This progressive exercise to improve your shooting skills is in the book Drills & Exercises for Pool & Pocket Billiards.
This setup concentrates on progressive pocketing skills. There is no concern about where the CB ends up.
This is a multiple cue ball speed and spin drill. See Cue Ball Speed and Spin Variations. Make sure to observe the cue ball action (path from OB, any rail action, etc.) until it stops. You need to remember the results when you are in competition. Continue reading
Here are some suggestions where the weaker player can still bang away at his best speed, and the stronger player (in this example is you) has to follow one or more of these restrictions. Playing straight up is too lopsided and the fun of playing quickly fades.
When you practicing by yourself and have done all the drills you can handle, it is fun to rack up the balls and try to run as many as you can. When playing alone, you should always have a purpose. Continue reading
For the majority of pool players, whether you need a break cue is more of a matter of do you want one? Being able to get a great spread with the greatest chances of pocketing a ball will require some separate practice time. This means racking and re-racking the balls as you experiment around with various stances, body positions, and follow-through. Continue reading
This progressive exercise to improve your playing skills is in the book Drills & Exercises for Pool & Pocket Billiards.
Purpose: Runout all the balls on the table. Set the sequence before running the balls. Any failure, reset balls and start again. Continue reading
This progressive exercise to improve your playing skills is in the book Drills & Exercises for Pool & Pocket Billiards.
Purpose: Runout all the balls on the table. Decide the sequence before running the balls. Any failure, reset balls and start again. Continue reading
Every once in a while, for one reason or another, you approach a shot, bend over, and the next thing you know – the cue ball is moving and you don’t even know what happened. You just allowed your back brain to take over your consciousness and totally ignore your pre-shot routine. Or it could be your evil self took momentary control. There are two ways for your pre-shot routine to vanish. Continue reading
Eye dominance means that (generally) one eye takes in the majority of the scene you are looking at with the other eye being used to identify depth of field (how far away things are).
When you bend down for a shot, your head aligns above the stick and you utilize your eyes to draw the imaginary aiming line. Eye dominance affects the placement of that aiming line. When the dominant eye is off to one side of vertical, the imaginary line gets skewed. This messes up the accuracy of your aiming line. The closer your dominant eye is to a vertical position over the aiming line, the more accurate your shots will be. Continue reading
When you are setting up the rack for yourself, you may want to sequence the ball positions to help you out. If setting it up for your opponent, use the other setup. Continue reading
This progressive exercise to improve your playing skills is in the book Drills & Exercises for Pool & Pocket Billiards.
Purpose: Runout all the balls on the table. Set a target marker to preselect the next CB location on pocketing the OB (piece of paper, coin, chalk, etc.) Continue reading
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