different strokes

I've heard pendulum stroking called a still elbow or static elbow.

I don't know of a name for an elbow dropping stroke. A "normal" stroke maybe? haha, what a troll I am :)

Up and down movement on the warmup strokes is a rollercoaster stroke. I always thought it looked like the metal bar connecting two wheels of a train, and it should have some name to reflect that. Like a choo choo stroke or something.

A stroke from the side position is a sidearm or chicken wing stroke, like keith. A stroke where you accidentally go to the side during your backswing or forward swing is just a plain old f*ckup as far as I know.

That original hanisch post was a big old teal deer but I think people tend to overcomplicate pool and the strokes. I've heard people talk like there are multiple strokes from a standard shooting position but in my opinion there's only one, or only needs to be one anyway. All that changes is how much force you're hitting with and where the cue tip strikes the ball. There's no such thing as a separate draw stroke or follow stroke, or a special nip draw stroke or whatever.

If you wanna tell me that a bridge stroke or a jacked up rail-draw stroke is a different stroke, I can buy that, but once you're down over the CB and doing a standard shot, you don't need to execute a special pokemon Stroke Number 27 to hit a certain shot. You hit it just like any other shot, just decide where you want the tip to touch whitey and how hard you want it to hit. You may also consider how much follow through you're allowed if it's close quarters.

The worst case of overthinking stroke names has to be in an old Megan Minerich instructional I had found online. She named follow, stop, and draw strokes as separate strokes and would say stuff like "to get this kind of follow you hit the ball with a draw stroke, but high". Ugh.
 
Big C...The 90 degree angle is created between the forearm and the cuestick, not the upper arm (unless you are at the perfect height in your stance where forearm and upper arm create the 90 degrees). Stand higher or lower, and the "perceived" angle between forearm and upper will be less than, or greater than, 90 degrees...exactly why we use the cuestick and forearm to establish the 90 degree angle at contact, rather than the upper arm.

While physically it does not matter if you followthrough or not (since dwell time between tip and CB is a millisecond), and everybody is correct about not deliberately stopping the forward motion of the stroke, we DO finish our stroke (which is accelerating, for the most part, to the natural finish point)...which creates followthrough. Followthrough is NOT the cause of a good stroke...it happens because we finish our stroke. How much followthrough we "need" depends on how you're built, and the measurement of your shooting template...not the "perceived requirements" of the shot and/or position afterwards. The way we teach, cuestick velocity is measured using the weight of the cue and forearm speed (timing), as opposed to grip pressure and shoulder muscles. This allows the subconscious brain to "train" the bicep to move through the forward range of motion (from the end of the backswing to the natural finish point, where the bicep meets the forearm, or grip hand meets the chest/armpit area).

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

The 90 degree angle should not be formed by the forearm and upper arm because everyone is built differently. Your grip hand should be directly under your elbow while you are in the set position. If done correctly your forearm and cue will form a 90 degree angle at the point of contact.
 
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