I, among others, had the pleasure of watching the Old School vs the Young Guns in person. This was my first time to ever watch champions of this caliber play.
Keep in mind I'm sitting about 12 feet away from these players.
I didn't pay a whole lot attention to their ball pocketing skills. My focus was on their fundamentals, foot placement, grip and stroke. I watched this for hours.
Now for the question. What I observed has to do with their stroking of the cue ball, it was neither a pendulum nor a piston type of stroke.
All of the pro's used this stroke. On practice strokes (above center cue ball) the cue was elevated something like 5 +/-, when the cue tip made contact the cue was level. At no time did I ever see the cue tip go any further than maybe like 4 or 5 inches beyond where the cue ball was after contact. After contact the cue tip either stayed level or rose slightly into the air.
I have a table at home so the next day I began to copy this style of stroke. From my practicing this type of stroke requires a lot less effort is to move the cue ball around the table.
The stroke was like your trying to help the OB go in and the QB to go where you want it to rather than driving them.
So what kind of cue delivery is this.
You can see this for yourself if you go to Utube and search Rodney Morris, Justin Bergman, Johnnie Archer or Sky Woodward.
Scott, Randy, Fran and any others that would care to contribute.
Thanks.
John
Keep in mind I'm sitting about 12 feet away from these players.
I didn't pay a whole lot attention to their ball pocketing skills. My focus was on their fundamentals, foot placement, grip and stroke. I watched this for hours.
Now for the question. What I observed has to do with their stroking of the cue ball, it was neither a pendulum nor a piston type of stroke.
All of the pro's used this stroke. On practice strokes (above center cue ball) the cue was elevated something like 5 +/-, when the cue tip made contact the cue was level. At no time did I ever see the cue tip go any further than maybe like 4 or 5 inches beyond where the cue ball was after contact. After contact the cue tip either stayed level or rose slightly into the air.
I have a table at home so the next day I began to copy this style of stroke. From my practicing this type of stroke requires a lot less effort is to move the cue ball around the table.
The stroke was like your trying to help the OB go in and the QB to go where you want it to rather than driving them.
So what kind of cue delivery is this.
You can see this for yourself if you go to Utube and search Rodney Morris, Justin Bergman, Johnnie Archer or Sky Woodward.
Scott, Randy, Fran and any others that would care to contribute.
Thanks.
John
Last edited: