Some serious elbow drop...

Two things

• If your elbow drops after contact between the cue tip and cue ball it has zero impact on the shot.

• I'm pretty sure Stephen Lee is banned for life for fixing matches.
 
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Elbow drop after tip/ ball contact has no effect on the balls movement. I think this is Scott's point. And I believe he is right.

Gareth Potts is a great player but he does say some weird stuff. I watched a video where he claimed that top or bottom affects bank shots. Not sure if that's true, but I'd never heard it before.

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galipeau said:
Gareth Potts is a great player but he does say some weird stuff. I watched a video where he claimed that top or bottom affects bank shots. Not sure if that's true, but I'd never heard it before.
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Top shortens and draw lengthens, unless you're kicking, then draw shortens and top lengthens. :thumbup:
 
alstl said:
Two things

• If your elbow drops after contact between the cue tip and cue ball it has zero impact on the shot.

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Dropping one's elbow effects the bio-mechanics of cue delivery. Snooker coaches like Del Hill (Ronnie O uses him) teach dropping the elbow on shots where one wants a smooth accelerated cue delivery that stays somewhat parallel to the table surface. The pinned elbow (non-elbow drop) results in cue delivery into the table bed. Del Hill divides players into "drivers" and "peckers." :wink:
 
Allen Brown said:
...On a side note: I noticed that after he is in his set position to shoot and after his practice strokes he will tap his fingers from his bridge hand on the table just before he shoots. I have noticed other snooker players doing this and pool players as well. Do you know if he taught the snooker players to do this or is it some kind of habit?
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I would guess that they picked it up from watching Stephen Hendry. It might help with their timing.
 
Pidge said:
I've had the opportunity to play with Gareth, as far as fundamentals go he is spot on. I got onto the subject of stun with him and he confused me massively. He was saying its still a stun shot even if the CB is rolling, as long as you "stun" the CB...never did quite understand what he meant by that.
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I imagine he is talking about a stun run through, stunning the CB ( usually Striking the CB just above center) so that it rolls through a few inches.

It enables one to play a more positive stroke rather than a soft roll and avoids any
roll off, e.g. finger marks on the cloth .
 
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