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It's not just that u have to be comfortable, u need to recognize when spin makes shots easier and take the higher percentage shot...the one with spin. I shared this example b4, but there was a cut into the side where no rails were gonna be hit and JJ remarked to Karl 8n the booth, "the internet...

Measurable brain waves would disagree. Performing tasks effortlessly and fluently is a characteristic of alpha and theta brain wave states. It's def a thing. Players not remembering details of their performance also fits nicely.

Interesting. After our couple of sets, my guy was talking with another good snooker player about how 'the rush' he got from playing like that was a bit different than snooker, but easier to achieve on a pool table.

'The Zone' is indeed almost 'mystical' as Hu put it and it is def a different state of mind as many have alluded to. There was a thread on this not too long ago that dove into this for a page or two. Basically, players are trying to get into the slower brain waves and there are meditative...

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This is an excellent point that is both obvious and often brushed over.

There's an interesting demo steve davis did many years ago on the importance of keeping ur eye on the ball... 3 specs with about 1cm between each. Line up to the center spec. Thats where ur stroke finishes. Close ur eyes and the stroke still fnishes on the center spec. However, without...

Agree with ur stance on the old definition of slip stroke but more recently a full release of the cue on the forward stroke is also commonly accepted as a type of slip stroke. Re the hesitation pendulum in the slip.... i guess it could be a pendulum after the slip. Can also be a j-stroke...

For the type in my example, the player just cues up lower than they hit but everything stays straight and aligned. But there are def guys that employ the old hustler trick as bob mentioned and always cue up the same and then hit different. Ismael paez made the world championship final in...

These higher hits aren't all created equal and there are several reasons they can happen with the most obvious being an early elbow drop. But this is def possible without an elbow drop! As one example, for players that have a bit of a dip to their stroke due to how the cue pivots in their...

Actually watching a 1993 match vs Earl rn. Guys of that era def had different strokes for different types of shots. Seen a pure pendulum, the cleanest J-stroke possible, and a slew of others, including his body-english specials. So ye, 'pistonic' for some shots is def true. But he is def...

Ha. Sigel's arm is so 'alive' it's hard to pin down what he's doing with all that twitching and veering and finishing with the tip 2 feet up off the table. My guess is he's mostly intending to be a J-stroke type guy. Piston strokes are quiet. The cue's movement is elegant. Sigel is...

Ye, her lanky (and often bare) arms make it quite obvious on her longer strokes. I get why Chris LOL'd at my comment as the idea of an elbow dropping in backstroke and then coming back up on the forward stroke just seems so odd and who knows how big a movement he imagined. But Ewa has one...

Not in any footage I've seen of him albeit he an old man in those YT videos. Like most guys of his era, Willie was pretty upright and the arm worked a little differently than in the super low stances of snooker or today's pool. Besides, just focusing in on what his cue is doing, a piston...

It's when elbow isn't fixed but instead works in tandem with shoulder wrist and hand to keep cue level throughout stroke. Tell tale sign on longer strokes is an elbow that drops in the back stroke as arm extends back. Elbow then moves back up a bit as the cue comes forward and then drops in...

Dr. Dave has a video posted on video analysis process that is a good guide. A streamlined process I use with students is 3 shots from one camera position somewhere around one diamond off the corner pocket along the short rail. Propped up on a drink table should do just fine. One shot filmed...

A recording is best for sure. If you have curvature in your upper back like you mentioned, that def sounds like there may be some setup issues contributing to your problem and may also result in other stroke issues you didn't even raise in this thread.

I think option 1 you outline is probably it. I'm 6'3" and have taught players as tall as 6'7" and we have not had the issue you are describing. That said, we all have both legs bent 'big man' stances so if you play with a straight back leg I'd strongly recommend changing that at your height...

This one guy was talking all sorts of smack wanting to play me 50 a game all day 'till i run out of money' when I was playing with a friend (far from sober). A few weeks later, I'm playing another friend as the bigmouth is in league play nearby. I proceed to make the out of my life after...

ye i panned up and down looking for what was so wrong and only found what was so right. Then I noticed the floor. But that bottom makes a lot of things ok.