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If your game is getting better doing that, stick with it. If it has stalled, regressed or plateaued….. incorporated into my game during league play only has been a challenge. Seeing progress beyond my previous level, leads me to disregard your pov. Others are free to follow your so cogently...

This is not a thinking description, it is a doing one. That is the point of recognizing the preshot routine as a flow, not a bunch of nominalized checkpoints, that stall the rhythm of the cyclical action. Checking off a list is the overthinking version of the process.

In language there is a concept called nominalization. It’s when we treat an action like it is noun. We go for a run, instead of going running. We say aim instead of thinking through the process of aiming and create a static rather than dynamic reality. In the CJ process I am aligning starting...

Awareness starts somewhere and needs to move with the action. When we hang onto anything in consciousness, we give it added importance. There is always an attentional cost when we hold onto awareness of anything, something else from the flow of sensory experience is missing, or background. Being...

Update: I’ve spent about a month now bringing CJ’s process into my game. To summarize what the process he outlines is in order we get: Place your feet in a neutral position that allows a turret like turn of the upper body in either direction and still maintain a straight shooting alignment...

You mentioned that for straight shots max throw is found at 50% english, which is 25% of the radius. This applies on to straight shots. On a cut shot, there is a gearing english reference, found at 40% of the offset, applied as outside english. At that rotation the cb “walks” along the surface...

Reminds me of an interview with Goldie Howe, the hockey legend. He had just signed a deal to unite him in the NHL with his sons on the Hartford Whalers, I think. Since he was a star when the NHL was only 6 teams, the prevailing thought among the elitists was adding teams just diluted the talent...

A friend once told me after getting furious with a miss, then running out next visit, “I get so damn mad, and then I can shoot the lights out. Trouble is I can’t stay mad long enough.”

For those players who start their stance from the aim line then get down only to find you need adjustments. The tendency, for center ball players is to get down on that line. If their mental picture says they need to cut the ball more or less they pivot the cue in the bridge cutting the ball...

Took me a while to get here but the difference isn’t as subtle as it sounds. The pivot from extreme left and right cuts, without moving your feet is about 4 inches. By starting the foot position, at the edges, the extreme cut pivot is about an inch. The hips know the difference, I’ve discovered...

If the lighting is right you can address the cue ball bottom with the cue and it will be reflected in the balls curved surface. When the cue and its reflection are lined up your vision center is aligned.

When using the aim line as my starting point instead of using the straight shooting alignment CJ suggests, I didn’t start with my foot on the line. I stood square with the cue pointing at 90° to my hip line. I then rotated my hip line by moving my left foot forward, moving my head back over the...

While seeing is part of alignment, for a straight stroke, you can line up and close your eyes. You could walk around and the straight stroke alignment would remain in place unless you move part of your upper body involved. You could even keep your eyes closed and execute a straight stroke. That...

I like that you have tried to find an analogy that generates the proper technique because it is reasonable given the context. One that worked for me was the action reminds me of feeding a cable or thick wire through a hole in a wall. Lining up to thread it into a hole requires precision with...

I agree. Understanding the transition from backswing to forward on a bio mechanical basis might help some players. I think a lot of players think the muscles that draw the cue back are used for the return trip. In actual fact a different set of muscles do that job. Initiating the forward...

Dr. Dave has changed how he sets up his stance. He no longer steps into the shot, he presets his feet then describes a variety of approaches. I think it depends on whether you bend from the waist or from the hip plane. I use a standard sheet of paper to explain. Put it portrait style in...

CJ set a hierarchy of importance with straight cueing at the top when assuming the stance. My criteria at the time was the precedence of the aim line. My view was that it doesn’t matter how straight you stroke if you are pointing in the wrong direction. I would put the cue on the shot line...

I’m into my second week of the transition from using the aim line as my primary reference for taking the stance, to one in which the straight cueing alignment becomes my primary focus, and then finding the aim line, that points me at the target. As with anything new it is a work in progress. I...

I now real eyes that muscle memory becomes more my friend by finding the straight shooting slot first. My previous routine was to find the aim line and put my cue on it. The mantra from there was to move the body to the cue when aligning, otherwise moving the cue to the body slot pulled away...