Thanks for the old thread and the replies. I have a digi cue blue and couldnt help but fool around with this a little bit. A lot of my draw shots usually register a little tip steer on the digi cue with my normal approach. I have exporemented some with my grip and stroke trying to see what the problem is. Nothing has really made much of a difference. So after letting the cue slip through my grip naturally on the forward stroke i seem to be getting less errors on the digi cue. It feels a little smoother to me. Almost like this is how I’m supposed to be shooting some of the shots. I watched stan Shuffett’s video on stroke and grip and he mentions lightly catching the cue with back of your hand. Seems like the majority of the Filipinos do it. Maybe this is what sets their strokes apart from the rest of the world?
It's not really exclusive to the Filipinos.
Mosconi slipped the cue too.
Jeremy Jones talks about it in one of his commentary jobs.
He said Dennis does it. He said James Aranas does it.
JJ says he does it for more power and to avoid dropping the elbow.
His co-commentator, Mary Kenniston wasn't aware how common it is.
John Schmidt also says you cannot hit a target with the cue more accurately than dropping the cue on it. His example was to place a coin on the carpet and hit it with the cue tip.
He says, you won't hit the tip any more square than if you dropped the cue to it.
I catch myself doing when I have to draw the ball and I'm almost jacked up.
It leaves me no choice but to let the cue supply the power.
I also catch myself doing when I have to shoot a soft nip draw.
Of course, the pendulum stroke is the easiest to master so long as your tip is close to the cue ball on your approach.
