Back Foot Alignment

Part 3

by Rich Kranicki

 Here is another Back Foot example demonstrated by my friend Jade, who appeared in my Back Foot article a couple of issues ago.  Jade is from the South Jersey area and loves to play pool as much as time will allow any mother/wife/pool fanatic that I have met.  Earlier this year at the Valley Forge Show in March, I asked Jade to help me to prove a point without her realizing exactly what my point would be.  I asked her to show me two different ways for her to begin with her Back Foot Alignment.  With the first way, shown in an earlier column, she elected to pose in her usual shooting stance.  She started with her whole Back Foot to the left of the floor’s imaginary aim line.  The following photographs show the way I asked her to model. 

This new and unfamiliar position for Jade has the middle of her back foot’s arch directly in line with the imaginary line o­n the floor.  Now, because of her physique (short legs, etc.) and because this is not her preference for her usual shooting stance, she has instinctively made a slight deviation from her usual head position over the aim line.  The important thing to learn here is that this time her initial back foot alignment is in a different starting position than her normal style, which ultimately influenced her body’s search for a comfortable alignment for her head.  The result is that there is more of an angle with her head now as compared to her usual style. 
  
  
 

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