My favorite female pool athlete ever. Her personality is so likable and camera presence is completely natural. Keep making videos. You're already a star!
Jasmin, you are our favorite RU-vid instructor by far. Your explanations are so easy to understand. Thank you for sharing both your pool expertise and your fabulous, very simple communications process.
Aiming distortion is a real thing due to head position. Head position is so important. With rear hand grip it's just like golf, not too strong, not too weak. I've been playing recreational pool for 35 years and Jasmin is, as far as youtube instructional videos go, the best I've come across.
Huge respect for you Jasmin. Beautiful, smart, classy, great physical shape, and an incredible pool player. If the game had more people like you playing, it would be an Olympic sport and the popularity of pool would skyrocket. Keep inspiring us. You're awesome.
Thank you. I believe of all the videos I have watched no one has talked about the right shoulder being behind the head. I wasn’t going this so I was compensating by moving elbow in. Mystery solved!!! Thanks for the generous sharing of information.
I have this issue as well with my shoulder sticking outside of my head. I can stroke straight but I feel like it can cause inconsistencies in my game down the road. What exactly did you change with your stance to get your shoulder directly behind your head?
Jasmin, thank you so much. Your videos have seriously changed the way I approach my game. I would have to ask now that some of your future videos include more instruction. This video is superb. A lot of us out in the world would love to hear how to do things from a champion. Far to often champions are quiet and don't speak to their fans. I appreciate everything you and Albin have done. What I mean by more instruction is angle shots, thin cut shots, rail shots, how to play position etc. Thank you so much again for everything.
Thank you so much!! I have been watching so many videos to improve and learn the right way from beginning. It is sooo true that these are guidelines and everybody is different. Thanks again. PS. your personality on camera is great. Billards should be fun. Your smile and enjoyment makes me want to practice and play more.
A note about eye dominance and head position at address among great players. Many great right handed players like Mosconi, Crane, Balsis, Lassiter, Jimmy Moore, a long list were 'cross-eye dominant'. If this were shooting a gun, it would be shooting right handed and sighting with the left eye. Mizerak and Segal were cross-eye dominant as well and sighted the cue with the right eye. Btw, this also portends to golf and even top baseball hitters. In golf, Tiger Woods and Jack Nichlaus were also cross-eye dominant, playing right handed and sighting the ball at top of the backswing with body turned away from the target with the left eye for maximum power and full shoulder turn. To me, this is beyond a co-incidence. If you watch Jasmin's head position section of her video at minute 7:29 you will see, the head is in a more natural position with cross-eye dominant players...less strain on the neck and turned more in natural alignment with the body when looking 'cock-eyed' at the cue ball. Statistically in nature, it is more common NOT to be cross-eye dominant like many of the great players are/were. This in part separated them. Jasmine's videos are great.
your a great inspiration to follow, to become skilled in billiards, my buddy and i were fortunate to to see dennis orcollo break that world record 11 racks in 9 ball at Bills Oklahoma City recently.. thanks for sharing greatly appreciate
Very good job. I see people playing pool all the time who need to learn these. Cue all jacked up on every shot. Every shot at Mach One. Side arming the cue stick. Yatta Yatta. Thanks
I shared this with my daughter...hoping she picks up some good habits from you, Jasmin! Foot work is key in most sports so yeah it makes sense it is important in pool as well. Great explanation on stance, thank you.
Thanks Jasmin, especially for the different camera angles which take work to set up. I feel soo uncomfortable at the table and maybe this will help. You are a champ.
Grande Jasmin,para além de ser uma grande Campeã, tem a humildade dos grandes mestres por ensinar aquilo que sabem e repartir com quem não sabe. Parabéns.Se eu já era seu Fã, agora aumentou muito mais a admiração que eu tinha pot você.
Great video, good tips, nice job! Watched several others and subscribed. I love how your personality comes through, and you left in the aiming translation piece of the video, very cute! Your fundamentals are so clean (as are your brother's), always an example I mention to female and male students alike. I'm going to share this video with some of my students, there were several things you demonstrated that were expertly done, great camera work. Keep it up!
Nice video, which indeed applies to all billiard games, pool, carom and so on... question : how do you actually find your vision center ? it can be awkward for those who do not have a perfect vision... in my experience, if aiming does start with feet positioning, body position should end with placing the head above the queue in a way that the vision center is exactly above the aiming line (not always above the queue if side effect is necessary)... thanks.
