Light vs heavy cue

Do you mean without raising or dropping your elbow? That's the purpose of the pendulum stroke....
I think @snookered_again is confusing bending the arm at the elbow with dropping the upper arm. Of course it is nearly impossible to play any kind of normal stroke without bending the arm at the elbow.

(On a side note, Mike Davis keeps his elbow locked and rotates from the shoulder, or at least he used to. It looks really, really weird. I saw him run 153 balls IIRC with that technique. )
 
I never "contended" anything about muscles being immobile - only the elbow/upper arm.

Read much?


"Biceps" and "upper arm" aren't synonymous. The elbow/upper arm is immobile during the pendulum stroke, even with the biceps moving within it (kinda like your torso doesn't move even though your heart is beating).

Have you actually met a pendulum stroke?

pj
chgo
You have double standards. First, you mock me for a simple typo (dropping the 's' in 'biceps'), and then you rely on semantics to defend your argument, "The upper arm is immobile while its muscles flex inside it!" is weak, and also incorrect--I'm challenging you a second time to post video of your pure pendulum stroke wearing a short sleeve top.

Additionally, you're being rude. While you are often knowledgeable about pool, when you're wrong—like in this case—your attitude becomes condescending. This is likely why you've been banned from AZ five times.
 
You’ve already demonstrated you don’t know what a pendulum stroke is - no need to keep showing us.

pj
chgo
Your typical "argument" is to pull others' quotes out of context then add rude put downs.

Your assertion that the upper arm is immovable while upper arm muscles flex is nonsense. A moving thing is not an immobile thing. Ironically, you use your statement above to say I don't understand what you don't understand!

Being rude and a jerk is why you've been banned from AZ six times.
 
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A muscle is not an arm (or an elbow). Another thing you don’t seem to know the definition of.

pj
chgo
Again, your comment is a non sequitur... and rude. You claimed that the pendulum stroke was simpler to execute, I cited the muscles used in the upper arm and elsewhere, and now you're being rude, which is why you've been banned from AZ seven times.
 
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