When I was taking billiard to instruction I was taught to line up the shot, get down, pre shot strokes, set, draw back, pause, and finish through the cue ball.
That's great. You're already ahead of the game because in your mind you have a method. You're not just feathering because that's what you saw in the movies😉. Now film yourself and see how close actuality is to your minds eye. Because you've set expectations of yourself you can now drive performance.
Hi my friend, great vid as usual. I would like to give my german response to your video. 1. The Poster on the right is for me the best western movie ever made! 2. Many players don't know why they feather the cue. 3. The only reason to feather is to give you as a player the right feeling about your stroke arm - while feathering you can feel if you're loose or stuck in case of mind-muscle-connection. 4. I teach my club players the following thing: It doesn't matter how you feather or if you feather or how you stand or how is your elbow placed etc. - As long as you are able to create a straight shot. It only counts how the bullet comes out of your gun. Compare De Luna to Gorst or Bustamante to Filler - they are all able to shoot straight. And again - I love this movie!!! Greetz from Germany, Thomas
Hey Thomas! The Good The Bad And The Ugly is my favorite movie❤️ I was heavily indoctrinated into loving Sergio Leone by my father. The will say potentially For A Few Dollars More final showdown is just as good as GoodBadUgly...just not quite as good overall. 👍 I agree with you on shooting straight. It really doesn't matter how you do it...thats why I said multiple times in the video I'm not going to tell you you're doing it wrong. But it is important to know thy self😂👍
I noticed it right away. I actually learned not to do pre strokes from Jasmin Ouschan's videos. I do this as well because It teaches my body to find that natural line of sight when in practice. If I do pre stroke, they are very slow and short. I look at the cue when I lay my arm and cue stick down. Paying attention to my alignment. I'm not a great player, but just doing this is adavcing my game quickly. It keeps you from doing subconscious micro adjustments when down on the shot that can cause you to miss.
Interesting. Certainly it's bad if you're making adjustments while bent down. If that works that's awesome. When my cue ball is frozen to the rail I won't do any feathering. Just align... Maybe one stroke to check straightness and then pull the trigger.
@@HereAfterBilliards I'm more sticked about it in practice. I also watch CJ Wiley, so I center my body when I visualize. Go down with my arm and cue stick at the same time. Look at the ball and tip of my stick. If it does not feel or look right, I get back up and start over. I will do it over and over tell I have the perfect perspective and centering for me. I look like a robot or weird doing this but it's working for me lol.
Hey my canadian & half german friend, I just want to tell you, that I sold my Cuetec Cinergy Ghost Edition Cue and bought myself a Mezz Cue with an Ignite shaft. Compared to a JFlowers, the Cinergy and the Rhino shaft, this is now more than just next level. Just wow. Ok, the shaft alone is about 600US$, but the benefit you get is worth it. The deflection is similar to a SMO but the feedback is nearer to wood than any CF shaft I have tested. Best Regards Thomas
Interesting video. For me, warmup strokes are kind of a checklist. I make sure my tip is in the center of the CB (if I'm not applying English). I bring the stroke back, to see if it's coming back in a straight line (if it isn't coming back straight, it won't be going forward straight). Often, I use warmup strokes to get the feel for the speed of the stroke, mostly when I need precise shape or I'm playing defense and I have to leave the object ball on a far rail or behind some blockers. The point is (which I think you were driving at), make the feathering count for something, so you're not just "sawing wood" down in the shooting position. Thanks for posting your video!
You ever watch Efren Reyes preshot routine? The cue never stops moving. Personal I like doing this because it keeps my stroke loose. When I come down I have a pause then several micro strokes and one long stroke right before shooting
My JFlowers Classic has the Taom Fusion tip on it and the Rhino comes with their propriatary Crystal tip. The Crystal tip is infinitely better than the Moori Medium that comes with the JFlowers. I would say both CF shafts play very similar to each other when you exclude the different tips. And yes the Rhino I got has a 3/8*8 pin which I asked for specifically. So that shaft does fit onto my JFlowers 3/8*8 pin. It matches up flawlessly.
Asong as you know why you do it and what the benefits are to your game then you do you. It's when people have bad habits and have no idea why they do them where I feel people can improve. That was the main message behind this video. It sounds like you know the method behind your madness👍
I´m not much of a featherer now... It has been a journey that evolved from being taught to do so initially, and repeating just because to me removing it completely to see the difference, did this out of curiosity years ago, then re doing it understanding why... I ended up being comfortable doing only one or two practice strokes if I´m using english or if the cue ball is frozen. second or third I stroke confidently, I had to work hard to remove the small ¨hesitating second¨ before shooting that a ton of people are also taught to do, a lot is out of habit and lack of understanding about what does what. A thing I see others do, that I don´t is that ¨air shot¨ while you visualize your shot, I don´t do that, most likely because I wasn´t thought that and also because I ditched the ring bridge for the open english type bridge and my cue would slip.
I like how you attacked this concept and conceptualized it for yourself. We're all different but the common ground here is that we don't want to be wasteful and inefficient in our movements. Sounds like you've put in the work! Thanks for commenting 😊👍
@@HereAfterBilliards I would´ve loved to have access to your channel´s info 15 years ago... We will definitely have way better players in the future generations solely for the access of good information, keep putting it out there, it´s great!!
When I was taking billiard to instruction I was taught to line up the shot, get down, pre shot strokes, set, draw back, pause, and finish through the cue ball.
That's great. You're already ahead of the game because in your mind you have a method. You're not just feathering because that's what you saw in the movies😉. Now film yourself and see how close actuality is to your minds eye. Because you've set expectations of yourself you can now drive performance.
