took a few steps backwards, need help to get up again..

[FranCrimi]

Train1077, I posted this before and I'm not sure if you thought I was joking but I am not joking.

Your back arm is TOO LOW and if you don't raise it you will always have problems. Look at the side view of yourself shooting again over the rail and compare it to side views of other players who stand low. Your upper arm is almost parallel with the floor and your cue stick is actually scraping along the rail during your stroke. You have taught youself to manipulate your stroke to be able to strike the cue ball from such a position. This is hurting your stroke.

If you raise your elbow up an inch (50.5 cm) higher at address you will find a whole new world of stroking available to you.

Fran Crimi
BCA Master Instructor
WPBA former tourning pro
Former President of the WPBA

 

[Scott Lee]

I agree with Tony here. It is evident that your elbow is dropping (whether it is before, at, or after contact cannot be seen), and you seem to be 'steering' the cuestick (and one reason why you missed the shot where both balls were frozen on the rail). I'll add to what Tony suggested. Once you have pocketed the stop shot, leave the CB where it stops, and see if you can replace the OB back onto the hole reinforcement. This gives you a very definite idea of what is happening, and how to adjust to make small corrections. You also might try to follow the OB into the pocket (aiming at 12:00 on the CB...this was also Tony's suggestion). It's amazing how tiny errors in our stroke show up quickly, once you add speed and distance to any shot...particularly a straight in one. Even with the head on video, it doesn't appear that you have any kind of consistent eye pattern (how, when, why, where, and how long you look at the CB and OB).

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

The only concern that I see in this video is that it appears to me that you are not delivering the cue in a straight line through the cueball. I see the cuetip swerve through your stroke from center to your right during the back swing then to your left as you come through the ball. I believe it is caused by you bringing you shoulder into play during your stroke.

You can see this for yourself clearly on all of the shots in this video.

I would suggest that you start doing a progressive stop shot drill. You will need to setup a pure straight line with a laser light, and use notebook hole reinforcers to mark the ball positions on that line.

Start out a diamond apart and pocket the ball in a corner. The goal is to have the cue ball stop dead on impact with the object ball. If it is off line adjust your alignment and cue tip delivery until you master a perfect stop shot. Your goal is to have that cue ball stop in PERFECT line with the object ball it hit.

You can then go to 2 diamonds apart and repeat. Keep going up a diamond at a time.


Do this for no more than 20 minutes a day, and then play some people and HAVE FUN.