There are many ways to skin a cat
This is what works for me
It’s the only shot I align from the hip and not square up position
Lay the cue on the rail, on the shot line, and hold, don't move the cue at all, stand tall. I don't like the cue moving when I can only see the top of the cue ball. Others put the cue in motion immediately and have no problem, this is just my preference.
I reassure my alignment, the feet are always important
I slide my bridge down the shaft while not moving the cue and drop down. At this point I am looking through the balls not moving the cue. When it looks and feels right I pre-stroke and let it fly, 5 seconds
I will close my body a little, more compact; maybe shorten my gait and index for cue ball travel needed. I am tight to the hip using more of a short stroke technique
I exaggerate my chin and shoulder lock
I will use a grip for what the shot calls for like any other shot, including swing arm length.
I will hit it for what it calls for, a slow roll, power, spin, jump shot, doesn't matter, sometimes you settle.
Shoot through the rail
I don't think about any of it when it comes up because I have practiced rail technique hundreds of times, the entire thought process is built in. Can teach it in 15 minutes
It sounds like a lot when you put it on paper. It takes a about 10 seconds to execute from beginning to end, 15 seconds if you have to move the cue ball a little extra, 60 seconds and a sure miss with no confidence.
It's just like any shot, if you are not confident and gun shy you missed it before you ever dropped down on it.
If you made it you got lucky.
Set up a 7 ft shot straight in and slow roll it with a flat rail bridge, then set one up with a raised bridge a pop it in, stop shot. Do 20 of each, see how you make out.
This is one of a few shots we work on. The shots are mostly repetitive, stroke technique is high priority.
Learning doesn’t change. It starts with your abc's. You learn the alphabet, eventually you spell your first name and then your last name, it takes time and repetition to master, some still can't spell their name. The same applies for playing off the rail.
It doesn't have to be my way, his way or her way, you can make it a combo and it's your way, I like my way, it's how I skinned my cat.
If you don't put in the work to improve expect the same results.
20 min to type this and 10 seconds to shoot off the rail, lol.
This is what works for me
It’s the only shot I align from the hip and not square up position
Lay the cue on the rail, on the shot line, and hold, don't move the cue at all, stand tall. I don't like the cue moving when I can only see the top of the cue ball. Others put the cue in motion immediately and have no problem, this is just my preference.
I reassure my alignment, the feet are always important
I slide my bridge down the shaft while not moving the cue and drop down. At this point I am looking through the balls not moving the cue. When it looks and feels right I pre-stroke and let it fly, 5 seconds
I will close my body a little, more compact; maybe shorten my gait and index for cue ball travel needed. I am tight to the hip using more of a short stroke technique
I exaggerate my chin and shoulder lock
I will use a grip for what the shot calls for like any other shot, including swing arm length.
I will hit it for what it calls for, a slow roll, power, spin, jump shot, doesn't matter, sometimes you settle.
Shoot through the rail
I don't think about any of it when it comes up because I have practiced rail technique hundreds of times, the entire thought process is built in. Can teach it in 15 minutes
It sounds like a lot when you put it on paper. It takes a about 10 seconds to execute from beginning to end, 15 seconds if you have to move the cue ball a little extra, 60 seconds and a sure miss with no confidence.
It's just like any shot, if you are not confident and gun shy you missed it before you ever dropped down on it.
If you made it you got lucky.
Set up a 7 ft shot straight in and slow roll it with a flat rail bridge, then set one up with a raised bridge a pop it in, stop shot. Do 20 of each, see how you make out.
This is one of a few shots we work on. The shots are mostly repetitive, stroke technique is high priority.
Learning doesn’t change. It starts with your abc's. You learn the alphabet, eventually you spell your first name and then your last name, it takes time and repetition to master, some still can't spell their name. The same applies for playing off the rail.
It doesn't have to be my way, his way or her way, you can make it a combo and it's your way, I like my way, it's how I skinned my cat.
If you don't put in the work to improve expect the same results.
20 min to type this and 10 seconds to shoot off the rail, lol.
