Efren's Stroke Comment - BD Oct 2007

[ghost ball]

If any of those hitters I mentioned are instructors, then by golly they are outstanding sources of information about the game and their teachings would be well worth the time and money invested.
Yes, someone does need to be a top player to help a top player. A shortstop instructor giving advice to a top player is (to quote his majesty the Fat One, R.I.P.) like "putting ice cream on a hot dog".
That's just my ignorant opinion, of course.
:thumbup:

I thought it was whipped cream on a hot dog???

 

[JoeyInCali]

Jerry Briesath, Hunter Lombardo, Mark Wilson, have all said so. And, no sure, but I think Randy G and Scott Lee have said the same. None are willing to name the pros for privacy reasons.

I have helped quite a few myself. After playing only a short period of
time I had them freestrokin. But you have not heard the pros say this.
I wonder if all these pros are ashamed of it or what ? Seems to me
this could a gold mind for a pro. " I was in a terrible slump, couldn't
beat the 3 ball ghost, then I went to Deanoc and he straighten my
faulty stroke right out. Haven't missed a ball since I worked with him"
Now the line for Deanoc's lessons would be like Black Friday at Walmart.
Pro "just mention my name and receive free .... whatever".
Deanoc if you start this just remember it was my idea and I'm in.
jack[/QUOTE]
Instructor A says , " I have helped a few pros but I'm not going to divulge it for their privacy or they instructed me not to ."
How are you going to dispute that lofty claim ?
You can't.
I've heard and read a few times someone claiming Efren, Busti and Parica went to this mythical old man.

 

[DrCue'sProtege]

I suspect most pool players are like Efren which is why there are so many different strokes. A similar example would be the wide variety of batting stances of baseball players. They learn to hit a baseball by hitting a baseball and in the process develop whatever stance works for them.

Good point alstl. As long as you stroke that cue straight through the line and can repeat that under pressure, what else is there???

I remember Buddy Hall making a comment at the 1999 Senior US Open. He basically said......... "There's very little to the pool stroke, just keep the cue under your shoulder and straight back and straight through. People tend to blow this out of proportion."........

r/DCP