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I was watching a kid who had posted some practice videos of himself, and he had some elbow movement in his stroke--oddly, it was up/forward. The overall action is similar to a pendulum stroke, where the movement of the cue is limited by the closing of the arm. However, instead of his hand...

Obligatory KK reference activated: "Sweep the leg".

Hi, Jim. Good to see you are still around. I will PM you.

This one works for me, since when I meet players that want to play better, I literally tell them to "Google 'Doctor Dave Pool'". I do, however, also warn them that they, "will learn more than they ever wanted to know about pool"!

Not *necessary*, but a break cue may help improve the breaking success of some players--which are too diverse to really go into, but an example would be using a heavy cue to help a weak(ish) break stroke. I believe a very hard leather tip, or a phenolic tip, helps the energy transfer to the cue...

It may confuse some people a little, but I like to start the fractions by showing them via parallel-shifting the cue ball first, and then translating to the 'attack angle' positions. We've all made/seen the 2-dimensional, overlap diagrams, so I assume that I'm not alone in that?

C Curious, as to what your "vision problem" is?

Thanks, Bob. Reviewing this in the thread, it occurred to me that the 'standard' cut angles were not plotted distinctly, to make the relation to them more obvious.

Questions about this....Is the concept of the clock face also supposed to be applied to the cue ball, while facing it? For example, both '3' lines are "thinning", or contacting with the extreme left/right of the cue ball equator--so, for the 3-left cut, the 9-o'clock area of the cue ball would...

For a visual representation, our very own Bob Jewett has a PDF on his sfbilliards page, #16 - "GRAPH". The fractions of the cueball have to be in decimal form--for example, 5/8 = 0.625, which is about 22.5 deg on the chart. I would screencap, resize, and post it here, but didn't know if that...

I left it out in my first post, although I usually mention it in "handedness" conversations...I am left-handed, but I believe that I'm right-footed. I bat right-handed (and can left, but with less power), and I golf right. Never tried golfing lefty, but just thinking about it, I think it would...

I am left-handed and -eye dominant and can play decently right-handed. I tend to circle counter-clockwise, and when I took notice of it, I believe that I observed right-handed players circling clockwise. It's certainly been over a decade since I thought about it. Not sure if I would change...

Makes sense, I think some gremlins eat moss.

The moss. [In the late 90's, I read something from online that espoused the idea that "the moss" was responsible for everything going wrong in pool. I vaguely recall one example, which went something like, "Should you find yourself with a simple, straight-in shot, then the moss had no other...

And the better a player is, then the less they probably go into slumps, and the shorter they last. Of course, if you happen to practice for hours a day, then I would think that would help to accelerate through any "rough patches".

Yes, that is why in my first sentence, I specified "part of a shooting routine", and then went on toe specify "non-routine holding of breath". I understood you completely. Edit: I just realized that my post also paints holding one's breath as the cause of attempting something unusual, when it...

This is obviously part of the shooting routine, but to address a non-routine holding of breath--don't do it. I think this happens even with experienced players when attempting a "low-confidence" shot, it leads to a tightening of the body, which dominoes into bad execution. For example, when...

Isn't this her? https://www.azbilliards.com/person/rachel-walters/ Or, did you mean that she does not interact on AZB?

I'm curious to whether it matters when you shoot along the other corner-to-corner line. Even though you are not cutting, I'm wondering if that may show that your process (sighting and/or alignment) is biased to one side.

Nope, he is hitting *consistently wrong*. Look up the difference between accuracy and precision--shooters know. I think this case would be precise, but not accurate...and someone can correct me if I have that backwards.