Both. Just NOT over the table. With butt hand when I am thinking more on next shot and want the best chalk job, and with bridge hand for a quick swipe.
Which hand do you chalk with?
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I don't know which is more intriguing...that someone would even wonder about this, or that there are so many responses to the question.
What difference does it make? How does it affect anyone's game?
I'm not trying to be difficult. I honestly wonder why this topic would generate this much interest.
Steve
What difference does it make? How does it affect anyone's game?
I'm not trying to be difficult. I honestly wonder why this topic would generate this much interest.
Steve
Yup, that was kinda my point.
I chalk with my bridge hand, Once I start shooting my cue never leaves my grip hand. I play fast and chalk as I stalk my next shot.
I am the same. I have slowly gotten better at shooting shots right-handed and will shoot this way now for many shots instead of using the bridge. I am just not nearly as comfortable over the ball right handed and have to concentrate much more to sight correctly. I just wonder why this is the case for some players (Shooting opposite handed) is it a dominant eye thing? (I do sight a rifle with my right hand on the trigger)
Different strokes for different folks.
I seem to have stirred up a few of the sandbox bullies with this one....oops.
If this subject is worthless or redundant, what does that say about your actually taking the time to respond to it? :duck:
If this subject is worthless or redundant, what does that say about your actually taking the time to respond to it? :duck:
You being an instructor, i'm baffled as to why you don't see the relevance. I see it as a part of the pre-shot routine. Last time i checked, that's an important part of the shot. If i were an instructor, i would think about the question as it pertains to the player trying to learn. Sorry, but if a question can't be asked here--what's the point of having a forum?
Lighten up people--cheese-n-rice!
Like I said when I posted. I wasn't trying to be difficult, or as you put it, be a "sandbox bully". I was just wondering why this would be a question worthy of the kind of response it was getting.
I deal with all kinds of questions every time I teach a class. Most of them have something to do with making someone a better player. This one is one nobody has ever asked before, and I was wondering what kind of knowledge would be gained from it, and how someone might perceive that it might be significant in the ability to play better pool.
Maybe I was just curious....as I suspect you might have been when you posted the original question.
No need to get defensive.
Steve
I can't remember what book it was for sure but I think it was Advanced pool by George Fels, if I remember right he suggested to chalk your cue during practice with the opposite hand that you normally do. It had something to do with left brain right brain stimulation. I think it was claimed to enhance the more artistic side of your game if you were a righty,or work on your logical side if you are a south paw.
I don't think he's being defensive. I wondered myself why you would said what you did. I think it's an interesting question - obviously by all the replies, I'm not the only one.
I asked my opponent tonight which hand he chalks with and we had a great talk about it!
I played straight pool tonight and my whole theory above is shot! lol. My opponent shoots right handed, is right handed and chalked left handed.
Oh well, I *thought* my post above made total sense to me. lmao
Fair enough. And in an effort to contribute to the research being done, I keep my chalk on a magnetic chalk holder on my right hip. I grab it with my grip hand, and that's the one I chalk with.
Steve
Steve, I have to agree with you. With all of the important threads that are posted on the Main Forum, virtually everyday like http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=140970, you have to wonder why more people would post on which hand you chalk with than in a thread like the one that Fuji-whopper started that might help someone's game.
Can you believe some people wasting their time posting in this thread when they could have been contributing to a valuable thread like http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=140970 ?
JoeyA
If you had an "I don't know choice" I would have chosen that one :grin-square: Seriously, right now w/o a pool cue, I woulnd't bet my life on how I chalk the cue because I can't remember.