Stroke Builder Drills

The drills are primarily about improving your stroke itself. The aim is to get you stroking perfectly straight through the ball, and able to hit the ball on the exact vertical centerline every time.  Until you can do this repeatably, you will be missing balls and not know if the fault was a crooked stroke or a hit on the cue ball that was not in the intended location.

You should do these drills regularly until you can make 10 in a row easily.  Then you should come back to them any time you start to have difficulty, to make sure that your stroke is true.

Click column header to sort, reclick to reverse order
Drill Type Drill Name Variation Name Thumbnail Difficulty #1 Skill #2 Skill
Stroke Builder Follow NA Thumbnail 1 Stroke Aiming
Stroke Builder Draw NA Thumbnail 2 Stroke Draw
Stroke Builder Stop NA Thumbnail 1 Cueing Stroke
Stroke Builder Straightness NA Thumbnail 2 Cueing Stroke

3 Responses to “Stroke Builder Drills”

  1. Jack ShepherdNo Gravatar - October 22nd, 2009

    I am submitting this more to see if I am typing in the correct place – that is in the enclosed box.

    Having done this, I think that the written text does not make the point strongly enough that if the cue ball does not come back and hit the cue tip, which is not so easy to do – something is wrong. It is probably the stroke, but it might be the aim. Also it is cheating if the eyes are on the cue ball at impact, rather than the target. Also it becomes much harder as one steps up the velocity.

    Please email me if this is in the wrong slot.

  2. vNo Gravatar - November 13th, 2009

    i already use this drill but there no differ…my stroke and game is still the same…

  3. jayNo Gravatar - April 1st, 2010

    jack,
    i agree 150% that u still have to do normal routine and focusing on the tb is only cheating ourselves, maintain normal pre-shot routine, i.e. dial in on tb when shooting, as well as ur other things like plan, visualizing shot, for me i try to not think of the mechanics cuz they r hopefully there i only think of task at hand and stay in the positive, than execute plan, most important dont miss treat all balls like its the case ball, so easy to lose concentration for a sec. and miss then ur in the chair for 5 racks just to come out stitched n kickn… back to drill n stroke, if u just hit the cb over and over when you go back to playing your PSR will not be associated with the drill/stroke, memory and shot memory retrieval or stroke retrieval in this case. i had an issue where i changed my stance a bit and in the process i was focusing on my follow through, to throat or chin but some how i started turning my back elbow in slightly when stroking which over time caused me to adapt by, imagine the back arm in toward head maybe an inch tops and all else is in line. when i shot i over-compinsated following through toward INSIDE PECK. well this was giving me unintentional right english. i still could play well and pocket balls but on a shimmed table or tight diamond that english killed me. so i got to work, hard work, starting working with Dennis Hatch and with this drill, videos, many other drills and instructional tools, n Dennis smackn me in the bak of head….jk, hes a great guy, and many strokes and balls hit, 10,000-20,000, maybe more, etc… and i, we solved the problem…also u r correct that the cb cant just go between balls, u need to hit the tip as u said. But this drill and stroke has bumped me 3 balls i think and no doubt will continue…also good drill working on your eye cadence/rythm, “quiet eyes”, and your “quiet body”. after fixing issue i watch videos and notice that the drill began with alot of head and torso movement to now there is nothing moving that should not be. simple/underrated/and effective drill…sorry so long i am a fundamental guy n went off a bit

    ty
    jc

Leave a Reply