What cue to use

[Removal man stevie]

Wise move sometimes think we have more money than sense with cues and own too many (My self included) would I play better with this cue shall I change ? I have to admit I have in the past even taken two cues down the club and swapped hoping my game would improve dont do it, all you do is give yourself a lot of self doubt, we are all looking for that magic cue and perfect tip when what we should be doing is lots of practise and improving our technique.

Yes sum times it's in our head.a totally agree practise practise and practice

[mythman69]

Did you do the Fan System for cue ball control?

Can you give me some info on the 'fan system' please ? Thanks!

[Bigmeek]

Can you give me some info on the 'fan system' please ? Thanks!

Don't think I can explain it properly in a post. It's really fairly basic stuff. Jim has you potting loads of just off straight blacks (into black pocket) and shows how you can get the white into different position by hitting different parts of the white. Not rocket science but helps you understand where it's possible to move the white to and where it's not. Nic Barrow does something similar on his DVD but uses just off straight blue into centre pocket and moves the white around the top half of the table. Sorry if this is confusing.

[Terry Davidson]

I believe the idea is to place some reds around the black in a semi-circle and then try to cannon each red in turn from each side of the black balls by first setting the black up for a 3/4 pot into either pocket and using the top cushion. What I've found, even with myself, is players will tend to use too much side.

Next, with a little smaller semicircle place the cueball level with the black for a 3/4-ball pot the other way and directly cannon the reds. This exercise teaches cueball control very well. If you fail to pot the black then re-set the same shot and try again.

Nic Barrow uses a slightly different method using the blue ball. Set up a 3/4-ball pot on either side of the blue, pot into middle and try and land the cueball on the brown and pink spots. Next level is to place some reds beside the pink and brown spots and try and cannon each red directly. As the distances are a little longer this exercise is slightly harder than the black exercise, but it also teaches good weight control as the idea is to just touch the reds on the cannons.

Terry

[Bigmeek]

Thanks Terry. If you were to draw an imaginary line from the black to each of the reds in the semi-circle that's supposed to look like a fan and hence Jim's name of "The Fan System". If I could find a picture and post it up it would make things nice and clear. A picture paints a thousand words!

[mythman69]

Thanks Terry for explaining it . . . .