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I came to the instructors forum to ask a question about wrist twist but I'll answer your question first. Select a ball that you can tell exactly where you hit it as a cue ball. A training ball or one of the numbered balls. Wipe the ball down carefully and then hit the cue ball ten times softly, ten times at medium speed, and ten times as hard as you usually find yourself hitting a cue ball during a set, aiming at a diamond on the far end of the table and focusing on the diamond when you shoot. Wipe the ball down that you are using as a cue ball after every shot and chalk your tip after every shot also.
Did you hit the ball where you meant to every time? If you missed sometimes, did your misses tend to be in one spot or in one direction from where you aimed? If you are hitting the cue ball where you mean to every time the wrist twist is meaningless. If you aren't, it is hurting you. All that matters is your tip travel for 1/1000 of a second, give or take a little. However everything that happens in your stroke before and after can affect what happens during that fraction of a second. In one respect what happens after the hit shouldn't change the hit but in reality our body anticipates and transitions between actions so anticipating the next action can impact the action before the following one.
Hu
I came to the instructors forum to ask a question about wrist twist but I'll answer your question first. Select a ball that you can tell exactly where you hit it as a cue ball. A training ball or one of the numbered balls. Wipe the ball down carefully and then hit the cue ball ten times softly, ten times at medium speed, and ten times as hard as you usually find yourself hitting a cue ball during a set, aiming at a diamond on the far end of the table and focusing on the diamond when you shoot. Wipe the ball down that you are using as a cue ball after every shot and chalk your tip after every shot also.
Did you hit the ball where you meant to every time? If you missed sometimes, did your misses tend to be in one spot or in one direction from where you aimed? If you are hitting the cue ball where you mean to every time the wrist twist is meaningless. If you aren't, it is hurting you. All that matters is your tip travel for 1/1000 of a second, give or take a little. However everything that happens in your stroke before and after can affect what happens during that fraction of a second. In one respect what happens after the hit shouldn't change the hit but in reality our body anticipates and transitions between actions so anticipating the next action can impact the action before the following one.
Hu