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"Incorrect Cue Delivery"
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| As regards cue-delivery in a general way, I have already written so much that I hope my advice will result in that prevention which is better than any cure as regards billiard faults. However, if it seems that in spite of everything, faulty cue-delivery is more or less persistent, here is a remedy which I have seen work wonders in very bad cases. It is based on the fact that the swing of a billiard cue resembles the swing of a golf club to this extent-that good forward swing is but the reverse of correct backward swing. Still borrowing from golf, we take "slowly back" in a billiard sense, and make the backward movement of the cue as slowly as can be. This gives ample time to see that the alignment of the cue is straight, and when the cue is delivered, the tendency to reproduce the line of the slow backward swing often gives marvelous results. It is well worth trying and persevering with when cue trouble seems to be intractable, and is greatly helped if care is taken not to draw the cue back a fraction of an inch further than is absolutely necessary. You need not draw your cue back nearly so far as is often done in order to get enough impetus to let your cue go well through your ball, which is all you want it to do. More than this is merely waste power, and sudden attempts to stop this surplus energy from doing harm result in jerky cueing-a fatal fault. | |||
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