Great excercises for developing a good stroke?

S

Slim J

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Got a friend that seems to have a nack for the game, still a beginner but getting good at ball pocketing. While the sense of aiming is there the stroke is not. Can you recommend some good excercises for developing a good stroke? Thanks!
 
Straight shots are the best using centerball to determine your stroke.
Try these: http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html

START(
%Dd5Y6%HK8I0%Id5Z9%Pd5X3%WA8I1%Xu8I0%YC8C9%Zd0W8%[L0]7%\K8A4)END

You can hit this shot at various speeds. I like hitting this one hard about 10 times. If you miss take note to which side and figure out why you are missing. (Are you hitting the cueball dead center?)
 

Attachments

  • practice.JPG
    practice.JPG
    17 KB · Views: 346
Last edited:
Here is another to use with one ball:
START(
%Dg6O6%Pn0O5%WB4O6%Xu7O5
)END

Hit the 4 ball with a stop shot and have the 4 ball return to hit the cueball square.
 

Attachments

  • practice2.JPG
    practice2.JPG
    16.4 KB · Views: 343
Make sure this players fundamentals are good before trying to learn around the obsticals of poor basics.

Is his forearm perpendicular to the stick?
 

Attachments

  • DSC_0240.jpg
    DSC_0240.jpg
    58.7 KB · Views: 346
Last edited:
Is he centered on the cue like Gerda?
 

Attachments

  • good%20setup.jpg
    good%20setup.jpg
    73.2 KB · Views: 355
Last edited:
These are sweet. Thanks. I'll have my friend working on them tonite.

Any to help develope rhythm and smoothness?
 
This is not centered by the way!!!
 

Attachments

  • Pic1024.jpg
    Pic1024.jpg
    46.4 KB · Views: 391
For smoothness I try touch shots with just the cue ball. Trying to control the speed of the cueball alone requires a smooth stroke. But your must remember not to be jerky in the backswing, and to freeze everything at the end of the stoke.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html

START(
%CC7U1%Hj8D0%IE1U1%Ph9W2%Wh6D6%Xh7V3%YD4W3%Zg9W2
)END

I shoot the short table (red line) to try and touch rail and leave the cueball within a balls length of the rail (8ball.)

Then I shoot the long table (green line) to try and touch the end rail and leave the cueball within two ball lengths of the rail (3 and 9 ball.)
 

Attachments

  • practice3.JPG
    practice3.JPG
    14.3 KB · Views: 301
renard said:
This is not centered by the way!!!
Click to expand...


foxyman, LOL. i hope no lady here will be offended but when i was scrolling down and saw that picture, i almost couldnt breath for 15 minutes. This was the joke of the week for me :)

good work. some reps for u my m8
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top