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DrCue'sProtege

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One thing that is killing me nowadays is that for some reason I cant draw the ball straight back. Whether its just a straight draw or a draw back off the rail and then into position I seem to be struggling with this.

Tips?

r/DCP
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
One thing that is killing me nowadays is that for some reason I cant draw the ball straight back. Whether its just a straight draw or a draw back off the rail and then into position I seem to be struggling with this.

Tips?

r/DCP
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On your follow thru....finish your follow thru with your tip touching the cloth.
 
its your stroke or alignment
TAKE A LESSON WITH A PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTOR
jmho
icbw
 
You can't draw/screw the cueball off a rail.

Otherwise, all you need to do is cue straight. If you're having problems with that, try replacing the cueball with a wine bottle. Preferably empty. Practice cueing into the neck, with the hole close to where you would normally have the cueball. If you can do that without hitting the bottle, you can hit the cueball where you need to. Voila.
 
Blue Jam said:
You can't draw/screw the cueball off a rail.

Otherwise, all you need to do is cue straight. If you're having problems with that, try replacing the cueball with a wine bottle. Preferably empty. Practice cueing into the neck, with the hole close to where you would normally have the cueball. If you can do that without hitting the bottle, you can hit the cueball where you need to. Voila.
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I just realised you didn't mean draw the cueball when it's resting on the rail. You meant draw the cueball so that after contact on object ball it travels into a cushion and out into open space. Carry on, my bad.
 
itsfroze said:
AS you snap your wrist through, release your cue and re-grip it,
you will take a lot if not all of the twisting of the wrist that some
people tend to do on draw or long draw shots.

Hope this helps.


PS. Of coarse some decent lighting may help also. :)
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Haha that's brilliant. Let go of the cue. Yeah, and when driving to the pool hall and you're approaching a junction, just close your eyes. Oh, and just before you go into a job interview, take off all your clothes!
 
Wild Turkey bottles are the best. Start with a full one. Drink a third of it then try again.

If no improvement, quit using draw and work on your follow stroke...but keep drinking. :)

Best,
Mike

PS Try relaxing on your stroke a little. You may be trying for spin too hard and throwing your stroke into a left turn.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
One thing that is killing me nowadays is that for some reason I cant draw the ball straight back. Whether its just a straight draw or a draw back off the rail and then into position I seem to be struggling with this.

Tips?

r/DCP
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If you bridge at your pivot point, it can help to reduce the influence of bad stroking which leads of off center hitting, and subsequently squirt.

If you hit the OB in a straight line, with draw, the CB will come back in a straight line, whether it was stroked with swoop or side english.

The key is alignment... i.e. Bridge Positioning.

If you can't avoid unintentional side english, then you can set the bridge length a little longer than your pivot point (will vary according to distance between CB and OB - if close go a few inches longer, if 3 feet away, 1/2 inch will do). This will cancel out the effect of unintended Spin Induced Throw. But this method is a bit like a band aid on a broken leg.

It can be a handy tool though, while working toward stroke improvement.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
One thing that is killing me nowadays is that for some reason I cant draw the ball straight back. Whether its just a straight draw or a draw back off the rail and then into position I seem to be struggling with this.

Tips?

r/DCP
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You have had lessons in the past, so you should know how to check for problems.

1. Are you actually hitting center axis of the cb? Easy to check if you use a cb with a circle on it and line up the circle to center axis and then check the chalk mark.

2. Is your stroke straight? Where does your tip finish? Is it on the shot line, or off to one side?

3. Are you even hitting the ob on the vertical axis? Are you aiming it correctly? For a dead on straight shot, when looking at the ob, just look at the very top or the very bottom of the ob. That way, you can easily see the center axis. You can also put two blocking balls in front of the ob on each side of it. If you hit the blocking ball, you weren't going to hit the ob on the center axis. Meaning, your aim was off.

So, you are down to three things, you aren't hitting the cb where you think you are, you don't have a straight stroke, your aim is off.
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
One thing that is killing me nowadays is that for some reason I cant draw the ball straight back. Whether its just a straight draw or a draw back off the rail and then into position I seem to be struggling with this.

Tips?

r/DCP
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Aim better, don't be lazy on easy shots. You're simply hitting the ball off the direct center between the contact points.

This often happens on an easy shot where the ball is near a pocket since you can hit it in so many places and it will go, but only a very straight hit will draw it back without going left or right. If you played on a snooker table you will likely learn to do this faster since you can't make a ball by hitting off center much at all.

I had this issue for a while and still not very good with it. What started to fix it for me is finding the center of the cueball properly with a straight stroke. My stroke would always veer right when I hit, once I changed my stance to line up to the true center and aiming line, I started to be able to hit the cueball more pure, and was able to draw back without any left or right motion.
 
First off, I presume that you know (with a traditional pool-stroke) that it is only possible to draw straight back on a full-ball hit...

There must be some way that you can do it? Ball in hand with OB very close to pocket?

Can you shoot a ball in the side straight in and draw the CB into the opposite side?
 
itsfroze said:
AS you snap your wrist through, release your cue and re-grip it,
you will take a lot if not all of the twisting of the wrist that some
people tend to do on draw or long draw shots.
Also if you're having trouble hitting center bottom on the cue ball, pay attention
to where the cue ball sits on the cloth as that is the horizontal center.

Hope this helps.


PS. Of coarse some decent lighting may help also. :)
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huh??????????
 
I started having all sorts of problems with my draw shots not too long ago. What really helped me was starting out by drawing the QB as far as I could hitting as soft as I could then worked my way up from there.
 
bbb said:
its your stroke or alignment
TAKE A LESSON WITH A PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTOR
jmho
icbw
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I got to thinking about this and remembered what Scott Lee told me about how your grip should come up and hit yourself in your "chest" area. So I started focusing on this and it seems to be working a lot better.

We have a few inches of snow today so I am basically doing nothing but playing some pool. Its a holiday anyway, and I am off tomorrow as well. I've been throwing about eight balls out on the table and taking CB in hand today. I might just give up all the racking and breaking, 98% of the time I never have any luck.

r/DCP
 
I recorded myself drawing being I have a tendency to hit the ball left causing the draw to go a little right.

I noticed 3 things.
1.) I was gripping the stick tighter right before impact.
2.) I was curling my wrist right before impact.
3.) I was adding a slight side arc to my back stroke when trying to hit it hard.

I noticed most of this was the result of me getting low into my shot and hitting my chest when drawing just like all my other shots. This seems to tighten me up because of the shorten path when I am hitting hard draw shots.

So if I am drawing to a ball far down the table or I have to draw the ball far away from where it is I will get my aim low and then raise up about 4-6". Doing so allows me to not stroke so hard yet get more draw and helps prevent me from doing the 3 things I mentioned above so bad.
 
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