Best chicken wing shooters?

[BlueRaider]

AJ Manas actually has a reverse chicken wing.

Seems like a lot of sharp shooters have that (such as Seo Seoa in women's pool), but very few have an actual, outward flaring chicken wing. I speculate it's because the latter inherently leads to a pronated wrist, while even Billy Thorpe with his ridiculous reverse chicken wing is able to keep a nice wrist alignment.

Agreed. You see a lot of reverse chicken wing arm positions with the elbow tucked inward among strong players, even some very pronounced ones, but almost never pronounced ones where the elbow is flared out wide.

 

[skogstokig]

Agreed. You see a lot of reverse chicken wing arm positions with the elbow tucked inward among strong players, even some very pronounced ones, but almost never pronounced ones where the elbow is flared out wide.

iirc buddy hall instructed the wrist position like that in his VHS.

 

[MattPoland]

I wonder how many chicken wings are alignment corrections to having a vision center favoring the inside eye.

Like maybe one option is a more pitched shoulder position and no chicken wing. And another option is a more square body posture but offset with a chicken wing.

 

[Bob Jewett]

... reverse chicken wing arm positions with the elbow tucked inward ...

I think that's usually called "side arm".

 

[Lowell]

I wonder how many chicken wings are alignment corrections to having a vision center favoring the inside eye.

Like maybe one option is a more pitched shoulder position and no chicken wing. And another option is a more square body posture but offset with a chicken wing.

My chicken wing was the result of what felt like "naturally" having my cue aligned with my chin/vision center was like.

 

[j2pac]

I've had a chicken wing for my entire pool life. It feels so strange having a straight forearm now that my arm twists and twitches. So I'm trying to study the stroke of great players that had a pronounced, not slight, outward chicken wing stroke. Any players yall can think of?

McCready.

 

[Bob Jewett]

McCready.

McCready is side-arm. His hand is farther from his body than his elbow.

Chicken wing is when the hand is closer to the body than the elbow. The hand and cue look tucked under the body.

 

[GideonF]

Old snooker pro Nigel Bond has a pretty pronounced chicken wing.

Here is the video this is from. He has some other videos on YouTube.