Follow through

Final details!

Just like every other sport, the follow through is extremely important. While pulling the trigger, you want to make sure you drive your cue through the cue ball about the same distance as your final pull/backstroke was from the cue ball.

This should happen in one smooth motion, no jitter or adjustment made to your stroke after contact with the cue ball.

And by this, I mean don't strike the cue ball and then have an "oh yeah, I gotta push further" kind of moment, and then "finish" your follow through. No. That means you've hit or struck the cue ball and it already doesn't have the proper physics enacted upon it. You've lost that shot!

One other point on this: make sure there are no adjustments made to get your cue back on the shot line to make yourself feel better either. If you are following through and your cue or tip is off the shot line, that is something you need to work on - NOT just adjust your cue back to the shot line and call it good.

Instead, you want the motion of your cue to be fluid from the back of your final pull/backstroke through to the finishing position of your follow through.