Pool stick for billiards training

A pool stick for billiards training, comprising:

• an elongate body having a front body portion and a rear body portion, with a major longitudinal axis which extends through said rear body portion and through at least an adjoining portion of said front body portion, said front body portion having a laterally offset, outermost tip portion with a minor longitudinal axis therethrough, a portion of said front body portion between said outermost tip portion and said adjoining portion of said rear body portion comprising a guide portion which is laterally offset relative to the adjoining portion of the front body portion and to the rear body portion, said guide portion having a median longitudinal axis therethrough, said major, minor, and median axes being parallel to one another, and wherein the outermost tip portion, the adjoining portion of the front body portion, and the rear body portion are coaxial;
• a tip means attached to said outermost tip portion of said front body portion for contacting a billiard ball;
• wherein said front body portion and the rear body portion are separate pieces which detachably connect together by a connecting means having a pair of mating connecting elements, one connecting element attached at respective ends of the front and rear body portions, said front body portion, tip means, and one of said connecting elements comprising a front shooting section, and said rear body portion and the other of said connecting elements comprising a rear handle section;
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• wherein a user grips said rear body portion with a rearmost hand and slidingly supports said front body portion with a frontmost hand on said guide portion, such that during a stroke of the pool stick any rotation is about a movable, actual axis which extends through a pair of movable support points through said guide portion and said rear body portion, respectively, where the frontmost and the rearmost hands, respectively, support the pool stick, said tip means not lying on said actual axis of rotation of the pool stick such that rotation of the pool stick about said actual axis causes lateral rotational movement of said tip means about said actual axis which is visible relative to said guide portion and to other references such as a billiard ball.

A front shooting section for a two section pool stick, which shooting section is adapted to removably connect to a conventional pool stick rear handle section comprising a rear body portion and a mating connecting means element so as to form in an assembled condition a two section pool stick for billiards training, the handle section having a major longitudinal axis which extends through the rear body Portion, comprising:

• a front body portion having at opposite ends thereof an adjoining portion to the handle section through which the major longitudinal axis extends, and a laterally offset, outermost tip portion with a minor longitudinal axis therethrough, a portion of said body portion between said outermost tip portion and said adjoining portion comprising a guide portion which, with the pool stick in the assembled condition, is laterally offset relative to the adjoining portion of the front body portion and to the rear body portion, said guide portion having a median longitudinal axis therethrough, and with the two piece pool stick in the assembled condition, wherein said major, minor, and median axes are parallel, and wherein in the assembled condition the outermost tip portion, the adjoining portion of the front body portion, and the rear body portion are coaxial;
• a tip means attached to said outermost tip portion of said body portion for contacting a billiard ball;
• a connecting means element attached at an end of said adjoining portion which detachably connects to the mating connecting means element of the handle section to connect said shooting section to the handle section;
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• wherein in an assembled condition a user grips the rear body portion with a rearmost hand and slidingly supports said front body portion with a frontmost hand on said guide portion, such that during a stroke of the pool stick any rotation is about a movable, actual axis which extends through a pair of movable support points through said guide portion and said rear body portion where the frontmost and rearmost hands, respectively, support the pool stick, said tip means not lying on said actual axis of rotation of the pool stick such that rotation of the pool stick about said actual axis causes lateral rotational movement of said tip means about said actual axis which is visible relative to said guide portion and to other references such as a billiard ball.