OK so I just got back from the pool room, and I had a strange experience. When we started playing today I was struggling, scratching on wierd shots, mis-cuing, getting skids?......so after a few games of 1P I said to my bud Jimmy these shots just don't sound right?....that statement even to me sounded funny. Earlier He was talking about how he changed his grip hand a bit after watching some of the Pros at the Derby this year. He is working on leaving the front finger OFF the cue and let the middle 2 do more of the work.
So, I started paying attention to my grip hand, which was just too firm, so I lightened things a bit, and started to listen to the "ping" sound my cue makes when I hit the ball pure. Almost instantly I started playing much better.
I tried to explain wat I was doing to one of the other guys there but it was hard to do. Trying to tell someone I'm concentrating on the sound of a shot was strange at best.
Do any of you "listen" to the shot? or try to adjust by how you hear the contact of the cue and cueball?....
So, I started paying attention to my grip hand, which was just too firm, so I lightened things a bit, and started to listen to the "ping" sound my cue makes when I hit the ball pure. Almost instantly I started playing much better.
I tried to explain wat I was doing to one of the other guys there but it was hard to do. Trying to tell someone I'm concentrating on the sound of a shot was strange at best.
Do any of you "listen" to the shot? or try to adjust by how you hear the contact of the cue and cueball?....
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From that day forward, I have noticed the difference in sound that certain shots make, not just from the grip, but also from the type of shot, and type of stroke that is applied. Pretty interesting stuff.
