Hammer
10-23-2012, 06:16 PM
Today I had to go out and practice a few things that I needed to get used to doing. Things like crossover step, second step ball pushaway, balance arm
and hand positions. A guy practicing next to me said he noticed my slide step is too far from the foul line. He said doing that is making my ball hit right over the foul line which is a dry area and making my ball hook to early and missing the pocket. I was like a foot and a half from the foul line. I counted five steps and a half from the foul line and that put me on the dots closest to the foul line. Now with the correct hand position and my slide foot maybe only 6 inches from the foul line I shot a 4th game of 212. My ball had a nicer hook to the pocket not laying it early on the heads. The problem we had at the alley today was we had a warm day in the upper 70s and it was humid because of the rain which meant slide foot sticking on the approach. The other thing I wanted to practice was a faster approah to the foul line but I canned that because of the sticking slide foot. I wasn't ready to blow out my knee. So little adjustments in this game can mean a ball going a lot better to the pocket and more strikes and higher games. I didn't change anything with my feet when I made this change. My slide foot was on the board next to the center dot and I was throwing over the second arrow.
and hand positions. A guy practicing next to me said he noticed my slide step is too far from the foul line. He said doing that is making my ball hit right over the foul line which is a dry area and making my ball hook to early and missing the pocket. I was like a foot and a half from the foul line. I counted five steps and a half from the foul line and that put me on the dots closest to the foul line. Now with the correct hand position and my slide foot maybe only 6 inches from the foul line I shot a 4th game of 212. My ball had a nicer hook to the pocket not laying it early on the heads. The problem we had at the alley today was we had a warm day in the upper 70s and it was humid because of the rain which meant slide foot sticking on the approach. The other thing I wanted to practice was a faster approah to the foul line but I canned that because of the sticking slide foot. I wasn't ready to blow out my knee. So little adjustments in this game can mean a ball going a lot better to the pocket and more strikes and higher games. I didn't change anything with my feet when I made this change. My slide foot was on the board next to the center dot and I was throwing over the second arrow.