Stance - What do you think of mine?

[j6uk]

I like that he has 'the matchbox' on the table.

I was wondering who that was (Alan Trigg) . . .

[mythman69]

I like that he has 'the matchbox' on the table.

Is that because he is a smoker or is it for cueing practice? Or both?

[itsnoteasy]

Centre body line of aim, head bang straight on line, it's the future

[itsnoteasy]

I was just watching this video and thought of this thread . . .

He suggests that the stance is not important just the walk-in, head and upper body position.

Any comments??

I tried this today, it's not hard at reasonable pace, say up and down a couple of times, at three mill apart, at a mill which is basically as tight as you can get it, it's hard, for me anyway, I could do it maybe four out of ten, but every time I missed it was the right hand ball I just clipped, very interesting. When it was three mill apart I tried to do three times up and down to get cue ball in the gap twice but it kept drifting offline on the third length, again to the right ball, I wonder if the table has a slight roll.
Should add I aim this way anyway so it wasn't anything new for me to learn.

[chrissmall147]

Yip well done alan trigg this is the way to go. This is how I teach and im sure itsnoteasy will say this. If you get this part right your laughing.

Cheers Chris small

[j6uk]

The cat's out of the bag now, bit like watching the cue come back on the final back swing

Centre body line of aim, head bang straight on line, it's the future

[chrissmall147]

Yes stand central with the body to the contact point of the object ball and try and drop down with the head not moving off line. I recommend just a mini step into the shot to keep that line of aim and dont think aboutthe feet. The body and head position is what matters. If you stand behind the shot with the feet close together your feet will be in a nice position down on the shot anyway and its easier to keep the line of aim when u push off into the mini step as you are nice and balanced. I came up with this method when my back started getting really bad and I came to the conclusion that as long as my body was central and I dropped down centrally I was going to pot the ball as I had to disregard my stance for health reasons. My straight leg was miles outside the line of aim and I won the lg cup playing this way which made me think the stance wasnt important as long as I felt solid on the shot and well balanced. Because everything was in a central position I was balanced though.

Cheers Chris small

[tedisbill]

How can everyone just presume that the cueing is perfect using this method?

What if a player cues the white really bad and puts side on and swerves the white??

How can we just remove cueing as a variable here and assume it's perfect?

[j6uk]

Balance is crucial for me, you can do everything 'so called right' but if your not on balance on the back stroke it can look awful.

[j6uk]

This is the art though, hence the matchbox in view on Trigg's table..

How can everyone just presume that the cueing is perfect using this method?

What if a player cues the white really bad and puts side on and swerves the white??

How can we just remove cueing as a variable here and assume it's perfect?

[tedisbill]

This is the art though, hence the matchbox in view on Trigg's table..

I have no idea what you're on about.

[j6uk]

In the video above, Alan is recommending 'simply' dropping straight into the shot. In his introduction he has the matchbox training aid on the table as, this showing, that there is lots of work to be done to get all the elements of becoming a cueist.

I have no idea what you're on about.

[j6uk]

It has a hole somewhere in the center that the improving player would learn to cue dead straight through.

What do you do with the matchbox?

[tedisbill]

In the video above, Alan is recommending 'simply' dropping straight into the shot. In his introduction he has the matchbox training aid on the table as, this showing, that there is lots of work to be done to get all the elements of becoming a cueist.

Right I see.

I like his theory.... Although to just say "right, that one went to the left so you were aligned slightly wrong there" is crazy. I'm, not so sure about that. I could have just cued it like a piece of ****.

It all seems too matter of fact to me.

[itsnoteasy]

Chris, I have been trying to do this over the summer as I realised I got lazy over the years and would walk around the table and sometimes drop into a shot from the side.

I have seen benefits but struggle to keep my head from going off line bending down. I know this from trying in the mirror, standing back up and noticing my head has shifted to the right after getting left foot on line (I'm a leftie).

Do I have to literary stand centred behind the shot, not move my left foot and consciously bend straight forward into the shot?

Cheers
Glenn

Glenn, this is a video of exactly what Chris taught me for aiming, i know i put a smiley face up on my last post, but this really is the way to go,watch the video again and look at the mans buttons on his waistcoat, they are bang online, now watch when he starts to get into the shot,his body pivots round this center line,but the head remains bang online (his buttons stay bang online) if as Chris said your feet are together then the instep must also have that line run along it, so with the mini step to stop a side to side movement and to encourage a forward movement(takes a while to do this , i spent ages with Chris stopping me going off to one side a bit as i got down, and i still really have to concentrate on it)the feet will be in the right place anyway, and the rest of the stance is just being solid and balanced.
Tedisbill,As for this not being the cure to straight cueing, i think this is for after you can cue straight, which surely is the first thing to sort out, i dont think there is any point in doing anything unless you can cue right most of the time,if you cant thats all you should be practicing i would have thought, but if everything is in a straight line it must help cueing
In the next video i think he goes on to say there are five things that you should be doing to help aswell.