Video / Draw Stroke

BeiberLvr said:
Just a short video I made yesterday shooting a couple straight in draw shots.

For whatever reason, this app doesn't record with sound (or I haven't figured it out), so the video is silent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb8Rl40MCRE
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Your stroke is good and fundamentals look solid. What was your goal for that drill? Were you just trying to draw back to the end rail? I would suggest working on controlling the distance you draw the CB back.
 
Jon...That looks like a nice pendulum stroke, and you're getting nice action on the CB without having to 'overpower' it. You only elbow dropped on one shot. One thing...I thought I saw you curling the cue in your hand on a couple of shots. Was that my imagination? Hard to tell from the video. Nice vid though! :thumbup:

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You stroke it pretty good. One thing I would try to do is stop creeping up. I know it's subtle but you do move up off of the cue just a bit. My goal is to be perfectly still, but like you -- I have a tendency to creep up. Some guys that have their chin on the cue move up just a hair when they use that pendulum stroke. Your chin isn't on the cue so there's really no reason you can't keep your head perfectly still.

No instructor here -- just a dude.

Oh and don't worry about hiding your music interests, I could hear the Beiber in the background just fine.
 
BasementDweller said:
You stroke it pretty good. One thing I would try to do is stop creeping up. I know it's subtle but you do move up off of the cue just a bit. My goal is to be perfectly still, but like you -- I have a tendency to creep up. Some guys that have their chin on the cue move up just a hair when they use that pendulum stroke. Your chin isn't on the cue so there's really no reason you can't keep your head perfectly still.

No instructor here -- just a dude.

Oh and don't worry about hiding your music interests, I could hear the Beiber in the background just fine.
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I was watching Jasmin play and I noticed that she actually drops her elbow before contact, and I realized it was to avoid hitting her chin with the cue during follow through.

OTOH a while back somebody brought up a CJ video (maybe it was me) where he rises up like that on nearly every shot. The consensus as I remember it was that many pros do that as part of their technique. I forget why, but maybe Jon is headed toward pool greatness? I wouldn't f*ck with it, he shoots pretty good now.
 
Big C said:
Your stroke is good and fundamentals look solid. What was your goal for that drill? Were you just trying to draw back to the end rail? I would suggest working on controlling the distance you draw the CB back.
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For this, just power draw. I also do the line across drill, and you bring up a great point about a huge mistake that almost everyone does when doing this drill.

They'll hit every shot the same, and never vary their speed. I actually have a routine that I started doing recently, and it works out really well.

I'll set up the balls as seen in the diagram, and I'll shoot 3 sets of 9 (9 stop, 9 follow, and 9 draw). So 27 shots in total. For each set, I break down the speed into 3 categories of slow, medium, and fast. So the 1-3 (slow), 4-6 (medium), and 7-9 (fast).

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Scott Lee said:
Jon...That looks like a nice pendulum stroke, and you're getting nice action on the CB without having to 'overpower' it. You only elbow dropped on one shot. One thing...I thought I saw you curling the cue in your hand on a couple of shots. Was that my imagination? Hard to tell from the video. Nice vid though! :thumbup:

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com
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Thanks Scott. I actually am a bit of a dropper, but I tend not to drop as much on power draw shots.

As for my wrist, it's cocked inward slightly, so it might have just been the camera angle.
 
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