Good training methods for rail + bank shots?
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helping your banks,
get yourself a few tapes to watch, bert kinister has a great tape number 16 in his series on bankin, grady matthews also has a few great tapes on banking, let me know if your interested, i have these tapes, email me at obrien714@gmail.com
pat
LancerV said:
get yourself a few tapes to watch, bert kinister has a great tape number 16 in his series on bankin, grady matthews also has a few great tapes on banking, let me know if your interested, i have these tapes, email me at obrien714@gmail.com
pat
grady does have a great tape on banking.....might want to look at it
theres all these systems, but all you can do is just hit alot of banks and file them away. I read an article that said most pros dont use any system, they just do it by feel, and after trying to memorize some of those systems and use them in play i agreed with the article and now i do too lol.
for rail shots, best i can tell you is just do your best to hit the ball and cushion at the same time, shoot softer, the harder you hit it the smaller the pocket gets. Of course there are times where you need to slightly hit the cushion first but thats a running thing and we're working on walking right now.
theres all these systems, but all you can do is just hit alot of banks and file them away. I read an article that said most pros dont use any system, they just do it by feel, and after trying to memorize some of those systems and use them in play i agreed with the article and now i do too lol.
for rail shots, best i can tell you is just do your best to hit the ball and cushion at the same time, shoot softer, the harder you hit it the smaller the pocket gets. Of course there are times where you need to slightly hit the cushion first but thats a running thing and we're working on walking right now.
You'll probably get a lot of suggestions about how to shoot rail shots. Some say to hit the ball and the rail at the same time. Some will tell you to hit the rail just barely before the ball. I've tried all these methods, and the technique that works best for me (amazingly well as a matter of fact) is to shoot the shot as though the rail isn't there and you're just cutting the ball in. Try it. I can even run balls down the long rail on snooker tables using this method. Not an easy thing to do. Good luck with your game.
JLW said:
I used a banking system by Jimmy Reid "hippie jimmy" Practiced it alot and now just play all my banks off feel. Get Jimmy's dvd's there great. www.freepoollessons.com
Mack