How many of you think the stop shot is the most important shot in pool? It's a true fact, but the "center ball hit" is one of the most used in all of pool. Can you do this: https://youtu.be/fjEGe0_rP2k. This is the "center ball hit". Where the cue ball rolls forward about 6" or so after hitting the OB and it can be done at all speeds and all distances. Can you do this at all speeds, slow to high? If not you should practice this in your routines. In this video, I'm doing a "center ball hit" at a medium speed at about 2.5 lengths of the table. This is where you practice this shot on a straight in. But, in real time, this ball will roll forward of the stop shot (tangent) line a few inches forward on cut shots and it is a TRUE ball roll, no deviation with stop shot or follow. Have you seen a guy perform shape by this shot time after time on ball after ball on a 9 ball rack. I've watch this man run rack after rack of never using reverse English. Knowing this knowledge will allow the player to roll his ball forward to his next shot with a close to center ball on the CB.
On English, I learned that I do NOT want to use the cue stick in a forward hand movement or a back hand movement, but on a parallel movement. All we need to do is counter "deviation" by moving everything parallel forward or backward, for English. This keeps your stroke true to form as far as your backhand movement. This is what my lesson was today with Robin Dreyer of Portland, Oregon. What you guys are missing. I suggested his next book should be: "Playing the Center Ball Hit" and showing you what he means. A true "center ball strike" is NOT a center ball hit as I'm demonstrating in the video. Some pool teachers are not even aware of this wonderful shot and how it can move around the table.
On English, I learned that I do NOT want to use the cue stick in a forward hand movement or a back hand movement, but on a parallel movement. All we need to do is counter "deviation" by moving everything parallel forward or backward, for English. This keeps your stroke true to form as far as your backhand movement. This is what my lesson was today with Robin Dreyer of Portland, Oregon. What you guys are missing. I suggested his next book should be: "Playing the Center Ball Hit" and showing you what he means. A true "center ball strike" is NOT a center ball hit as I'm demonstrating in the video. Some pool teachers are not even aware of this wonderful shot and how it can move around the table.
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