Stroke: Follow Through

[BJTyler]

How would you factor in contact displacement?
On a hard and fast stroke contact displacement has to be higher than a slow and gentle stroke.

What is hard to determine is the range of contact displacement? How much the object ball path curves or shifts off the line because of the different strokes?

I was always taught that the hurt of the squirt is inversely proportional to the angle of the dangle which itself is proportional to the slip of the grip.

 

[tucson9ball]

How long can contact with the cueball last during a stroke?

Sometimes on a long shot, it feels like my stroke last 3 diamond lengths.

Is that a legal shot?

I aim on the shot, know I will need power and just whale it. To me it feels like my cue stick is driving the cueball for a while on those.

How long your follow through is has no bearing on tip to Q ball contact.
Doesn't matter if you have a 6 inch follow through or 3 ft as you say.
The time of contact is the same.
The most important thing is that you are going straight through the Q ball for your aim target.

 

[randyg]

if you can get enough wrist snap into your hard stroke , enough that you accelerate at the speed the cue ball is accelerating plus the rebound off the tip you can keep your cue tip on the cue ball for as long as you want and steer the cue ball anywhere you want it to go for the length of your stroke.
so justnum you are right and all these people have no idea of what they are talking about.

WOW!

randyg

 

[justnum]

I was always taught that the hurt of the squirt is inversely proportional to the angle of the dangle which itself is proportional to the slip of the grip.

Does the roughness of the carpet and heat from friction in slow rolls have greater impact, than in fast rolls? If am stroking it slowly than the cueball might not go the distance on a shot.

When gauging minimal stroke power. I don't want to use excessive force and create chaos on the table.

I think the table roughness can stretch or shrink object ball paths more significantly than stroke power in slow and gentle shots, but its unclear to me how to manage those situations.

What produces better results on a soft and gentle stroke, a short and quick stroke or a long, slow and steady stroke?