Joey:
Actually, Pat has a point. All too often (but not necessarily in Lee's case), marketing folks "trying to invent a new mousetrap" will invent new lingo to describe something that already has well-founded and understood terms to describe it. But people will "bite" on the new lingo, thinking the item/issue it describes as something newly-discovered / newly-tagged. It's the same ol' marketing exploitation all over again. As a sales guy yourself, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.
In Lee's case, however, it's more a case of different lingo used by Brits vs. Americans. I certainly don't attribute Lee's lingo to be malicious/exploitive marketing as I've described or as Pat suspects. In the UK, they say "getting through the ball." Here, we say simply, "follow-through."
And, Lee's DVD is excellent! I have it, and I'm still going through it as I have the time. He does use different lingo, but I'm familiar with that lingo, being an ex-Navy man that'd spent some time in the UK and their "colonies."
As for what I see Earl doing wrong in that match (I watched the whole match, btw, not just the missed 10-ball), he did two things wrong: 1) he didn't step correctly into/into the shot line, and tried to adjust later; 2.) exaggerated elbow drop -- it's one thing to utilize elbow drop; it's quite another when you don't stroke the ball properly and kinda just "drop your arm into the ball." If you watch Earl's stroke carefully in that one, you'll see point #2 in all its glory. He just kind of lazily dropped his arm into the ball, instead of actually stroking it. I don't think the cue tip went more than an inch into the space formerly occupied by the cue ball.
-Sean
