Finally someone that actually makes sense. God bless you mate

Your video has help me immensly with my pool stance. I got results almost instantly. I struggled with my pool stance my entire pool career. FINALLY, I now got a VERY RELAIBLE pool stance. Thank you so much for making this video.

Greatest instructor i have found so far. The little advice he gives on basic fundamentals has done much more for me then the others i have found. Thanks!!

This has really opened my eyes. Can't wait to try this

Thank you thank you thank you !!!!! Been struggling with this for years what a well thought out approach and explained very well !!

I just got my first pool table. I never played a lot of pool in the past. I just retired and I'm an avid golfer. Your video on stance- alignment was excellent for someone wanting to learn correct fundamentals. Like golf...people that hit a hundred balls not knowing basic fundamentals will never improve. You gave that same comparison. I'm looking at different instruction video's to get a comfortable feel for the stroke. I liked your sit up thought and especially the shot comes from the feet. That takes the hands, arms, upper body and mind out, and makes it automatic, (like a golf swing). Now I will go practice your instruction. Thanks, Don

4:37, that is gold Brett. That tip alone is worth a session.

Excellent tips. May God bless you

Just getting back into pool play . This makes a lot of sense I look forward to seeing ALL of your videos. Thank you for taking your time to make these videos.

Preshot routine , and stance video helped alot thanks.

You are the best dude!!!! I have been playing pool for years struggling for accuracy, and my posture look badass but i was never consistent . Therefore I was always thinking about how to improve my postures and play more comfortably , but i never found a consistent and stable way. Now i have seen your video and i really got the idea about how to step into the shot. You really help a lot, thank you!

Incredibly helpful. Thank you, sir!

Thanks for the free instructions. Highly recommended.

I practice drill shots and cue ball control every day, but I have never practiced stance and alignment and now that I have watched this video I realize this is a practice that I am going to start immediately and by watching your other video, I'm going to quit showing my disgust about little mishaps and start walking around the table like I own it. Thanks Lee, This is just what I needed.

Awesome instructions. Thank you very much.

Thank you Brett what a difference you made in my game just by changing a couple of things thanks a million .👍 good luck and have a blessed day.

Lee Bretts videos as helped me go from. sl 4 to a 6 , and I have won my share of pool tournaments .I play better in tournaments than league.Because I focus on these fundamentals .

Great lesson. Looking forward to trying this out.

Really enjoy you videos. Kept wondering why I could not keep my cue hand in a straight line. I was never really on a consistent shooting line and being a table hugger. Thank you for your expertise and easy to follow methods. Hopefully my consistency will improve.

Great tuition! Helped my game enormously

Awesome teacher. Well done.

Hi. I am glad that you have this video that demonstrates clearly the stance. A friend of mine misunderstood your article in the Summer 2016 APA magazine where you use the term "Leading Leg". He thought you meant the front leg and went around saying that we should shoot with the front leg on the same side as the leading leg according to you article. . Now I can show him the video and clear the misunderstanding.

Thank you very much. The best at explaining this very important aspect of the stance and approach to the shot.

Definitely giving this a try. Thanks!

Thank you. I can hardly wait to work on my stance.

This has helped me immeasurably. My consistency still needs work, but this has helped resolve two of my problems.

Excellent video. Recently started studying billiards. For the first month I practiced with just the cue ball: bouncing off the rail until it would return to the top of the cue, and two balls: making straight in shots and controlling where the cue ball moved after the shot. Until you have solid, consistent fundamentals, your not going to progress much. It’s a beautiful game: chess + physics.

Terrific! Thank you.

Great tips Lee!!!

Thank you for info.What a Beautiful room!

excellent. I like it that you take time to repeat it.

Great video, thanks a bunch!

Good stuff Lee! I am cross eye dominant, (left handed and right eye dominant), and I was wondering how the pros fine tune their head position?

Excellent, good job.

You Sir are an excellent teacher, bought your book but the videos are the ticket. I have spent thousands of $$$ and lots of time learning the game and I can honestly say that your instruction are top shelf.

very enjoyable. easy to understand....

thank you so much for these videos. I feel like they're going to help a lot. especially since I'm right handed but I shoot lefty, my stance has always been a little awkward. now I can work on fixing it!

@americanpoolplayersassociation

7 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned! There's more to be released in February!

Very helpful, thanks!

Nice cue action and very well explained

muscle memory ' crucially important ' great showman !

