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JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES MORE ABOUT JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES
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"Cue Delivery"
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Now, if you think for a moment, you will
see that you cannot make your ball spin by
pushing it or poking at it. By using force,
you may propel the ball a fair distance in
either of these ways, but there will be no life
in it. Your stroke will be dead and of no
account in a true billiard sense. Consequently, you must allow your cue to go
through the ball to impart whatever spin you
may require, and it must go through with
freedom or spin cannot result. Like every
other teacher of billiards, I am constantly
telling my pupils to "let the cue go through
the ball," and as I find it very helpful to
explain the reason why the cue must be trusted
to do its own work, I have elucidated the
matter in my preceding remarks. Never be
timid about relying on the cue to do the
work. Remember that it weighs a pound or
more, and that its sheer weight is sufficient to send a billiard ball anywhere you wish it to go, and at the same time to impart whatever rotary movement may be desired. There is no need for you to use distinct muscular effort, in fact, it is fatal if you do. All you need is a smooth, swift, accurate forward movement of the cue, and this is gained by light handling. |
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