It has been suggested that once the cue makes contact with the cue ball, the job is done. This comment is far from the truth.

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Follow-through is the term given when a cue hits and pushes past the point of where the cue ball was positioned. Delivering a cue through a cue ball sends the cue ball in the direction you wish it to go.

Containing the same follow-through will standardise each shot. The benefits of standardising the delivery of each shot, are that it will teach the player better cue ball control. Let’s diagnose this a little.

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If you were playing tennis and your opponent plays a shot with spin on the ball. And you allow the ball to simply bounce from your racket; the ball will spin uncontrollably as your opponent hoped. But, if you play through the ball with your own spin on the ball, you take control of the ball and the shot. A cue ball is no different.

There is only one time that playing through the cue ball can’t be done and that is when the cue ball and object ball are too close that playing through the cue ball may cause a push shot (a push shot is when the cue ball, object ball and cue, are all in contact at the same time).

So remember, if you control the cue you control the cue ball so please play through each shot if possible.