The draw stroke is among the more challenging for the beginner and intermediate pool player. Here are some fast tips to aid you in drawing like a champ!
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: 20 minutes
Here's How:
- Chalk up especially well before any draw stroke, jab draw or force draw shot.
- Understand that striking the cue ball anywhere below center will create some degree of underspin. Experiment by striking the cue a tad lower than center. For other draw strokes, aim higher than you have been when you miscue. Most players, even the pros, hit the ball higher than where they aim a draw shot with their practice strokes.
- Check the loop of your bridge, the non-dominant hand on the cuestick. Ensure that the loop or the groove of your hand where the cuestick is aligned is lower than with a center ball stroke so that the cuestick will be near level during the draw motion.
- Ensure the shooting hand is not raised beyond an inch or so. That will provide all the leverage needed without wrecking the stroke.
Tips:
- Aim as though there is a second cue ball several inches ahead of the actual cue ball. Strive for an extra lengthy follow through motion.
- Loosen the grip at takeaway and a second time just before impact. The pros release the cuestick into the stroke, the amateur tightens, clenching and ruining the shot.
- Use an ever-accelerating cuestick that builds momentum continually past the cue ball into the follow through.
- If you choose the flick the wrist into the draw stroke, get that done early enough during the final stroke to give the cue ball a long caress with the movement.
