The advices from Michael Holt and the routine from Hawkins are really good. We all have to appreciate that we get all these for free from the top snooker players and especially Stephen Hendry himself.
This was a wonderful video! I have grown tired of reposts from various podcasts since Christmas. This, on the other hand, was properly excellent! Thanks! Here's to a great 2024!!
Excellent practice routines for cue ball control, I especially like the one Rhian Evans showed which is perfect for making the fine adjustments needed for precise cue ball positioning. Thank you Mr Hendry for your excellent channel.
I made a similar one up to the Reanne Evan’s one to practice cannons. Cut blue shots into middle pocket focusing on stun and side to cannon 5 balls spread along bulk cushion. Every time you hit a colour on the cushion you take it away. Aim to hit all 5 balls in the fewest amount of shots. Practice from both sides of the table.
I would like to defend the decel vs pace. Don't have much snooker experience, but to me as an engineer this makes a lot of sense. It's true that impact is very short, but I would expect that if you hit the white at the same speed but acceletating, time of contact will be longer than when decelerating. Still short, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be as much as twice as long. I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on cue ball speed, but I would expect it to make a big difference in how much spin is imparted on the cue ball.
@@alienck3901 Yeah, I agree it won't matter there. Just wanted to mention where it would make a difference, because learning about accelerating the cue during impact helped me to understand imparting decent spin, while the often used expression 'strike through the cue ball' didn't do much for me.
Yep. Smoothly "pinching" or gripping the cueball with the tip is a vital fundamental skill to learn to manoeuvre and control the cue ball. Keeping your grip only tight enough to stop the cue slipping out of your hand on the strike is important, to allow the cue that tiny bit of spring/buffering when the tip contacts the cue ball. When you get this kind of delicate strike right, you can hear the difference too as the balls seem to *click* sweetly on impact rather than *thunk*. @@piokul
Information from the greats is absolutely fantastic, but I feel it only helps snooker players that have a certain level of play, that understand it, and can use it, lower level players it doesnt matter, all in all have respect for the top 10.
I'd think it would be quite hard for a top class player to come up with the helpful advice for a beginner, if they don't do coaching with the beginners, at best they'll remember something from the times when they were beginners themselves :-)) The level gap is too big for it to be easy for them to imagine what does a beginner struggle with the most, what is the most important thing at that level of play
0:40 - I like how Stephen sabotages Luca Brecel on the Tough Table Challenge by stopping him to talk. Sneaky Stephen ;-) Also, greetings from Ayrshire!
Even if he did cheat or match fix he is the Wizard of Wishaw and he is one of the GOAT. Higgins, Higgins he's our man, if he can match fix, anyone can!
If Simon Jordan sees this he'll block and delete Stephen from his phonebook. "Say what you mean and mean what you say, I'm just here to cut through all the nonsense"
Wouldn't call that a tip myself. I'd say just playing and enjoying it is more important than comparing the difficulty of two different games for the sake of superiority.
Michael is 100% correct on his explanation on deceleration. As long as the contact point is at the speed, decel or accel doesn't matter. Think of a boxer making contact. The accel or decel doesn't matter as long as the contact is at the correct speed.
Nup, you want the your tip to be in contact with the cue ball for as long as possible. From the first instant of contact the cue ball is trying to get away. You want to push the cue through at the same rate to hold onto it. Compare the feel and work you get on the ball from a sweetly timed shot to one you have stabbed at. Only one of them you have accelerated though properly.
I used to love playing snooker in my local league years ago got down to minus 10 handicap and our team won the league one year and me and my two best mates won the three man team event and me and my mate won the doubles aswell and then a couple of years later our club shutdown aswell has a lot of other clubs in the league and it just wasnt the same its sad really because i have some of the best memories in that social club so i feel sorry for these young lads today because there is literally going to be nothing for them to do in a few years
Interesting talk about decel with Mike Holt. He doesnt go along with it but Stephen I hear you talk about it in commentary a lot. Please clarify..are you saying you must hit the cueball at the fastest speed on impact?
