dquarasr
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I've been fighting chicken wing, and unintended right-hand spin. I thought I had exorcised unintended spin by keeping my elbow up. That did help, but it did not eliminate it. Confounding.
I've been scratching my head trying to figure out how I can be getting right-hand spin on the CB, while my follow through often is actually left of the intended shot line.
When I check my stroke by using the line between the hard rail and the cushion, I usually find that the tip is coming left of the line, which I thought was because of chicken winging. I somewhat verified that via video recording myself.
But there are times I keep the elbow quiet, yet still get unintended right spin, and despite how much I focus on cueing straight, the tip is about 1/2 to a full tip LEFT of the straight line, particularly so with a long follow through on higher-speed shots. WTF?!?
I went back to the rail/cushion line. Weird: using a very, very slow motion (eliminating any deviation due to putting some juice on the shot), my cue tip goes slightly right until I reach CB impact point, then, inexplicably, follows through left. My stroke is a very small "s" curve where my back hand goes left, then right, making the tip go right then left. What?!?
I played around with my wrist position. "Normal" (what's been grooved into my stroke) is a position where my wrist is slightly bent towards my torso (kind of like how SVB holds his cue - and no, I did not intentionally mimic this trying to be like him).
When I moved my wrist straighter, the "s" motion was reduced. Moving it even more, such that it's directly straight below my arm, the "s" motion is gone, and so is the unintended spin. My accuracy on longer shots seems better, too. I don't understand the physiology of it, but if it fixes my "s" stroke, I'm ok with it.
So I don't have to consciously think about my wrist position, I found that if I "feel" the weight of the cue on my pinkie finger, my wrist more naturally falls down below my arm. So, I'm going to try that for a bit to see how it works out.
Comments welcomed and appreciated, especially if anyone can confirm my back hand's "s" path with a bent wrist position. Thanks.
Doug
I've been scratching my head trying to figure out how I can be getting right-hand spin on the CB, while my follow through often is actually left of the intended shot line.
When I check my stroke by using the line between the hard rail and the cushion, I usually find that the tip is coming left of the line, which I thought was because of chicken winging. I somewhat verified that via video recording myself.
But there are times I keep the elbow quiet, yet still get unintended right spin, and despite how much I focus on cueing straight, the tip is about 1/2 to a full tip LEFT of the straight line, particularly so with a long follow through on higher-speed shots. WTF?!?
I went back to the rail/cushion line. Weird: using a very, very slow motion (eliminating any deviation due to putting some juice on the shot), my cue tip goes slightly right until I reach CB impact point, then, inexplicably, follows through left. My stroke is a very small "s" curve where my back hand goes left, then right, making the tip go right then left. What?!?
I played around with my wrist position. "Normal" (what's been grooved into my stroke) is a position where my wrist is slightly bent towards my torso (kind of like how SVB holds his cue - and no, I did not intentionally mimic this trying to be like him).
When I moved my wrist straighter, the "s" motion was reduced. Moving it even more, such that it's directly straight below my arm, the "s" motion is gone, and so is the unintended spin. My accuracy on longer shots seems better, too. I don't understand the physiology of it, but if it fixes my "s" stroke, I'm ok with it.
So I don't have to consciously think about my wrist position, I found that if I "feel" the weight of the cue on my pinkie finger, my wrist more naturally falls down below my arm. So, I'm going to try that for a bit to see how it works out.
Comments welcomed and appreciated, especially if anyone can confirm my back hand's "s" path with a bent wrist position. Thanks.
Doug
The struggle is real.
) videos. He recommends furling / unfurling the fingers (starting with the pinkie) as the cue comes back. I tried that, but it didn't seem to have helped. I get better results feeling the weight of my cue on my pinkie.