Can you find the best location for break shot to pocket three balls on the break in the indicated pockets?
One ball is the breakball and two from the rack you choose. No scratching allowed.
14.1 beginner breaking
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Can you find the best location for break shot to pocket three balls on the break in the indicated pockets?
One ball is the breakball and two from the rack you choose. No scratching allowed.
why in the world would anyone even consider trying to make 3 balls on a shot. Nothing requires it. Call the breakball and take whatever goes with it.
I am trying to attract interest in 14.1 with new shots and propositions.
Its the same thing I did growing up. I outgrew a lot of the shots in the book. Now I am making new ones.
The sad news is that nobody wants to play any more. They want quick games that don't distract too much from their smart phones, and they certainly don't want to pay table time on games that take as long as 14.1, so good luck with all that. Just so you know, it's highly unlikely, borderline impossible I think, that you would ever see the same break shot twice.
Pool players have to transition from being the new hot shot to being the boring old guy writing about fun stuff to do at the table.
Don't be so sad, the world hasn't ended. I hear one country is constantly getting triggered to go Nuclear. I hope you make it through the fallout.
Learning the impact of speed is best practiced on specific 14.1 shots. Use two dowels to practice visualizing OB line boundaries. Then study the impact of various CB speeds and angles. Try to stick to the same shot a few times before changing, you want to see consistency.
If you heard of the full ball revolution follow, this is analogous to learn desired OB line and CB line. The slightest error in stroke is a lot easier to spot in this exercise.
If you heard of the full ball revolution follow, this is analogous to learn desired OB line and CB line. The slightest error in stroke is a lot easier to spot in this exercise.
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jeez, where you strike the rack after pocketing the break ball is determined by how you strayed from the tangent line, which also is an indicator of how hard one should shoot it.
Every one of your posts tells us so much Professor.
call shot
The end ball can be banked to back corner pocket. There is nothing like old school straight pool. Tradition rules. Varying any game is fun but I'm a big fan of whatever I grew up within in the 60's. It's difficult enough playing by the book.
It surely CAN, but not exactly a high percentage shot
Since it’s not traditional the end banked ball should be worth 3-5 points.
a few times i have used the 2nd ball 8ball break calling the opposite side corner ball have made it, but its about 50-60 percent, and when you dont make it, say goodnight
IMHO - I support that most accomplished billiard players benefit from playing 14.1.
Looking at the diagram I’d want to pot the break ball (1) with sufficient force to carom the CB diagonally into the 15 ball. Tip position is critical in that you’d want to avoid
1) Losing control of the CB
2) Scratches
I’d break this rack with medium speed and bring the CB back off the LR around the 1st diamond. Hopefully I can sink a ball and break up a cluster. I can’t project pocketing 3 balls, but I can find my next break ball and take what the table gives.
Keep up the work - Somebody Cares!
Looking at the diagram I’d want to pot the break ball (1) with sufficient force to carom the CB diagonally into the 15 ball. Tip position is critical in that you’d want to avoid
1) Losing control of the CB
2) Scratches
I’d break this rack with medium speed and bring the CB back off the LR around the 1st diamond. Hopefully I can sink a ball and break up a cluster. I can’t project pocketing 3 balls, but I can find my next break ball and take what the table gives.
Keep up the work - Somebody Cares!
I think you are doing something wrong if this is the case. Can you show us a standard break shot that is tough to shoot?