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

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Jaden said:
Why do you gotta be a dick about it? I promise you I'm right, you can either learn from it or don't no skin off my junk.

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So many people have left this site because of people who like to thumb their noses to those who have and are willing to share the knowledge.
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I'm not trying to be one way or another about it, but when someone comes on and gives advice that I find to be misleading I'm usually going to dispute it. At 3:10 of your video you tell people to watch Dr Daves video to find the pivot point of their shaft. I'm not sure you watched the whole video. Anyone who does will realize that he spends quite a bit of time explaining that what you tout as gospel doesn't actually work very well.

I'm done after this, I guess the viewers can decide for themselves but I'd advise them to watch Daves video before deciding.
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Thoughts on players who seemingly take Zero practice strokes, before shooting / final follow through?

Jaden
Not Dead Ted said:
What is missing here was supplied by Dr. Dave (see snip below from TP-B26):

If you have a cue with a pivot length that does not match bridge length, you still pivot the cue around it's pivot point, but must use a combination of FHE and BHE. So for an LD shaft with the pivot at 15", the pivoting is still at the 15" point, but requires combination of FHE and BHE.

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With the bridge length at the natural pivot length of the shaft (B=N), the percentage of
BHE is 100% (P=1), with no FHE pivot.
With a bridge length shorter than the natural pivot length (B<N), the percentage of BHE
is less than 100% (P<1), and the FHE percentage completes the total pivot to 100%.
With a bridge length longer than the natural pivot length (B>N), and the percentage of
BHE is greater than 100% (P>1), with the FHE percentage being the negative of the
excess beyond 100%.
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I've found that unnecessary except for specialty shots, it's a drag mentally to find the pivot point, pivot then slide to where you want to bridge. You can use FHE and BHE visualizing the cue's pivoting at it's pivot point. Two things that I used to do is sharpy a circular line around the shaft at the pivot point, or draw a dot in sharpy on the pivot point. That makes it easier.

You also will run into shots where a ball is sitting where you would need to bridge. You line up the shot, pivot at the pivot point to get the line for the spin you want and keeping the cue on that line, bridge wherever you want; however, you better have a straight stroke for that.

Also if you want to naturally bridge off of the pivot point, there will be zero PP correction for a bad stroke so you better have a straight stroke..
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Thoughts on players who seemingly take Zero practice strokes, before shooting / final follow through?

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What is missing here was supplied by Dr. Dave (see snip below from TP-B26):

If you have a cue with a pivot length that does not match bridge length, you still pivot the cue around it's pivot point, but must use a combination of FHE and BHE. So for an LD shaft with the pivot at 15", the pivoting is still at the 15" point, but requires combination of FHE and BHE.

****
With the bridge length at the natural pivot length of the shaft (B=N), the percentage of
BHE is 100% (P=1), with no FHE pivot.
With a bridge length shorter than the natural pivot length (B<N), the percentage of BHE
is less than 100% (P<1), and the FHE percentage completes the total pivot to 100%.
With a bridge length longer than the natural pivot length (B>N), and the percentage of
BHE is greater than 100% (P>1), with the FHE percentage being the negative of the
excess beyond 100%.
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