you have to be able to make century breaks in a match game regularly in order to have ang chance for completing the higgins routine ! its sooo hard its level 10/10 . so if you are a club player dont even waste your time on that ! just do a line up
Holt was making a fair point even if fairly pedantic. If a ball doesnt reach the pocket and has been struck properly, it's simply not been hit hard enough. Deceleration seems to be blamed for all shots that dont reach but if a player strikes it correctly and has accelerated through impact, you cant say hes decelerated, hes simply not hit it hard enough. I think deceleration is used as just too broad a reason which is his point. If you have decelerated and its caused you to miss cue then yeah, blame it on deceleration. If you simply havent hit it hard enough then, whether you decelerate or accelerate through impact them you simply havent hit it hard enough. Golf is the best example of where deceleration is a common issue, you very rarely want to decelerate through impact. When chipping for example, if you decelerate the result is often a mis hit shot where you fat it. If you hit it squarely the likeliness is you wont have decelerated even if you dont hit it hard enough. Snooker its just too sweeping for a bad shot.
Holt's general point is that folk worry too much about stuff that doesn't really matter. Snooker's a hard enough game without filling your head with a bunch of mumbo jumbo every time you prepare to take a shot.
When barry said "it's a fairly new routine, doing since just a couple years ago", you looked up at him. That made me wonder how often do pros change their routines!?
The issue with a lot of these things Holt comes out with like the little argument over deceleration, is he's so desperate to be contradictory and sound clever that he reframes the topic to make a point that is true of itself but is ultimately talking at cross purposes... Hendry is talking about decel in terms of a player's own personal cue action. This action should be honed to, as consistently as possible, strike the cue ball at the right speed and timing for a given shot. Always having that properly controlled acceleration to some degree not only improves the spin control you can impart but keeps each shot more consistent and helps maintain a player's confidence in their own strike. If you're decelerating on little shots and then accelerating on longer shots or shots where you need to really grip the cue ball for spin etc, you're causing unnecessary inconsistency in your own game. It's all very well segmenting off bits of a problem and arguing over things like basic physics to be try and be smart, but he's often ignoring entire other aspects of a given discussion in order to make these points. Hendry looks a bit confused and increasingly annoyed with Holt over that decel discussion because he knows what he's trying to say, but he also knows he is ignoring other elements of the issue to just be contradictory and seem more clever than every other snooker professional. Hendry did just a little bit better than Holt in his snooker career, and was astonishingly consistent for about 15-20 years. Every other professional who has consistently won a lot of big tournaments all know not to decelerate on shots for this reason...of course you can pot some balls with an inconsistent and frankly poor cue action, that's not the point...you could pot balls with a broom handle used like a golf club if you wanted to, it's physically very possible, but you shouldn't practice and teach that way.
Well I get your point but he also mentions that a player should play in a way which he can repeat, so if someone is always playing shots with decel it really wouldnt matter, wouldnt it?
my take on it was not the decel or otherwise, it's that when your action is not within its normal parameters, the over (or under) reach means the cue's not straight, hence the miss. They're arguing in one dimension only, which is why the argument doesn't go anywhere.
55seconds to 1minute in there's a Ronnie O'Sullivan wannabe on the table behind Luca. He's really digging deep that lad, well done, the future of the game is secure......
I feel decell is a wrong term, having played to a high standard , semi pro, my old coach use to refer to it as tweaking on the butt, meaning what completes the follow through which is only arounf 3 half inches whilst tip is in contact with white, is the hand closing on hitting the chest, if the hand closes before impact on the white it stops the cue thus throwing the cue off the intended line of aim. If you have a peckers cue action the hand hits the chest on follow through, if you drive then the drive ie elbow drop is what closes the hand, so although it might not suit everyone the best way to decrease the issue in your action is to drive, think stephen lee, ronnie, murphy, no one can argue they have the best effortless cue actions in the modern game, and mr dell hill is the man behind such beauty.
Way too much talk of the "decel" nonsense I think. If the cue is pushed through at the correct 'constant' speed required to sink the object ball and gain the required position then acceleration and/or deceleration has no bearing whatsoever on the outcome. Basic physics....
Sounds clever, but it's in fact segmenting and reframing the issue. Something Holt does a lot just to try and appear all different, special and clever. Deceleration when striking the cue ball is not about whether or not you can technically manage to get the right speed for a given pot...it's about consistency in the professional game. If you decelerate on some little shots but accelerate through longer shots and shots where you need to really grip the cue ball for a lot of spin etc, you are pointlessly making your cue action inconsistent and this causes your game to be inconsistent...just like Holt's, frankly. Yeah, you obviously don't NEED to accelerate when striking for a little roll in shot, but you should anyway because you're supposed to keep your cue action and feel for each shot as consistent as possible in the professional game. It is not nonsense at all, and literally every other top professional realises why keeping consistency in the acceleration of your cue delivery is vital. You alter the speed on impact using bridge length, backswing and thereby the amount your arm accelerates the cue. ALL the people who have actually and consistently won a lot of top tournaments know this. Holt doesn't know better than them and neither do you or anyone else consuming smartalec opinions via the internet.
