Draw Shot Control Off a Rail – How to Manipulate Cue Ball Motion

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FYI, I just posted a new video that discusses and demonstrates useful techniques and “hot tips” for controlling the CB with draw shots off a rail at various angles. Check it out:


Contents:
0:00 - Intro
0:11 - Straight Back Draw
1:29 - Using Ball Hop to Delay Draw
3:29 - Speed Effects
4:51 - More Info

As always, I look forward to your feedback, comments, questions, complaints, and requests.

Enjoy!
 
Interesting Vid.
From the Title, I thought you were going to show CB Draw "Off the Rail" for Position.

Most don't realize there's such a thing as drawing off a rail. With or without hitting a OB 1st.
 
3kushn said:
Interesting Vid.
From the Title, I thought you were going to show CB Draw "Off the Rail" for Position.

Most don't realize there's such a thing as drawing off a rail. With or without hitting a OB 1st.
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Draw can’t happen until a CB with backspin hits an OB, so I think the title is appropriate.

Concerning hitting the CB into a rail with backspin (or topspin) to curve the CB path, I cover that in detail here:

 
dr_dave said:
FYI, I just posted a new video that discusses and demonstrates useful techniques and “hot tips” for controlling the CB with draw shots off a rail at various angles. Check it out:


Contents:
0:00 - Intro
0:11 - Straight Back Draw
1:29 - Using Ball Hop to Delay Draw
3:29 - Speed Effects
4:51 - More Info

As always, I look forward to your feedback, comments, questions, complaints, and requests.

Enjoy!
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This is one of those videos that I expected people to like and benefit from, but the view rate on YouTube to this point is much lower compared to typical videos. Why do you guys think this is the case? Are the techniques too "advanced" or "out of the realm of possibility" for the typical YouTube viewers, or is the topic just not that interesting? What do you guys think? Thanks.
 
dr_dave said:
This is one of those videos that I expected people to like and benefit from, but the view rate on YouTube to this point is much lower compared to typical videos. Why do you guys think this is the case? Are the techniques too "advanced" or "out of the realm of possibility" for the typical YouTube viewers, or is the topic just not that interesting? What do you guys think? Thanks.
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Maybe not the video, but because it’s midweek, people are getting home and tired.

I like the ball hop, that is something I never practice.
 
nataddrho said:
Maybe not the video, but because it’s midweek, people are getting home and tired.
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It is something about the video. The view rate is significantly less than other videos posted at similar times.

I honestly don’t care that much. It just astounds me how poorly I predict how popular a video might be or not.
 
dr_dave said:
This is one of those videos that I expected people to like and benefit from, but the view rate on YouTube to this point is much lower compared to typical videos. Why do you guys think this is the case? Are the techniques too "advanced" or "out of the realm of possibility" for the typical YouTube viewers, or is the topic just not that interesting? What do you guys think? Thanks.
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I love your work and videos for the pool community. In answer to your question I wouldn’t be rushing to send this one to my friends. There wasn’t a great deal new for me except the hop and I’m not sure it’s something I would use
Also not much controversy in this so maybe that reduces the uptake?
 
Probably because draw is tied up to ego and the dunning Krueger effect is in play. The people who need this likely believe they have great draw and can't learn anything new.

Try uploading the video with a new title that plays to the ego. Something like, 'you know you have great if...'.

We all know and likely were the player stuck at a low level but could draw almost as well as players two levels up. Just like banking, once you release yourself from the, 'drawing and banking is cool' mindset, your game goes up quickly. If newer players concentrated on reliably drawing precise distances from one inch to two feet and using draw for angle manipulation, the big draw would come, but normal draw would be a useful tool instead of Forrest Gump's box of chocolates.
 
dr_dave said:
This is one of those videos that I expected people to like and benefit from, but the view rate on YouTube to this point is much lower compared to typical videos. Why do you guys think this is the case? Are the techniques too "advanced" or "out of the realm of possibility" for the typical YouTube viewers, or is the topic just not that interesting? What do you guys think? Thanks.
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Probably thumbnail not so interesting. Also maybe title could be something more catchy for algorithm. Also it could be that world champs are going and pull all eyes of pool world there. Who knows :)
 
dr_dave said:
This is one of those videos that I expected people to like and benefit from, but the view rate on YouTube to this point is much lower compared to typical videos. Why do you guys think this is the case? Are the techniques too "advanced" or "out of the realm of possibility" for the typical YouTube viewers, or is the topic just not that interesting? What do you guys think? Thanks.
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With youtube it could be anything. Change in the algorithm, wrong time of day, etc.
 
bbb said:
How many takes are necessary for the perfect speed on where the cue ball lands?
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The only shot that took lots of “takes” was the hop-off-the-rail draw-delay shot. It was tricky to get the cue elevation and speed just right, especially since I had not really practiced this before. I think it took me 6-7 tries to get the shot in the video.
 
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