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JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES MORE ABOUT JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES
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"Free Cue Action Essential"
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| I can tell you as surely as if I were watching your play. You are hitting your ball hard enough, but your cueing is not free enough to create the powerful rotary movement necessary literally to spin your ball over the considerable extent of table space it must traverse to make the cannon, and to compensate for culminative diminution of initial velocity caused by successive impacts with five cushions. Hard hitting will not assist you here-it will merely take the red out of position even if it gives you the cannon. The only way out of your difficulty is to let your cue go through your ball with all the effortless ease of well-nigh perfect cueing. I qualify "perfect cueing" to this extent, because a perfect cue-delivery is so rare that only exceptionally gifted cue men possess it. I say this with no intention to discourage, far from it. The fact I want to emphasize is that these great players owe their position more to their perfect cue-delivery than to anything else, a point I try my utmost to impress on all my pupils. Obviously, the nearer you get to such perfection, the better player you will become ; and I have paused to stress the matter here because the cannon now before us is such an excellent test stroke of efficient cueing. Depend on it, if you can strike your ball with the crisp accuracy requisite to send it spinning round those five cushions, while the red "doubles" into correct position, your cue-delivery is tuned up to a pitch quite capable of taking you through the making of a hundred break. But a fifty break will be an exceptionally good one for you all the while your cueing fails at this test, even by just a few inches off the fifth cushion. You will jog along comfortably enough all the while plain hazards are offered by your control of the balls, but you will come down as soon as a mistake in strength compels the playing of a shot where real cue-power is the only thing which makes you master of the situation. Therefore, I advise you to practice this cannon with patient endeavor, as, quite apart from its value in an ordinary break building sense, it reveals so much of the true value of your cuemanship. | |||
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