cue arm&shoulder

[tedisbill]

I just cannot do it consistently at all. I get it right once in about 50 attemps if that.

[tedisbill]

Congratulations Ted! You are looking like a pro now.

Did my last two posts help you or you just figured it out by yourself ?

One final advice : try to keep your shoulder locked when playing and make sure to check your alignment often until it becomes automatic.

Yes thanks mate! Was a great help.

I must admit, I can't seem to get it quite right every time yet. Can't quite put my finger on what I do differently when I get it spot on.

[hsn]

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There's today's latest attempt. You'll have to excuse the fact that I look like I've just woken up.

Congratulations Ted! You are looking like a pro now.

Did my last two posts help you or you just figured it out by yourself ?

One final advice : try to keep your shoulder locked when playing and make sure to check your alignment often until it becomes automatic.

[j6uk]

will be good to hear how it plays when your moving around the table, dropping down, back pause and shot completion

[tedisbill]

what were the key points that clicked for you ted?

I was not twisting at the hips properly. Although I thought I was twisting I wasn't.

I also tended to even once I'd twisted, to then want to straighten my shoulders up again towards the shot after.

To be honest, even now it's a bit of a lottery, I can get it correct about 1 in 50. It's probably gonna take a few weeks to get used to playing like this.

[j6uk]

Cheers guys! Finally got there. What a struggle it was!

Plenty more work needed now to actually make that work on the table!

what were the key points that clicked for you ted?

[hotpot]

Just had my mucker to video me playing a few shots and my arm is way off line , its pointing inwards a good few inches but straightens up on delivery , when he put it straight it felt awful , dont think im ever going to straighten it as ive been playing like this far too long .

[tedisbill]

Cheers guys! Finally got there. What a struggle it was!

Plenty more work needed now to actually make that work on the table!

[j6uk]

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There's today's latest attempt. You'll have to excuse the fact that I look like I've just woken up.

you've been playing with us thats always been your setup, and i like it. thats how i wanna look

[itsnoteasy]

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There's today's latest attempt. You'll have to excuse the fact that I look like I've just woken up.

Hurray !!!!! Looking much better Ted:snooker::victorious::victorious:
Definitely looks like you have shifted a bit of weight to the left leg, still looks a wee bit cramped, but I don't play with a square stance so that's maybe what you look like if you do. Well done and great persistence.

[tedisbill]

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There's today's latest attempt. You'll have to excuse the fact that I look like I've just woken up.

[vmax4steve]

Yeah I've seen that. I'll have a look now. Although he uses the old style stance in that video and I don't want to do that.

You have the cue running almost under your right eye and that's why it's natural for you to have a square stance. If you want your shoulder right behind your head then you will need to adopt the Hendry stance, which calls for an extreme twist of the spine while standing with both feet square to the table with the body pointing at 45 degrees away to the right of the line of aim.

Use the directions I gave earlier for the classic boxer stance but instead of moving the feet to face square on to the yellow pocket, keep the feet square to the blue, move the left foot about two feet further to the left and twist your body from that position to face the yellow pocket and turn your head to face the blue and get down into your stance from there.
This will put your shoulder behind your head but will put a strain on your spine that you could get used to or it could be detrimental to your back muscles and/or ligaments, discs and vertabrae.

The real point is this though Ted,
if you don't drop your shoulder into the stroke before the strike then all is OK anyway and those 70+ beaks that you're making with your present stance show that nothing is really wrong with how you play at present except for dropping the shoulder on those pressure balls, and that's what you should be working on.

[hsn]

I've pointed out the mistakes.

Right. What about this little fella:
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[hsn]

Right here's the latest pic after following the advice from hsn and itsnoteasy.

http://s27.postimg.org/st8g6eis3/photo.jpg

What does that look like?

I've marked your photo for yet another try to get you aligned.

First get in the same stance and position as in this photo.

Note that where the red and the yellow lines are touching lies the extreme of you shoulder. The aim here is to align your upper arm with your shoulder first.

In order to do that you have to move the tip of your elbow out as marked far enough to reach the green triangle. Your upper arm will automatically follow and fill the gap between the red lines. KEEP YOUR SHOULDER STILL AND IN PLACE WHILE MOVING THE ELBOW.

Next re-place your bridge hand in the marked circle and slot the cue in it. Your cue should now be pointing down they yellow line.

Finally, turn your head to the left and sight down the brown line. And point your left toe in the direction of the aim.

Bingo! Now take a photo from in front of your cue line. You should have achieved the perfect alignment. In case you are not still perfect try adjusting your left foot while remaining down.

When you turn your head as pointed your fore-arm and elbow come right behind your head and you achieve the "perfect alignment"

[CoachGavin]

cue arm&shoulder

Don't stress over it. It is better than before. A couple of tips from my coaching experience. One is that many players who get their elbow in line start pulling their elbow in behind the head. Its the shoulder that needs to move begins the head and then the elbow will follow. Concentrate on the shoulder. Secondly forget your feet and concentrate on getting your chest side on to the shot. You still have it pointing down too much. Once the chest is right the rest follows. Good luck!