What do you think of players who approach the table

[JoeyInCali]

with their heads down already ?
As if they are swimming to the set position ?
Johnny Archer used to do it in the 90's when he shot really well.
I know Sigel did it all the time.
Instead of being upright , setting your feet then go down, they approached the table with a lower head then get into the shot .

 

[Ratta]

Hi JoeyInCali,

I m a believer to go ready aligned into the shot and try to teach it as well.
i do it that way:
-I first watch the table, how i want to go on with the game. After deciding which object ball is next (including position etc), i m ligning up first behind the object ball (standing behind it in a straight line).
-Then, after i planned the path the cueball has to go, i go to the position, where the cueball (hopefully, lol) has to "land" exactly, so that i have this picture in my mind.
-Then i go behind the cueball, knowing already that i will play it with the necessary english or whatever. Standing behind it, and then let the complete stroke happen in my mind.
- No i make exactly one step (one step with my rear foot and front foot) forward into the shot and at the same time going down into my position with my bridgehand- completly ready aligned.

Then my shoot-sequence starts.

I would say after stepping into the shot, including going down into my "Set-Position" i m 99% of the time perfectly aligned (perfectly means, that i don t have to correct it again).

In my case i m lining up "on the base line", kind of like snooker-players do it, and very similar how for Example Ekkes shows it in his Video (here you just see him standing behind the cueball).

When i m standing behind the cueball my rear-foot, shoulder, grip-hand is on one vertical line. So after stepping into my shot, which needs like shown up already 1 step for me, my rear-foot, my shoulder, my (hopefully) "vision-centered" head and my bridge-hand are on the straight-shooting line, where i planned to deliver the cueball to it s target.

I hope it was understandable and readable for you- if not, then it s caused by using perhaps *wrong vocabulary* or so

lg from overseas,

ingo

 

[JoeyInCali]

Thanks Ingo.

 

[FranCrimi]

with their heads down already ?
As if they are swimming to the set position ?
Johnny Archer used to do it in the 90's when he shot really well.
I know Sigel did it all the time.
Instead of being upright , setting your feet then go down, they approached the table with a lower head then get into the shot .

Joey, anything's possible but I'd like to see them doing it before commenting on it. Are there any old youtube clips of them doing it that you can link us to? I just scanned through youtube but haven't found what you described.

 

[JoeyInCali]

Joey, anything's possible but I'd like to see them doing it before commenting on it. Are there any old youtube clips of them doing it that you can link us to? I just scanned through youtube but haven't found what you described.

I have a video of Archer vs Efren in the 1995 US Open. That's the first time I saw Archer with a low head going into the shots.
Frankly I see the " hit " better that way too.
I know I can draw a line vertically from the line of the shot/ center of the ghost ball. But, on some cut shots I line up better when I lower my before I bridge.

Sigel has always looked crouched to me before shooting.