JoeyInCali said:The pump stroke I see is their practice stroke. On the last stroke, I see slow pull and smooth follow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH3u5KbyXOc
Davenport has the smoothest follow I saw in person outside of Hall and Souquet.
Interesting video.
At about 3:19 in it, Davenport shoots with that beautiful, smooth stroke, and drops his elbow about 5 inches, from what I could tell.
I find it instructive to watch the way top players do things. In one of Kim's shots, he shoots and twitches his closed bridge hand while the shot goes off, and ends with the tip of the cue going up, apparently putting a specific kind of english to pot the ball and get shape for the next one, which he did just fine.
There's so much to be learned by watching these top pros.
While I certainly respect the instructors who post here and who I know personally, it's always useful, IMHO, to observe how top players actually do things that go against the nostrums of some.
Flex