Use any of the diamond two rail systems in actual play
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All the time when the need arises and I also teach others how to employ it as a "guide".
At the least, you seldom, if ever, give your opponent ball in hand from missing the OB.
To not use it as a double check or as a aid for tough one rail and two rail kicks seems silly.
And I pocket quite a few balls using the diamond system so I've learned to trust it.
At the least, you seldom, if ever, give your opponent ball in hand from missing the OB.
To not use it as a double check or as a aid for tough one rail and two rail kicks seems silly.
And I pocket quite a few balls using the diamond system so I've learned to trust it.
I dont know what others call it but I use:
5 to 5, 4 to 4, 3 to 3 diamond/tic mark.
Example:
3 diamonds up the long rail from foot rail and 1 diamond out of opposite corner at head rail is the #3 (3:3) trackline to the corner at foot end of table.
It works well and is very easy to execute.
I use this one quite a lot. I learned it many years ago from Jimmy Reid.
https://youtu.be/N-kSyLPoaeo
https://youtu.be/N-kSyLPoaeo
the billiard players call it the "plus 2 " system
diamond systems are pool/ billiards players friend....
I think he meant the system for a two rail kick near a corner where you find the midpoint of a line between the CB and OB and then shoot parallel to a line from that point to the corner pocket. It is the same as a mirror system with two mirrors on the two rails.
I use the plus 2 system if I'm kicking 2 rails, short-rail-first, with OB near the long rail. Other than that it's feel.
I like to use what I call "banking lanes" - a visualization of the whole range of angles and first-rail contacts that work for a given kind of bank/kick. Here's a selection of those from Koehler's "Upscale One Pocket".
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Is the idea that the 1 and 2 in that first pic go in the pocket with the arrow?
That is the 2-rail system I use personally and that I use to coach league team mates. It works pretty well anywhere on the table and is easy to remember.
Yes..that is what I meant for the 'two cushion mid point system': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZxKzah1dA