How to Check for Stroke Flaws

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cuetechasaurus

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If you notice that your stroke is crooked on your follow thru, a technique I use will show you your stroke problems. Shoot a bunch of long straight in shots, but stand about 5-6 inches further back from the shot than your normally would. Make it so your bridge hand is very far from the cueball, roughly so that when you hit the cueball it will be at the end of your follow thru. When your arm is at a 90 angle from the floor, your tip should be 5-6 inches away from the cueball. Try to focus on hitting center ball. If your stroke is crooked you wont be hitting center ball. To fix your stroke I recommend the third eye stroke trainer, which is probably the best tool to fix your stroke in the world. This technique of bridging really far back along with using the third eye will give you a dead straight stroke. If your problem is the backstroke, then Doug Carter's stroke trainer can fix that too.
 
Nice plug;) Something else you can do to expose stroke problems are pocket reducers. I have a set that helps me alot. If you buy now I can send them to you for only 19.95 plus shipping. If you order in the next 60 seconds I will throw in my mother in law for free.:D
 
Shut up. I am in no way associated with the makers of either of those products. I have used both of them and they do work. I'm not trying to sell them either, I'm just letting people know how they can fix their stroke.
 
You can learn the same thing on every shot you shoot simply by freezing at the end of your stroke and seeing what it tells you. Is your tip up in the air, or pointing down toward the table? Is you cue still pointing in the same direction it was when you finished your warm-up strokes? Did your stroke come to it's natural finish? The answers to these questions will tell you if your stroke is working or not...and you can do it on every shot you shoot.
Steve
 
A long neck beer bottle works just fine. Close to work on accurate cue ball hit. Farther away to work on follow through.
 
You can set pause finish freeze all you like, but if your stroke is crooked it's gonna stay crooked unless you figure out how to fix it.
 
Tchr and randy gave you the answer cuetech, it works the first time and everytime thereafter. I do hope people start using your idea though cuetech as I will be very busy in the coming yr with lessons. Although I will agree with you that the third eye is great for shooters to learn where the center of the ball really is.

Capt, all that a beer bottle will do for you is to ingrain a different stroke flaw. The natural motion of the stroke must finish down.
 
You can use a clean red dot or similar cue ball, and try to the center of the dot, and check yourself by the chalk residue. It's surprising how far off I am sometimes!

Also, shooting a "lag" shot from end to end, and having the cue ball stop dead on your tip is a great way to determine your stroke as well.
 
mnorwood said:
Nice plug;) Something else you can do to expose stroke problems are pocket reducers. I have a set that helps me alot. If you buy now I can send them to you for only 19.95 plus shipping. If you order in the next 60 seconds I will throw in my mother in law for free.:D
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Plug or not ... that stroke trainer is one useful piece of equipment if you are serious about being the best you can be.
I have heard nothing but good things from the people that have tried it.

Willee
 
I always thought i had a good stroke but a friend noticed i wasn't hitting the ball center, so i used a striped ball and put the stripe up and down and hit it to see if i could make the ball roll straight cause the stripes will reveal if you hit the ball straight and i wasn't, so then the one thing i have been practicing was shooting the cueball jacked up over a ball cause this shot is where you have to just hit the top of the cueball and very hard for me to do. There are alot of good tips here i will have to give a go too. Good thread.
 
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