless you stoke it clean and pure.

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The equator of the cue ball is below the nose of the cushion. Draw can lift the cue ball off the bed of the table, then the cushion will force it offline.

did this say where the CB was? there doesn't seem to be a lot of information about the shot other than the OB so bashing the claim seem kind of harsh but as they say "this is Azb"
Putting draw on a ball on the rail (or anywhere as we all know) puts follow on the OB this causes the ball to roll down the rail, putting top (we know how this works i'm assuming) will more likely cause the ball to slide or skid for a moment as it comes out of the slide and roll begins conditions affect how the ball starts to roll. I'm under the impression we've seen a stripped ball coming out of slide and how it tumbles as roll begins, that can cause the ball to take more to the rail which will then cause it to possibly leave the rail slightly and thus the wiggle is reduced.
Maybe we can get DrDave to do a slow-mo or how long slide is when hitting with max top vs max draw, i think that'll be interesting to see. Bob make that happen.