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finding YOUR grip: my method that may help others
I have been having problems with the grip for quite some time and most people on the forum know that. I had a sound grip before but then someone hinted out that I keep it loose so I need to tighten the grip upon completion of the shot. That single comment ruined my life for good. The player who commented this has not even achieved a 50 break yet. I was fool enough to follow his words and in the process I started tightening the grip unintentionally and hence my game ruined and I went bonkers.
Then I came to this forum.. Many people and above all Terry Davidson helped me a lot in understanding the grip formation and pressure. Some people for whom grip comes naturally think its a piece of cake but for people like me its a challenge. Anyway, I kept going on. Tried different grip configurations faltered and failed and tried again. Recently I found out my ideal grip configuration and funnily its a configuration that only works when i am not thinking what configuration I have as long as I can keep it loose enough
So for me it was the grip pressure and that same old comment that made me tighten the grip and under pressure I would tighten it even without noticing it.
Now to the point of concern. I was practicing yesterday and trying to get to the grip. My formation is with first finger and thumb with the force coming only from upper thumb and upper forefinger. However, the pressure is something that is hard to get to. So I learnt something from practice yesterday which gave me an idea as to what should be the correct pressure of the grip practically throughout the stroke.
I will try to explain to those who want to know what is a good grip pressure for them. I am attaching a picture that I drew in order to explain better.
snooked.png
Set up the above on a practice table. You are taking a three quarters black off its spot and attempting to get a position on the red next to it. You cant stun, follow, plain ball strike the cue ball and the only way is a soft screw shot. All other shots will cannon the white in to the red. You have to avoid the cannon. Now in order to play this shot with soft screw and avoid the cannon you have to play it gently (slow shot) but a complete shot with follow through... you have to have a nice loose grip in order to achieve this. any jerk tight grip pressure will not draw the cue ball to the desired position without cannoning the red.
If you can achieve this on a slow gently screw shot and end high on the red as shown ... know that you have played it with the right grip pressure... at least this gave me an idea of the correct grip form and pressure otherwise just a fraction more pressure than required you would either miss the black or cannon the red or not finish high on the red... with the correct pressure you will achieve this shot. I kept this pressure in mind and played my match properly and won
If you play it with proper grip pressure and follow through i.e. complete shot without fear you will finish high on the red with ease... remember the power of this stroke on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being highest power) this shot is played at a power of 3.
Hope this helps...!!!
Then I came to this forum.. Many people and above all Terry Davidson helped me a lot in understanding the grip formation and pressure. Some people for whom grip comes naturally think its a piece of cake but for people like me its a challenge. Anyway, I kept going on. Tried different grip configurations faltered and failed and tried again. Recently I found out my ideal grip configuration and funnily its a configuration that only works when i am not thinking what configuration I have as long as I can keep it loose enough
So for me it was the grip pressure and that same old comment that made me tighten the grip and under pressure I would tighten it even without noticing it.
Now to the point of concern. I was practicing yesterday and trying to get to the grip. My formation is with first finger and thumb with the force coming only from upper thumb and upper forefinger. However, the pressure is something that is hard to get to. So I learnt something from practice yesterday which gave me an idea as to what should be the correct pressure of the grip practically throughout the stroke.
I will try to explain to those who want to know what is a good grip pressure for them. I am attaching a picture that I drew in order to explain better.
snooked.png
Set up the above on a practice table. You are taking a three quarters black off its spot and attempting to get a position on the red next to it. You cant stun, follow, plain ball strike the cue ball and the only way is a soft screw shot. All other shots will cannon the white in to the red. You have to avoid the cannon. Now in order to play this shot with soft screw and avoid the cannon you have to play it gently (slow shot) but a complete shot with follow through... you have to have a nice loose grip in order to achieve this. any jerk tight grip pressure will not draw the cue ball to the desired position without cannoning the red.
If you can achieve this on a slow gently screw shot and end high on the red as shown ... know that you have played it with the right grip pressure... at least this gave me an idea of the correct grip form and pressure otherwise just a fraction more pressure than required you would either miss the black or cannon the red or not finish high on the red... with the correct pressure you will achieve this shot. I kept this pressure in mind and played my match properly and won
If you play it with proper grip pressure and follow through i.e. complete shot without fear you will finish high on the red with ease... remember the power of this stroke on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being highest power) this shot is played at a power of 3.
Hope this helps...!!!
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