Thank you

Thanks Lee, this is very helpful! Two of the things that I wonder about with stance and alignment and I'd love your thoughts about them: 1) When you step into the shot, do you consider the direction your front foot is pointing important? Should it point in the direction of your shot line, or is it ok to be a bit sideways to that line? And, somewhat related to this, 2) What's the alignment of your hips? It seems like they aren't pointing in your aim line, but they also aren't completely sideways to it? Does it matter, or is the point of this training to learn to do it the same way every time, in the way that feels most natural?

You the man bro! Thanks heaps

I feel like if you understand what he said, and you have a really good drive, you can really improve drastically after watching hing this.

I have fully embraced the snooker stance and approach

Great instruction. I seldom have time to play pool any more since I coach a 4th-6th grade coed basketball team then coach and teach golf. I expecially liked the reference to the Russian tennis coach and the South Korean girls learning to play golf. There are a few golf instructors who teach making a golf swing without a club first. An old saying is "how do you expect to make a golf swing with a club and a ball sitting on the ground when you don't know how to make a golf swing without a club?" The hard part is finding a student who is willing to do that!This is excellent instruction and I'll definitely use it when I can get back to the pool room this Fall.Thanks you very much and keep up the excellent work!!!

@americanpoolplayersassociation

8 жыл бұрын

+Ron “rono8275” Owens Thanks for the input my friend! Will pass along your comments!

Awesome video. Thanks!

@americanpoolplayersassociation

6 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome. :)

This is well explained! ❤️👍🏿

Makes logical sense to me. Thanks for the upload. I'm sold, new sub.

Thankyou. Is leading with the shoulder any help with set up? I ask because ive experimented with this after watching a Nik Barrow video but with mixed results. I perfer the emphasis on foot shotline. But how do we know exactly which part of the foot to put the cue over?

Great advice

Very good video. Just learned what my problem has been. Causing me to miss key shots.

thank you Sir! i have one problem. im 1,94m tall. my left foot(lefty) is too far behind as you showed in the video. If i put my left foot under my cue i cant put my chin on my cue. It gets too uncomfortable in my hips. Is there any solution with out to bend my knees ?

I was going to ask if he's tall or is his stick short but then noticed how long his bridge hand is away from the ball and now I'm wondering if he normally shoots like that during competition because I almost never hold my cue that close to the cue butt. It definitely magnifies the flaw/flaws in my stroke though.

Hi Brett, I am a late starter but trying hard to improve. I have a big problem getting my head square with the chin low and over the Cue without tilting my head when following the first foot alignment. The only way I can seem to get the chin over and head square is centering the cue and shot line with my body centre then moving down into the shot line with head square. This seems to put my ead foot just outside the shot line. Is this ok?

Thank you for showing these basics. My skill level in both 8&9 ball is a 2. My stance is consistently bad. Now I understand what others have been trying to tell me. I play league tonight and am going in early to practice this! Wish me luck!

Good stuff.

what i meant is that he thought in your article you advocated that the shooting hand should be on the same side as the front leg. in other words if you are right handed your right leg should be in front.

This is the way.

How far u should stand for table ?

Awesome

Nice video Lee! Thanks for sharing.

@americanpoolplayersassociation

8 жыл бұрын

+MikeyD22 Our pleasure, if you have any concepts you'd like us to teach on, let us know!

@MikeyD22

8 жыл бұрын

+American Poolplayers Association - APA It would be great to see some things that address cue ball control, various patterns, strategy, etc. Also hitting over balls and off the rail would be nice. Thanks!

@americanpoolplayersassociation

8 жыл бұрын

MikeyD22 Duly noted, will pass the info along!

@americanpoolplayersassociation

7 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned! There's more coming in February!

Thank you, this helped me a lot.

HONORED TO GET TIPS FROM A VERY RICH LEE BRETT

Good shit mate

This is good. The hardest bit for me is aligning the cue under the chin. Am I too rigid? 😩

hello my bridge hand always has friction.. whats the solution? except for using gloves (which i dont want to)

@lewisreynolds5283

5 жыл бұрын

Jason C I get this occasionally, try genrtly rubbing some chalk onto one of your fingertips, and just dusting it in between your finger and thumb, works for me .

Nice video

I think I see why my grip hand is frequently hitting my chest. I think I need to open up my hips a little more, and that seems to give me a little more stroke. Going to try this out next time I shooT

@addictedtonothing23

4 жыл бұрын

your left foot is probably too close to your body. try to put it parallel to your cue. I had the same problem and i fixed it that way

Compelling stuff, and attention paid to this aspect of the game is really likely to pay off... I'm grateful to have stumbled upon it. But I really signed in to say, "WOW what a room!!!" It would be humbling to play in a space that respects the game so much.

