Hey Fast, I had a question on how you hold the cue. What fingers do you use, and is there space between the cue and the skin between your thumb and first finger, or do you keep it connected? When you execute the shot, is your wrist loose or stiff, and at the end of the shot after the follow thru, where is the cue exactly in your hand, i.e. what fingers and part of the hand is touching it? Your input would be much appreciated.
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FAST LARRY SINGS LIKE A CANARY AND TELLS IT LIKE IT IS....
If you really want to screw up a good player or gambler, go up to him and ask him these very same questions. Most of them don't have a clue, they will look at their grip saying I don't know, let me look. They then begin to think about it and the next day the poor guy can't run 3 friggin balls and is now starving and can't pay his bookie. It's a very cruel shark.
I use a lot of differnt holds to produce different shots. On most of my shots I have all of my 4 fingers on the cue which gives me maximum accuracy and stablity to prevent the cue from twisting at impact. I vary pressure of those fingers from finger to finger to do different things as well. I hold the cue very lightly, it just lays in my hand. I hold it with my finger tips, most hold it with their fingers cupped around it laying on the middle of the fingers. I
truly hold it with all 4 finger tips, my tips get a little up the side of the cue, like Greenleaf did and McCreedy does now. When I want to add power and snap, I take fingers off, might use 3, 2 on some, for max whip I hold with just the index and thumb, the Willie Hoppe tea cup grip. it's very complex, hard if not impossible to describe over this forum, but I tried to.
May God bless and peace be with you. May the wind be always on your back and all 9 balls fall. VENI VIDI VICI, OMNIA VINCIT AMOR. Latin for “I came, I saw, I conquered, love conquerors all.
“Fast Larry” Guninger
LastTwo said:
FAST LARRY SINGS LIKE A CANARY AND TELLS IT LIKE IT IS....
If you really want to screw up a good player or gambler, go up to him and ask him these very same questions. Most of them don't have a clue, they will look at their grip saying I don't know, let me look. They then begin to think about it and the next day the poor guy can't run 3 friggin balls and is now starving and can't pay his bookie. It's a very cruel shark.
I use a lot of differnt holds to produce different shots. On most of my shots I have all of my 4 fingers on the cue which gives me maximum accuracy and stablity to prevent the cue from twisting at impact. I vary pressure of those fingers from finger to finger to do different things as well. I hold the cue very lightly, it just lays in my hand. I hold it with my finger tips, most hold it with their fingers cupped around it laying on the middle of the fingers. I
truly hold it with all 4 finger tips, my tips get a little up the side of the cue, like Greenleaf did and McCreedy does now. When I want to add power and snap, I take fingers off, might use 3, 2 on some, for max whip I hold with just the index and thumb, the Willie Hoppe tea cup grip. it's very complex, hard if not impossible to describe over this forum, but I tried to.
May God bless and peace be with you. May the wind be always on your back and all 9 balls fall. VENI VIDI VICI, OMNIA VINCIT AMOR. Latin for “I came, I saw, I conquered, love conquerors all.
“Fast Larry” Guninger