How to Improve Your Stroke in Pool

There are five highly beneficial things to focus on whenever I am working on my stroke. Find out what they are and how they can improve your own stroke.
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[@Sharivari]

This video was initially just for my Patrons and channel members, but I thought it might be interesting to let everyone see how I am working on things I am struggling with, and where I am very open about my mistakes and mental state. If so, leave a thumbs up, subscribe, or consider supporting me on Patreon for more videos like this! 👊🎱

[@zanethind]

Thank you for putting this on KZbin its very helpful

[@Spyro-]

How many pieces the slate of your Gabriels Gryffon has? I have seen that you can choose 1 or 3 pieces.

[@5wisher5weet]

When you first pooped up in the video I thought "damn I though he had a full head of hair" then half a second later realised it was a snap back with a white part on the front 😂

[@shortydancer]

Dude tell me where in the world can I live where I can afford a place like that on a pool players salary?!

[@hassanalmayyah7095]

Can you make a video about when your cueball a ball or half a ball from the rail and you have to elevate Thank youu

[@ronaldaragon5687]

I am not in a league but I shoot with my older and wiser pool buddy every Friday. Over the last few years, I have improved about 60%, most of which has been in the last year, and coincidentally is about how long I have been watching your videos. Thank you.

[@extrahassig3438]

Playing more snooker is an other solution imo helped me big time

[@Sharivari]

@@extrahassig3438 Oh yes. Used to practice with regular pool balls on a Snooker table. Felt like a cheat code whenever I went back to the pool table.

[@wdd6864]

How is it possible that I had a horrible game last night in league and you release the perfect video for me to review to help my game? You are awesome on releasing these videos. Keep up the great community work. Your mental game videos for purchase were awesome too

[@DaRealChevythang]

Because this video goes over the basic fundamentals of stroking in pool and applys to any pool situation.

[@skippydippydoo1977]

Just knowing how but can't quite get it executed... He gives you the confidence and the want to practice.

[@wdd6864]

@@skippydippydoo1977 I say to my friends to watch his videos as well. I totally agree

[@chrisvand2678]

This is exactly the way I start my training sessions - playing around aka run the stripes, then the solids and end the rack with the 8 ball. It's a very good way to get your fundamentals, stroke and vision in gear. Sometimes I mix it up with 15 ball rotation for the extra hard grind. Thanks for your work, Mr. Sharivari.

[@wjmsmedia]

It's actually really refreshing to see you just shoot around and miss shots. And this was super helpful. I think the last thing you said was the most important for me. When I'm frustrated on the table I struggle to get out of my head and refocus so I'll try what you said.

[@tomaszsosnowski9279]

The snooker technique with chin and chest contact points is the best way for cue action.

[@5wisher5weet]

When you do a soft shot with a deliberate follow through are you gripping the cue a little shorter?

[@wakin2820]

Sharivari, what is your cue stick?

[@NickOfNight]

Excellent video 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

[@craigsherwood3824]

It's so funny this video, as I've started working many of the same things this week myself: not going up and down on the shot 50x, not making 20 practice strikes before hitting the shot and most of all, following through on every shot. Best of all was the reminder to walk away from such practice when you start missing shots and getting frustrated and work on something else. Thanks so much for sharing this 🎱

[@Sharivari]

Awesome! 🎱👊

[@michaelmcglone4280]

A lot of the time when my friends and I play, we end up with one or two clumps of balls after the break, or just as a result of missing shots. Would you be able to make a video on the strategy behind games like that? Thanks.

[@weeroger7048]

Go into them at the earliest opportunity Wait to there's an easy next shot like a ball near a pocket Get an angle ..go into the balls ..then have your easy next shot

[@Bridog217]

I notice that you no longer have the Kamui Diamond Slicer on your table... any particular reason? I recently purchased it and I haven't really found a good video on how to use it. I hope I didn't waste $50.

[@skippydippydoo1977]

I practice yesterday and played myself and ran the rack and don't always take your ducks, use the ducks as a way to get shape that you normally would not have expected before the break or looking at the layout. I ran out on myself several times on 9 ball.

[@gghax9217]

hey! sorry for bad english. i been watching your videos lately and i gotta admit that it really helped alot especially with the the eye dominant, spins, strokes, speed, etc. and most of the other tutorial videos i watched so far more less effective compared to yours because most of them lack knowledge or misinformation mostly. i also realized that there are barely left handed users so im super glad i found your channel because i am lefty as well. i still need to practice more to improve but overall i think that the more i watch your videos the more helpful knowledge that can get me through my game keep doing what you're doing and much love and take care always!

[@Crazywaffle5150]

This is pretty much what I learned to do on my own. Seeing you teach this gives me more confidence that I'm practicing effectively. I know what you mean about the mental aspect of following through. It's something I have been working on a lot more lately. That and having a pause on the back swing. I would tend to pull back to fast before I shoot causing me to be inaccurate.

[@zanethind]

For me I found I have like a wrist problem with my stroke which is making me miss even easy shots so I have a inconsistency. And I've discovered this recently so I hope that I will find the time to really work hard on this and fix it because I thought I fixed but apparently I did not

[@sianiftekhergalib7204]

Suggestion from my experience - I thought i should also take less time like other easy shots. But i kept missing. Better to take time, it is okay to think you will miss. But take even more time then to make sure you know why you are missing, which side of the pocket are you hitting meaning which way your aim is going. Then you can adjust it and eventually stop missing balls in difficult situations.

[@markevenson987]

Great reminder, to practice the basics, especially when you have been shooting for a long time and may have forgotten some of the fundamentals. Well , not really forgotten what they are, but forgotten to do them in your every day shooting!

[@zanethind]

Glad you covered alignment since I've found out myself that before 8 did not align myself better so I missed some shots that I shouldn't have missed now I tend to make those shots more since my alignment is better

[@hlongvn4258]

If there's anyone whose pre shot routine and stroke we need to learn from, it has to be Fedor Ghost, his cue action is so incredibly smooth.

[@yusufhasan302]

Real helpful!

[@csgexec]

Great content, as always. Ko Pin Yi seems to have the same habit - where most times he stands up after first getting down on the shot.

[@dannyjohnson9628]

These 5 things are so important I've notice when practicing. The other thing is speed of the stroke.

[@safimohammad9824]

Which chalk do u use? And Top 3 chalks in your opinion

[@TheNuggzt3r]

Hey we've met at the Billardstar in munich after they got the new tables! If you had just 1 exercise you have to do all the time...what would that be? Or maybe even what you show in this video would be your #1 exercise

[@Sharivari]

Straight Pool without a doubt.

[@TheNuggzt3r]

@@Sharivari Thx but besides "game modes " you also got an exercise? Or would just playing straight pool be your number 1 exercise and I just didn't get it?

[@Sharivari]

@@TheNuggzt3r Yes, Straight Pool is for me the most complete exercise. Mental Game, Shotmaking Consistency, Problem Solving, Combinations, Patterns, and so on. I can't recommend one single drill, because there are many good ones for different areas.

[@TheNuggzt3r]

@@Sharivari Great, thank you!

[@rickyongco9501]

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