Reposted in “Ask the Cuemaker”.

Yes, I have many videos from behind and from the front. It's clear what's happening. The challenge and difficulty is correcting it!

I've been a full-time technical development tennis instructor for 40 years. I understand how long it takes to develop technique, especially for very precise strokes.

For the pool stroke I have read, seen and heard probably most methods of developing a straight stroke.

One of the most difficult things in all sports mechanics is feeling, and correcting, what's happening behind you while you're looking at the object in front of you.

I think the bottom line is that it's just going to take more time and correct repetition to develop the feel ("muscle memory") of a straight stroke, even with good instruction, video, training methods and training aids.

I also have a strong technical background in golf. The pool stroke, being such a short simple motion, is very similar to the golf putting stroke, which is also a very simple short motion... an 8-inch (seemingly) simple stroke that a two-year-old can do the basics of!
There are entire books and professional coaches in golf dedicated to nothing but putting... and professional golfers work on it their entire lives.

SIMPLE does NOT equate to easy because of the level of precision required.

The search continues. I'm getting closer. PROGRESS is probably all I can realistically hope for at this point.

From all I've read, I'm certainly not alone in this challenge of developing a straight stroke. I'm sure it drives a lot of people crazy. So I guess there's some comfort in sharing the frustration with others...

Hopefully a year from now I'll have a straight stroke to post a video of

stevelomako said:

Rexus is a very nice guy. All you have to do is ask nicely. He’ll sell it to you.

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Hell, I wouldn't sell that cue to me!

I found a 2min clip on Dr Dave's youtube channel. I'll send this to the player.
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I still don't like the way the WPA rules are written. One must do a lot of searching and interpreting to come to the conclusion that the lift stroke is illegal. I wish the WPA would just adopt the Griffin rules in whole.

thank you for the feedback, yes i could open it up to any youtube videos, good idea. probably a little cumbersome to setup on the tv web browser though

i’ll have to think about how to add your own streams easily

you can watch all the streams live in 1 spot now.

i bring up this url on my tv and stream all at the same time

maha said:

if you see it in a tournament you can stop it and find a ref or t.d. to not let it happen.

in a cash gambling game all you can do is try to stop it if you havent already said it before you start.
unless you somehow state in the game is to be tournament rules and by which organization.

in a cash game all those things go on and not worth arguing about. if a guy wants to take a foul say by touching the cue ball with his ferral so what.

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This was in a 9 ball game. The 9 was about 1/4" off the rail and the cb was in a double kiss bank spot. So I rolled it on top of the 9, and they were perpendicular to the rail and about 1/4" apart from each other. A standard play in that situation.

When playing players who know the game, these micky mouse rules usually aren't stated. Otherwise you'd have to recite the whole rule book. One just doesn't expect a player to try a swipe up/lift shot.

Anyway, I stopped him, and he shot away from it with a normal stroke. But he was convinced it was legal.

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Fixed, thanks