Shooting with either hand
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LOL...........neither. Talk to your doctor and ask how long it should be before you can get back to playing normally. After surgery even trying to bridge with that arm or extending that arm to hold a mechanical bridge might damage the surgeons work. This particular pool advice needs to be asked on the medical doctors forum.
Clearing the table 1 Handed
I rest my hand on the rail due to Parkinson's Disease, but you can see that my mechanics remain the same as if I was hooting 2 handed. There is some video of another player shooting 1-handed on a bar box, and he is amazingly accurate. Hope this helps.
I rest my hand on the rail due to Parkinson's Disease, but you can see that my mechanics remain the same as if I was hooting 2 handed. There is some video of another player shooting 1-handed on a bar box, and he is amazingly accurate. Hope this helps.
1 handed is easy once you know how.
It's all in the alignment....There's a Burt Kinnister tape that gives some great tips on this...
Practice....just work on being smooth and patient, take a few more practice strokes.....work on simple position, unintended spin happens more often then you might think....
I prefer left handed over 1 handed....
Not only have I seen Big Perm shoot left handed, but he shoots behind his back, while he is kneeling and shooting between his legs. The guy is a master!
What accelerated my learning curve was the "stroke trainer".
BTW, I shoot the best opposite hand when I have a very open stance, like Allison. Experiment around; shoot one rack every practice session, starting off with simple shots.
The bridge is probably the hardest thing for me to master, but after a few months I felt comfortable with it.
I have learned to shoot one handed pretty well. My last goal is to learn to shoot one handed with the opposite hand. At first I couldn't even hit the cue ball but I am getting better.
Good luck. WW
I grew up on snooker too, but shoot both handed. After learning one, i was bored and no one in my family would play, so I played left then right against each other. I have better english with left, but more natural feel with right.
You can learn to be as good with both hands. Just takes time, practice and patience.
I might tend to agree with above for many center table shots, but side rail type shots, lefty is a worthwhile endevour.
FWIW
Ronnie O'sullivan can run centuries left handed,
Cut and past directly from wikipedia
Snooker
In cue sports, a player can reach farther across the table if they are able to play with either hand, since the cue must either be placed on the left or the right side of the body. English snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan[4] is unique amongst the current ranks of top snooker professionals, in that he is able to play to world standard with his left hand. While he lacks power in his left arm, his ability to alternate hands allows him to take shots that would otherwise require awkward cueing. When he first displayed this ability in the 1996 World Championship against the Canadian player Alain Robidoux, Robidoux accused him of disrespect. O'Sullivan responded that he played better with his left hand than Robidoux could with his right.[5] O'Sullivan was summoned to a disciplinary hearing in response to Robidoux's formal complaint, where he had to prove that he could play to a high level with his left hand. He played three frames of snooker left handed against former world championship runner-up Rex Williams, winning all three. The charge of bringing the game into disrepute was subsequently dropped.[
What he said. They also said, at the time, his wrong handed ability would be strong enough to place him into the top 12 in rankings.
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Not sure if you've tried this...
All of the suggestions that have been made are right on the money. practice, practice, and then more practice. However, one thing that I stumbled onto was this. I had an extra full length mirror laying around, so on a whim I put on the wall but horizontally, this way I could shoot balls on my table and periodically look and see if I was in line, swooping my elbow, you know stuff like that. I ended up using it to get my left handed stroke in line to the point that I can pretty much play left handed. albeit not as well, but good enough to make most shots without reaching for the rake. I would just line up shooting towards the mirror and force my self to straighten out and stroke smoothly. It was easy to SEE what I was doing wrong and pin point a fix. Try it, it might help!
All of the suggestions that have been made are right on the money. practice, practice, and then more practice. However, one thing that I stumbled onto was this. I had an extra full length mirror laying around, so on a whim I put on the wall but horizontally, this way I could shoot balls on my table and periodically look and see if I was in line, swooping my elbow, you know stuff like that. I ended up using it to get my left handed stroke in line to the point that I can pretty much play left handed. albeit not as well, but good enough to make most shots without reaching for the rake. I would just line up shooting towards the mirror and force my self to straighten out and stroke smoothly. It was easy to SEE what I was doing wrong and pin point a fix. Try it, it might help!
I stopped shooting left handed and started using the bridge and my cue reach I can shoot just fine opposite handed but I rarely see strong players in my area use there opposite hand. I think for me any way i stay more consistant . just my opinion. thanks for listening........jim jones
Yikes, I bet you catch a lot of flack for your name...
I know how you feel.
Sincerely,
David Koresh
(BTW, good post.)
