Chalking with the bridge hand

Play right. Chalk left. Never really think about it. Hands and shafts get dirty playing pool. Wash your hands, clean your shafts. Part of the game. I sort of like that blue patina on my shafts.
 
WildWing said:
Chalking with the bridge hand is the cue repairman's best friend. The bridge hand gets chalk on it, the chalk gets on the shaft, the shaft gets dirty, the player usually sands the shaft, and finally the shaft is useless, so he goes to the cue repair guy for another shaft.

Chalk with the non-bridge hand, the shaft stays cleaner.

All the best,
WW
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It's almost geometrically impossible to hold the chalk in your hand, properly chalk your tip and get chalk on the hand holding the chalk. If anything gravity will cause the chalk to get on the other hand.

I strongly suspect the issue isn't which hand you hold it with, but improper chalking technique. Chalk on your bridge hand comes exclusively from chalk on the cloth from normal playing if you chalk your tip properly. Doesn't matter which hand you use but players who switch the cue over to the other hand to chalk it and back again to shoot look awkward and silly.

I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
 
Carlo Biado....gets to be world champion....gets to look like a movie star...
....the only thing he does wrong is chalk with his playing hand...:eek:

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I'm just guessing here, and haven't read the every post, but it seems that the majority of pool players leave the chalk on the rail. It's more natural to pick it up with your bridge hand. Snooker players put the chalk in their pocket, grip hand side I believe, since they may lean on it otherwise. Maybe this accounts for the different practices?
 
Shooting with his opposite hand, which is relatively often, and on every break shot, always left handed.
 
I prefer to hold the cubes of chalk in my mouth when I chalk my cue. Around my pool hall I am known as smurf mouth:D
 
Main thing is, to keep the chalk handy. Good friend of mine, that's gone now,,he would have a cube or two of chalk in his car at all times. when he was out late with his girl friend and after taking her home,, he would then ,,just cover his hands in chalk. When he got home and his wife asked him where he had been, he would respond,,,I've been out with my other girl. His wife would cuss him out, call him a lousy bastard ,,and say,, you've been playing pool again, chalks just covering the hell outta your hands. :thumbup:
 
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