Videos - For All You Stroke Analysers

Scaramouche said:
Stephen Hendry?s Stroke
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FyEZypX1k1o

Oyster?s Angles
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SEBFzlaXUl0

Jeanette Lee?s Stroke
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u6ritUhFsc4
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Stephen Hendry - Perfection.

Oyster - always has great info, but I refuse to to watch him playing pool in his underwear. Perhaps if he did the same video with Jasmin playing in her underwear ... now there's an idea!

Jeanette - great little video, but I really couldn't judge her mechanics due to the camera angle. Great shot when she finally was able to clip the red.
 
Stroke

Hendry - I thought that was Allison!!! ....LOl Typical patented Snooker stroke ..... but I suppose it is okay since he was playing Snooker.

The Oyster - Very good stroke, but was standing at about a 25 degree angle to his cue instead of a 45 degree angle.

Jeanette - Yeah, camera angle, but she has a real nice stroke, just can't aim very well sometimes.

And I have NEVER paused at the backend of my hit stroke, to me, that is as bad as coitus interruptus. I do pause just slightly at the before the beginning of my hit stroke, but my hit stroke is 1 fluid motion.
 
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Snapshot9 said:
And I have NEVER paused at the backend of my hit stroke, to me, that is as bad as coitus interruptus. I do pause just slightly at the before the beginning of my hit stroke, but my hit stroke is 1 fluid motion.
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Different strokes for sifferent folks as they say. My stroke (touch & accuracy) is greatly increased when I pause at the back end of the final stroke. I feel the pause disallows those subtle steering movements you can get during the immediate transition from backward to forward (at least for me). The stroke feels rushed if I don't pause.

...and thank you yet again for sharing links to interesting & educational videos, You're the champ!
 
Not all snooker players shoot alike.Check out the best snooker player in the world (yes, better than Ronnie), current world champion John Higgins practicing.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JuL87TeAwas&mode=related&search=

Wouldn't you say that motion is more complicated than Hendry's? I mean the guy drops his elbow a little on a backstroke just to keep the cue on a horizontal plane. Is this still a pendulum stroke?
 
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Hendry had a very still elbow there. On that power shot at around 1:40, the elbow drop was clearly well after contact.
 
predator said:
Wouldn't you say that motion is more complicated than Hendry's? I mean the guy drops his elbow a little on a backstroke just to keep the cue on a horizontal plane. Is this still a pendulum stroke?
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No. Snooker players have piston strokes, not pendulum strokes. Your elbow will drop both ways by definition. There are plenty of these practice table videos posted on Youtube. I can't find one where they don't drop their elbows when the shot calls for an extended drawback or follow through. It's the nature of the normal snooker cue action.

Snooker players use four points of contact to groove the cue, keeping the cue running against the chin and chest. That doesn't mean they wont cut out any extraneous movement when it's not necessary to the shot - including elbows. That's just part of the fundamental nature of a sound snooker stroke.

Boro Nut
 
PKM said:
Hendry had a very still elbow there. On that power shot at around 1:40, the elbow drop was clearly well after contact.
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The first elbow drop wasn't though, it's exactly at impact. The second more obvious elbow drop is simply him raising the front of his cue well after the ball has gone, as he watches where his cue ball is going. We've all done it. It's not part of the shot.

Boro Nut
 
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