The author through daily training, confrontation and watch videos, listen to masters explain, some insights, here and everyone to share.
First, on how to scientifically grasp the cue when powering up
I have seen the billiards master Xie Zhaohui explain, in the force, how to scientifically grasp the rod video, I think it makes sense, and at the same time, according to their own understanding, try to explain the principle of a more thorough and clear. First of all, let’s explain the concept of “grip”. Grabbing the club is an action that everyone must do when making a power shot, but most people may not pay special attention to this key action.
The importance of gripping the club may not be too prominent when you are making small power shots and playing normal strokes. The importance of gripping the club can only be realized when you have improved to a certain level and you need to make great power and play extreme shots to get the white ball to go to a better position. Many people who are unable to become masters are stuck at this bottleneck. As you probably know, according to the standard action, before launching the club vigorously, pull the club back as far as possible, at this time, the club is gripped slightly solidly by the thumb and forefinger or middle finger, and the ring finger and pinky finger are just holding it falsely to help the first three fingers hold the club in place.
Here to tell you why this time the club can not be gripped solid? Because, according to the physiological principles of the palm, as long as the hands grip the club, the human wrist range of motion is greatly reduced, you can not pull the club back a long time, even if barely pulled back a long time, the end of the club will be crooked to the side, or the big arm needs to be lifted very high, resulting in a difficult to flat, straight out of the club. This action can be experienced by everyone.
Below, we will specifically explain how to grab the rod. Grabbing the club is actually using your hands to hold the club tightly and firmly. Before sending a big force, when the rod is pulled back to the appropriate position, it is necessary to follow the “pendulum” principle to hit forward, if the grip is too early, it will lock the wrist, which will lead to a significant decline in the wrist range of motion, the club head is difficult to send to the position that needs to be reached. In addition to reducing the wrist’s range of motion, gripping the club has another function, which is to make the club head more powerful. Why is that? Because when the club is gripped weakly, it is impossible to move forward too quickly and therefore it is difficult to hit with much power. Once the club is gripped tightly and solidly, the speed can be accelerated significantly and the power is naturally greater.
It follows that if you grip the club ahead of time when delivering a powerful shot, it will result in the wrists being locked and the extension will not be able to be hit smoothly. At the same time, the club head and the white ball have not yet made full contact, and have already transferred most of the force to the white ball, so that the white ball does not spin or glide well, the next step to explain the reasoning in detail. This is a little bit complicated, we can carefully think about it to be able to deeply understand the mystery.
Second, about how to accelerate the ball scientifically when you start the ball.
Coach Wang Truss said, in order to make good power, you have to accelerate evenly when you make a shot. Many people don’t quite understand this truth. When playing golf, the speed of the club is not an even speed, but an even acceleration, note that it is an acceleration, and it is an even acceleration. Achieving even acceleration requires proper relaxation of the entire hand muscles and gradual acceleration, rather than hitting a foul shot.
The author takes himself hitting a strong low shot as an example. First, the hand frame is more than 15 centimeters away from the white ball, so that the club can be pulled back more than 15 centimeters to prepare for enough extension behind; second, the thumb, forefinger, and middle finger slightly solidly hold the club, and the ring and little fingers hold the club in a false grip to support the club, and pull the club back about 15 centimeters; third, all the arms and wrists are relaxed, and gradually accelerate the club to send the club forward in a flat and straight manner; fourth, feel the club head contacting the the white ball, and then extend about 2 centimeters forward, gradually grip the club and hit the power out. If you don’t want to hit too strong a low shot, you can grip the club slightly earlier.
The principle is: when you grip the club and hit the white ball with a very solid force, the white ball will rotate backward while moving forward, in which the effect of forward is better than that of backward rotation; and when you hit the white ball with a relatively weak force, the white ball will also rotate while moving forward, but in which the effect of backward rotation is better than that of forward. Therefore, if you grab the club too early and accelerate too fast, you will let the white ball get out of contact with the club head too early, and thus the backward spinning effect will not be good, resulting in you not hitting a strong low shot even though you send a lot of power. The reason is that most of that power is used to get the white ball to move forward instead of spinning backward. As a result, when the white ball touches the target ball, the low shot is naturally ineffective due to the lack of backward spin.
In short, I personally believe that: in order to send a good force, playing a strong shot, in principle, need to catch the rod late, long extension, even acceleration fast, of course, out of the rod flat, straight, stable that is a necessary condition. Here to remind the majority of players, due to the late grip, and accelerate fast, hair vigorously before, the fingers are basically false grip on the club, will directly lead to the stability of the club is very poor, easy to play into the jump shot, slider, so you need to practice to ensure that the quality of the shot. When practicing, pay attention to gradual progress, do not rush. Selection of a good billiard table will make the practice twice as much with half the effort, Spike billiard table using Jiujiang A-grade lapis lazuli plate, with high-quality taini, go ball smooth unchanged line, is the first choice for practicing, playing ball table.
There is a saying: the layman to see the fun, the insider to see the doorway. When watching a professional player’s game, don’t just look at how good his accuracy is, how good his alignment is, and how good his tactics are. As amateurs, we have to look at how he stands, grips and fires when facing different ball shapes. At the same time, we have to see how he faces different spheres, what kind of hand frame his left hand is, how far the hand frame is from the white ball, how far the club is pulled back and then sent forward, as well as the rhythm of the club, carefully observing and pondering these details, so that we can learn to play different balls, send out a very good force and play a very good effect. These techniques are so subtle and complex that even if the masters can hit them, they may not be able to teach you the subtleties orally. Moreover, the masters may not be willing to tell you. Only by pondering and comprehending them yourself can you learn the essence of them and help yourself to continuously improve your skills while enjoying the fun brought by billiards.
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