Hi my friend, great vid as usual. I would like to give my german response to your video. 1. The Poster on the right is for me the best western movie ever made! 2. Many players don't know why they feather the cue. 3. The only reason to feather is to give you as a player the right feeling about your stroke arm - while feathering you can feel if you're loose or stuck in case of mind-muscle-connection. 4. I teach my club players the following thing: It doesn't matter how you feather or if you feather or how you stand or how is your elbow placed etc. - As long as you are able to create a straight shot. It only counts how the bullet comes out of your gun. Compare De Luna to Gorst or Bustamante to Filler - they are all able to shoot straight. And again - I love this movie!!! Greetz from Germany, Thomas
Hey Thomas! The Good The Bad And The Ugly is my favorite movie❤️ I was heavily indoctrinated into loving Sergio Leone by my father. The will say potentially For A Few Dollars More final showdown is just as good as GoodBadUgly...just not quite as good overall. 👍
I agree with you on shooting straight. It really doesn't matter how you do it...thats why I said multiple times in the video I'm not going to tell you you're doing it wrong. But it is important to know thy self😂👍
I noticed it right away. I actually learned not to do pre strokes from Jasmin Ouschan's videos. I do this as well because It teaches my body to find that natural line of sight when in practice. If I do pre stroke, they are very slow and short. I look at the cue when I lay my arm and cue stick down. Paying attention to my alignment. I'm not a great player, but just doing this is adavcing my game quickly. It keeps you from doing subconscious micro adjustments when down on the shot that can cause you to miss.
Interesting. Certainly it's bad if you're making adjustments while bent down. If that works that's awesome. When my cue ball is frozen to the rail I won't do any feathering. Just align... Maybe one stroke to check straightness and then pull the trigger.
@@HereAfterBilliards I'm more sticked about it in practice. I also watch CJ Wiley, so I center my body when I visualize. Go down with my arm and cue stick at the same time. Look at the ball and tip of my stick. If it does not feel or look right, I get back up and start over. I will do it over and over tell I have the perfect perspective and centering for me. I look like a robot or weird doing this but it's working for me lol.
@@HereAfterBilliards Nice videos btw. I gave you a sub.
@@Crazywaffle5150 That's perfect. I do pretty much the same thing. Don't force anything 👍. And thanks for the sub man😊
Hey my canadian & half german friend, I just want to tell you, that I sold my Cuetec Cinergy Ghost Edition Cue and bought myself a Mezz Cue with an Ignite shaft. Compared to a JFlowers, the Cinergy and the Rhino shaft, this is now more than just next level. Just wow. Ok, the shaft alone is about 600US$, but the benefit you get is worth it. The deflection is similar to a SMO but the feedback is nearer to wood than any CF shaft I have tested. Best Regards Thomas
Awesomeness! Enjoy your new cue my friend!
Interesting video. For me, warmup strokes are kind of a checklist. I make sure my tip is in the center of the CB (if I'm not applying English). I bring the stroke back, to see if it's coming back in a straight line (if it isn't coming back straight, it won't be going forward straight). Often, I use warmup strokes to get the feel for the speed of the stroke, mostly when I need precise shape or I'm playing defense and I have to leave the object ball on a far rail or behind some blockers. The point is (which I think you were driving at), make the feathering count for something, so you're not just "sawing wood" down in the shooting position. Thanks for posting your video!
Exactly. Don't be wasteful and understand the method to your madness!👍
Hey I was wondering how does the rhino shaft you got compare to the classic j flowers shaft and if it was the same pin as your j flowers cue.
You ever watch Efren Reyes preshot routine? The cue never stops moving. Personal I like doing this because it keeps my stroke loose. When I come down I have a pause then several micro strokes and one long stroke right before shooting
My JFlowers Classic has the Taom Fusion tip on it and the Rhino comes with their propriatary Crystal tip. The Crystal tip is infinitely better than the Moori Medium that comes with the JFlowers. I would say both CF shafts play very similar to each other when you exclude the different tips. And yes the Rhino I got has a 3/8*8 pin which I asked for specifically. So that shaft does fit onto my JFlowers 3/8*8 pin. It matches up flawlessly.
Asong as you know why you do it and what the benefits are to your game then you do you. It's when people have bad habits and have no idea why they do them where I feel people can improve. That was the main message behind this video. It sounds like you know the method behind your madness👍
I´m not much of a featherer now...
It has been a journey that evolved from being taught to do so initially, and repeating just because to me removing it completely to see the difference, did this out of curiosity years ago, then re doing it understanding why...
I ended up being comfortable doing only one or two practice strokes if I´m using english or if the cue ball is frozen. second or third I stroke confidently, I had to work hard to remove the small ¨hesitating second¨ before shooting that a ton of people are also taught to do, a lot is out of habit and lack of understanding about what does what.
A thing I see others do, that I don´t is that ¨air shot¨ while you visualize your shot, I don´t do that, most likely because I wasn´t thought that and also because I ditched the ring bridge for the open english type bridge and my cue would slip.
I like how you attacked this concept and conceptualized it for yourself. We're all different but the common ground here is that we don't want to be wasteful and inefficient in our movements. Sounds like you've put in the work! Thanks for commenting 😊👍
@@HereAfterBilliards I would´ve loved to have access to your channel´s info 15 years ago... We will definitely have way better players in the future generations solely for the access of good information, keep putting it out there, it´s great!!
do not understand i know why i do what i do i can answer you ?
LOL...That's good!
you chalk ever time
That I do👍 Part of the routine