Should you aim to hit the chest??

[rimmer10]

[ down the line. if i do not pause, i will lose that discipline and it will cause my cue not to go down the line.
pardon my long reply, but i am always interested to find out about the delivery. the way i see ronnie, shaun murphy and john higgins, they have a controlled delivery. but some players like ding, stephen maguire...they trust their waggles and thrust the cue forward. so i want to find out, which is actually better...[/QUOTE]

Sorry but have to slightly disagree with you on that one. To me Stephen Maguire has one of the most controlled deliveries in the game. The way he starts his delivery very slowly and accelerates in a controlled manner through the cue ball I would call text book.

[cyberheater]

Sorry but have to slightly disagree with you on that one. To me Stephen Maguire has one of the most controlled deliveries in the game. The way he starts his delivery very slowly and accelerates in a controlled manner through the cue ball I would call text book.

I would agree with that. The more I look at it the more I realise how text book it is. A very controlled and solid cue action.

[tomlimcj]

yea true... so would it help our accuracy if we all have a controlled drive? u know how sometimes you'd aim but when delivering the shot it doesn't go where u'd originally planned it to go...

[rimmer10]

yea true... so would it help our accuracy if we all have a controlled drive? u know how sometimes you'd aim but when delivering the shot it doesn't go where u'd originally planned it to go...

Guess that's where discipline comes into play. To control your delivery means to control yourself and the urge to throw your cue arm forward and rush the shot.

[Terrence]

I found this interesting as I have been reviewing posts on all different topics. I think this is a very good example of an easy way to question yourself and lose confidence.

Years ago I was listening to a professional speaker put on a 1 hr presentation for a few thousand people. As he was trying to describe the best way to perform a task he made a simple argument saying "sometimes the more you know can also mean it's the more you don't know" he continued to break down this meaning by saying knowing too much can often affect the basics and question your current methodology which can mess with confidence.

Having said that, maybe it's worth viewing your technique like a golf swing. By this I mean - striking a golf ball off by one millimetre seems like a small mistake but as the ball continues in meters/feet/yards (what have you) that one millimetre extrapolates over this distance and itself turns into a much larger mistake. Needless to say, no longer being accurate and everybody will just think (including yourself) your a bad golfer.

Metaphorically of course, questioning your stroke in various ways might be screwing up your technique by more then just one millimetre, therefore; you are now giving yourself more things to fix that might not need fixing.

Just know if your half way decent at potting, just focus on your one millimetre mistake (maybe it's long distant shots) and focus on those instead. Otherwise you might just continue to think (metaphorically) your a bad golfer when in fact you've only been off by one millimetre.

Anyhow just a thought ...

Now beat someone better than you!