pendulum tea-cup stroke

nrhoades said:
Close Bob. More like this:
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You must shoot a lot of soft shots. Do you take a short backstroke? What about your follow-through? Does your hand eventually clamp down on the cue or are you gripping with your fingertips all the way into the follow-through?

It would seem to me to be an incredible amount of work to have to keep the cue straight on shots harder than medium-slow speed. Why work so hard? If other grips aren't working for you, maybe you should find out exactly what is going on rather than keep reverting back to something that could possibly hold back your progress in the game.
 
FranCrimi said:
You must shoot a lot of soft shots. Do you take a short backstroke? What about your follow-through? Does your hand eventually clamp down on the cue or are you gripping with your fingertips all the way into the follow-through?

It would seem to me to be an incredible amount of work to have to keep the cue straight on shots harder than medium-slow speed. Why work so hard? If other grips aren't working for you, maybe you should find out exactly what is going on rather than keep reverting back to something that could possibly hold back your progress in the game.
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Check out the Bill Werbenuik video in post 18 of this thread.
Billy held the cue with thumb and fore-finger....
..and he was the best long-draw player I've ever seen..Larry Nevel would
have been in awe.

I don't know how he did it either.
 
pt109 said:
Check out the Bill Werbenuik video in post 18 of this thread.
Billy held the cue with thumb and fore-finger....
..and he was the best long-draw player I've ever seen..Larry Nevel would
have been in awe.

I don't know how he did it either.
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It seems similar, but not really the same as described here. It looks to me like Bill curled his fingers around the cue bringing it closer to his palm. That would give him more control than a finger tip grip.

Also, hard to tell because of the distance, but it also looked like the third finger may have also been on the cue, at least on some shots.

Interesting stuff, though.
 
cuetechasaurus said:
I like cradling the cue with my fingers below it, my pinky relaxed, and opening up the pinky and ring finger on the back stroke.
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I learned the hard way, but in 82 changed from the finger tip to the cradling, just like Bobs first pic, only thing I can add is, my index finger and thumb are touching in such a way, that the thumb fingerprint is pinching the side of my index finger.
 
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