Progressive Cue Ball Control Drill?

md5key

md5key

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Does anyone have any ideas on a progressive cue ball control drill? My cue ball control is severely lacking. My ball making gets me out of this a lot of times, but that only helps for so long. For instance, in 14.1, my high run is 33 but that's with a couple outrageous shots that should have been easy if my c/b control was better. I almost never end a run due to a missed easy/moderately hard shot, it's usually losing control of whitey and putting myself into a horrible situation.

What I need is a good set of drills to practice other than throwing a random ball out and trying to get the cue ball to stop at a specific spot. Something progressive that can get harder as I get better would be great.

Thanks!!
Zach
 
Here's an excellent progressive stop shot drill. Any problems you have with this shot will carry over to every other shot. This will straighten out your stroke like no other drill.

Start off on 1 side of the table. Shoot the 1 ball, and bring your cue ball to a dead stop. When you consistently shoot this shot good, shoot a stop shot on the 2 ball. Keep progressing until you can bring the cue to a dead stop on the 4 ball. Repeat the same thing on the other side of the table with the 5 through 8. It's important to do this drill on both sides of the table, because certain problems will predominately show up shooting on 1 side of the table or the other. Also, the more speed you use, the more flaws in your stroke will be magnified.

At any point, if your cue ball does anything other than come to a dead stop, there's something wrong with your stroke. You can accurately identify what went wrong and where it went wrong with this drill. It's a terrific drill for developing an accurate, repeatable stroke.

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md5key said:
Does anyone have any ideas on a progressive cue ball control drill? My cue ball control is severely lacking. My ball making gets me out of this a lot of times, but that only helps for so long. For instance, in 14.1, my high run is 33 but that's with a couple outrageous shots that should have been easy if my c/b control was better. I almost never end a run due to a missed easy/moderately hard shot, it's usually losing control of whitey and putting myself into a horrible situation.

What I need is a good set of drills to practice other than throwing a random ball out and trying to get the cue ball to stop at a specific spot. Something progressive that can get harder as I get better would be great.

Thanks!!
Zach
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Thanks. For that one, are we talking the cue ball has to stop perfect? Or is a 1/8" roll acceptable? Just trying to see how precise this needs to be.

Thanks!
Zach
 
very similar to one of the mother drills we teach in pool school.
Yes, the cue ball should stop dead in it's tracks.
And once you can get your stop shots at all those distances, then you start working on drawing back one diamond, two diamonds, three diamonds, etc from each distance.
Then you start working on follow.

And THEN, you start working on all the same things on cut shots. THAT'S when you start to gain control of what the cue ball is going to do.

Steve
 
pooltchr said:
And THEN, you start working on all the same things on cut shots. THAT'S when you start to gain control of what the cue ball is going to do.

Steve
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I need to take your class because I sure have a tough time with the stop shot on cut shots! ;)
 
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