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Playing with a powerful cue action brings even the best cue actions into doubt. It could be a number of reasons. Try the shot at different speeds of stroke, and number them 1-10. Start with 1, which should be just enough to pocket the ball. Then 2, a little harder. All the way through to...

Playing with a powerful cue action brings even the best cue actions into doubt. It could be a number of reasons. Try the shot at different speeds of stroke, and number them 1-10. Start with 1, which should be just enough to pocket the ball. Then 2, a little harder. All the way through to...

Perfect age to start playing. You are developed enough to take things in, like instruction which I'm sure he must have gotten even if it was something simple like hit pot this red rather than this red, but young enough to not fear learning new things and still young enough to enjoy the crap...

Magnetic pockets. I've never heard of him doing this before. That's ridiculous if you ask me. Some old boys at my club have been playing 50 odd years and still haven't had a break of 50.

Thanks for the speedy reply... Which leads me onto my second question... Would an off-centre hit on the cue ball multiple times cause the cue ball to squirt off line more? There have been times these shots have come up and I've had to play with side spin, and I've been baffled by missing...

What I want to know is, would a follow through that isn't straight cause a player to miss elevated shots more when the original contact was sending the cue ball on line to pot the ball? In essence, the numerous hits on the cue ball after if the follow through isn't straight, would it cause...

Not just that. Better more consistent equipment, the amount of money involved in snooker in particular today... They all contribute. Computer analysis makes an instructors job a lot easier. They can simply create perfect technique with it. Jimmy white, Alex Higgins... They didn't have...

Gareth is an excellent player but being an excellent player doesn't equate to being able to express yourself clearly and say what you really mean. I've spoken to Gareth it person on this very subject. I will admit he is one of the better teachers that play at a high level, but he has nothing...

I agree with the very last paragraph strongly. Advances in teaching techniques, computer analysis, the invention of the Internet and so on have made modern players far more consistent and on average better than those decades ago. I relate it to snooker in that in snookers prime during the...

Great post, Joey. Coming from snooker all the top professionals of today have had formal instruction at one point or another. They base themselves on cookie cutter techniques... Which is why they all look so similar in their approaches. But you also have them creating or adopting techniques...

Same grip, each and every time. Power shots or finesse, jacked up or jumping, draw or follow, even breaking. The cue slots into my hand the same for every shot, it's the only way I know.

Stephen Lee, even though he is a cheating disgrace to snooker used to say he tightened the grip at impact. Which reminds me, I wonder how he is getting on serving burgers at McDonald's. Tightening the grip just before contact actually zaps all the action out of the cue ball because it slows...

Pendulum, piston, j, ABC... It doesn't matter. I use a variety of any stroke imaginable when playing. Not just one. But I use just one wrist position and one wrist movement.

Another little trick is to release the pinky from the cue and keep it off throughout. I've heard of several players that do this on long shots.

A grips pressure can help reduce squirt? Am I missing something here....

I'm not asking anyone to do as I do. Like I said my wrists are very stiff which really helps me I feel in Cueing accurately. Other with more flexible wrists may not benefit from my insights. I know that if any person went to any of the instructors I've used and they saw a wrist that didn't hang...

A cues overall weight can help reduce squirt ? Am I missing something here...

A common problem amongst amateurs and even professionals. The difference between the two? Professionals learn to adjust for their wrist turning. If humans didn't have wrists, we would be far more accurate in striking the cue ball. The wrist can turn in all directions making it unpredictable...

I don't think I explained my self very clearly. I wrote that the stiffness, taper etc doesn't matter. Which I believe it doesn't as long as you are comfortable with those characteristics. I mentioned about me liking light cues... I wouldn't ever switch to a heavy cue if mine broke... I'd get...

I play a lot of pool, own about 16 pool cues. I mentioned what I did based on it effecting being able to move the cue ball around the table. I can spin or generate the same amount of power with any cue. If it's something I'm not used to it may take a little time practicing with it. Stephen...