Anyone else here like to use drag shots?

[book collector]

I use it on a table that rolls off or one I am not sure of. Theres nothing I hate worse than to let the table beat me with a roll off. / Mike Sigel could tell you how many times the cueball would spin in reverse, before it turned over and became forward roll. Pretty impressive.

 

[ChrisinNC]

My most common usage of drag is on full-table slow rolls, to avoid table imperfections related roll-offs. Niels mentioned those in the video too.

I like to use it when I need to kill the cue ball off a cushion when I have too much angle on the shot to be able to do so even if I slow roll the ball.

 

[jbart65]

I like to use it when I need to kill the cue ball off a cushion when I have too much angle on the shot to be able to do so even if I slow roll the ball.

Yup, this is the shot I mostly use drag shots for. I discovered this shot on my own years ago, when I was a pool-fundamentals ignoramus, without knowing it was a thing. Only comes up once in a blue moon.

I am sure the shot has been known about for decades and decades, but supposedly Efren and other Filipinos were the ones to popularize the shot among pro players in the late 1980s or 1990s.

 

[Texas Carom Club]

i like to practice drag shots as a stroke drill
feeling going thru the cue ball smooth and looking for no unintentional side spin

Is shooting through it with bottom spin not a push? Cause it kinda of looks like pushing

This weekend I seen Ike do a very slow follow hit that looked a lot like a push shot to me

 

[bbb]

Is shooting through it with bottom spin not a push? Cause it kinda of looks like pushing

This weekend I seen Ike do a very slow follow hit that looked a lot like a push shot to me

A push is when the tip contact is prolonged
This is not hitting so slow you can push the cue ball
In 3 cushion they might call it long and penetrating

 

[Patrick Johnson]

This weekend I seen Ike do a very slow follow hit that looked a lot like a push shot to me

It's almost impossible to "push" the CB unless it's blocked by another ball or a rail. You'd have to just about stop the cue right before contact.

pj
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[Mensabum]

I prefer to call them skid shots ha ha

We called 'em 'kill shots' in our area. Backspin dies right as the cue ball reaches OB, then forward roll starts. It 'kills' the CB's normal path on the shot.

 

[Zerksies]

I don't do that shot quite often, but it is a very useful tool from time to time.

 

[dr_dave]

Check out my drag shot resource page. It describes and demonstrates every type of drag shot.

 

[dr_dave]

Check out my drag shot resource page. It describes and demonstrates every type of drag shot.

Section 5 of this video demos most of them: