Avoiding double hit on 'easy' shot

[goettlicher]

Teach this situation every week. Have taught thousands of students the technique. NO double hit!

About a half hour lesson.

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[Black-Balled]

A good way to shoot those little nudge shots (where you aren't making either ball move much) that come up somewhat often in 1p is to use a very close bridge, no backstroke, and watch the tip when you make the hit, not the ob.

 

[jviss]

This video that Dr. Dave linked to from one of his pages has a good technique that I employ:

How to Avoid a Double Hit in Pool

 

[Hits 'em Hard]

Yes it is. That's the whole point of the "unsportsmanlike conduct foul" rule in pool.

Why are you not correcting your egregious error? Intentional miscues are an unsportsmanlike conduct foul. Regular fouls are just ball in hand fouls.

 

[PoolHallPaul]

Mike Massey's side-arm jab shot:

I'd like to see all this in slomo.

 

[dr_dave]

The other thing to consider is that Mike has more strength in his hand than many of us have in our arm.

... and in his fingers:

 

[dr_dave]

There are several other ways to avoid the double hit -- see Dr. Dave's page.

Again, for those interested, demonstrations of all techniques for detecting and avoiding a double-hit foul can be found here:

Detecting and Avoiding Double-Hit Fouls​

 

[Fore Rail]

I seem to recall a solution to this from a post way back but can't find it. I've watched several videos I found but have yet to find what I saw. I don't recall if someone just wrote a posted answer or provided a video but I think it was a video. Issue is when cue ball is real close to object ball. It's real hard to put a little quick jab on the cue ball and not commit a double hit. How can you shoot this? Just assume a straight in shot. Easy except for the double hit hazard.

After watching several videos, I tell ya, you'd need high speed video to detect a lot of double hits! Generally, if the cue ball goes forward after initial contact, it's likely it was a double hit. (But not always.)

Try using a jump cue

 

[DynoDan]

What is the point of successfully accomplishing the ‘magic trick’ of avoiding a double hit when the balls are too close, if your opponent (or referee) doesn’t really believe it can be done? Likely better for all to do like the barbox leagues and forgive the foul if you shoot jacked up, or just forget it and find another shot, if the distance measures under the rule, and you can’t shoot away.