It's been around forever, it just means that the person aims like they're shooting with no English, then on their final strike they kinda swoop into the English.
Yes, that's also how I shoot, the "auto adjustment" happens for the cueing angle while standing.
It's a form of backhand english (BHE). There is the kind of BHE where you aim, pivot, feather/stroke in the new, offset line, and shoot. I call that "aim and pivot". And then there is the kind where you aim, come straight back, and swerve/swoop the cue to the left or right on the forward stroke, which I call "aim and swoop".
I feel the same about the swoop, seems extremely simple, but in practice things move too quickly to hit the exact spot you're intending every time.. I'm gonna look him up to see his style.
Like everyone else, I've watched your videos for years, and has been immensely helpful in my understanding of technique and understanding, in theory and in practice, of what happens on the pool table. I've seen your videos on BHE,FHE a bit on intuitive aiming, and now, a bit on the swoop. But have you made an indepth video on strictly parallel english for different shot lengths and speeds?
Swooping creates horizontal-ish masse' cb movement as the spin diminishes.
I don’t have a dedicated video on parallel English, but I do have an explanation here:
Any and all. FHE and BHE have their merits. I can't really say what I use, but I've practiced a lot with both. I just found that if you come down on the ball with the spin in mind you don't have to think about it much, especially once you've practiced it to where you don't have to think about it.
I can't seem to find any true inepth explanation or videos on parallel english. All I ever find is people saying it only works at slow speeds and close shot distance as you did in your article.
Maybe because there's no consensus about what it really is. As Dave points out, it's usually just adjusting aim for squirt/throw by feel - the stick isn't really parallel with anything.
