Jimmy Reid
US Open 9 Ball Champion
‘No Time For Negative’ Part 1
For this 'No Time For Negative' lecture series we'll be talking 9 ball. The following routine seems difficult until you've done it a few times.
Walk with a brisk step, get lively, be exciting to watch.
Make the sweaters (spectators) interested in everything you do.
1. / Pregame / Match Routine;
Normally each player has a chance to hit 1 or 2 racks of balls each before they play. Don't shoot balls into pockets with this time, use it to - Learn the table!
Have a little piece of paper and pen near your chair that you have already drawn a rectangle on with a triangle representing where the balls are racked, you probably won’t need it but you might.
Put the cueball about 1/2 inch off the rails and shoot it slowly across and down table from all 4 pockets, watch how it rolls, if all the rails act similarly like the cueball on its way to the other pocket for example; All these shots drift to the rail and stay there then you say to yourself.
Okay this table is high in the middle.
Conversely, if they all drift out then the table is low in the middle.
However, should the table change, these changes are usually uniform, for example; long rail on left rolls out and long rail on right rolls in the table is high on the left or low on the right and can be leveled by lowering the left or raising the right side if you are on a table with leg levelers it's a quick fix.
Likewise with the end rails use the same formula above. If one end drifts out and the other end rail drifts in then either one end is too high or the other too low.
If however, they are not uniform, then use your paper to write down the different drifts.
Next, check out the banks, bank some balls cross side and cross corner, then bank a couple of long rail banks, keep your head down all the time these banks are rolling.
Finally, practice your kicking. For kicking practice one or two cross corner and cross side kicks.
Then shoot a couple of two rail kicks, I like to shoot from the invisible diamond in back of the side pocket (40) @ +40 which is found on the short end rail 1 and a 1/2 diamonds away from the corner pocket on the opposite side of the table, use two tips of running english on the cueball, it should travel two rails into the caddy corner, 40 + 40 = in front of 80, the pocket.
Note* when banking balls 2 rails using this plus system, practice by making your total add up to 70 not 80 because as I told Tor that's wrong.
The object ball can never take more than 1 tip of english so put your object ball down anywhere and make it total 70 using the same measuring techniques I teach for 2 rail kicks. By shooting a bank from 50 (5th diamond) at + 20 found on the short rail half a diamond away from the corner pocket. 50 + 20 = 70 but because it’s not the cueball with 2 tips of english this object ball doesn't hold the turn like the cue ball it rolls long and goes into the corner, now real quick put the cueball up in the same place and watch it hit in front of 70 (7th diamond) the cueball takes 2 tips of english and holds the turn.
Next use the same numbers at zero when you divide by 2 that you use for kicking, instead of putting the exact equal opposite english of where the cueball hits the rail, put maximum outside english on the cueball and aim using the same numbers that when divided by 2 equal the corner pocket. With maximum english on the cueball it doesn’t go into the pocket it travels 4 rails at the 6th diamond.
This is called the Sixth Diamond System, like the cross corner/cross side banking and kicking at Zero system that I invented and copyrighted. Now say the object ball you want to hit is laying in the track to 80, after you find the easy divide by 2 cross corner spot on top of the rail add 2 diamonds to that spot by counting the total of both your tip and your butt move until you've added those 2 diamonds.
When the cueball is close to the first rail sometimes you only have to move the aiming point on top of the first rail a very small amount, now look at the butt of your cue it moves a long way when they total 20 more than cross corner Zero (4th rail 60) shoot with maximum side spin. Side is at 3 o’clock on the cueball when going right off the first rail or 9 o’clock going left after the first rail.
Side spin will prevent the cueball from jumping after it hits the close first rail.
Now you've learned the table, when people come in, it starts to rain out they turn the a/c up or heat on, the table changes. So whenever your opponent takes a break practice these shots if you can.
Next post will be on the self-speak talk and thoughts that I used from 1969 to now that forced me to become a winner, the complete mental aspect of the game. Until then, Jimmy Reid
P.S. If you don't understand these systems go to this first link titled intro.html and check them out in the 1 rail kicking and double distance system start at page 9 then push the audio button and listen to me explain it. Next, go to the plus two rail system.
Finally go to the second link called upmain and learn the sixth diamond system, no audio here this is still my 2002 version that I went through heck to find, it seems my 2005 version with the automatic table that you could use to move the balls anywhere and submit a question to me disappeared after Tor left.
Is there anyone out there who remembers my 2005 copyrighted version? The one where my name was written in Sans Serif a little different green than the table cloth but across the middle of the table. If so please let your voice be heard.
For 1 rail kicking (start at page 9) and then study the plus 2 diamond system. Press Audio http://www.freepoollessons.com/feb2013diamondclub/intro.html
For the sixth diamond system go to http://www.freepoollessons.com/feb2013diamondclub/upmainpage.html ... Your Welcome
For this 'No Time For Negative' lecture series we'll be talking 9 ball. The following routine seems difficult until you've done it a few times.
