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Best Advice Ever For Straight-In Shots?
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THIS.......
You are correct. The straight in shot is slightly tougher than the same length shot with an angle to it. So much so in fact, that it is often good strategy to leave your opponent long and straight in during a game of 9-Ball or One Pocket. I'm talking table length here, not what is shown in your pic. The top players are not fazed by such shots, but lesser players (the rest of us) are.
One of my favorite drills when getting back in stroke I call the "Hard Hit" drill. Set up long straight in shots (preferably the same shot multiple times) and hit it very hard, much harder than normal. You will miss more than you make! Do this about 20-25 times with the same shot and then back off to normal speed. Viola, you will be making a high percentage of the shots now. I promise! Keep doing this same drill with other long straight-in shots from different positions on the table. This is an inside secret to getting back in stroke quickly so don't tell anyone, okay.
Jay, this is so true! I figured this out on my own in the last year.You are correct. The straight in shot is slightly tougher than the same length shot with an angle to it. So much so in fact, that it is often good strategy to leave your opponent long and straight in during a game of 9-Ball or One Pocket. I'm talking table length here, not what is shown in your pic. The top players are not fazed by such shots, but lesser players (the rest of us) are.
One of my favorite drills when getting back in stroke I call the "Hard Hit" drill. Set up long straight in shots (preferably the same shot multiple times) and hit it very hard, much harder than normal. You will miss more than you make! Do this about 20-25 times with the same shot and then back off to normal speed. Viola, you will be making a high percentage of the shots now. I promise! Keep doing this same drill with other long straight-in shots from different positions on the table. This is an inside secret to getting back in stroke quickly so don't tell anyone, okay.
I've wondered why this works. Best I can tell, instead of trying to minimize body movement to avoid throwing the shot off, just muscle up and figure out where the heck your body wants to move to, and then little by little you can put yourself in a position that it wants to be. In other words, if you're set up wrong you can try to cover that up by shooting softly, but shooting extra firm brings all of those flaws to the surface where you can ferret them out. Then when you shoot even normal firm shots you are ready to go.
It's no surprise to watch the top players warm up with power shots.
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This also is a cheat code for aiming on break shots. Works like a champ.
Exactly.
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Well, there goes that nugget.You are correct. The straight in shot is slightly tougher than the same length shot with an angle to it. So much so in fact, that it is often good strategy to leave your opponent long and straight in during a game of 9-Ball or One Pocket. I'm talking table length here, not what is shown in your pic. The top players are not fazed by such shots, but lesser players (the rest of us) are.
One of my favorite drills when getting back in stroke I call the "Hard Hit" drill. Set up long straight in shots (preferably the same shot multiple times) and hit it very hard, much harder than normal. You will miss more than you make! Do this about 20-25 times with the same shot and then back off to normal speed. Viola, you will be making a high percentage of the shots now. I promise! Keep doing this same drill with other long straight-in shots from different positions on the table. This is an inside secret to getting back in stroke quickly so don't tell anyone, okay.
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I like your analysis. The interesting about using this drill is that after shooting the same shot hard about ten or fifteen times you will start making it maybe half the time. Your body/mind gets it all filtered out somehow. I love it when I can slam the ball in from distance two or three times in a row. I know I'm ready now. When you slow down the shot seems relatively easy now. It took me years to figure this one out. I think it came out of frustration after letting myself get out of stroke by not playing for awhile.
A little side note from pool history. On occasion when Cornbread Red had a tough opponent he was trying to wear down he would shoot the game winning nine ball at 100 mph, slamming it into the pocket. He liked to do this on a long straight in shot and I took note of that watching him. Believe me that was intimidating and Red knew it.
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Badpenguin
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Aim at where the base of the object ball touches the cloth.
Without seeing your misses I'm not able to give you any good advice.
I need to know first....
Are you missing consistently the same way.... if so that's good and easy to explain/fix.
But.....
If your missing to the left/then to the right and there's no consistency in you errors, then your fundamentals need to be addressed.
It could be as simple as ''walking up to the shot''.
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I need to know first....
Are you missing consistently the same way.... if so that's good and easy to explain/fix.
But.....
If your missing to the left/then to the right and there's no consistency in you errors, then your fundamentals need to be addressed.
It could be as simple as ''walking up to the shot''.
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The guy who says "I can make this shot with one eye" looks like he is swinging a baseball bat he swipes his cue so much.
Why would you look at a spot on the pocket when stroking when looking at the center of the object ball or the base of the object ball is way closer? If your theory is correct, why not just pick out a spot on the wall behind the pocket to aim at?
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Reported for name calling. lol
I try to visualize the spot that the cue ball would eventually go if the object ball wasn't there and aim at the point on the pocket.
This makes it easier to visualize shot that are 99% straight, but might not be perfect. Works for 100% straight too.
It is much easier to aim at something with definition 8 feet away than a tiny point on a ball 4-5 feet away.
If you doubt this, give it a try, you'll be surprised how much more consistently you can hit it perfect.
This makes it easier to visualize shot that are 99% straight, but might not be perfect. Works for 100% straight too.
It is much easier to aim at something with definition 8 feet away than a tiny point on a ball 4-5 feet away.
If you doubt this, give it a try, you'll be surprised how much more consistently you can hit it perfect.
Chris it is a matter of aim small, miss small, well known in gun shooting circles. If there is something small to pick out on the wall, shooting at that works just fine too! If I am aiming at all, anything on the shot line or extended shot line works fine. If I noticed a small reflection on an embellishment of a car outside I would aim at it too.
Sometimes the object ball is so close I can't see behind it to tell if everything is perfectly centered. Almost certainly is, but it is more comfortable to look over the object ball at something I can see further back.
Not a shot likely to be missed but more likely to be missed aiming at a somewhat general area on the ball than I small spot further away.
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