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Just wondering which top level professional pool players have poor fundamentals.
Top Pros with the worst fundamentals?
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I feel all pro level players have "great" fundamentals. To me, great fundamentals is defined as consistent, repeatable stroke. You have to have a consistent repeatable fundamentals to reach top level IMO.
If the question is who has the most unorthodox fundamentals, I would say Mike Davis.
Again his may not be textbook, but it is "great" since it is consistent and repeatable.
If the question is who has the most unorthodox fundamentals, I would say Mike Davis.
Again his may not be textbook, but it is "great" since it is consistent and repeatable.
Good reply. If their fund. weren't good they wouldn't be top pros. Heart/desire/toughness is the main reason they're good. I've seen plenty of "pretty" players that could NOT play dead in a western when they needed to.
busty withdraws the tip back thru his bridge hand to the extent that on the way back thru the tip hits his lower thumb knuckle all while doing his locomotive stroke. How can he play world class pool with all that goingon? 
But he does.
Hopkins has no real backswing and Ismael Paez was the original jack-in-the-box. :grin-square:
But he does.Hopkins has no real backswing and Ismael Paez was the original jack-in-the-box. :grin-square:
I’d say Shaun Wilkie’s stroke is a bit between Allen Hopkins and traditional.
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I tried for a week or so to mirror his style. It worked for a while, and I go back to it when nothing else works.
Beat me to it!
Just like with pro golfers, most all of the current top pool pros have very solid textbook fundamentals and strokes/swings, whereas the top pros 40-50 years ago (golf and pool), many of them were able to get away with unusual strokes/swings you would never want to copy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu6vDUNggUw
At 14:30 , Dennis Taylor one of snookers all time greats is describing Alex Higgins form.
Alex was one of the greatest talents to have ever played snooker. As Taylor explains, Alex did everything wrong, jerked the cue, lifted his head, jumped up, but at contact with cue ball everything was perfect. It worked for Alex Higgins!
At 14:30 , Dennis Taylor one of snookers all time greats is describing Alex Higgins form.
Alex was one of the greatest talents to have ever played snooker. As Taylor explains, Alex did everything wrong, jerked the cue, lifted his head, jumped up, but at contact with cue ball everything was perfect. It worked for Alex Higgins!
Richie Richeson moves all over the place but that cue ball goes where he wants it to.
Willie Hoppe has a sidearm stroke
ortmann has some kind of side arm stroke as well, only that the hand does not pronate outwards. otherwise i vote for mike davis, i just cannot watch it