cincy_kid
Verified Member
I was going to post this the other day and then after seeing MR3C's post his excerpt about stance and pre-shot routines, it reminded me that I wanted to ask this. I never really took any "lessons" playing pool other than playing people better than me to try and get better. However, there was a guy in the pool room long ago who showed me a warm up exercise he would do before playing a match and part of that had to do with your bridge hand. He said it was important to make sure your hand was closer to the CB so that when you stroke, you are aiming as accurately as you can be. If you have too much distance between the CB and your hand, there is a lot of variance that can happen on your stroke / follow through, where you may go a little left or a little right and not hit the ball where you intended.
I can totally understand that and I think I am fairly close to the CB when I am playing personally, BUT, I see people like Chohan where he is so far away from the CB, and yet pockets balls with the best of them!
Would you say then, it's just a matter of preference and whatever you are used to?
In other words, if what I said above is true, would Tony's ball pocketing improve if he got closer to the CB?
Just curious of your thoughts on this subject as I have seen many members on here and top pros play with varying distances between hand and CB.
I can totally understand that and I think I am fairly close to the CB when I am playing personally, BUT, I see people like Chohan where he is so far away from the CB, and yet pockets balls with the best of them!
Would you say then, it's just a matter of preference and whatever you are used to?
In other words, if what I said above is true, would Tony's ball pocketing improve if he got closer to the CB?
Just curious of your thoughts on this subject as I have seen many members on here and top pros play with varying distances between hand and CB.