You're welcome. I aim to swerve.
Some of the bridge options in this video might help the "vertically challenged:"
JUMP SHOT in Pool … Everything You Need to Know
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You're welcome. I aim to swerve.
Some of the bridge options in this video might help the "vertically challenged:"
Well another good dose of Dr. Dave’s medicine.
Well another good dose of Dr. Dave’s medicine.
I'm glad you like my latest prescriptions.
I took a dose of the good doctors prescription. On the dart stroke, I pinned my elbow to my side. It is working. My tip accuracy is better, and the dart stroke became a little easier for me.
Thanks Doc!
Thanks Doc!
I'm glad to hear it.
You're welcome. My bill is in the mail.
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. They're kinda fixed the way they are.
I could do that in heels.
Here is something else that will help you. From the perspective of the angle you are shooting at, hit the cue ball a little below center. What you did was hit the cue ball dead center, as in the photo below. It will still jump, just not quite as well or as easily.
Instead you want to hit a little below center, such as the white line in this photo. The cue itself in the picture for some reason looks to be more angled for a center ball hit, maybe the camera angle is just making it look that way but it really isn't, but in any case the white line is closer to the slightly below center hit you want.
In the video from the first post Dr. Dave for some reason around the 3 minute mark says to hit the cue ball in the center for jumps but I'm really not sure why he says that because like every other good player out there he hits 99% of his jump shots a little below center. On a side note, if you hit really low on the jump shot it can impart backspin on the cue ball causing it to draw after contact with the object ball, but if you hit just a little below center the jump shot will generally play out pretty normally with more of a rolling cue ball action after contact.
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At the 14:44 point in my video, I discuss and demonstrate how the tip contact point should change with cue elevation:
This video also shows how and when to vary the tip contact height with elevation to create stop, follow, and draw with jumps:
I didn't watch but the first couple minutes of the video. I did at the time however look through the content index to see if you covered tip contact points once I heard you say that, and somehow I managed to miss it there in the index. My apologies on that. I still disagree with your statement though at 3:16 saying that for normal 45 degree angle jumps a center ball hit works best, when in fact for that jump (and most others) a little below center hit definitely works best, and a little below center hit is in fact how your cue is lined up as you say that, and is also how you hit it when you shoot it a couple of seconds later, as well as every other time you shoot the shot, so it still makes no sense to say it when it isn't true and isn't in fact what you do either one.