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When you accelerate the cue forward the cue will act as it pulls you back with the equal amount of force as you put into it. To counteract this you have to use the ground and push in the opposite way of where you want the cue to go. You can look at the break in two different views, from the side...

You're not getting enough speed into the cue. Thats your problem, not hitting the chest. Most of the tips in this thread is how to change how you stand, thats not going to fix your problem by itself. If you want to be able to hit the ball harder just work on hitting it super hard and try to gain...

Good call. I think it is well established that the solution to the original question (assuming sighting is okay) is to start with the stance and let it affect the upper body in the desired way. I will try to make a well written post about my ideas about sighting and post it in a new thread in a...

Do you think the cue should be under the dominant eye (or in the same spot) on all shots?

Again, can you specify what problems you're alluding to? I'm trying to take all the heat I can but you don't specify what the problems are so I can adress them. I don't think it looks very good when you are criticizing me but not answer me directly.

I would like to know what you are referring to when you say this. If you feel like there is anything wrong with what I wrote you should point it out so the readers can see it and I can explain what i meant. When you claim I can hurt players thats a very bold statement and I would like to know...

What in my post are you alluding to when you say this? Does basic knowledge about anatomy make me a bad teacher? Using terms like straddle, place and lean isn't very accurate, at least in my opinion.

I don't see how eye-dominance will affect on that. Theres not many centimeters between our eyes so left or right wont do much difference in regards to setup. If your visual center happens to be outside of your eyes, like for example Albin Ouschan, maybe theres some change but as I said not much...

With that stance there's not a lot of other ways the player will put both his head and hand on the shot line, you can try it yourself. We have three anchor points and we would like to build a tripod, this player has all anchors on the same line. You can bump him on the hip to get him to feel how...

You can download the breakspeed app and use it on matches on youtube to find out. It will differ a lot based on which game, how they rack and which rules they are using. An guesstimate is 9 ball: 17-21 from the side rail and maybe a bit harder from the middle with matchrooms new rules. 10 and 8...

He ended up as world nr 1 four different years, don't know which unfortunately.. Won as much as anybody and if we counted top 4 or top 8s in pool he would probably have more than anybody else. Then for the game and how it's played today, I think he contributed as much as Earl and Efren. Just in...

Efren brought creativity. Ralf brought precision and professionalism. Earl brought power and determination. This for me is the three players who made pool what it is today. Of course they built their game on previous players but to me (born 1990) these three players stand out. Efren changed how...

I too use soft tips and shoot a lot of my small draw and stop shots with full draw. On new cloth and tight pockets it really is the best solution the get the balls dropping. For me How soft is the best tip on the market. Used Kamui before but i think the quality got dropped, at least where I was...

When I realized I had to start practice for real in order to improve it was really hard for me at first. 15-20 minutes sometimes 30 minutes was all I could manage. With time I realized that it was not only pool I was practicing, it was patience and mindset. I knew I was able to make the drills I...

I find this very disturbing, for 17 years now I've been trying to have good timing and tried hit the ball in different ways in order to get various reactions from the white ball and now I'm starting to realize that all that I need to do is to control impact location and speed. So the reason I...

Thank you for the replies. To me it feels like the soft tip should draw more so when I was very surprised when i read this was not the case in one of the technical proofs on billiards.colostate.edu. I spent some more time thinking about it and think its probably because all the cues I've tried...

I'm researching impact and which parameters that effect the cueball in the hit. We know that contact time is really small and changed by tip hardness and cue speed. Some people claim that you could change the contact time by timing the shot by applying a hit through the cueball. Barry Stark...

By looking at CueTracker and AzBilliards money list you can see that FSR after this year (261.350 dollars=215.375 pounds) would be ranked nr 10 on the snooker prize money list for 2022. I was a bit surprised when a saw this because I thought that snooker players made lots more from prize money...

Theres a lot of talk about PSR, but not so much about after the shot routine, in these forums. After a shot it's important to always accept the outcome. What I usually see is players not taking accountability for the bad shots and get the good shots go to their head. The problem is the emotional...

First of all I'm really happy for the development of pro pool after the pandemic. It seems like theres a lot going in a good direction. This news make me a bit nervous though. Theres a risk that this will turn in to an ugly conflict where the sport will suffer from the rifts created by different...