i Need 5 easy trickshots to teach a Friend.

[fxskater]

My buddy works at a seniors center and for a month they have been advertising that they would have a guest instructor come in and teach. Only problem is they forgot to hire one. My buddy is a really lousy player (c- or d maybe) and since he works there already, knows all the old people, and plays a little, they have chosen him to do the instruction. I offered to do it, but they wouldn't pay me. Anyways, he has the worst stance and bridge you have ever seen, so i showed him how to stand properly, and how to bridge properly, and how to teach the old people. He used to bridge with his forefinger and middle finger standing straight up with a v between them, it was hilarious to watch. So anyways i showed him all the illustrations and a few basic principles he should teach from the Science of Pocket Billiards, and he is gonna take it with him to show the old people. I thought it might be a good idea for him to do a couple trickshots at the end to show that he can play a little. So i need 5 of em, who can help me. They gotta be really easy, no stroke shots or nothing.

here are the ones i came up with:
1. Put the triangle in the middle of the table with a ball in it, put a ball over the side pocket, shoot straight into the triangle to shove it towards the side pocket letting the ball drop from underneath it, while drawing the cueball back to make the ball in the opposite side.
2. Put a rack near the corner pocket with one corner facing the corner pocket, put a ball frozen to that corner of the triangle. In the middle of the side opposite the corner of the triangle freeze a ball, balanced on top of a piece of chalk. Shoot straight at that ball trying to Fly it in the corner without touching the slate, while the rack pushes the other one in.
3. Set up a shot straight in in the corner with cueball about a foot away from the OB, then put a half ball between them. Fire straight through th CB letting it contact the interfering ball and let you cue follow all the way through to shoot the OB in the corner.
4. Put a coin on the rail, with a glass behind it. Shoot the cueball at the coin to launch it into the glass.

Can anyone think of anything else thats really easy? I know and can execute tonnes of pretty shots, but i need easy ones that are more of a trick than a skill. Can anyone help me?

Others i showed him, but arent really impressive:
Freezing various combinations of balls to the rail and doing a variety of different push strokes with english to pocket one ball.

I also thought about showing him 'Just showing off' Shot, but do you guys think thats too tough of a shot? I can do that one real consistent, but is it too tough to teach someone thats not very good?

Last question. I'm not a big trickshot fan, so this doesnt apply to me, but do you think a B type playercould get good enough at trickshots to do a trickshot show and travel around? My personal opinion is yes, what do you guys think? I say yes, because he might not be able to put on a real impressive show, but i figure a b player could master 30 to 40 shots that would impress the hell out of an unknowledgable audience.

 

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Thats about the easiest one i know, doesn't really take that much skill.

 

[sjm]

Well, here are two my grandmother (the one that died in 1969) could do. In the top table, make the one in the side and the four in the corner on one shot. I knowsome weak players that have yet to figure out how to avoid making the four as they pocket the one in the side! In the lower layout, the four is placed on top of the short rail frozen to and wedged between the one and the two. The trick is to hit the four without touching the one and two. All it takes is hitting your hand on the table a little before the cue ball reaches the three ball cluster, causing the four to come back onto the table. Genius!

 

[fxskater]

First ones not flashy enough, the second one should do though. I had forgotten about that one. Thanks.

 

[ccriderone]

I'll try, for openers there's this ex world trick shot champion who's come out with this cool dvd that teaches what you want, 30 shots, 10 for bangers, seniors, weak players, 10 for good club players, 10 to challenge the better player. I forget his name, think his initials are Florida. He has filmed over 2,500 trick shots. To view them all they are on 62 two hour vhs tapes and are available. He has invented 1000 trick shots and they are on tape and on professional diagrams. He is the ultimate source on this subject.
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THE SLOW COLLAPSE TRICK SHOT.

11-13-04 2 pages CR, Published in DC, Bpn, czm, upp.

Directions on how to open the Wei table diagram are at the end.

Shoot the cue ball on the string, diamond 2, table length aimed at the 9 ball sitting on top of the 3-5, when the cue ball get one foot away you bump your leg on the head rail or depending on how heavy the table is raise up your foot and kick the rail. The vibration causes the 3-5 to separate and the 9 falls down between them and is hit by the incoming cue ball.

HISTORY: The shot appeared in the 1902 Fred Herrmann trick shot book which cataloged the early first 25 years of pool. The shots were heavily centered around traps and proposition bets. Joe Hood changed the direction of trick shots in 1908 when he published his book and everything after that moved into skill fancy shots.

