Feedback on My Stroke & Mechanics – Looking to Improve Fundamentals
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I found, for me, that the grip particulars don't matter much except for one critical thing -- that I shoot with absolutely no tension in the hand or fingers. It isn't easy to do until you experience it, and everything you shoot at goes in. That's when I realized the majority of misses were due to something the hand/fingers did that they shouldn't have. Hohmann was once asked about his grip and he said while it looks like he has a death grip on the cue he really doesn't. His fingers are more like a cage that the cue rests in.
I like the updated video. Your definitely hitting the ball better.
Just keep working hard with the practicing.
As far as the grip, what ever feels natural to you.
I wouldn't mess with it too much, as i said before, this would have been better off, in the ask the instructors category. I know some here already have responded.
Just keep working hard with the practicing.
As far as the grip, what ever feels natural to you.
I wouldn't mess with it too much, as i said before, this would have been better off, in the ask the instructors category. I know some here already have responded.
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The largest mistake -- in my view -- that a lot of players make when futzing with their grip to keep it loose is that they allow daylight around the stick. Your hand should be touching the stick all the way around. An error would be letting the cue drop down away from the web between thumb and index finger.
If there is daylight through the grip, the shape of your hand will change during the stroke because at some point your hand will close, either to get speed into the cue or to keep the cue from flying down the table after it hits the cue ball. Changing the shape of your hand during the stroke is a complication that I think you should avoid.
I just switched to this after a local studied my mechanics and recommended it. I previously had the cue hang down low in my hand. Now it's tucked up in that web for the past week or two. I'm giving it a good try.
WobblyStroke
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The biggeat flaw in your video is your choice of shape from 3 to 4. An easy roll gives you the 4 in the corner with built in shape for the 5. Your choice had you travelling a longer distance, across the shot line of the 4, into a way smaller window, and then required a great positional shot to the 5 with a huge 8ball to avoid. Fixing stuff like that will improve your runout percentage much more than technique tweaks imo.
That said, finding an instructor that will tweak your stroke rather than overhaul it and then just listening to him/her can be of much more help than some hodgepodge of internet advice from a variety of folks with good intentions who may all be working with a different idea of what an ideal stroke is.
Take grip for example.... some instructors like a snug grip like you have, some like the hand to open and close, some even like it so loose it has a gap between hand and cue....which others call slop. Weirdest part is that they are all right and their methodology has worked for countless players. But each part of the setup affects all others so u simply cannot mix and match bits of advice from multiple sources, even very reliable ones. I'd say, find an instructor who already prefers a snug grip like you prefer and then trust that person and only that person for a while.
That said, finding an instructor that will tweak your stroke rather than overhaul it and then just listening to him/her can be of much more help than some hodgepodge of internet advice from a variety of folks with good intentions who may all be working with a different idea of what an ideal stroke is.
Take grip for example.... some instructors like a snug grip like you have, some like the hand to open and close, some even like it so loose it has a gap between hand and cue....which others call slop. Weirdest part is that they are all right and their methodology has worked for countless players. But each part of the setup affects all others so u simply cannot mix and match bits of advice from multiple sources, even very reliable ones. I'd say, find an instructor who already prefers a snug grip like you prefer and then trust that person and only that person for a while.