1) Take a student who has struggled with follow for a long, long time, using a conventional (high) hand bridge and stroke.
2) Setup the 9-ball shot as diagrammed above.
3) Tell student to bridge and practice stroke at center cue ball, take a nice long backstroke on the final stroke, then, with the final forward stroke only--because they're using the hand bridge as a natural fulcrum--to slightly lower the cue butt so that the cue ball is struck above center, using a soft or medium-soft stroke.
4) Watch the cue ball follow the 9-ball straight into the far corner pocket, usually on the first, sometimes on the second attempt.
5) Provide student with Kleenex to wipe away their tears of gratitude.
6) Post same at AZ.
7) Watch as non-teachers criticize you and/or as other teachers say "Wrong!" without ever having attempting this upward stroke on a pool table, to test what I'm saying for themselves or telling you why this method that saves people years of agony with follow shots is "wrong".
Why not fix the problem instead of putting a Band-aid on it? Its obvious that they are not using a "Conventional Stroke" or they would be able to execute this basic shot of "following the ball" There are underlying issues here that need to be fixed and if you are not fixing them the right way you are doing your students a great disservice.
I had a house pro once tell me
Submarines and airplanes
Meaning angle of cue for draw and follow
Not extreme of course
When you start listening to well-founded criticism of your ideas we might have something to "collaborate" about.Respectfully to you, you'd be a far better player and teacher if you collaborated with others instead of talking down to them.
This is the very definition of not knowing what you're saying - or what you're teaching. I sincerely hope the student(s) you told to "stroke upward" for follow have found a real instructor....the very definition of not a Band-aid.
When you start listening to well-founded criticism of your ideas we might have something to "collaborate" about.
And as yet another example of you opining about things you're ignorant of: you obviously have no idea how I play.
pj <- forgot to say "respectfully"
chgo
This is the very definition of not knowing what you're saying - or what you're teaching. I sincerely hope the student(s) you told to "stroke upward" for follow have found a real instructor.
pj
chgo