How far from center do you hit the CB?

Are we talking with or without Kamui chalk? I try to stay around center, rarely go 2 tips, but sometimes think I do.
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SpiderWebComm said:
I hit as far off center as required by the shot. Those who say "I always hit no more than 1 tip" on any and all shots are mistaken. There are quite a few shots where 1 tip won't get you there.
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Best answer. Sometimes you just gotta load up.
 
Over the last couple years I've been using more and more English, and then Earl Strickland told me to "Use more speeeen"...so I think I maybe I need a bigger cue ball...

Seriously though, I picture a football standing up in the center of the cue ball, not a circle, as anywhere on the vertical axis still allows you to shoot straight, so as far low or high as you can hit without bringing miscues into play that will depend on your tip...2 tips is probably normal, if you have a kamui, you can maybe go a little further out assuming that you service that tip every hour or so LOL
 
Billiard players commonly refer to tips anywhere from 1 - 4 tips, and that concept is used in more than a few systems.

So if we agree that 1 tip is the size of the contact point, or roughly 3mm, then you can get to about 9mm away right at the miscue zone (in any direction technically). So you have 3 tips on the horizontal axis, less when using it in combination with follow or draw. In the billiard systems, extreme spin (i.e. 4 tips) is typically done with maximum spin and a slower speed with 1 tip low with slight elevation, you lose a little pure spin but get more curve so it effectively gets you to that next notch in whatever system you are using.

Practically for pool, 1/2 - 1 tip gets you almost everywhere you need to be, except for certain shots requiring more creativity or extreme draw etc. And as Spidey said, some shots just require more, and when they do if you are comfortable with it then go for it!
Scott
 
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It seems that some people believe that follow and draw are forms of English??

I've always thought that English was an amount of "SIDE" spin, not top or bottom.
 
the better you play shape
the less english you will have to use
because you will have natural angles to where you have to go
if you are routinely using more than 1 tip english
you need better cue ball control
jmho
icbw
 
JoeyA said:
It seems that some people believe that follow and draw are forms of English??

I've always thought that English was an amount of "SIDE" spin, not top or bottom.
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English can be referred to as the associated spin on the cue ball via cue tip contact. Basically it doesn't matter where you aim, as long as you're not shooting center ball(stun) you will always be imparting some sort of spin to the ball, aka english.
 
JoeyA said:
It seems that some people believe that follow and draw are forms of English??

I've always thought that English was an amount of "SIDE" spin, not top or bottom.
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A valid point. It's become common though to use it universally. I even hear the term center English pretty often which clearly makes no sense. But, then again, I still know what they mean.
 
IMO, it's all back to what we need to do. I was told by somebody who teach me playing pool long time ago, to always keep my tip near the center of the CB. Then a year after I moved to another province, another guy show me how he hit with ton of english (mostly like Wu Chia Cing do). It's all nearly (again nearly) the same, it's depend on where whe want to place the cb but still avoiding contact with another ball, how confident we stroke using how much the english and how well we know our cue will deflect to compensate it. I can stroke nearly 3 tips of english, but only when needed, so do we. Just my opinion.
 
samiun said:
IMO, it's all back to what we need to do. I was told by somebody who teach me playing pool long time ago, to always keep my tip near the center of the CB. Then a year after I moved to another province, another guy show me how he hit with ton of english (mostly like Wu Chia Cing do). It's all nearly (again nearly) the same, it's depend on where whe want to place the cb but still avoiding contact with another ball, how confident we stroke using how much the english and how well we know our cue will deflect to compensate it. I can stroke nearly 3 tips of english, but only when needed, so do we. Just my opinion.
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Post more often Samiun! Not to get too far off of the thread subject, but who is your best cuemaker in Indonesia?
Thanks,
 
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