- Grab the cue stick as close to the butt as possible – stretching your stick arm past your butt (yours – not the stick’s).
- While butt grabbing, raise the angle of the stick as close to 45 degrees as humanly possible.
- On the back stroke, wobble the stick side to side (or sometimes up and down), and then jabbing the stick forward “when it feels right”.
- Swinging the stick is a gentle sideways curve – usually because your hip is in the way!!
- Angle your stick elbow away from your body while tucking the cue as close to your body as possible (aka “chicken wing”).
- After you put your bridge hand on the table – you lean forward to put your head directly over your hand. (Some people think this is “aggressive”.)
- Put your stick hand as close to the half-way mark on the cue (on a jointed stick, this puts your stickĀ hand right behind the joint).
- Grip the stick VERY firmly – so that when you stroke, the stick rises into the air (looking for a balloon to puncture?).
- Alternate reason for firm stick grabbers – don’t want it to escape and fly across the room.
- Use a a long, long bridge – at least 18 inches from your bridge hand to the cue ball – cause you think it looks cool.
- On every shot, you stand up during the shot – the famous “Jubilation” stroke.
- Shoot EVERY shot as hard as you can – cause when you make it people respect you.
- Move as many parts of your body as possible when making a shot.
- Shoot with the cue butt at least 20 inches above the table.
- Lift your head as far away from the cue as possible when you shoot.
- Close one eye when shooting (it’s just like firing a rifle – isn’t it?)
- Tilt your head to one side – so that you look quizzical.
- ALWAYS hit the cue ball with side spin – much more fun to make the cue ball travel in unpredictable directions.
- Always forget to chalk.
- Don’t learn from doing something stupid.
- Don’t learn from doing something right.
- No matter how bad the setup – NEVER play defense.
- Get VERY upset when someone plays a safety on you.
- NEVER, EVER listen to someone’s advice.
- ALWAYS blame someone/something else for losing.
If you can identify one or more of these bad habits as part of your stroke, find someone who has a good reputation as an instructor and get help. There are a lot more of these – but I’m getting tired of typing – so enjoy these.
One VERY important note to you Intelligent Shooters – when you see other players with bad habits, don’t waste time trying to educate them – instead, find ways to reduce their pocket change.
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