@@DM-kv9kj Wow. I hope you enjoyed writing that speech. I think you'll find Newton's first law explains it better. The actual speed of the cue at the moment of impact between cueball and object ball is the only thing that ultimately effects the outcome. Neither acceleration nor deceleration of the cue action prior to impact will have any bearing. Good night...
The advices from Michael Holt and the routine from Hawkins are really good. We all have to appreciate that we get all these for free from the top snooker players and especially Stephen Hendry himself.
Barry's such a character, love him
That was funny!
Dull as dishwater he is
Barry Chalkins is a good guy
"I'm more of a roller than a stunner" - John Higgins 😂
Higgins's routine should be the next tough table challenge.
Agree. A century would be a solid challenge for even the top boys
Michael Holt seems like exactly the kind of coach I'd need to improve and improve quickly. Really insightful (and obviously gifted) player.
I second that
ive heard some excellent reviews on fb for him
I could see Hendry desperate to disagree with him on the decel thing, but Michael is 100% right!
This was a wonderful video!
I have grown tired of reposts from various podcasts since Christmas. This, on the other hand, was properly excellent!
Thanks! Here's to a great 2024!!
The Higgins routine at the end is amazing 😮totally love this channel, my Sunday nights are now my favourite evening. Keep up the great work Stephen. 😊
Higgins doing the jiggins for the next week or two
"I'm a Roller, not a stunner", says every ugly bald Scot who grew up in the 70s listening to the Bay City Rollers.
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Ronnie be like ..what's the prize money? 🤣🤣
Stephen you are the best mate please keep this up you have no idea how valuable these are for us
The conversation about speed at impact vs deceleration is brilliant. Smart fellow!
I’d love to see you get John Parrott on Cue Tips and talk about his career!
I would too
Can't stand John Parrot. He threw my nook on the floor outside the crucible in 1999 when I was a kid asking for an autograph. He's a bell end
And this is why Higgins is so good around the black😁 Solid routine
Excellent practice routines for cue ball control, I especially like the one Rhian Evans showed which is perfect for making the fine adjustments needed for precise cue ball positioning. Thank you Mr Hendry for your excellent channel.
It's a good routine for an amateur
@@dilksjoel Soz pro.
@@craigchristian344 it literally is a good routine for an amateur
This was the one routine I really thought "I wanna start doing that"
I made a similar one up to the Reanne Evan’s one to practice cannons. Cut blue shots into middle pocket focusing on stun and side to cannon 5 balls spread along bulk cushion. Every time you hit a colour on the cushion you take it away. Aim to hit all 5 balls in the fewest amount of shots. Practice from both sides of the table.
Excellent stuff. Cheers 🍻
Can't describe how much im so grateful and thankful for your tips , thank u so much legend 🙏
13:07 He was about to say ball hair 😅
Ha ha. Well spotted.
I would like to defend the decel vs pace. Don't have much snooker experience, but to me as an engineer this makes a lot of sense. It's true that impact is very short, but I would expect that if you hit the white at the same speed but acceletating, time of contact will be longer than when decelerating. Still short, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be as much as twice as long. I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on cue ball speed, but I would expect it to make a big difference in how much spin is imparted on the cue ball.
They were talkin abt stun shot tht doesnt require spin on white ball
@@alienck3901 Yeah, I agree it won't matter there. Just wanted to mention where it would make a difference, because learning about accelerating the cue during impact helped me to understand imparting decent spin, while the often used expression 'strike through the cue ball' didn't do much for me.
Yep. Smoothly "pinching" or gripping the cueball with the tip is a vital fundamental skill to learn to manoeuvre and control the cue ball. Keeping your grip only tight enough to stop the cue slipping out of your hand on the strike is important, to allow the cue that tiny bit of spring/buffering when the tip contacts the cue ball. When you get this kind of delicate strike right, you can hear the difference too as the balls seem to *click* sweetly on impact rather than *thunk*. @@piokul
Dr Dave just debunked the contact time myth on his channel.
