I think there was a DCP thread earlier about his difficulty with draw shots...
I never had much difficulty with that particular stroke, but lately, since I have put a lot of emphasis into not dropping my elbow, I noticed draw shots have become somewhat more effortless. I'm able to get more draw not hitting the CB as low.
It wasn't until reading this months BD, in an article by fundamentals meister, Mark Wilson, that I realized why: when you drop your shoulder your tip goes up...duh!
I think the anticipation of drawing the cueball (because it is a counter-intuitive stroke) makes people put their shoulder and muscle into it, and worse, jab and jump up.
So...the usual advice remains: stay down, follow-through, don't muscle it, etc...
But it might be that the main reason a certain level of players has problems with the draw stroke is that they are not hitting the CB where they intended as a consequence of dropping their elbow.
I never had much difficulty with that particular stroke, but lately, since I have put a lot of emphasis into not dropping my elbow, I noticed draw shots have become somewhat more effortless. I'm able to get more draw not hitting the CB as low.
It wasn't until reading this months BD, in an article by fundamentals meister, Mark Wilson, that I realized why: when you drop your shoulder your tip goes up...duh!
I think the anticipation of drawing the cueball (because it is a counter-intuitive stroke) makes people put their shoulder and muscle into it, and worse, jab and jump up.
So...the usual advice remains: stay down, follow-through, don't muscle it, etc...
But it might be that the main reason a certain level of players has problems with the draw stroke is that they are not hitting the CB where they intended as a consequence of dropping their elbow.