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Hey all,
I'm having a bit of trouble with my stance. Two problems really; I feel I have the cue too high above the cushion and I always am leaning to the right whenever I get down to the shot - being a right hander I have my right foot on the line of the shot and every time I get down my weight is always on the outside of my foot. My feet are more or less shoulder width apart.
Now I know it seems like an easy fix - you'd think just get down lower to the table and adjust so that my weight on my right foot is spread more neutrally, but I just can't seem to do it. Having looked at myself in a mirror I am always leaning to the right, and the only way I've solved this is first getting down as I normally would, and then having to lean slightly to the left afterwards. This is something I have to do consciously and not something you want to be doing in a match; you just want to be able to get straight down to the shot.
As for the second problem I CAN get myself lower to the table but this ends up pushing my grip arm shoulder outwards, causing the elbow to move out of alignment with the cue. I recently corrected a fault where my elbow hung in towards my body by getting the left shoulder up against my left cheek which helped to rotate my grip arm shoulder into the middle of my back. Getting down lower to the table reverses this somewhat - I have tried to get lower to the table and get the shoulders rotated at the same time but it takes quite a bit of exertion!
Is it just a case of keeping adjusting my weight each time so it might eventually become natural to me when I first slide into the stance ? And as for the getting lower to the table, is this a case of gradually getting lower and lower with the shoulders 'rotated' until it requires less exertion and is more natural? Or is there a simple fix for it? I really am at a loss so any advice would be so so so appreciated.
Cheers
Joe
I'm having a bit of trouble with my stance. Two problems really; I feel I have the cue too high above the cushion and I always am leaning to the right whenever I get down to the shot - being a right hander I have my right foot on the line of the shot and every time I get down my weight is always on the outside of my foot. My feet are more or less shoulder width apart.
Now I know it seems like an easy fix - you'd think just get down lower to the table and adjust so that my weight on my right foot is spread more neutrally, but I just can't seem to do it. Having looked at myself in a mirror I am always leaning to the right, and the only way I've solved this is first getting down as I normally would, and then having to lean slightly to the left afterwards. This is something I have to do consciously and not something you want to be doing in a match; you just want to be able to get straight down to the shot.
As for the second problem I CAN get myself lower to the table but this ends up pushing my grip arm shoulder outwards, causing the elbow to move out of alignment with the cue. I recently corrected a fault where my elbow hung in towards my body by getting the left shoulder up against my left cheek which helped to rotate my grip arm shoulder into the middle of my back. Getting down lower to the table reverses this somewhat - I have tried to get lower to the table and get the shoulders rotated at the same time but it takes quite a bit of exertion!
Is it just a case of keeping adjusting my weight each time so it might eventually become natural to me when I first slide into the stance ? And as for the getting lower to the table, is this a case of gradually getting lower and lower with the shoulders 'rotated' until it requires less exertion and is more natural? Or is there a simple fix for it? I really am at a loss so any advice would be so so so appreciated.
Cheers
Joe
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