Unlock the classic pool shooter within and learn the correct grip, stance at the table, balance and fine form. Finesse the cue ball and sculpt your pool shots with ease.
Head, eyes, chin, fingers—Is your stick pointed at the target accurately for positive pool shot technique? Are you sure?
A common pool shot technique blunder is to be just off your aim target—oh your stick is pointed straight ahead through the center of the cue ball—but you are not aimed to where you think you are aimed...
The best advice for your pool game are these secrets of the pool stroke, found nowhere else online. Build your pool game now.
Yet another powerful billiards lesson today, as I’ll share with you how to lock your alignment into place to see the targets for your cue ball. This is how the pros firm their choice of shot.
A quality today. How to absolutely control ball speed using grip force... flow the stroke even better, letting the cue stick pass lightly through your hand...
Listen, billiards player! Here's where to hold the fingers (four hand designs/shapes).
All sports and body acheivement stem from an balanced, powerful stance. Tour through some of the best of our dozens of stance articles and tip sheets here at About.com.
Make your pool bodies right, folks. Set your head well before you ever stroke the ball.
Pool hand technique--using a near-immobile shoulder and upper arm to allow one’s forearm to hang down at a right angle to the cue stick where you grip it is good technique--except that holding any part of your body rigidly produces unwanted tension that can wreck the billiards stroke, twisting the stick off line.
How to make a straighter pool or billiards stroke than you've dreamed possible? Watch online with us as we complete this quest.
The best advice for your pool game are these secrets of the pool stroke nowhere else online. Build your pool game now.
Pool power is achieved on steady, sturdy legs. Try these notes on knees to see improvement soon in your billiards play.
In the land of pool tips, this one reigns supreme. Discern how tall (or short) to stand to the billiards table to improve your stroke. It's not about "where your chin rests!"
The classic pool stroke is a throwing motion. And, as you'll learn, the "right angle at address rule" held to by most teachers actually should be eliminated from pool instruction.
I've driven hundreds of cue tips into cue balls, but many of About.com's readers need a driving lesson. Here's one of my most important...
What is the motion of the shooting arm through the classic pool stroke? It's not a true pendulum! Your shooting wrist can be held rigid or move six different ways, what to do? A step-by-step analysis with photos.
This pool technique is devastatingly effective and takes just seconds to learn. Go hand over heart with me in billiards!
The heart and soul of pool flow from an accurate hold on the cuestick. But how to make the classic pool grip, a thing of function and power? Take a look at a typical pool grip from several different viewpoints.
How to hold your pool cue? Let's take a closer look, shall we?
Answering the eternal "how to billiards?" question simply is a challenge, one I'm willing to address. "How to billiards?" is responded to by, "go level"!
Making a fine pool shot requires a set shoulder--but how it is set is a matter of precision, you should know...
Control your pool ball by minimizing movement and "locking in" to go next level...
With no exaggeration, this might be the most important instructional article you'll ever read in pool. This is a secret revealed that will instantly charge most players' skills.
Here are yet more pool stance secrets for your archives. Begin to build a better pool stance today!
I answer a reader's question regarding pool stance. Where to hold the cue stick in the "proper" pool stance?
There is one step you can make toward a perfect billiards stance. It's one small step for a man, a giant leap for pool kind.
It is quite simple to achieve a balanced and comfortable stance at the pool table. It's vital to your success at pocket billiards that you do so. View our guide in words in pictures.
With some exceptions, most players would do well with this particular or "classic" stance. Read more to find out why...
Wow your playing pals by using your feet to guide your shoulder into place for a perfected billiards stroke!
How to adjust the pool stance beyond 45 degrees. What refinements can be used with the feet to set the cue on line even straighter?
