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"Cue Action"
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| When you draw your cue back preparatory to striking your ball, do not draw it back too far. If you do, your cueing will be pokey and inelegant, and will also lose efficiency. You can gain all the power you want by holding your cue well towards the extreme end of the butt, a difficult thing to do with accuracy, but most effective when you have mastered it-the cueing of Tom Newman is an object lesson in this respect. If you find it of any assistance, you can draw your cue back as slowly as you please within reason, but it must always go forward with effortless ease and rapidity. No other movement is allowable ; be the stroke a forcer or a nursery cannon, the cue action is always a free swing forward. Regarding preliminary movements of the cue before the ball is struck, I advise you to reduce these to a minimum-that slithering backwards and forwards to assist in gauging momentum and direction. A little of it is all very well, but the best of players do not waste much time in thus addressing their ball. With them it is a case of one or two little swings at the most, and then "pop" as the cue does its work-this is an example I advise you to imitate. | |||
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