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First understand the stroking line you're trying to achieve. Then fit your stance around it. If you feel like the cue is pulling off that line then tweak your stance until it doesn't. My guess is you have a chickenwing and your grip rolls in towards your body. Essentially your cue is moving...

Here's my opinion - search on "stroke instructor challenge" if you want more info. It's physically possible for your cue to move straight but it is not physically possible for you to stroke straight. Someone else mentioned timing - your cue is essentially moving in an arc and you're either...

CCW (Chia Ching Wu) has represented Taiwan and China..and I wouldn't say a word if he got citizenship here and were to play on Team USA. That said, I don't agree with CW being team captain and cast my vote for Scooter.

I agree (not having read the article), but it depends on how you align. The way my stroke alignment works, it would be easier to be cross-dominant. For others, that could be different. My opinion is the key is to get a consistent mental picture of the shot. A very common difficulty many...

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Easier way to do this is just stroke in front of a mirror. Look up and see if your cue is aimed straight.

when does the stream start tonight? what's being shown?

So in pool the better player can be decided in a sprint? Sorry but that isn't an accurate measure of the skill gap. Anyways I'd really like to see a Shane play Yang or Wu.

Imho for a win against Shane to really matter, you have to play a long race. In a long race, you either need to make almost no mistakes for a looong time like Alex did last time, or be able to break good enough to cover your mistakes with packages - which is what Shane will be doing. If Donnie...

The angle of the lower and upper arm define the stroking line of the cue. I previously mentioned there are different body alignments that still result in the same line 1 and 2 relationship. Clearly there's more than 1 throwing motion, but you should consider that they are maximized towards...

My argument is that there's 1 plane (with a tolerance) for an optimal natural motion. Just as an example, say you contract your bicep so your hand goes way outside of your elbow. I think that'd be an "unnatural" motion and would be difficult to repeat with great consistency. I'd argue that...

Neil, I had the sinking feeling your "counter argument" to optimal alignment is that you should "go with what's right for you" and that the players with optimal alignment have it because it happens to be "what's natural for them". I'd already responded to this earlier in the thread, suggesting...

Sadly my point was that you're still just trying to discredit me. Now about that ignorance, might this be what you were talking about? Neil, I'm sure I'm not the only one waiting to hear you explain this one. It's truly a shame that I'm unwilling to pay you :( On the upside, there's a...

Well Neil, to be honest, I'm just taking guesses at what you're suggesting since you won't elaborate. Again I feel like you're making a personal attack on me rather than adding to the discussion. Btw I found your explanation on elbow placement to be extremely vague and lacking in substance...

I second that

Last I checked you wanted to charge for the answers. Let's say someone countered my reasoning by saying that people have natural alignment because they cock their elbows. My response would be that you can cock your elbow and have a chickenwing, everything in the same plane, or natural...

@Roger - I know - and you (and Fran) have been very objective and open-minded in this discussion. Mitch Ellerman and SVB both have "natural" alignment, though Shane's arm does kick out on his final stroke. Anyways you raise a good point - should a player change the way their body naturally...

Nice post I agree. I hope the streamers aren't discouraged by angry posters demanding partial refunds and stuff like that. It really seems that streaming is more about love of the game than turning huge profits at this point. Sometimes the issues are outside of their control - for example a...

Not a fan, but I think Charlie has the best of it against all shortstops and some low pros. He's beaten some notables in tournaments, but if they played all day, I wouldn't be betting on him.

Let's look past the fact that you waited until now to chime in. So to get this straight, you all teach the same thing, which is natural alignment as I've described it, and the alignment you teach is to NOT have all the key stroke points on the same plane?