On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. I’m a BCA accredited advanced level instructor with BilliardAcademy.com.
In this clip on beginner’s billiards, I’d like to show you how to make a proper practice stroke.
Practice strokes give beginners lots of trouble. For one thing, they don’t realize that you should have the same number of practice each and every time you shoot. Sometimes, they will shoot one practice stroke, sometimes two, sometimes four. You need to begin establishing a routine for your shot. And the first step in this routine that you should learn is having the same number of practice strokes. Pick one whether it’s one, two, three—two or three would probably a good way to start for a beginner.
Second, we want to take a look at what a practice stroke is. A practice stroke, we want to take this white part of the tip of the cue, the ferrule, and we want to bring it up back so that the ferrule touches your fingers and goes forward. That’s a complete practice stroke. You’ll see a lot of beginners do this, little jerky movements. All that does is that that confuses your muscle groups. It makes for a very poor flow on your strokes. You want to take your stroke and bring them all the way back nice and steady.
When you’re making your final practice strokes, you should pause. Take a little pause. If you look at some of the professional players, they may pause up to a full second to two. You don’t need that long but you want a little pause and there are a couple of reasons for the pause. You’re using different muscle groups on your stroke. When you’re pulling your arm back, you’re using your triceps. When you’re going forward, you’re using your biceps. That little pause in the back will allow for a nice steady transition from one muscle group to the other and it will give you a much nicer steady stroke. That’s how you stroke.
On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. Thank you for watching.
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