Saw a video from the beard saying that the bridge lengths should be different. The draw should be the shortest, the stop in the middle and follow the longest.
Is there anything to this???
No.Saw a video from the beard saying that the bridge lengths should be different. The draw should be the shortest, the stop in the middle and follow the longest.
Is there anything to this???
I was always told to adjust your bridge length according to the shot speed. Longer bridge and stroke for power shots to short bridge and stroke for soft touch shots.
I was always told to adjust your bridge length according to the shot speed. Longer bridge and stroke for power shots to short bridge and stroke for soft touch shots.
I’d recommend that.
Your muscles accelerate the cue. More distance equals more time for the cue to go faster to achieve a harder hit. To achieve the same hard hit with a shorter bridge you need to add more muscle. In general less muscle is better because you can avoid competing body tensions pulling your stroke offline.
Makes great sense to me. But then again there’s a limit to how long of a bridge I can cue properly, so some hard hits still need oomph. Thankfully not as much oomph as if I had a shorter bridge.
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Sure but why would a soft shot need a close bridge?
One reason players tend to do this is when they lack delivery speed control over the entire swing so they maintain their speeds by limiting the distance their arm can pull back.
It’s a bandaid
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I think that depends. What is a close bridge? I think we just said longer and shorter in a relative sense. I’m not advocating a 1/2” bridge or anything like that.
I don’t think of it as a bandaid so much as a technique to strive to use a similar stroke for a large variety of shots. Something smooth and with finesse.
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Saw a video from the beard saying that the bridge lengths should be different. The draw should be the shortest, the stop in the middle and follow the longest.
Is there anything to this???
I spent a few hours with Freddy at his home outside Chinatown in Chicago.
He had some unusual ideas about grips and how they would affect certain shots. Basically, I came away with the conclusion that he was wrong on most of it but that they worked for him anyway, perhaps for reasons other than what he thought. However, for one shot he showed me, I did make that a take away and still use it to this day.
As to his thoughts on bridge length, there is merit there. And all you have to do to prove it to yourself is to slide your hand closer and/or further away from the CB to see that in fact, the hit on the CB does change. And if you also keep in mind how small differences change the hit on the CB and the outcome of the shot, I'd have to say that there is considerable merit to the idea. You just have to play with it or at least keep it in mind.
Lou Figueroa
There is some interesting stuff that goes on with the physics that I don't fully understand. Local guy here Old School
that Ive played banks with both he and I have noted some differences in ease when it comes to playing banks with a stiffer
thicker cue shaft. I think the stiffer is actually the nuts. Too much proof the tip to cue ball contact is the same but never the
less a stiffer heavier shaft can seem easier to bank with in my opinion.