JC
Coos Cues
For all of my life my stance has been a crouch. Slightly bent front and back legs.
I have taken some instruction from 3 highly regarded instructors in my life and none of them told me to change it. They said if it was comfortable then it's ok.
Finally at age 60 my game has declined in a frustrating way. Stamina especially. So I decided to learn a straight back leg stance. I have always had tight hamstrings and believed that I couldn't do it but I was wrong. And those instructors were wrong not to change me many years ago.
After only a couple of weeks my new stance is getting comfortable and my stroke consistency is improved almost unbelievably. I actually can't believe how I'm now drilling long shots center pocket. Having that back leg locked removes all the variables from the stroke. I was getting so bad I was questioning whether it was a perception issue. That I wasn't aiming at the right spot. No that wasn't it, I simply was not delivering the cue ball where I wanted to and now I am. It's like my entire body is locked in to the shot line now and can't move from it.
If you are crouching my advice is to stop and learn a better stance. If you are instructing my advice is don't let your students crouch. It's really that bad. I wish someone would have insisted to me many years ago to change and told me why it was this important.
I have taken some instruction from 3 highly regarded instructors in my life and none of them told me to change it. They said if it was comfortable then it's ok.
Finally at age 60 my game has declined in a frustrating way. Stamina especially. So I decided to learn a straight back leg stance. I have always had tight hamstrings and believed that I couldn't do it but I was wrong. And those instructors were wrong not to change me many years ago.
After only a couple of weeks my new stance is getting comfortable and my stroke consistency is improved almost unbelievably. I actually can't believe how I'm now drilling long shots center pocket. Having that back leg locked removes all the variables from the stroke. I was getting so bad I was questioning whether it was a perception issue. That I wasn't aiming at the right spot. No that wasn't it, I simply was not delivering the cue ball where I wanted to and now I am. It's like my entire body is locked in to the shot line now and can't move from it.
If you are crouching my advice is to stop and learn a better stance. If you are instructing my advice is don't let your students crouch. It's really that bad. I wish someone would have insisted to me many years ago to change and told me why it was this important.
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