Good book to read on learning banks???
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"Banking with the Beard". I've read mine 100 times, looks like it's been through a couple of wars, lol. I had no idea how to shoot certain banks before, after reading it I've got a great chance of making them..It's not magic, no book is, but it is a very good starting point to learn how to bank.
Btw, have you seen this video?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSZqMOBJ6Zs
Good video but second shot is actually double kiss if you watch closely.. Saw it right away because I shoot quite a lot banks just for fun.
Banking with the Beard
Banking with the Beard definitely covers a lot of the concepts you need to know and the allowance tables are great. When you are playing around with banks just know that there are at least two schools of thought on banks. One is from the Bank Pool School of thought when you thump them in with increased speed and the other is the One Pocket school of thought where you put them in pocket speed. I favor One Pocket style myself because there is a lot you can do with spin at slower speeds so that game teaches you a lot.
Banking with the Beard definitely covers a lot of the concepts you need to know and the allowance tables are great. When you are playing around with banks just know that there are at least two schools of thought on banks. One is from the Bank Pool School of thought when you thump them in with increased speed and the other is the One Pocket school of thought where you put them in pocket speed. I favor One Pocket style myself because there is a lot you can do with spin at slower speeds so that game teaches you a lot.
ive got the book so you can read it buddy
I agree about the Banking with Beard book. The DVD's are even better, banks that don't but doPretty snazzy shots that come up all the time, but suddenly they are more bankable than a Robert Di Niro movie
I agree, and as pt mentioned, Brumback's videos are also very good. :smile:
By-the-way, has anyone noticed the table that Freddy plays on, there in his basement? Is it me, or do the corners appear to be a bit more rounded than what you might normally see?
Would a double kiss move the object ball off course? When I saw that shot, the probability of a kiss was very high.
I also recommend Banking with the Beard. For practicing kicks I thought about leaving a mirror compact on the rail so I can get a better bead on the object ball.
I also recommend Banking with the Beard. For practicing kicks I thought about leaving a mirror compact on the rail so I can get a better bead on the object ball.
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That was too confusing for me....
...I found myself kicking at the 01 ball....
hahaha nice!
I can bank okay, usually I can kick my out of a safety, but not accurate enough to pocket a ball by kicking. I remember there used to be a set of mirrors that you can put under the rails to practice kicks. I thought a low cost way would be to put a pocket mirror (such as a compact) on the rail, and use the mirror principle to refine my aiming.
That was too confusing for me....
...I found myself kicking at the 01 ball....
This would be a good practice method if you could be sure the mirror was exactly parallel with the cushion nose every time and if you could somehow place it right over the "rail gutter". Even then it wouldn't show you exactly where to aim - you have to adjust by different amounts for different angles, speeds, etc. - but the equal-angle image is a good fixed reference for learning those things.
Of course you can also use the diamonds to find the same equal-angle aim point (and adjust from there).
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I learned more in 15 minutes with John Brumback standing behind me than I did reading any book.
Ken