Best Pro Stroke?

The Man said:
Have to go with Buddy Hall on this one, although I really like the way Pagulayan and Orcullo swing it too. Very short back strokes, no wasted motion if you strictly watch their actual final stroke.
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seems like it'd be hard to get in stroke doing that
 
Sylver Ochoa. Young guy but dang what a stroke. I seen him playing about a year ago in Vegas & his stroke is what caught my attention. I have seen lots of players & lots of games, but none struck me & caused me to stop to watch only due to the mechanics of the stroke. The kid is powerful & effortless.
 
The Miz has my vote for overall "stroke". Mike Massey for power is hard to beat. Buddy Hall as the most enjoyable to watch, so smoooooth.
 
Ronnie O'Sullivan

poolg0d said:
Bustamante! Just ask Bartam.
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If we're talking "straightest" stroke (i.e. pulling back, and stroking through on the same line, without any hook, hitch, yaw, or waver), it is most definitely NOT Bustamante. Just watch any overhead view of Busty's stroke; you'll see a definitely left-to-right hook or hitch in his stroke due to the action of the floppy wrist thing he does:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mbtMvF8QNro

However, for "prettiness," it indeed is hard to disagree that Busty's stroke is pretty. I studied it for quite some time, and tried to make my wrist do that which he does, for naught.

For me personally, I think Ronnie O'Sullivan has the straightest stroke:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eEZxTyByg8k

For someone to be able to rocket balls into tight snooker pockets like this, without the "white knuckle" appearance that most snooker players have, to me says that Ronnie's stroke is natural, pure, and dead-eye-Dick straight (as verified by the overhead camera views).

-Sean
 
I gotta go with Buddy Hall. No one strokes the ball like he does/did. He could make that cue ball dance and it looked like he just tapped it. Amazing stroke on that man. And it's even more amazing when you see it happen up close. No one even comes close to comparing.
MULLY
 
The one video I have seen of a not so ancient Mosconi shooting while in his early 60's or so on a instructional video he did where he runs a 45 and then simply quits impressed me with how accurate that guys stroke was. Long stroke and dead straight.

I can only imagine what his game and stroke looked like 30 years earlier when he was at his peak in practiced form.
 
I've been around top players for 30 years and the most beautiful and powerful stroke I've ever seen has to be Shane Van Boening's. When he gets a decade or two experience behind that, he could wind up the best American player of all time.
 
Dallas West had one the smoothest strokes ever, back when everyone played real pool( 14:1 ) You had to be smoooth to navigate through a couple hundred balls!

Jeremy
 
It s anyway a bit difficult to discuss about a *straight stroke* if we re talkin about professionals in my opinion. Mostly all of em have very straight stroke- just if you meant about like *it looks like perfectly shown in books...* then perhaps we could discuss about it.
No Matter we re talkin about Archer, Varner, Hohmann, Souquet etc etc- this list would be amazing long- Watchin Hohmann for example is almost perfect imo- But to say about a world champ (almost everyone named here was already a champ :cool:) he would have no straight stroke....sorry but then i would have to laugh a bit :wink:
All of em have very good fundamentals.


lg
Ingo
 
If you are speaking of powerful strokes. I think anyone would be amiss in not considering any of the top 3 cushion players. As far as being able to load up and move the rock IMHO I would take Semih Saygıner over just about anyone.
 
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