How good is your Stroke?

[cigardave]

How good is your stroke, your understanding of your Vision Center and your alignment?

Here's a drill that Dr. Dave included in his 'Aim Better with Proper Vision Center Alignment'... available on YouTube (link below). I devised a simple scoring methodology to measure your Vision Center Alignment and accuracy.

Shoot a stop shot. Object is to have the object ball, after hitting the foot rail, rebound back into the cue ball, causing the cue ball to come back to you. Perfect alignment and stroke results in the cue ball coming back to your cue tip.

Shoot 10 shots... starts with your first scored point(s). Scoring is as follows (refer to diagram),

No cue ball contact... 0 pts.​

Cue ball moves in a direction to hit below the side pocket... 1 pt.​

Cue ball pockets in side pocket or hits above side pocket... 3 pts.​

Cue ball moves in a direction to hit headrail within two diamonds as shown on diagram... 5 pts.​

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Perfect score = 50 pts.

Measure yourself and feel free to post your results. Practice and see if your score tends to improve. Compete with your buddies.

Here's a link to Dr. Dave's video I mentioned above...

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[SSP]

How good is your stroke, your understanding of your Vision Center and your alignment?

Here's a drill that Dr. Dave included in his 'Aim Better with Proper Vision Center Alignment'... available on YouTube (link below). I devised a simple scoring methodology to measure your Vision Center Alignment and accuracy.

Shoot a stop shot. Object is to have the object ball, after hitting the foot rail, rebound back into the cue ball, causing the cue ball to come back to you. Perfect alignment and stroke results in the cue ball coming back to your cue tip.

Shoot 10 shots... starts with your first scored point(s). Scoring is as follows (refer to diagram),

No cue ball contact... 0 pts.​

Cue ball moves in a direction to hit below the side pocket... 1 pt.​

Cue ball pockets in side pocket or hits above side pocket... 3 pts.​

Cue ball moves in a direction to hit headrail within two diamonds as shown on diagram... 5 pts.​

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Perfect score = 50 pts.

Measure yourself and feel free to post your results. Practice and see if your score tends to improve. Compete with your buddies.

Here's a link to Dr. Dave's video I mentioned above...

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A truly humbling drill, I've only had a perfect results 2 times in thousands of attempts, the drill is difficult because if your tip strikes the cueball even a hair to the right or left you will fail and if your stroke is not straight you will fail

 

[Patrick Johnson]

A truly humbling drill, I've only had a perfect results 2 times in thousands of attempts, the drill is difficult because if your tip strikes the cueball even a hair to the right or left you will fail and if your stroke is not straight you will fail

Using a striped ball as your cue ball, with the stripe vertical and centered, can give you more detail about where you hit the cue ball, both by how the stripe wobbles with off center hits and by where the chalk mark is in relation to the stripe’s center.

pj
chgo

 

[SSP]

Using a striped ball as your cue ball, with the stripe vertical and centered, can give you more detail about where you hit the cue ball, both by how the stripe wobbles with off center hits and by where the chalk mark is in relation to the stripe’s center.

pj
chgo

Agreed, only problem is it gives you an indication of center ball, you must master that with the cueball

 

[Mensabum]

Using a striped ball as your cue ball, with the stripe vertical and centered, can give you more detail about where you hit the cue ball, both by how the stripe wobbles with off center hits and by where the chalk mark is in relation to the stripe’s center.

pj
chgo

I use this to start every practice session. The only difference being I use the cueball to strike the striped ball and the idea is to have the stripe go down table and rebound back to your cueball with no wobble or deviation of the stripe. You want it to roll straight vertically. This will tell you a lot about your stroke.

 

[Zerksies]

I think Dr.Dave can promote his own stuff

 

[Mensabum]

I think Dr.Dave can promote his own stuff

Idk if this is Dr. Dave's stuff or not. My father showed me this back when I first started playing, prolly B4 the Dr was a glimmer in his father's eye.

 

[gregcantrall]

How good is your stroke,

This brings a flashback.
I musta been pontificating when A youngster enquired, "how good Do You play?"
My reply was preceeded by an obvious scan of the room then reply, "I am the Best Player within a 10 foot radius.