Hong Kong Henry, a serious pool player at the senior center, was trying to explain this to me.
Anybody heard of Back Hand English?
How about Pivot Point?
Anybody heard of Back Hand English?
How about Pivot Point?
Back Hand English and Pivot Point
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Colin Colenso has a video on You Tube explaining it.
Yes. Putting it crudely, by cueing through the centre of the cue ball to make an object ball, using the correct pivot point for the flexibility of your cue and without moving your bridge (which is the pivot), you can then swing the back of the cue in order to play English on the cue ball, and the cue ball will travel along the line you originaly aimed along to make the ball, but with English on it. Crude, but effective. It's aiming systems and CTE we haven't heard of.
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Set up for the shot with no English like you are shooting straight in, then leave your bridge hand still and move the back hand to add English with the shot.
Back hand English: move only the back hand
Front hand English: move only the bridge hand
Parallel English: move backhand and bridge and parallel to shot line
Interesting I've never heard this?
Parallel English is the misleading name for just aiming at the correct squirt-compensating angle by feel. Applying side spin with the cue parallel to the shot line only works for those occasional shots where the tip offset, speed, CB/OB distance and equipment cleanliness perfectly combine so that squirt and swerve exactly cancel each other.
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And your single statement is incorrect
If you have the right pivot point for the particular shot, BHE will work for a wide range of both kinds of shots. Can you explain why you say the above?
What a lot of people don't realize is that if they use only BHE to compensate for squirt, they have to change their bridge length according to spin, speed and distance. (And that's true for both inside and outside english.)
To answer your question more directly, this has been discussed on the interwebz for years and years (at least since 2000) and was first illustrated in print in 1839. Sometimes "secrets" are right out in public.
Corect. I was generalizing and not really wanting to go into it - too much to explain in writing
Thanks for all your replies. It was very helpful.
Ignorance is bliss. I use BHE equally for inside and outside successfully.