Am looking for a book or two with actual diagrams of the different angles/shots.
Thanks ..
john_oleson@comcast.net
The best available description in a book of diamond systems in English is Robert Byrne's "New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards." You may also want to get his two other books which are based on his columns and have several other systems in each one. You can get each one for about $10 delivered to your house.
Walt Harris's books -- there are four volumes of the "Billiard Atlas" -- contain many, many systems but the explanations are bare-bone. They are about $30 each on the used market but they are sometimes hard to find.
There are lots of on-line resources available. Dr. Dave has a page on banks and kicks.
http://billiards.colostate.edu/threads/banks_and_kicks.html Some of the topics are linked to videos.
Here is the index:
advantages of fast speed
bank shot drills
contact-point mirror system for aiming shallow-angle, rolling kick shots
Corner 5 System for aiming two-, three-, and four-rail kicks off a long rail
cut-induced-spin effects
diamond systems for aiming kick shots
double kiss detection and avoidance
effects and factors to consider
bending a bank shot
equal-distance mirror system for aiming bank and kick shots
fast-speed-bank aiming system
kick shot drills
magic spot three-rail mirror-image kick shot aiming system
mirror system for aiming bank and kick shots
Plus System for aiming two-rail kicks off a short rail
shallow-angle contact-point-mirror-image kick-shot aiming system
Sid System for aiming steep two-rail kicks off a short rail
spin-transfer bank shots
spot-on-the-wall kick shot aiming system
through-diamond rolling-ball 2-to-1 one-rail kick and bank shot aiming system
two-rail bank shot aiming system off a short rail
two-rail parallel-line kick shot aiming system
two-times-across and three-times-across bank shots
two-times-across Z-kick aiming system