Break Shot Question

[BeiberLvr]

I see a lot of players use the side pocket break shot when practicing 14.1

For them the CB tends to end up in the middle of the table, but I end up on the rail where the balls are racked.

How do I get the CB to the middle?

 

[sfleinen]

I see a lot of players use the side pocket break shot when practicing 14.1

For them the CB tends to end up in the middle of the table, but I end up on the rail where the balls are racked.

How do I get the CB to the middle?

Center cue ball, stun shot. For those that've not practiced the side-pocket break shot before, your first inclination may be to use "follow" (top) english, but this is a huge mistake. That's why you end up behind the rack. What you want, is to bounce off the top two balls of the rack and come out (as close as you can, anyway) to center table. In essence, you don't want any spin on the cue ball at all. You want the cue ball to "lose" the "lighter mass hitting the heavier mass" physics problem. Follow or any kind of spin on the cue ball "cheats" that problem.

Give center-ball stun a try. BTW, you don't have to hit it hard -- that's another mistake.

-Sean

 

[wigglybridge]

re: hitting it hard: at last year's SBE 14.1 Challenge, i saw player after player scratching on this shot, or winding up tough after it, from hitting it too hard.

even Shaun Wilkie (who i admire greatly for his proselytising of 14.1) was complaining to me when i was scoring his attempt "i hit it the same way Schmidt does, why does he get all the rolls?". well, no, actually, he was hitting it about FOUR times as hard as John.

 

[Ratta]

Well

And you still have to hit the cueball absolutley perfect- It may sound boring, but once you REALLY have super mechanics and a supberb stroke you definitley know where whitey will go on the tangent-line. And this is necessary on this shot. And then maybe 5.000 attempts to check out what speed is perfect, too :grin-square: