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Thoughts on players who seemingly take Zero practice strokes, before shooting / final follow through?

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try instead of any lining up just walk up to the shot from any angle put down your hand and shoot with just a straight stroke no back and forth.

no thinking or lining anything up. plop down and stroke.

do it for a little while and soon you will see you just naturally get to hit straight and can pocket almost as good as before. and maybe better as you dont tense up or over think things. its really a good thing to learn and helps your normal routine and game later.
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Chalk gate at the open !!!!

Jaden
Flakeandrun said:
Don't think this has ever been an issue for anyone (unless they are missing digits), or something that anyone has ever committed energy to think about. You have just achieved a world first! I am functionally ambidextrous, and usually do things in the way I have learned through observation (in some cases, I will alter this according to who I deem worthy of copying). I fail to see how whichever configuration used, there would be more mess than the other (unless your opposite hand has fine motor skills of a first-grader).

I actually don't understand how there would be any difference in "mess" - I am annoyed that I have now spent an inordinate amount of time considering this 😂
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Well think a little harder. When you chalk and any excess gets onto your hands, if you're holding the cue with that hand, it will remain stationary. If that's your bridge hand, the shaft will be sliding against your hand and the hand will be rubbing against the table. So there's a greater likelihood of the chalk getting on the cloth and on your cue...

If I ever stop wearing a glove again, I'll take a picture of my hand after a session to show you the difference.
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Chalk gate at the open !!!!

Flakeandrun
Jaden said:
So I have a unique problem. Most players switch their cue to the opposite hand and chalk with their playing hand. I play left handed. I eat left handed and I write and draw left handed. Almost everything else I do right handed. I throw a ball, bowl, bat, do just about everything right handed. So I chalk right handed. I always wondered why other people's hands don't get as chalked up messy as mine until I was watching someone who played right handed set their cue in the opposite hand and chalk with their right hand. I thought that was so weird.

Then I realized I was the odd duck, but it makes for a messy hand and table, it's unavoidable. It's also why I never needed a glove, I was constantly chalking my fingers.
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Don't think this has ever been an issue for anyone (unless they are missing digits), or something that anyone has ever committed energy to think about. You have just achieved a world first! I am functionally ambidextrous, and usually do things in the way I have learned through observation (in some cases, I will alter this according to who I deem worthy of copying). I fail to see how whichever configuration used, there would be more mess than the other (unless your opposite hand has fine motor skills of a first-grader).

I actually don't understand how there would be any difference in "mess" - I am annoyed that I have now spent an inordinate amount of time considering this 😂
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