Tips on Gripping a Pool Cue: Online Billiards Lessons for Beginners

Video Transcript

"Hello I'm Richard on behalf of expertvillage.com, I'm going to show you a little bit on gripping your cue. First of and fore most you have your cue, you find your balance point on your cue. So once your balance point have been found, your cue is gripped anywhere from 6 to 8 inches behind that point. A lot of beginning players will mark that point on their cue maybe with a piece of tape or maybe with something as a reference point. But as you play along and as you continue to play you will find that it naturally falls into your hand. So you are gripping the balance point set right up in here, I will be gripping the cue for most shots right back in here. Then as I'm coming around and I'm approaching the ball you want your grip to be lose you don't want to choke up on that cue you don't want to squeeze it. You just want to hold it in your hand. You are coming down you just want to let it cradle in your fingers, that is all you are doing, as you are on the shot and you are approaching the cue ball you should have about a 90 degree bend at your elbow going down to your cue. Your cue should be leveled at all times and even as you are delivering your shot you are going to deliver the shot, it is still going to be a lose grip on that cue. You may squeeze it just a little bit as you hit the ball but it is just not going to be a significant squeeze. "