Extreme short cut shots

[Rod]

Stretch,

I agree with Bob. The funny stuff is what's causing the difference. You may not realize just how high you can hit and that's common even with low. With your snap back stroke your changing the vertical height going into the c/b. It's done with the back arm and hand is all.

I think in an effort to snach the cue back your moving your upper arm a bit. Dropping the elbow before impact will certainly make you hit higher. Don't start bad habbits it might be hard to break.

Same with draw your going to hit the ball higher than planned. A dud draw shot.

Rod

 

[doncartmill]

elevated cue

Center ball it is, you can't have ANY english affecting the shot. I do it a little differently. I prefer hitting center ball with a slightly elevated cue...why? Because one of the deadliest shots that I ever ran into years ago taught me to do it that way and it just works the best of anything I've experimented with so far. See if you get any kind of different result with that instead of low. Maybe you will....and maybe you won't.

I have just seen a post on another site ,where there was a discussion about two balls ,one behind the other ,frozen, front ball on the spot. The cue ball is out to the side,perpendicular to ctr line of the two balls,and in line with their tangent point. The statement was made that the second ball could be made in the corner( not a bank shot ),but in the far corner by elevating and performing a semi jump shot. It was said to be and old one pocket shot.
With this in mind I can see how the semi jump, would allow you to take more of the object ball
in the ultra thin cut shot,because when the C ball makes contact with the OB the point of contact will be towards the pocket(if performed perfectly) actually cutting down the cut angle.

 

[Bob Jewett]

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With this in mind I can see how the semi jump, would allow you to take more of the object ball
in the ultra thin cut shot,because when the C ball makes contact with the OB the point of contact will be towards the pocket(if performed perfectly) actually cutting down the cut angle.

Well, yes, but you can also hit very thinly by aiming right and using an orthodox, flat stroke. If you have a problem hitting close balls too full when you need to hit them very thinly, I think that fixing the problem by adding a slight jump is the path to mediocrity. I think you should learn to hit thinly with a level stroke.

 

[Sheldon]

Shots like this pretty much always need to be "over-cut" or hit thinner than you think. The inside english will help you accomplish this by deflecting the cueball to a thinner hit. Forget about spin doing much if anything to a shot like this, an ultra thin hit will not be transfering anything to the object ball.
Learn to hit is with inside, center, and outside english so you can control the cueball better, and possibly avoid a scratch.

 

[Rickw]

I agree with Sheldon. Whenever I have a close shot, I look at the line to the pocket and use whatever english I need, if any, to make it easier to get the ball into the pocket. I don't think using only one type of english is advisable for every shot. By doing that, you limit yourself, imho.

 

[Rickw]

Oh, one other thing, on the long cut shots, one thing that really helps me is aiming on the infinite line. If I aim at the ball and only the ball, I tend to hit it a little too thick.