On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. I’m a BCA accredited advanced level instructor with BilliardAcademy.com.
In this clip on intermediate billiards, I’d like to show you the proper way to use the mechanical bridge.
The mechanical bridge changes your stroke just a little bit. If you look at my right hand, on the normal stroke, our grip hand is vertical. On the bridge when you’re using a mechanical bridge, we’re going to use a horizontal stoke. Grip changes through our thumb. Our thumb would go underneath the butt of the cube, our finger is up on top. We’re going to try to use a 90-degree angle again as close as possible so I’ll form on our wrist. I’ll form a 90-degree angle. Our head is over the cue and we’re going to use our wrist again as a hinge with a very loose grip. The key to making the shot which gives a lot of people trouble is that this is the one time we’re going to reverse our feet position.
So I’m right handed, normally my right foot is behind my left foot. This is the one time because we’re changing from a vertical to a horizontal grip and stroke. Now, I’m going to change my foot position. So if you take a look, my right foot is forwards. Keep my hand down to the side, my left hand holds the grip in place. My head is over the cue. I’m using a nice steady stroke. I take my practice strokes, pause, freeze. It’s the same stroke but it’s the one time that you can reverse the position of your feet, otherwise you’re going to have a very unnatural twisting of your upper torso and that’s what makes people feel very uncomfortable when they’re making a shot with a mechanical bridge.
Use it this way, it will feel nice and comfortable. You could practice and you make great shots you couldn’t’ before.
On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. Thank you for watching.
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