Do you adjust your bridge hand on draw shots?
- Thread starter alstl
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That's the way I've always done it.
ElCorazonFrio
Banned
This is 100% incorrect. Follow-through doesn't create draw.
I'm not able to view the link, but, I generally lower the closed bridge, shorten the bridge length a bit, and slightly tighten the grip on the shaft.
Lower to strike cb lower, near level, closer and tighter for improved accuracy hitting the cb, especially if adding more power than normal.
It helps me.
...I like to feel a smooth increasing rate of acceleration on the draw shot, whether hit soft, medium or hard on a 'normal' draw shot.
Though not happening, I like to feel that the tip stays in contact with the ball for an instant...almost like pushing it, even though it isn't.
...altering reality to fit my perception..is ok by me.:smile:
Lower to strike cb lower, near level, closer and tighter for improved accuracy hitting the cb, especially if adding more power than normal.
It helps me.
...I like to feel a smooth increasing rate of acceleration on the draw shot, whether hit soft, medium or hard on a 'normal' draw shot.
Though not happening, I like to feel that the tip stays in contact with the ball for an instant...almost like pushing it, even though it isn't.
...altering reality to fit my perception..is ok by me.:smile:
Sorry, but this is backward. Follow through doesn't create more spin; more stroke speed creates more spin (longer follow through is a side effect of more speed). And a longer stroke can make it easier, smoother and more accurate to get more speed.
pj
chgo
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I adjust my bridge constantly. It is one of the nuances you do without even thinking.
Nice one
Yes I do adjust my bridge depending on shot. However need do work on going to closed bridge when playing on the GC's. I generally play on BB's so open will get the job done for me.
Thanks for post AL:groucho: I ended up going from front of video and enjoyed watching a loose WiIlie Mosconi entertain and put on a demonstration for guests/press in his personal Room in his 'basement'. Probably never would have seen this tape. C
I was cringing at watching him gather up and knock balls around with his Szamboti or what ever beautiful 4 pointer he grabbed. But then again, he brobably had a broom closet full of custom matching shafts for the cue. Haha.
Thanks again,
-Davekat
Yes I do adjust my bridge depending on shot. However need do work on going to closed bridge when playing on the GC's. I generally play on BB's so open will get the job done for me.
Thanks for post AL:groucho: I ended up going from front of video and enjoyed watching a loose WiIlie Mosconi entertain and put on a demonstration for guests/press in his personal Room in his 'basement'. Probably never would have seen this tape. C
I was cringing at watching him gather up and knock balls around with his Szamboti or what ever beautiful 4 pointer he grabbed. But then again, he brobably had a broom closet full of custom matching shafts for the cue. Haha.
Thanks again,
-Davekat
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This is what I do.
Once again, semantics - if you and frito care to be that pedantic, it is actually the extremely low
tip-to-Cueball contact point with the type of stroke that results in a noticeably extended follow thru...
And while I'm at it, Isaac Newton called and said don't ever forget the second derivative again...
It's acceleration - not speed.
Dale(somebody had to say it)
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Great find !
I love that he says the bridge hand is the key to the game, not the stroking hand.
I also raise and lower my bridge in an effort to keep the cue as flat as possible.
Colin
The CB knows nothing of acceleration of the cue (in fact it is decelerating rapidly during contact) or the cue's acceleration before or after impact.
You were correct in pointing out that offset plays a significant role in determining the amount of draw along with speed and weight of cue to some degree.
I think the main reason some people draw further with a shorter bridge is that they tend to hit lower on the CB, more consistently, this way.
Colin
That would be closer, not further. For more accuracy, hitting dead center, and hitting low enough to affect more spin. Further away, folks are not hitting where they think they are, and thus not hitting low enough.
PS: I'm not talking about PRO's, but league players.
Thanks. It's not every day you find a video pool lesson from Mosconi.
ElCorazonFrio
Banned
It isn't pedantic. It is a physics reply and being correct in the sciences is never pedantic.
It is 'frio'.
It is the speed of the cue that matters. It doesn't matter whether it is accelerating or decelerating at the time of impact unless that acceleration/deceleration is so abrupt that it has a noticeable effect over the milliseconds that the tip is in contact.
Acceleration of the cue never enters the equation.
The 'type' of stroke doesn't matter. The only things that matter are the coefficient of friction, the direction of the cuestick, the mass of the cuestick and the spot that is hit.