hooks;

[1sttbone]

Playing safe is a very important part to becoming a competitive player. Safety play is part of the hole scheme to play pool at the top level, and in all primary games plays and important part in controlling a game. Back home in Ohio in the early sixties my mentor played hooks with me to show me the importance of safety play. It took me twenty years to figure out how important his safety lessons were. In the mid eighties me and a friend invented a safety game called "Wanna Win, Hookem". In 1990 i made a VHS showing safety shots and playing the game with a friend. In 2010 I wrote "Wanna Win", a book that has the rules for "Wanna Win, Hookem", and shows me playing the game. Ive been blessed to have worked with some great players, and learning good safety play has been an important part of their success. There are many people with good ideas about improving safety play, and if you want to become a better player I suggest looking into some of the instruction available. Thank you Tom Bourdeon

 

[Texas Carom Club]

I hooked some banger beautifully last I played 8ball
His 8 was hanging in the corner, I had 2 balls close to his, and I successfully pushed both of my balls fully blocking any chance of a hit on the 8,

It was glorious, I was tickled pink

 

[Black-Balled]

Spunds cool...is the cha a vase?

Playing safe is a very important part to becoming a competitive player. Safety play is part of the hole scheme to play pool at the top level, and in all primary games plays and important part in controlling a game. Back home in Ohio in the early sixties my mentor played hooks with me to show me the importance of safety play. It took me twenty years to figure out how important his safety lessons were. In the mid eighties me and a friend invented a safety game called "Wanna Win, Hookem". In 1990 i made a VHS showing safety shots and playing the game with a friend. In 2010 I wrote "Wanna Win", a book that has the rules for "Wanna Win, Hookem", and shows me playing the game. Ive been blessed to have worked with some great players, and learning good safety play has been an important part of their success. There are many people with good ideas about improving safety play, and if you want to become a better player I suggest looking into some of the instruction available. Thank you Tom Bourdeon

 

[bbb]

your advice regarding safety play is great advice and it is probably an area most dont practice enough of
tor lowry has this video available of a game called kick safe
"Kick Safe is a defensive game where every shot is a safety or kick shot!*The goal of the game is simple: hide the one ball from the opponent. Sounds simple, but when two of the best players of all time (Shane Van Boening and Francisco Bustamante) go head to head, what follows are some of the most creative and spectacular kick shots and safeties ever recorded on video".
great to learn safes and kicking (no jump shots allowed )
the video shows some shots from it
i ordered it
https://www.zerox-billiards.com/kicksafe

 

[philly]

Is there anything that will more immedietly change the flow of set of rotation than 3 fouling your opponent with precise safety play?

 

[Ralph Kramden]

Playing safe is a very important part to becoming a competitive player. Safety play is part of the hole scheme to play pool at the top level, and in all primary games plays and important part in controlling a game. Back home in Ohio in the early sixties my mentor played hooks with me to show me the importance of safety play. It took me twenty years to figure out how important his safety lessons were. In the mid eighties me and a friend invented a safety game called "Wanna Win, Hookem". In 1990 i made a VHS showing safety shots and playing the game with a friend. In 2010 I wrote "Wanna Win", a book that has the rules for "Wanna Win, Hookem", and shows me playing the game. Ive been blessed to have worked with some great players, and learning good safety play has been an important part of their success. There are many people with good ideas about improving safety play, and if you want to become a better player I suggest looking into some of the instruction available. Thank you Tom Bourdeon

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Robert Byrne wrote about a similar game that he called "Hooked" .... http://sites.google.com/site/poolandbilliard/Home/hooked

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