The Secrets to Your Perfect Stroke - Step by Step

The Secrets to Your Perfect Stroke - Step by Step

The Secrets to Your Perfect Stroke - Step by Step

Have you ever lost because you’ve missed a couple of easy shots? The secret lies in your stroke. Learn how to develop your perfect pool stroke.

00:00 The Basis
00:28 Stroke Preparation
01:14 Follow Through
04:17 Wrist \u0026 Grip
05:08 Speed Control
06:41 Most Important Part
07:35 Body Movement
08:18 Elbow Drop
08:53 Stroke Transition
09:29 Alignment Check

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Content

0.07 -> Be honest.
1.07 -> Have you ever lost a match because you've missed a couple of easy shots?
4.19 -> The secret lies in your stroke.
6.21 -> Let me show you exactly how to develop your perfect stroke.
10 -> One of the most important things is aligning your arm and foot along the line.
13.83 -> You want to shoot the cue ball, then take a step to the side and go down on the shot
18.09 -> so that your cue is on that imaginary line.
21.24 -> Once you're ready, just shoot straight along that line.
23.94 -> That's the basis, but there are more things to help you developing your perfect stroke.
28.519 -> So I'm standing.
29.949 -> while I'm aiming, and now the whole process starts.
32.98 -> You're going down.
34.27 -> What I like to do is locking into the shot, seeing if everything's all right.
39.82 -> Once I'm feeling comfortable I'm starting my strokes, seeing if everything is aligned
44.87 -> correctly.
46.5 -> Once I'm ready, I'm going to pull back really smooth.
50.59 -> Maybe you can pause a bit ,but you don't have to.
53.02 -> And then I'm going to push the cue just straight forward and going to follow through.
57.879 -> Okay, I'm going to do this without talking now.
60.899 -> Your task is to just concentrate on my stroke.
63.8 -> Watch how I am locking in.
65.17 -> How smooth my swings are.
67.02 -> How I'm making my final pause, a very relaxed backswing, and a nice follow through the cue
72.29 -> ball.
73.72 -> Going back to the stroke here, you can see how far I'm pulling my cue back and how much
78.29 -> I'm following through the cue ball.
80.2 -> And I'm doing this to get the best possible timing.
83.549 -> This means I'm accelerating just a tiny bit through the cue ball so that the tip hits
88 -> the cue ball just a fraction before the cue is traveling at its highest speed.
92.479 -> The better your timing is, the more rotation you can get into the cue ball without increasing
97.01 -> the speed of the shot.
98.619 -> This shot, for example, was executed with perfect timing.
101.939 -> If I'm playing it with the same spin and power, but with bad timing, you can clearly see how
106.67 -> much less rotation the cue ball actually got.
109.21 -> But it's not only the key to getting a lot of rotation with little effort.
112.96 -> Decelerating before even making contact with the cue ball will very often make you miss
116.56 -> the shot.
117.56 -> Just imagine a person throwing something and not releasing it when their arm is moving
122.009 -> at its highest speed.
123.009 -> It just doesn't make any sense.
124.939 -> It's an unnatural movement that is most of the time caused by nerves and uncertainty
128.75 -> when shooting.
129.75 -> Have a look what happens if you're decelerating when shooting.
132.19 -> The cue ball has a total different reaction, and because of that, we're missing the shot.
136.49 -> And now let's get back to our exercise.
138.77 -> Very nice angle one the nine ball.
141.09 -> So again, go down, lock in.
143.76 -> Just trust that everything is aligned correctly and then just cue straight, follow through
150.03 -> nicely.
151.03 -> And the most important thing after you made the shot, subscribe to this channel.
157.64 -> Which angle did we get?
159.23 -> Well, we didn't get the right angle, but this doesn't matter.
162.819 -> We can now work again on our stroke.
165.62 -> We wanna draw back now, get fairly straight on the 10 ball.
169.23 -> And this is a really good example again for a nice and smooth stroke with a lot of quality
175.21 -> and cue action and the right timing of course.