@@CertifiedSlamboy interesting - must give it a watch.
lovng the cue tips series. just casual snooker and good playing
Super instructive video, Stephen, thanks a lot.
Information from the greats is absolutely fantastic, but I feel it only helps snooker players that have a certain level of play, that understand it, and can use it, lower level players it doesnt matter, all in all have respect for the top 10.
I'd think it would be quite hard for a top class player to come up with the helpful advice for a beginner, if they don't do coaching with the beginners, at best they'll remember something from the times when they were beginners themselves :-)) The level gap is too big for it to be easy for them to imagine what does a beginner struggle with the most, what is the most important thing at that level of play
Another great video. Thanks SH
Absolutely loved this video. Really great to get an insight into good practice routines from the very best players 😄
0:40 - I like how Stephen sabotages Luca Brecel on the Tough Table Challenge by stopping him to talk. Sneaky Stephen ;-) Also, greetings from Ayrshire!
What a channel, Hendry absolutely is THEE best Ambassador for snooker just now, he truly loves the sport. 👍
Thanks guys and Reanne all brilliant. Now to work. lol ❤
So how many times do you finish the routine out of ten ?
John Higgins- “none” 🤷♂️😂
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Niceeee @@paulschopfsnooker5516
Match fixing
Brilliant video would be good to see Stephen having a go of them . Thank you for helping us improve our game❤
100% agree with John at the end there haha
John routine looks the most difficult Stephen 🖖🔝😉😎
Great video, as always. Thanks SH
The peep moment at 30:40 was so hilarious from John 😂😅
Thanks for teaching me so much! I've never played snooker before, but find your videos so interesting. :)
Time to find a club that has some snooker tables!
@@DM-kv9kj Maybe! It's a bit intimidating though, so I think Pool would be a good first step! :)
As always enjoyed it Cheers
Happy birthday, Stephen! Have a fantastic year!
🎉❤😍
This was great. Thought it was going to be clips we had already seen but these were all.new I think.
Stop that John.....💀 30:43 Stop it your killing me here.🤣 31:14
“Out of 10 times, how many times would you do it?”
“None”
Love John Higgins.
Even if he did cheat or match fix he is the Wizard of Wishaw and he is one of the GOAT. Higgins, Higgins he's our man, if he can match fix, anyone can!
That made me laugh!!
@@johnanderson8085 I'm here all week
Almost said “Baw Hair” with Reanne 😂
If Simon Jordan sees this he'll block and delete Stephen from his phonebook. "Say what you mean and mean what you say, I'm just here to cut through all the nonsense"
I'm having a slow day but what's the funny thing about saying baw hair lol
A great insight of top level practice, my how hard was John Higgins practice , Cheers. .
Best tip: Don't assume just because you play a bit of pool down the pub, that you'll be any good at snooker
Wouldn't call that a tip myself. I'd say just playing and enjoying it is more important than comparing the difficulty of two different games for the sake of superiority.
@@SteveNinetyski Oh don't be so supercilious, it's a good tip
very interesting!
Michael Holt reminds me of Ken Otley from After Life so much
Brilliant Stephen
Michael is 100% correct on his explanation on deceleration. As long as the contact point is at the speed, decel or accel doesn't matter. Think of a boxer making contact. The accel or decel doesn't matter as long as the contact is at the correct speed.
Nup, you want the your tip to be in contact with the cue ball for as long as possible. From the first instant of contact the cue ball is trying to get away. You want to push the cue through at the same rate to hold onto it. Compare the feel and work you get on the ball from a sweetly timed shot to one you have stabbed at. Only one of them you have accelerated though properly.
This is very useful
A plane on a runway starts well back. Genius
Great analogy
Bladdddy hell.. no wonder John is as good as he is! That looks impossible!
Love Holt, He's littarly telling the best how to play the game :)
has he actually won anything ???
@@seanpaul3050 dunno tbf
😂 the guy is talking rubbish. Even the goat doesn’t know wtf he’s on about haha
Great lads
9:34 Stephen's chat up game
Brilliant brilliant channel
Brilliant
It's supposed to be "educational" but both Hawkins and Higgins are hilarious.
Happy birthdy to you
God bless you
The decel/accel talk is interesting. Similar to putting in golf.