I love your videos but I skipped one part is that I don't use a snooker stance because I've been playing so long I couldn't switch over to a snooker stance. I think that it depends on how long you have been playing pool.

While playing 8 balls if all my balls are in and the only one left is the 8-ball, the opponent makes a shot and scratches. I have the ball in hand however the 8 ball is behind the breaking line, behind the diamonds.Question, does the 8-ball get spotted? Is the 8-ball left where it stands???

@americanpoolplayersassociation

6 жыл бұрын

Per APA rules, the only time the cue ball stays behind the breaking line is after a cue ball foul on the break.

good coaching

@americanpoolplayersassociation

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. :)

I can brush my teeth whilst riding a bicycle 🚲 😆

So when you are lining up the shot you have to crane your head/neck to be over your aiming foot? Otherwise your sight won't be lined up with your foot. I feel like I don't see pro players doing this?

This is excellent stuff Lee. Though I'm wondering if around the 4:25 mark you were just exaggerating a bit regarding how pool players (who take the game seriously) tend to stand all sideways like that. With the exception of very few notable players with very unique mechanics, practically nobody stands with their body almost directly facing the line of the shot at like 90 degrees or something haha. If you are talking about the average person in general that just plays occasionally and doesn't take the game serious, you will see them stand in just about every way imaginable....but you're implying that standing with the right foot way behind the line of the shot is something that's common even among good players. I disagree with that (if that's what you're saying). The only pool player that I can recall standing anywhere close to fully sideways like that is Keith McCready with his horizontal sidearm stroke. Some of the Filipino players stand a bit more closed than normal, with their flowery and loose strokes, but I can't think of anyone who stands *that* sideways, or anywhere close to it. I think there is a lot less discipline in the pre shot routine among pool players compared to snooker players as you demonstrate. Most pool players don't get down on the shot the same way, some step into the shot, some 'waggle' into their stance like a golfer, some stand a bit too close as a habit and take a step back with their right foot, but when they are down on the shoot it looks mostly similar, with the right foot (for right handed players) going across the line of the shot and the body ending up facing about 45 degrees to that line. Snooker seems more disciplined, probably because it's a more demanding game in terms of accuracy. But I'm wondering where you got the idea that standing sideways like that is a common thing in pool, unless you were doing that as an exaggeration to show the difference. Thanks for the great videos, lots of good advice for any level of player.

Doesn't aiming center cue ball at the contact point/ potting line(other than a straight-in shot), result in a "thick" hit?

@Editor_Hound

5 жыл бұрын

It does, that's why when using a ghost ball aiming system, you aim towards the center of the ghost ball, not towards the contact point.

Hello teacher, I am Eder from Colombia, in South America this sport does not have the technique or professionalism with which you explain; I have been playing for 15 years and I have learned many bad habits when playing. I really want to learn the right way and I think these videos can help me a lot .. teacher can give me advice as to how I have to unlearn those bad habits, it is not easy to abandon a way of playing that already my mind and my muscle memory has adopted it, what do I do teacher?

Very helpful, some good tips (e.g. on leg angle), but much too repetitive, especially showing the WRONG way far too many times and the right way only a few.

So you say that the tips DrDaveBilliards give in this video is wrong? (I think of a more closed stance) kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yn-Jl5mFcqWTcZc.htmlm50s

I truly hope I get a reply and I am in no way trying to be disrespectful. I am trying to help a female with everything that's being talked about in this video. My question is what instruction to I give her, or modification to what's presented here, if she has fairly large breasts? Please help. And thanks in advance.

good stuff, too fast a little bit

Aim with your eyes, not your feet.

Wasting a lot of energy to show the wrong way and very little for the correct way..(snooker stance)

@americanpoolplayersassociation

4 жыл бұрын

We'll pass along that feedback. :)

god he is a terrible teacher

@lllllsp1d3rlllll

7 жыл бұрын

Thats couse u dont know he is teaching wrong

@lllllsp1d3rlllll

7 жыл бұрын

Ignorance is bliss huh

@MikeyD22

5 жыл бұрын

He's coached numerous world class players but I guess a hack like you is qualified to critique his instruction. You need to open up your miniature brain and try to comprehend that this is solid advice.

@NHockerJazz

4 жыл бұрын

And your instructional videos are... where?

@Fearless13289

2 жыл бұрын

Why do u hate dwag don't comment if you're here to hate we all learning