178.42 -> So you don't have to hit that hard if you're playing the shot and if you wanna draw back.
182.73 -> Just watch now how smoothly I can draw the cue ball back.
186.48 -> Without doing this really hard kind of stroke that a lot of people are doing.
192 -> Now again, just watch my stroke.
193.6 -> We need a lot of cue action.
194.75 -> We don't wanna hit hard because we don't want the cue ball to run into the three ball, so
198.961 -> we have to follow nicely through the cue ball, but this is not always the case.
203.48 -> If the object ball and the cue ball are very close together like they are here, you definitely
208.04 -> want to shorten your bridge length.
209.51 -> It would make no sense to be really far away because that way you will lose a lot of control.
215.51 -> So whenever the cue ball and the object ball are very close to each other, then you also
219.819 -> want to shorten your bridging length.
222.069 -> And here in this case, for example, we also don't need a lot of action on the cue ball.
225.879 -> We just want to stun over . So we also, besides the short bridging length, we don't wanna
231.069 -> pull back all the way and we don't wanna follow through until here.
234.37 -> No, we don't need to move the cue ball a lot.
236.73 -> We don't need a lot of action or speed on the cue ball.
239.319 -> That's why on shots like this, we're using a short bridge length.
242.45 -> We just doing tiny pre-strokes or tiny back swings.
245.54 -> Then all we do is just follow through a tiny, tiny bit.
252.48 -> So whenever you don't need a lot of action, keep everything very short and compact.
257.199 -> Very nice on the ten ball.
258.22 -> We got a bit of an angle.
260.269 -> Because it's important to be close to straight that we can get on the right side of the three
264.62 -> ball again.
265.79 -> This time I want you to concentrate on how I'm holding the cue.
269.6 -> Hold it not too tight, even on your final stroke.
272.71 -> Otherwise, it can harm your accuracy in terms of hitting the right spot on the cue ball,
276.82 -> which can lead to not getting the desired cue ball action and even missing the shot.
283.1 -> Even got a bit too much out of the cue ball.
284.87 -> But this is just fine as long as we are having the right angle.
288.34 -> Again on the 11 ball, I want to be somewhere around here and I don't have to go around
293.68 -> the balls.
295.14 -> I'm aiming, going down, locking in.
298.46 -> And when you're holding your cue, make sure that your wrist is not bent to the left or
302.18 -> to the right.
303.18 -> No, it's just a passive part of your body hangs down and you're holding the cue loosely
307.169 -> in your hand.
314.27 -> Misjudged the speed a bit here.
316.03 -> And this is the perfect time to talk about how your stroke can impact your speed control.
321.21 -> As you can see here, we definitely need a bit of more action on the cue ball because
325.09 -> we wanna stun over.
326.669 -> Maybe use a touch of left spin, bring the cue ball towards here.
329.61 -> So in this case, having that short bridge length and those tiny, tiny strokes wouldn't
334.55 -> be ideal.
335.55 -> So in this case, I'm going back a bit further.
337.4 -> I'm doing a bit bigger back swing, and also I'm going to follow through a bit more.
342.61 -> Not maximum, we're far away from maximum because we don't wanna bring the cue all around the
346.9 -> table a couple of rails.
349.039 -> So here I'm resting my bridge hand on the table.
353.199 -> You can see those are my back swings.
355.539 -> Now just concentrate on how far I'm actually going back with the cue.
359.36 -> It's not that far, something like that.
362.7 -> And I'm also not going to follow through maximum amount.
371.039 -> And now let's get back to our drill.
372.58 -> But it doesn't matter.
373.99 -> Now we are on the wrong side.
375.02 -> Now we actually have to go around two rails.
377.84 -> But keep in mind, the outside spin will make the cue ball gain some speed of the rails.
384.49 -> Did we get the right angle?
391.71 -> Well, it's okay.
395.029 -> This is the straight line.
396.85 -> Here would be nice, but this is still okay.