Evans is so talented !
Snooker looks easy. Might give it a go 👍
Well ....Florian Nueselle cleared this up Mr. Higgins ! However , you are right this is a VERY difficult routine !
I used to love playing snooker in my local league years ago got down to minus 10 handicap and our team won the league one year and me and my two best mates won the three man team event and me and my mate won the doubles aswell and then a couple of years later our club shutdown aswell has a lot of other clubs in the league and it just wasnt the same its sad really because i have some of the best memories in that social club so i feel sorry for these young lads today because there is literally going to be nothing for them to do in a few years
Interesting talk about decel with Mike Holt. He doesnt go along with it but Stephen I hear you talk about it in commentary a lot. Please clarify..are you saying you must hit the cueball at the fastest speed on impact?
30 minute videos, yes please
Lol at Stephen struggling to not say bawhair...eh, eh, hair away :)
Amazing
john higgins, tip 1. don't get secretly recorded arranging to fix matches
31:20. None, lol.
Love to see John Virgo on here
"higgins has an advanced routine where you pot a long red and then make a 147" 😂😂
surprising amount of negativity in the comments. I thought we snooker lovers were a little above that.
You must be new to the internet! 😆
Snooker is unfortunately increasingly infested by rabble on UA-cam.
I think I will become a great player when I am 60 lol . But nice routines, I will practice these ..
5:52 yeah well youre not a colour - hendry is a savage 😂
Boot in the bottom right at 16:56
John Higgins Routine was very very difficult .
Just managed to get a 140, left the black cause there was no prize money but yeah decent routine
@@dilksjoel Ronnie is that you?
i hope that blokes reaction at 0:50 was half as funny to whomever edited the video as it was to me
I didn't even notice it until I saw your comment! 😆
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you have to be able to make century breaks in a match game regularly in order to have ang chance for completing the higgins routine ! its sooo hard its level 10/10 . so if you are a club player dont even waste your time on that ! just do a line up
Holt was making a fair point even if fairly pedantic. If a ball doesnt reach the pocket and has been struck properly, it's simply not been hit hard enough. Deceleration seems to be blamed for all shots that dont reach but if a player strikes it correctly and has accelerated through impact, you cant say hes decelerated, hes simply not hit it hard enough.
I think deceleration is used as just too broad a reason which is his point. If you have decelerated and its caused you to miss cue then yeah, blame it on deceleration. If you simply havent hit it hard enough then, whether you decelerate or accelerate through impact them you simply havent hit it hard enough.
Golf is the best example of where deceleration is a common issue, you very rarely want to decelerate through impact. When chipping for example, if you decelerate the result is often a mis hit shot where you fat it. If you hit it squarely the likeliness is you wont have decelerated even if you dont hit it hard enough. Snooker its just too sweeping for a bad shot.
Holt's general point is that folk worry too much about stuff that doesn't really matter. Snooker's a hard enough game without filling your head with a bunch of mumbo jumbo every time you prepare to take a shot.
Some great training tips. If possible get Ronnie to show his routines please
Nah, you've gotta pay for them!
When barry said "it's a fairly new routine, doing since just a couple years ago", you looked up at him. That made me wonder how often do pros change their routines!?
The issue with a lot of these things Holt comes out with like the little argument over deceleration, is he's so desperate to be contradictory and sound clever that he reframes the topic to make a point that is true of itself but is ultimately talking at cross purposes... Hendry is talking about decel in terms of a player's own personal cue action. This action should be honed to, as consistently as possible, strike the cue ball at the right speed and timing for a given shot. Always having that properly controlled acceleration to some degree not only improves the spin control you can impart but keeps each shot more consistent and helps maintain a player's confidence in their own strike. If you're decelerating on little shots and then accelerating on longer shots or shots where you need to really grip the cue ball for spin etc, you're causing unnecessary inconsistency in your own game.
It's all very well segmenting off bits of a problem and arguing over things like basic physics to be try and be smart, but he's often ignoring entire other aspects of a given discussion in order to make these points. Hendry looks a bit confused and increasingly annoyed with Holt over that decel discussion because he knows what he's trying to say, but he also knows he is ignoring other elements of the issue to just be contradictory and seem more clever than every other snooker professional.
