Today's draw tips... I call this:
Ralph "The Kaiser" Souquet and "Draw, Stranger!"
Does this reader's problem with the draw stroke resemble your problem?"
“…Matt, good to hear from you, a big part of my problem with draw spin is I have a bad habit of pulling back the cue near the end of the stroke. Lately I have been rolling my wrist. I try to roll it forward at the stroke's end--to catch up with the cue--for added backspin. I am really relaxed and comfortable but have a ways to go.I have been working on my draw as usual. I work about two hours a day at it! Thanks for the tips, but I still have a long way to go. I am still a little confused about the wrist action. Some guys say "yes!" and some say "no!" I asked top player Ralph "The Kaiser" Souquet and he said "sometime". I think that was the sure way out…"
--So says an avid player on the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour. What to do with the wrist in the draw motion? Try this--line up for a medium stroke taken center ball on an object ball about a foot away from the cue ball. Now come down a cue tip's width or two on the vertical axis without conscious thought of moving your back hand or of lowering the bridge hand. Shoot a regular medium speed stroke through the altered point!
This should give you more draw than you've been getting, draw without a firm draw stroke or the need for excessive wrist action. Once you have this mastered, you can add a little wrist flick for even more spin, and moves in the opposite direction, toward the top of the ball, should work on follow strokes, too!
Try it and see? And then maybe you'll get as good as Ralph Souquet, Europe's greatest pool shooter.
