What helped me get a good stroke is doing a drill from IPAT instruction videos.
Here is a link that talk about the stoke and the line up to your shot.
The man in the video is doing what the IPAT video is doing to develop a good stand, alignment and stroke. The only difference is in his video he states that pocketing the ball does not matter. In the IPAT video it does matter, that is how you know if your alignment is correct. Doing this drill helped me with alignment and having my arm not chicken winging.
I would help new pool players with this and old timers watching think it is stupid. Thorsten Hohmann has a video on this also with Mike Masses and Thorsten explains on how he used it to develop his stroke. Hope this helps.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QyRZ7Xx_xuY
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