A revalation for me!

[weepete]

It's been ages since I played because of lockdown, but had a couple of games of pool while I was up North with a few lads on a 3 day fishing trip, and had a revelation!

I move the cue off line when I'm getting down on a shot!

Once I (eventually) worked this out I started being able to make some crazy shots, swerving the cue ball, making tight cuts, getting position and made a start on decent cue ball control.

I fully admit, I'm not a natural pool or snooker player, and I've always struggled with my game. But it made me think that maybe I've always been doing this a little, and though my game was improving before lockdown (particularly my pool game), it's probably something I did which was making a lot of shots go awry. Now I'm looking to get back into my regular snooker game, I'll be paying close attention to this.

[vmax]

It's been ages since I played because of lockdown, but had a couple of games of pool while I was up North with a few lads on a 3 day fishing trip, and had a revelation!

I move the cue off line when I'm getting down on a shot!

Once I (eventually) worked this out .....................

It could help others if you tell us what were you doing wrong and how you worked it out ?

[weepete]

It could help others if you tell us what were you doing wrong and how you worked it out ?

I was doing a couple of things....probably the main one was I was shifting my weight too much onto my left leg (I'm right handed) when I was getting down on the shot, that was moving my hips and effectivley putting me slightly off line.

I also think I was sub-consiously moving the cue after I was down, because I was still visualising the line where the white would hit the object ball. It took a bit of effort to ignore, as it looked like I was missing the shot, but I found that if I concentrated soley on the power I needed to make the shot, after walking in and trusting that line, and keeping pretty much all my weight on my right leg, the cue ball was going where I wanted.

It's interesting that it took a break, and a few games when I was playing terribly to notice this, and I'm really keen to get on a snooker table and see if this will translate to the bigger table.