{"id":3368,"date":"2011-01-22T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2011-01-22T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T03:00:39","slug":"thirty-one-tips-22-chalk-to-help-your-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/2011\/01\/22\/thirty-one-tips-22-chalk-to-help-your-rhythm","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-One Tips: 22. Chalk To Help Your Rhythm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Chalk with your bridge hand.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always chalked this way and was always aware of the differences, but a recent video clip of &#8220;Mr. 400&#8221; John Schmidt made the reasons clear. If you use your bridge hand to chalk, it is easier to keep a more efficient rhythm. This technique seems to aid keeping your body and cue inline with your next shot too.\u00c2\u00a0 The grip hand doesn&#8217;t really need to move off the wrap area of the cue, so you kind of stay in touch with the cue. Getting into your stance can happen in the same motion as setting your chalk down on the rail.\u00c2\u00a0 For anyone who has caught a gear running balls, this kind of economical process of chalking with the bridge hand can be like a hypnotists swinging stopwatch- a harbinger of dead-stroke.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, chalking this way also stops you from swinging your cue around excessively.\u00c2\u00a0 Grip hand chalkers can give a neighbor or a pool table an unfriendly rap with the butt of their cue as it swings about during their chalking procedure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in Fargo this weekend playing in the excellent Mid-Winter Shootout.\u00c2\u00a0 If anyone happens to know the link to Schmidt&#8217;s short video clip, please share it in the comments.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth a couple of minutes of your day.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalk with your bridge hand. I&#8217;ve always chalked this way and was always aware of the differences, but a recent video clip of &#8220;Mr. 400&#8221; John Schmidt made the reasons clear. If you use your bridge hand to chalk, it is easier to keep a more efficient rhythm. This technique seems to aid keeping your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-fundamentals","tag-31-tips-in-31-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}