Well, I just want to share with the community my experiences with "Little Joe".
As you may know (If you've ever noticed his banner on the AZB Forum home page), Joe has two videos out on kicking and cue ball control. I purchased them some time ago and had spoken to him and actually saw him do a demonstration at the Illinois Billiard Club. This experience was the subject of an earlier thread:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=64356&highlight=villalpando
Joe came up to Red Shoes last night and gave me a one on one lesson. At the earlier demonstration at the IBC, I had just watched and let others enjoy. This time it was just me and Joe for probably more than three hours. We went over a lot of the kicks with variations in dvd 1, and I was nailing most of them, especially once I started honing in on striking the cue ball at the exact spot on the clock that we were aiming for.
Then we started on cue ball control and once again striking the correct part of the cue ball became very important. We did mostly on the center axis and we could get the cue ball to a lot of different places that way.
We touched on a little right and left, but that will be covered in upcoming dvds and there is enough to work on right now just with the center and the stroke.
All in all, it was a very enlightening session and I can't wait to get to work. I highly recommend Joe's lessons and his dvds.
As you may know (If you've ever noticed his banner on the AZB Forum home page), Joe has two videos out on kicking and cue ball control. I purchased them some time ago and had spoken to him and actually saw him do a demonstration at the Illinois Billiard Club. This experience was the subject of an earlier thread:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=64356&highlight=villalpando
Joe came up to Red Shoes last night and gave me a one on one lesson. At the earlier demonstration at the IBC, I had just watched and let others enjoy. This time it was just me and Joe for probably more than three hours. We went over a lot of the kicks with variations in dvd 1, and I was nailing most of them, especially once I started honing in on striking the cue ball at the exact spot on the clock that we were aiming for.
Then we started on cue ball control and once again striking the correct part of the cue ball became very important. We did mostly on the center axis and we could get the cue ball to a lot of different places that way.
We touched on a little right and left, but that will be covered in upcoming dvds and there is enough to work on right now just with the center and the stroke.
All in all, it was a very enlightening session and I can't wait to get to work. I highly recommend Joe's lessons and his dvds.
