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By Matthew Sherman, About.com Guide to Pool / Billiards

More Than One Stroke

Saturday April 21, 2007
The myth promulgated by "top" instruction books insists that most all pool strokes are the same. They certainly are not--and some of my favorite variations on the classic pool stroke are documented in our new instruction section.

The force follow stroke and the reverse slip stroke come to mind as two of the odd but sometimes helpful strokes known to less than one in a hundred casual pool players. What are some of the odd strokes and classic techniques you've added to the "basic" straight pool stroke? We're all ears at About.com.

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