Hours, weeks, months, years, and I’m still lousy

[tomatoshooter]

I was not delivering the cue straight on every shot. Steering, deceleration, head movement, jerky stroke, and eye patterns were all prevalent and poor. No preshot routine, consistent stance, or shot visualization to speak of. And the king of all pointers I learned was having a slow backswing.

Only after building good fundamentals can I better progress to the next step which is truly understanding cue ball control and behavior.

I stroke over a tape measure. And kind of move my body through a range of motion so I can know which error I am making and understand what is going to go wrong with out of position shots. The coach I am working with has me going "and 3 and 2 and 1 and Pow!" There's definitely something there. I'm going to fully internalize that before I go back to the slow backswing. It felt like when I paused the backswing my practice strokes fell out of mind and I was one-stroking it. I feel the continuity with the slow backswing and it smooths out that final change of direction where using too much muscle can pull your stroke out of alignment. There's just something satisfying about the slow backswing.

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Pool is not easy game to master, time is need for improvement.

If it was easy it would not be a challenge.

Then it would be boring, and you
More on to a challenging game.