Holding The Cue Right, Even If You’re A Lefty

This Billiards Grip Is Usually Finest

I have been fond of saying in the past that less than 1 in 100 players has the correct fundamentals for pool and billiards.

I stand corrected. The actual number may be far less than that figure! So many beginners and intermediates have never had a formal pool lesson, stand completely wrong at the table, squeeze the cue way too tightly in their hand, and so much more—all of it bad.

This is all about where me and my shadow must be to play our best. It’s so basic, so meat-and-potatoes as the English expression goes. Why can’t everybody hold their cue in the way I suggest? It’s because they haven’t been taught. Everyone needs a pool model.

Great tennis and golf pros, terrific musicians, great chefs and more all have models to learn from, feeding both sides of their brain with instruction and techniques to mimic. The best way to teach pool? Let me show you, literally, as with hundreds of other pages here at Billiards.About.com.

I’ve gone ahead and outlined for you, literally outlined…

• Where You Need To Be Holding The Cue In Pool and take a moment and…

• Memorize One Of My Top Stance Secrets and be sure to…

• Grasp (Grip?) 10 Of My Pool Tips

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