Specific Point on Grip-Hand to Focus On

[drivermaker]

I can now say, my thumb curling around the handle has been the cause of me shanking the cue to the right ( I'm a righty ) often before.

That's a misdiagnosis. You were shanking it to the right because you have NO good aiming system and have always been using too stiff a shaft for your weak stroke. Get something with a little more "flex" in it. (just don't misdiagnose again and call a shaft like that with incorrect terminology...that is unless you want to be deemed a forum dolt)

 

[lfigueroa]

IMO, refining your grip, if you want to excel, is key. Of course, rightly so, you could say that about almost every little aspect of this game -- it’s that tough.

Where and how you grip your cue will have a huge impact on what you see happen on the table.

Of course, as others have pointed out, you don’t want to be thinking about all this while you’re shooting. But that’s what practice is for. That’s when you experiment and find out that different techniques create different results. And, when you find something that works, you *burn it in” during your practice sessions… so you don’t have to think about it during competition.

Lou Figueroa

One of the most difficult things in pool for me is the grip...

 

[Purdman]

My Grip

I like to grip my shaft firmly in the middle. Then I use the pendulum stroke ever so gently.
Purdman

 

[JoeyInCali]

That's a misdiagnosis. You were shanking it to the right because you have NO good aiming system and have always been using too stiff a shaft for your weak stroke. Get something with a little more "flex" in it. (just don't misdiagnose again and call a shaft like that with incorrect terminology...that is unless you want to be deemed a forum dolt)

Thanks for the tip.
I'm gonna switch to tapered-down Predator shafts now.