Cue Delivery
Now, if you think for a moment, you will see that you cannot make your ball spin bypushing it or poking at it. By using force, you may propel the ball a fair distance in either of these ways, but there will be no life in it.
Your stroke will be dead and of no account in a true billiard sense. Consequently, you must allow your cue to go through the ball to impart whatever spin you may require, and it must go through with freedom or spin cannot result.
Like every other teacher of billiards, I am constantly telling my pupils to "let the cue go through the ball," and as I find it very helpful to explain the reason why the cue must be trusted to do its own work, I have elucidated the matter in my preceding remarks.
Never be timid about relying on the cue to do the work.
Excerpt from "ALL ABOUT BILLIARDS" How to Improve Your Game By Arthur F. Peall.
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