399.32 -> Now we can do a bit with the cue ball.
401.15 -> And the most important thing before going down: know what kind of spin you want to add.
406.49 -> The speed you're going to use and how the stroke should feel.
409.52 -> And then regardless of the outcome, just make sure to exactly stroke the way you've imagined.
415.28 -> Cue ball should come two rails, center of the table.
418.699 -> And then once you've visualized everything, very important.
421.879 -> Then you prepare.
423.569 -> So while I'm doing my pre strokes in the air, I'm most of the time visualizing everything,
428.31 -> just really starting to feel the shot.
430.349 -> How the shot should look and feel in your arm, the speed, and so on.
434.389 -> Okay, I'm preparing.
436.77 -> You just watch what I'm doing.
438.59 -> And what I'm going to tell you in a second is probably the most basic advice, but at
442.53 -> the same time, the most difficult to implement into your game.
446.389 -> And when you're down and you just don't have the feeling that everything's right, then
450.64 -> stand up, chalk again and restart the whole process.
454.91 -> So far, we concentrated on the cue, but now concentrate on my body and how much I'm moving
460.33 -> while shooting the shot.
465.99 -> Did you notice that I just became a bit blurry?
468.44 -> This is because I froze the image just before shooting and overlaid the image.
473.05 -> As you can see, I didn't move a lot.
474.879 -> And this is very important when shooting.
477.009 -> Try to stay as still as possible and only move your arm.
481.43 -> Okay, center of the table.
483.81 -> Again, we didn't end ideal because this is the straight line.
487.9 -> In an ideal world, we would be here.
490.319 -> where we just can stun one rail towards the five ball.
493.84 -> But again, not everything goes as planned.
496.69 -> Now we just have to follow one rail.
499.02 -> And also a very common question is, should you drop your elbow or not?
502.92 -> Well, it depends on the amount of cue action you need.
505.99 -> If you want to rewind the whole video and just watch my elbow all the time, there is
510.37 -> no right or wrong here.
512.21 -> With just a bit of left spin, we could have stayed a bit further away from the rail here.
517.09 -> So again, just going to hit a high ball.
519.659 -> Going one rail or maybe two rails if I'm adding a touch of right spin, but I don't want to
523.769 -> do that.
525.07 -> Just going one rail towards the 13 ball.
528.519 -> And again, don't overpower the shot.
530.28 -> Just rely on cueing straight and following through nicely.
533.77 -> This time, just concentrate on the final, backwards and forwards motion just before
538.82 -> I pull the trigger.
543.709 -> I didn't make a pause, but the transition between backwards and forwards motion was
548.67 -> very smooth.
549.95 -> And it's very important because I've probably said it a hundred times on this channel.
554.49 -> All the cue action comes from the forward motion.
557.15 -> So make a pause or don't make a pause.
559.88 -> As long as it's smooth, it's okay.
562.519 -> But you don't wanna rush the shot because then your muscles maybe tighten up and you
566.829 -> will jump up or choke on the shot.
568.99 -> You see, I'm always staying down that long even without my GoPro.
573.52 -> Because if I'm staying down after the shot and I notice that my cue is pointing this
578.459 -> or that way after the shot, I know, okay, I had some technical issues.
582.74 -> So it's very important.
584.2 -> Stay down and just feel in which position your body is.
588.149 -> And this will very often indicate that something was wrong.
591.25 -> And if you want to learn more about the proper technique, about how to aim in pool, about
595.25 -> how to use side spin, how to play position, how to play kick shots.
599.43 -> Basically every single thing you need to know to become a great player.
602.89 -> Then I would recommend to subscribe to this channel or just watch this video.
606.19 -> Thanks for watching, and as always, see you at the next lesson.
609.54 -> Take care!

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