How to Play Pool - Proper hand & body position in billiards
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On behalf of expertvillage.com, my name is Richard Buccola and I am going to introduce
you to Pool 101. Now that we’ve talked about our bridges, I am actually going to talk about
holding the stick and holding the stick a lot of people don’t realize that it is mechanical.
There is a lot of mechanics to this and basically what you want to do and I’ve tried to teach
people if you can find the balance point of the stick where it can balance on your fingers,
what you want to do is come about 6 inches behind that. That is where you want to hold
your stick and what you want to do if you are lining up a shot, here’s your shot.
So you have your spot here and you know you are pretty good on the spot here. If you line
up your stick, you do your bridge remember doing like this, come around and what you
want to do is you actually stand here, put your feet somewhat apart. You want that right
hand to be over that white stick or your left hand to be over your left foot. Your right
hand is going to be over that right foot and you just take a step forward and you sort
of tilt and you just go like this. I am going to talk a little bit more about this when
we come up next.
