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That could explain why he cues up so far from the cb compared to just about any other pro. But really, Busty plays a stroke that travels on such a big arc it is noticeable to the naked eye at real speed. Combine stroking on an arc with cueing up to the cb a mile away compared to other pros...

I'd recommend Tor's pattern puzzle book. Esp for 8ball, choosing the correct, high percentage pattern for your current shot repertoire is half the battle if not more. The advanced drill I posted above is more for rotation players who are forced into those shots all the time. As an 8ball...

Bert Kinister has excellent drills, many of which are on YT. Neils, a former student of his also posted some of them on his channel, including 'the 6-pointed star' which Feijen claims is the single best positional drill that works on many critical shots. He has broken that all-encompassing...

You're missing the point of an intended touch of spin. 1/8th of right would be the intention so 1/4 will still be a deviation of just 1/8 of intended. It's not like the player is aiming up a touch to one side of center and still playing it as if at true center. The mishit is still of just...

in both cases he's 1/8th off intended. Point is there is less guess work if the entire dispersion range is on one side of the ball.

I disagree here. I think TheJV said it correctly that a slightly variable degree of a known side spin is more predictable than a slightly smaller amount of either left or right. In other words,, let's say a player has a 1/4 tip dispersion on their cb contact... going for center ball and ending...

The argument used by the 'touch of spin' guys is that hitting dead center is actually really tough and you are likely to get a touch of this or that anyway so they choose which side spin will be on the ball and can better predict ball interactions. Both Ronnie and Sigel lay this out in...

No. There is a school of thought that the likes of Earl, Ronnie O, and Mike Sigel subscribe to which advocates for pretty much never trying to hit center, but they use trace amounts of spin. Significant amounts can't be good imo so he's either working on something or just needs a more...

nah, golf is different. Plenty of guys can play their best golf without anything on it. The pressure of a low round is real whether you have any money on it or not....it usually trumps whatever bets may be in play anyway. A rare few can play anywhere near their best game of pool for nothing.

Ye but the problem still remains, just masked by easier equipment. The issue is that when you power up, you have breakdowns in your mechanics that cause you to mishit the cb and miss shots. TinMan and JayHelfert mentioned an exercise to help with this that I picked up off a young Corey...

Most common shark I been on receiving end of was the guy who 'has money on the game' and just watches the TV while I'm at the table. Of course, any time I'm down on a big shot something happens in the game that he just has to wildly react to, ideally in my backswing. The worst one I ever...

It means u didnt hit a straight shot. Sticker up a straight in shot and shoot it with top so that the cb follows the ob into the pocket. Then hit same shot with draw and cb will return to ur tip if u are hitting the ob accurately into the center of the pocket. U have stroke flaws. Those...

That easy path may be a pitfall for many with natural talent but not all fall victim to it. SVB was a natural talent born into a pool playing family and he still ended up being one of the hardest workers on tour. Hard work beats talent when talent refuses to work hard. But when talent works...

This. Pool on TV is just never gonna make it whether 9b or otherwise. But as a tape delayed product where you can just skip through dead spots or Tom Cruise outs, it can be enjoyable and relatively widely consumed, albeit by a niche group of pool fans.

I'm with TheJV on this one, talent is massively overrated for pool, especially if the bar is 'really good player'. Morro Paez reached the world 9b final and nobody would accuse that man of being naturally talented. He beat Earl in the semis, who is on a short list of the most naturally...

I saw that chalk advice in a book once or twice. If it works for you, great. Lotta players even play with a gap in their grip as if the chalk is still between their hand and cue as suggested by Tor and Wilson. Other instructors call that 'slop;' and consider it bad. Different strokes for...

I play off the middle finger too and also sometimes finish with the index and thumb apart at the end. So does Efren for that matter. To Fran's point, if I force my index and thumb to stay on the cue no matter what, my wrist will tend to twist. Using the middle finger as a trigger finger and...

Eva Mataya Lawrence had the most obvious version of this I've ever seen, probably because she was so lanky and often played sleeveless. As PJ mentioned, it is a piston stroke. But her elbow dipped on the backswing and raised on the forward stroke much more than just about anyone else's.

Agreed. That's why I stressed that the stroke must still be allowed to finish. Any yanking back or trying to shorten the follow through is obv bad. Was just making the point that in some setups, a full complete stroke is just done and out of room to go any further way before the oft...

True, but my results with each option and the fact that pretty much all exhibition shooters choose to play the shot jacked up, suggest that overall friction is lower with an airborne/hopping cb than one sliding the entire time.