Feedback on My Stroke & Mechanics – Looking to Improve Fundamentals

[Island Drive]

Correcting your simple/known mistakes will create your baseline of body movements.
Once these foundational aspects of you game are in place, you'll improve, gain better control of whitey and the game will become easier.

 

[Frosty]

Renderu, thanks for posting the video. You quickly became an AZB high profile poster as measured by the positive responses.

May I suggest a technique posted on AZB for shooting unique shots, such as shooting over a ball, shooting with cue ball frozen to a rail, needing extra power, etc. This may slow down your rhythm so you don't move forward and jerk your stroke. On your last stroke just say 'ladies and gentlemen'. 'Ladies' on the back stroke. 'And' on the pause. 'Gentlemen' on the forward stroke. This may help make your acceleration SMOOTH. I have had success with this.

You stole that from Mark Wilson

 

[mfinkelstein3]

And Mark got it from Jerry Briesath! )

 

[straightline]

Been staying out of this because there's no way to slide into this - so fukkit.

Hit the gym and the salad bar. There's a ton of extraneous inertia "large" players gotta deal with and hopefully overcome. I think once you get down to fighting weight, you'll also get closer to your innate aptitude and intuition.

 

[maha]

didnt waste time reading all the posts. you play better than 90% of the people on the forum here.

all of what you do is your natural system that fits you. change it and you will be fighting the change forever.

if you want to improve from where you are play a lot more and learn better speed control and patterns and you will be a shortstop in no time.

 

[Renderu]

Been staying out of this because there's no way to slide into this - so fukkit.

Hit the gym and the salad bar. There's a ton of extraneous inertia "large" players gotta deal with and hopefully overcome. I think once you get down to fighting weight, you'll also get closer to your innate aptitude and intuition.

I can't disagree with you there. Been trying to workout and this might help me get out there lol!

 

[Island Drive]

Been staying out of this because there's no way to slide into this - so fukkit.

Hit the gym and the salad bar. There's a ton of extraneous inertia "large" players gotta deal with and hopefully overcome. I think once you get down to fighting weight, you'll also get closer to your innate aptitude and intuition.

S.L. nice cut to the chase post.... glad the OP ster took it right.
To me pool IS a sport. anywho

In 76 on the hill in an event in S. CA, was worn out & rolled over in the finals.
I was in my late 20's . WTF?
I was in the Olympic time trials, speed skating in my youth, the coaches always wanted you to work out/train.
Well 15 yrs later I listened . to what they SAID but it took awhile .... it works. )))
Once I got in shape I could play 16-18 hrs straight, and when the sun was coming up, I played even better, room was quiet/calm/ air was clean and I was always ahead in those long match ups.
Beat Annagoni at Stoniers place in Sacramento CA in the late seventies because I was in shape, and Tony was in great shape I would of lost had I not of done my road work.
Tony, played good back then, but he strutted a little to much for my upbringing.

It was that yr 1976 that I started/created my workout routine.
5 days a week, weekends off.
I only run on level soft grass/soccer or football fields, NEVER concrete.
When I started in S. Cal. I ran off the beach in the soft sand, down by the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
The boys named me Long Beach Bill....
I only run 2 miles.... that ups my heart beat and strengthens my legs.

When I got to about 65, I do the exact same every other day, only 3 days a week.
Since then and even now, my trunk and lower body are good for 8-10 hrs of play, if I get my rest.

 

[Renderu]

S.L. nice cut to the chase post.... glad the OP ster took it right.
To me pool IS a sport. anywho

In 76 on the hill in an event in S. CA, was worn out & rolled over in the finals.
I was in my late 20's . WTF?
I was in the Olympic time trials, speed skating in my youth, the coaches always wanted you to work out/train.
Well 15 yrs later I listened . to what they SAID but it took awhile .... it works. )))
Once I got in shape I could play 16-18 hrs straight, and when the sun was coming up, I played even better, room was quiet/calm/ air was clean and I was always ahead in those long match ups.
Beat Annagoni at Stoniers place in Sacramento CA in the late seventies because I was in shape, and Tony was in great shape I would of lost had I not of done my road work.
Tony, played good back then, but he strutted a little to much for my upbringing.

It was that yr 1976 that I started/created my workout routine.
5 days a week, weekends off.
I only run on level soft grass/soccer or football fields, NEVER concrete.
When I started in S. Cal. I ran off the beach in the soft sand, down by the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
The boys named me Long Beach Bill....
I only run 2 miles.... that ups my heart beat and strengthens my legs.

When I got to about 65, I do the exact same every other day, only 3 days a week.
Since then and even now, my trunk and lower body are good for 8-10 hrs of play, if I get my rest.

I'm going for a long walk right now.....

 

[Dan White]

I think your form is better than some here are suggesting. When I watch a video like this I wonder whether this guy looks like a pro player or not, and why (aside from shot making/selection). In your case I don't see much of a transition from thinking mode to shooting mode. When a pro plays he doesn't go get a drink and then walk up to the cue ball and get down on the shot. Fran Crimi uses the chalk as a cue to transition into shooting mode. For her, when she puts the chalk back down on the table it's all about shooting mode only. Use a pre shot routine consistently at the start of your shooting mode even when you don't think you need one. Other than the minor things others have suggested to you, I'd say this is what keeps you from looking like a better player.