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Originally Posted by Renegade_56
I believe the reason snooker players generally use open bridge is due to the conical taper on snooker cues.
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That's part of it. Another part is the "uninterrupted sightline" down the shaft thing. Still another part is something rarely mentioned, and not even many snooker players themselves know this, but it's the fact that the "V" channel in the open bridge is oriented correctly to allow for the "rise" that occurs when the shaft is stroked through the open bridge due to the conical taper -- the rise happens up and down, rather than to the side (known as "yaw" in aircraft engineering speak).
There's been a couple really interesting threads about this topic, and the following are ones that I personally remember discussing the virtues (and myths!) about open and closed hand bridges:
(This one discusses the myths about the open bridge.)
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showth...85#post3107485
(This one gets into how the "V" channel is important, but oft overlooked.)
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showth...21#post3112521
(This one includes pictures showing how to correctly orient the "V" in the Filipino index-overlapping-middle-finger bridge.)
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showth...39#post3119239
Turbo Ghost: I know you haven't been here long at the AZB forums, but here's a helpful tip that I think will give you hours of very interesting reading. If you use AZB's "Search" feature, and type the following query string in:
+open +closed +bridge
...you'll get a lot of targeted results.
(Don't forget the "+" signs immediately next to each of the words with no spaces in between the "+" and the word. This indicates that word is MANDATORY and must occur in the post. If you don't use the "+" sign, the word is optional, and the query is interpreted as a "this or that" type of query.)
Hope this is helpful!
-Sean
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