I am having trouble with rattling a ball in the pocket when I shoot with hard draw. Any suggestions? http://runthetable.blogspot.com
Need help with draw shot
- Thread starter jbl7894
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are u locking your wrist or fallowing thru or poking
Work up to it. Use progressive practice or something similar. Start with an easy shot. When you make it five times in a row, move to a slightly harder shot.
Running balls down the rail at speed requires precision aim on some tables. Most draw shots are hit harder than other shots.
It sounds like you may be giving up some of your accuracy in an effort to power your draw shot. Power isn't the key. A smooth complete properly executed stroke is what you need. When you try to "power up", you often lose some of your accuracy, and if the ball isn't going into the center of the pocket, particularly when you are shooting hard, rattling is often the result.
Steve
Steve
Whenever you have to put extreme spin on the ball, and in addition, hitting them hard, it makes all shots more difficult.
A draw stroke should be like any other stroke - the transition between final backstroke and forward stroke should be smooth and unhurried, and I would add that on a draw stroke in particular follow-through is especially important.
I see a lot of players jerking their draw strokes forward in the transition (sometimes me included). That causes tension in the grip and wrist, unwanted body movement, and causes a lot of misses by throwing the cue off course.
The cure is to slow the transition between the final back and forward strokes, then smoothly accelerate through the cue ball.
It's pretty much the same thing with all power strokes - from jump shots to break shots, to power follow shots - to develop accuracy the transition is a "gathering" of momentum , best made slow and controlled, without any abrupt jerking movements.
As they say in golf, you don't hit the ball on the backswing.
Chris
Good post.
The only thing I can add is, you would be amazed how hard you can hit the ball with a smooth follow through.
Most people make any number of mistakes when trying to power the ball. Some of them being clenching the cue on the follow through, tightening their muscles as well as what Tate mentioned above.
Any time I need to power the ball, I make a slow 8 inch backswing and then I ensure that I finish my stroke so that I'm hitting the cue ball at maximum velocity. Doing this I can get a lot of action on the ball with very little effort.