Grip question

sidepocket7

sidepocket7

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I am just wondering what the correct amount of grip pressure is the most conducive to producing a fluid, accurate, and repeatable stroke. I watch alot of the Filipino players strokes, and they all seem to be gripping the cue very lightly. They seem to make the cue and the cueball "dance" with minimal effort.
Thanks
-Dave
 
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Keep trying lighter and lighter until just before it feels like it's gonna slip. When it feels like you don't have to consciously do anything to make it work, that's a good sign.
 
As they say up there in MN and ND...Oh yah? Ubetcha! :D Too tight a grip and a fast backswing/poor transition are the main killers of a good stroke.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

CreeDo said:
Keep trying lighter and lighter until just before it feels like it's gonna slip. When it feels like you don't have to consciously do anything to make it work, that's a good sign.
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Scott Lee said:
As they say up there in MN and ND...Oh yah? Ubetcha! :D Too tight a grip and a fast backswing/poor transition are the main killers of a good stroke.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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You've been watching the movie "Fargo" too much, Scott. :p

I once was speaking with a college classmate, and when she asked where I was from, I told her northern Minnesota. Her response, "I would have never guessed. You're so articulate and well-spoken." :rolleyes: Gee, thanks.
 
Just havin' a little fun. When I lived in MT (for 25 yrs) we made fun of ND folks...just like they did us! Oh, and yeah I have seen Fargo about 20x! :eek: :D Uffda! I was also in Minot last September, when they have that big festival...you couldn't find a hotel/motel room in a 100 mile radius (I got the last room in Bismark)!

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

9BallMarksman said:
You've been watching the movie "Fargo" too much, Scott. :p

I once was speaking with a college classmate, and when she asked where I was from, I told her northern Minnesota. Her response, "I would have never guessed. You're so articulate and well-spoken." :rolleyes: Gee, thanks.
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They say in golf, hold the club like it was bird, you want to keep it from flying away, but you don't want to kill it. Try this for your pool grip and maybe adjust from there. :shrug:

dave
 
sidepocket7 said:
I am just wondering what the correct amount of grip pressure is the most conducive to producing a fluid, accurate, and repeatable stroke. I watch alot of the Filipino players strokes, and they all seem to be gripping the cue very lightly. They seem to make the cue and the cueball "dance" with minimal effort.
Thanks
-Dave
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you answered your question when you asked it,

the post above mine that says like a bird, hard enough it wont fly away but dont squeeze it to death, I'm refering to a Canary not a Ostrich:grin-square:



Edit: by doing so, that is a light grip you let the cue do the work, and things will flow much better, most of the time the more fluid the player the stronger he is. There are exceptions-but few of them.
 
Yeah, I forgot to mention that fest to scott, lol.

You know when you try and hold water and it just goes thru your hand and you don't have to think about. You know its there buts it is going to do its job and just flow. Now that's a pool grip, one the just flows like water....
 
Scott Lee said:
Just havin' a little fun. When I lived in MT (for 25 yrs) we made fun of ND folks...just like they did us! Oh, and yeah I have seen Fargo about 20x! :eek: :D Uffda! I was also in Minot last September, when they have that big festival...you couldn't find a hotel/motel room in a 100 mile radius (I got the last room in Bismark)!

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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The people in Mi also make fun of those in Oh.
 
Holding it like it was a bird is correct. Jack Nicklaus taught that.
Arnold Palmer said hold it like a tube of toothpaste.
 
9BallMarksman said:
I once was speaking with a college classmate, and when she asked where I was from, I told her northern Minnesota. Her response, "I would have never guessed. You're so articulate and well-spoken." :rolleyes: Gee, thanks.
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I live in Maine, and I get that response a lot, too. I work in a tourist area, and people are always asking me where I'm from. I say about "35 miles from here" and they don't believe it. I then give them an "ayuh, deah... thats whicked cunnin'" to let them know I'm domestic to the area. :D

Funny, about regional accents and manners of speaking, and how others see them and/or expect them.
 
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