Sometimes when I play, I can pull off amazing shots. The white is a foot off the bottom rail, over the R black pocket (looking down the table), the red near the R blue pocket. I pot it in the green pocket and screw back across the table after hitting the cush. Now how can I do that, and miss a 2 foot straight red in open play? Grrrrrrrrrr. I think that when I play off the cushion, I make more effort to get the left shoulder down, and pull the right shoulder up, round and down 'behind' my head. I think coaches call this locking the cueing shoulder. I think it means that the elbow ends up behind the head and the only thing that moves along the cueing line is the hand and forearm (except the case of elbow drop shots).
Does this analysis of my fault on simple shots, where I have plenty of room to get the forearm and bridge shoulder on the baize make sense? Maybe I'm just plonking my shoulder over the cue and not doing shoulder lock position, because the shot seems simple enough for a little swing of the hand and nothing else, but actually, I'm not respecting the shot, and because of poor body shape, moving the cue off line, with the cue elbow dropping inwards?
I know, I really need to do some video, and a friend and I are up for this now, and will try and set it up soon, so wise folk on here, can comment on what they see, not reported by me.
Does this analysis of my fault on simple shots, where I have plenty of room to get the forearm and bridge shoulder on the baize make sense? Maybe I'm just plonking my shoulder over the cue and not doing shoulder lock position, because the shot seems simple enough for a little swing of the hand and nothing else, but actually, I'm not respecting the shot, and because of poor body shape, moving the cue off line, with the cue elbow dropping inwards?
I know, I really need to do some video, and a friend and I are up for this now, and will try and set it up soon, so wise folk on here, can comment on what they see, not reported by me.
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