Tips and Tricks: How to Keep a Cue

Billiards is an entertaining game that distracts from worldly fuss and allows you to enter the world of green cloth and melodic tapping of balls. The main thing that a beginner must master in this game is to keep the cue correctly. From these indications, the accuracy of the landmark and the impact strength directly depends, which in turn affects the success of the game. The grip must be strong, but at the same time light, so as not to hamper your movements. What should you look at first? The first and most important thing is the carpenter or the bridge. Its position should be stable, providing a calculated point and a line of impact on the ball. In the question of how to properly hold the cue in billiards, there are two options for an answer. Namely - two stops: closed and open. Each of them has both pluses and minuses.

Open stop

With this method, the upper part of the cue (shaft) will have the necessary stability, which will allow to apply almost any blows. The disadvantages of this technique is the fixation of the cue, in comparison with the closed stop. To build an open bridge, you need to put an open palm on the table and pick it up a little. Next, you need to place your fingers wider for better stability and put a large phalanx to the index, aiming it up and sideways. Shaft cue will be located in the recess between the thumb and forefinger.

Closed stop

Closed stop is better to fix the shaft, this will reduce the deflection of the cue in the impact from the planned goal. It is implemented in this way. In an open stop, sweep the cue with your index finger. There should be something like a short sign "Ok!" Inside which the cue will move forward. In this castle, the cue must be slid unobstructed, but not loose. If the glide is small, use a glove or chalk.

Now back to the question of how to properly hold the cue. To feel the balance in this position of the hand, it is necessary to move the cue, imitating the blows of different strength. Make sure that the fingers control the stroke line well, but at the same time do not interfere with the free running of the tool. It must be remembered that it is better to keep the right position of the wrist, which should be on one level with the forearm, and it is not necessary to bend it inside or out. In general, try to keep your hand relaxed and relaxed.

How to properly hold the cue on impact

The very technique of impact is extremely simple - lean forward, take this position so that the elbow of the "beating" arm is turned up, the forearm - perpendicular to it. Next, you need to fix the elbow in this position - the cue stroke will work precisely with the help of the forearm movement, it should be moved gently and unobstructed like a pendulum. In no case do not increase the impact of the shoulder, the hull, this will have an extremely negative impact on accuracy. It is very important at the time of the first parties to understand how to properly keep the cue in Russian billiards. It is necessary to carefully monitor the correct position of the hands and stabilize yourself steadily, not to give weakening. The whole difficulty is to initially train yourself to the right technique. Then you will be much more difficult to learn.

What are the cues

Cue for playing in the Russian pyramid: height - 1m 64 cm, weight from 680 to 900 gr. Billiard cues are made from various types of wood:

• Ramin (the same pine) - not entirely reliable option, but quite inexpensive material.
• Maple.
• Canadian maple.
• Ash.
• Hornbeam.
• Expensive solid tree species (black, machaons, sandals, rosewoods).

Billiard cues are: inseparable, two-part, three-part. To date, a huge number of cues have appeared in the world, the shaft (which is the upper part of the cue) is covered with a fiberglass film, it is designed to protect the tree from dampness and temperature factors. As a rule, they have an almost flawless flat surface and in the future, when following the rules of operation of the tool, do not modify their characteristics.

Tips: how to improve the game of billiards

Do not compress the cue as a baseball bat, firmly grasping it with the entire palm of your hand. Do not hold it just by the edges of your fingers. Most of the players easily, but firmly hold the cue with the thumb and forefinger. Other one or two phalanges easily support the cue from below. Talent, years of intensive training, purposeful will to win will help to compensate for any technical inaccuracies. And those who do not have the opportunity to often be cut in billiards, it is better to adhere to orthodox methods.

After buying a cue it is not recommended to perform intensive and powerful blows at once, because your rash actions can provoke deformation of the shaft. At the beginning of use it is better to carry out easy and unconstrained strokes. To quickly and efficiently learn how to keep the cue correctly and perform game manipulations, you need to spend as much time as possible at the pool table. You need to burn this idea, you should be interested, and only then the game will not be a burden to you. You can learn all the tricks of billiards and the game will be your pleasure.