you can be all over the place with the cue, but the bottom line is if you can hit your intended Target on the Que ball and object ball with a smooth stroke, everything else doesn't matter! When I saw Shane in providence a couple yrs ago, he was with dechaine and they were screwing around, Shane was doing this absolutely rediculous draw stroke that had dechaine amazed!!! To amaze that kid tells you something! Anyway, I did record it on my phone, bus follow through was about an inch!!!!!!! Seeing it live, you would of thought he was following through like a foot to do that shot, but nope, around an inch! Moral of the story, yes, you should learn how to stroke properly! This will definitely give great consistency, but at the end, its all about what happens in the final stroke!!! To me, the key is to still be accelerating through the Que ball!!! This will give you maximum Que ball action!!!Yet, Bustamante's is rather fluid and loose (maybe too loose). Not textbook but nice looking.