Walk with a brisk step, get lively, be exciting to watch.
Make the sweaters (spectators) interested in everything you do.
1. / Pregame / Match Routine;
Normally each player has a chance to hit 1 or 2 racks of balls each before they play. Don't shoot balls into pockets with this time, use it to - Learn the table!
Have a little piece of paper and pen near your chair that you have already drawn a rectangle on with a triangle representing where the balls are racked, you probably won’t need it but you might.
Put the cueball about 1/2 inch off the rails and shoot it slowly across and down table from all 4 pockets, watch how it rolls, if all the rails act similarly like the cueball on its way to the other pocket for example; All these shots drift to the rail and stay there then you say to yourself.
Okay this table is high in the middle.
Conversely, if they all drift out then the table is low in the middle.
However, should the table change, these changes are usually uniform, for example; long rail on left rolls out and long rail on right rolls in the table is high on the left or low on the right and can be leveled by lowering the left or raising the right side if you are on a table with leg levelers it's a quick fix.
Likewise with the end rails use the same formula above. If one end drifts out and the other end rail drifts in then either one end is too high or the other too low.
If however, they are not uniform, then use your paper to write down the different drifts.
Next, check out the banks, bank some balls cross side and cross corner, then bank a couple of long rail banks, keep your head down all the time these banks are rolling.
Finally, practice your kicking. For kicking practice one or two cross corner and cross side kicks.
Then shoot a couple of two rail kicks, I like to shoot from the invisible diamond in back of the side pocket (40) @ +40 which is found on the short end rail 1 and a 1/2 diamonds away from the corner pocket on the opposite side of the table, use two tips of running english on the cueball, it should travel two rails into the caddy corner, 40 + 40 = in front of 80, the pocket.
Note* when banking balls 2 rails using this plus system, practice by making your total add up to 70 not 80 because as I told Tor that's wrong.
The object ball can never take more than 1 tip of english so put your object ball down anywhere and make it total 70 using the same measuring techniques I teach for 2 rail kicks. By shooting a bank from 50 (5th diamond) at + 20 found on the short rail half a diamond away from the corner pocket. 50 + 20 = 70 but because it’s not the cueball with 2 tips of english this object ball doesn't hold the turn like the cue ball it rolls long and goes into the corner, now real quick put the cueball up in the same place and watch it hit in front of 70 (7th diamond) the cueball takes 2 tips of english and holds the turn.
Next use the same numbers at zero when you divide by 2 that you use for kicking, instead of putting the exact equal opposite english of where the cueball hits the rail, put maximum outside english on the cueball and aim using the same numbers that when divided by 2 equal the corner pocket. With maximum english on the cueball it doesn’t go into the pocket it travels 4 rails at the 6th diamond.
This is called the Sixth Diamond System, like the cross corner/cross side banking and kicking at Zero system that I invented and copyrighted. Now say the object ball you want to hit is laying in the track to 80, after you find the easy divide by 2 cross corner spot on top of the rail add 2 diamonds to that spot by counting the total of both your tip and your butt move until you've added those 2 diamonds.
When the cueball is close to the first rail sometimes you only have to move the aiming point on top of the first rail a very small amount, now look at the butt of your cue it moves a long way when they total 20 more than cross corner Zero (4th rail 60) shoot with maximum side spin. Side is at 3 o’clock on the cueball when going right off the first rail or 9 o’clock going left after the first rail.
Side spin will prevent the cueball from jumping after it hits the close first rail.
Now you've learned the table, when people come in, it starts to rain out they turn the a/c up or heat on, the table changes. So whenever your opponent takes a break practice these shots if you can.
Next post will be on the self-speak talk and thoughts that I used from 1969 to now that forced me to become a winner, the complete mental aspect of the game. Until then, Jimmy Reid
P.S. If you don't understand these systems go to this first link titled intro.html and check them out in the 1 rail kicking and double distance system start at page 9 then push the audio button and listen to me explain it. Next, go to the plus two rail system.
Finally go to the second link called upmain and learn the sixth diamond system, no audio here this is still my 2002 version that I went through heck to find, it seems my 2005 version with the automatic table that you could use to move the balls anywhere and submit a question to me disappeared after Tor left.
Is there anyone out there who remembers my 2005 copyrighted version? The one where my name was written in Sans Serif a little different green than the table cloth but across the middle of the table. If so please let your voice be heard.
For 1 rail kicking (start at page 9) and then study the plus 2 diamond system. Press Audio http://www.freepoollessons.com/feb2013diamondclub/intro.html
For the sixth diamond system go to http://www.freepoollessons.com/feb2013diamondclub/upmainpage.html ... Your Welcome
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