Hendry did just a little bit better than Holt in his snooker career, and was astonishingly consistent for about 15-20 years. Every other professional who has consistently won a lot of big tournaments all know not to decelerate on shots for this reason...of course you can pot some balls with an inconsistent and frankly poor cue action, that's not the point...you could pot balls with a broom handle used like a golf club if you wanted to, it's physically very possible, but you shouldn't practice and teach that way.
Well I get your point but he also mentions that a player should play in a way which he can repeat, so if someone is always playing shots with decel it really wouldnt matter, wouldnt it?
my take on it was not the decel or otherwise, it's that when your action is not within its normal parameters, the over (or under) reach means the cue's not straight, hence the miss. They're arguing in one dimension only, which is why the argument doesn't go anywhere.
this channel is so british i cant understand some words because of the accent =D
GOAT Ronnie O'Sullivan 40 Ranking titles & 22 Major titles G.O.A.T
Stephen Hendry 36 Ranking titles & 18 Major titles.
Absolute fact! One GOAT 🐐🚀🏆👌
a koja je bolja rakoja one iz smecare ili ona iz prodavnice?
Does Holt know he’s talking to a GOAT?
Stephen do you remember a man called wilf Gordon from when you practised at millers snooker club in Broxburn ?
Great video. Would be good to see Jack lisowski on the channel in 2024
Happy New Year the the second greatest Hendry & greatest player of all time GOAT Ronnie O'Sullivan 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
Titanium ferule or a sighting method? 😅
kazi ti meni ko jede paprike iz kontejnera i ko ce to zavrsiti na mostu?
55seconds to 1minute in there's a Ronnie O'Sullivan wannabe on the table behind Luca. He's really digging deep that lad, well done, the future of the game is secure......
Please play a frame using old style cloth balls and cues and explain the difference
Can we get John Virgo on
0:56 - boy picking nose in the background
Does he eat it?
Every cloth and table is different no point in most of this 😂
#13:00
I would like there to be a Thai translation. For Thailand fans
#FC Thailand
Couldn't watch Evans, other than that, great video.
#FC Thailand ❤❤❤
I think these tips should be for sale not free on a yt video
Holt is wrong. Decell is real and you will never get action on the cueball unless you play through the white
I feel decell is a wrong term, having played to a high standard , semi pro, my old coach use to refer to it as tweaking on the butt, meaning what completes the follow through which is only arounf 3 half inches whilst tip is in contact with white, is the hand closing on hitting the chest, if the hand closes before impact on the white it stops the cue thus throwing the cue off the intended line of aim. If you have a peckers cue action the hand hits the chest on follow through, if you drive then the drive ie elbow drop is what closes the hand, so although it might not suit everyone the best way to decrease the issue in your action is to drive, think stephen lee, ronnie, murphy, no one can argue they have the best effortless cue actions in the modern game, and mr dell hill is the man behind such beauty.
Way too much talk of the "decel" nonsense I think.
If the cue is pushed through at the correct 'constant' speed required to sink the object ball and gain the required position then acceleration and/or deceleration has no bearing whatsoever on the outcome.
Basic physics....
Sounds clever, but it's in fact segmenting and reframing the issue. Something Holt does a lot just to try and appear all different, special and clever. Deceleration when striking the cue ball is not about whether or not you can technically manage to get the right speed for a given pot...it's about consistency in the professional game. If you decelerate on some little shots but accelerate through longer shots and shots where you need to really grip the cue ball for a lot of spin etc, you are pointlessly making your cue action inconsistent and this causes your game to be inconsistent...just like Holt's, frankly. Yeah, you obviously don't NEED to accelerate when striking for a little roll in shot, but you should anyway because you're supposed to keep your cue action and feel for each shot as consistent as possible in the professional game.
It is not nonsense at all, and literally every other top professional realises why keeping consistency in the acceleration of your cue delivery is vital. You alter the speed on impact using bridge length, backswing and thereby the amount your arm accelerates the cue. ALL the people who have actually and consistently won a lot of top tournaments know this. Holt doesn't know better than them and neither do you or anyone else consuming smartalec opinions via the internet.
@@DM-kv9kj
Wow.
I hope you enjoyed writing that speech.
I think you'll find Newton's first law explains it better.
The actual speed of the cue at the moment of impact between cueball and object ball is the only thing that ultimately effects the outcome.
Neither acceleration nor deceleration of the cue action prior to impact will have any bearing.
Good night...
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