I am very right-eye dominant and have played a lot of snooker also. I was always told to aim by having the cue so that its in line with my right eye and its worked, I think! Any thoughts on this? 🤔 Great video as always 👌
Love your videos ! So many different stances between pros it's crazy ! Jasmines feet stay very straight in line " example end of video" while a lot take their none shot line leg and keep it further apart , like 45 degrees apart.. end of day I guess do what's most comfortable and one that keeps the stroke straight .,
One more thing: if you are looking for ideas to post about I would love to hear about your very purposeful elbow drop you that you sometimes use. When do you use it? Why? How did you learn the timing to keep your stroke straight? Also, the videos of how you practice are always appreciated.
Her cueing success is because of her technique, like most European players it more closely resembles a snooker stance than most American pool players. She and a few others could probably transition to snooker if she wished,a lot quicker than many top pool players. Many would need to change their techniques completely and in years not weeks. Of course why would she, unlike the men’s versions the money for women is in pool not snooker. A pleasure to watch in action.I can add, the cue as in snooker should also have a brushing contact with the body, nor wobbling with only hands contact this means facing more square on.
How about changing bridge length by stroke? If you need accuracy and little power, shorten your bridge a bit. If you need power, that’s easier with a longer bridge and just pull your hand back towards you a bit once you’re approaching the table. Just a thought and I’d like to hear if you have any ideas on it. Do you prefer consistency of bridge length, or little adjustments to help with different shots. Naturally a consistent bridge for most shots would probably be better.
Some of us can't move our shoulders and neck to put the cue center face. I have really wide shoulders, a short stiff neck, and can't do the text book version of stroke vision alignment.
Thank you! Very informative. What do you think about elbow dropping? Should your hand end at the chest or eventually go further when you finish your stroke? All the best!
I do believe that a follow through is essential for a good quality technique. For a follow through you need to drop the elbow. You can drop it a little bit and then see how it feels. You can play pool without it too of course but I believe your technique then will be with more power and force.
hi jasmin, danke für das video und liebe grüße aus bad meinberg. ach so, gut siehst du aus in deiner jeans und mit dem schicken ring am rechten ringfinger...und eine frage: welches kugelset ist dein favorit z.zt. !?? nimms nicht so schwer. ;-))
eye dominance. everyone should familiarize with this concept. i see it's very important for archery, even suggested to change cross eye dominance to match dominant arm, like what john morra did in pool. i think in pool though, we have the advantage of bending over, it's not so necessary to have same side dominance as in archery. but cross dominant players need to know this.
Your wonderful Jasmin lol I'm thinking when your talking about aiming it's your dominant eye and I've an idea that Jesus didn't play pool it's so cool to see that world class pool players are so cool and normal 😊
I like to think of my grip as if I'm holding a raw egg. Hold it just tight enough that it doesn't slip out of your hand. Have smooth consistent acceleration and deceleration which is a bit harder.
the V you create with standard bridge between index and thumb is the same V that should be created by the third finger and thumb in loop bridge , practice without the loop to make sure your V is perfectly sloped same angle both sides have index raised straight in air till you get it down , then add the loop loosely so it does not interfere with gravity and your V this ensures straight cueing. If your thumb is flat and V turns into a sort of L shape your cue well traverse left to right depending on its taper, the loop may also affect straight cueing do not squeeze down ... let the V and gravity work for you.
Spend 10 or 12 hours a day practicing and you, too, can become a professional pool player and live from hand to mouth, going from cheap hotel to cheap hotel and hoping you do well enough in the next tournament to dine at a nice restaurant instead of McDonald's. And when you are old, you will wake up one day and realize the past 30 years have left you with little or nothing to fall back on. Pool is a great game if you play strictly for fun. It is an addiction for those trying to make a living from the game.
good tips watch ol minnisota fats shoot thats how i play he didnt miss much neither do i we play like your back is straight up you can see you have a different perspective took years of playing like that to master it i want to see your slide shot or skid shot were you punch the rock have you mastered that shot
Oh no .. i always held the cue so hard as if someone was about to steal it from me and hit me in the head with it right after he stole it from me....i need to work on that and stop thinking the cue is my lightsaber.