THE SET UP:
Cheap thick house cloth works best. On some thin 760 cloths this shot will not work. You put the 3-5 so they split the center diamond on the foot rail, diamond 6. You freeze them together and then seriously pound them into craters. Be very aggressive with this. You the balance the 9 on top of the 3-5 where it is marked A. If that fails and the balls separate and will not hold up the 9 they are too slick so heavily chalk the numbers on the 3-5 so both chalk surfaces meet each other, chalk the number of the 9 and set that chalk surface down on top of the 3-5 gently and it might work. You may even have to chalk the tops of the 3-5 so they meet the chalk surface of the 9, then for sure it works.

THE PATTER: When I began to travel on the road with Paul Gerni during the early 90’s and I apprenticed under him I mostly just watched him do his shows. After seeing the show many times I began to watch the crowd and not Paul to measure reactions to shots. I would talk to the fans after the show to gauge their impressions. What emerged is they go to a trick shot show, go out the next day to the pool hall and try to set these shots up and can’t make any of them. They look so easy when we do them but with out instruction how to or a table diagram most are not going to work. I begin my show with a shot every one tomorrow can set up and make. If you wish, you can even bet and win a beer on it. I show them the set up and tap in and then I give them the patter: I have placed the 3 and 5 ball on the rail. On top of the 3 & 5 I have placed the 9 ball. I shall shoot down 7’ and hit the 9 first, with out hitting either the 3 or the 5, would you like to bet a beer I can not do this?

THE CONCEPT: There is a freshman class who graduates and comes into pool every day. Just because you know the shot, never assume everyone else does. Sometimes a shot gets so old and everyone stops shooting it that is becomes brand new again for a new generation. This is a sure shot everyone will remember and can do the next day. It can create a new interest in new players to learn more trick shots. I also use this as a IQ test before every show. I set up the shot and then say, who ever has seen this shot before or knows it raise your hand. If half of the audience has not, then they have seen nothing I am about to do and anything beyond a 3in3 is going to blow their socks off. I set this up in Jakarta and I had the table enclosed with grandstands on all sides, just have had 200 people there.
When I said raise your hand only 3 went up. In the evening show half of the hands went up so that gives me a feeling of who I am playing to.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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TRICK SHOT: THE LAZY MANS RACK. 10-24-04 Three pages, CR Fast Larry Guninger all rights reserved.

The lazy mans rack was one of Willie Mosconi’s show shots. It is a crowd favorite for now over a half century. It is a shot of moderate difficulty any decent player can make. Set the one ball to the right of the rack. Put a wood rack, not a plastic one around the balls, now lift up the front of the rack and stick the cue ball on the edge of the rack propping it up. You now want to shoot the one ball 3 rails; hit the cue ball knocking it out of the way, the rack slams down to capture the one ball.

Every table is different and none will use the same aim point or English but the shot goes down for most by shooting into or around diamond one with any thing from center ball to l/2 to one tip running English. Shoot medium speed. Keep practicing the shot until you make it and remember what the aim point was that worked. Last night it was .8. Two days ago on a different table it was l.3. When I know that, I record it and then place a piece of chalk on that rail point and shoot nicely with my aim point going through the chalk and the shot will repeat.

The Wei table diagram of the shot, sorry, could not draw the wood rack around the balls, use your imagination.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html


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THE WEI POOL TABLE, HOW TO OPEN AND VIEW IT.

The following code below makes no sense and is a bunch of gobble gook numbers and letters but they will open up the shot and display it for you to view. If you do open the code you will see on of my favorite show shots where I make 5 balls in one stroke a shot I invented. The shot takes a lot of skill to pull off.
We need to do a little work to make this table viewing or drawing of shots now happen. This may seem complicated but once you do this once, the 2nd time is easy. Just left click on the corner at the bottom right of the last word of the code words below and then pull the mouse cursor up the left side to the top , blue it all in, then right click and hit copy when the box drops. You do not do that on the code below, this is an example of what it looks like. You blue in and copy the code you see posted on the forum you are reading. You then have to dump that code into the wei table you must now produce, read on. ACTUNG, WHEN YOU COPY THE BELOW CODE, DO NOT COPY THE LAST LINE THAT SAYS END, BEGIN YOUR COPY ON THE LINE ABOVE IT ON THE FAR RIGHT HAND SIDE ON THE LETTERS AND CODES.

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To see the shot you must first acquire and display the wei pool table.
Put your mouse cursor arrow over and on the underlined link on the next line down for the table to appear. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/8ball.html
Left click it twice fast. If the http above does not display an underline it will not open and you will have to copy it and put it in your internet explorer and hit enter for the table to appear.

If it is underlined and does not open, then hold down ctrl at the bottom left of your key board and left click on your mouse and then it will appear. Before you do that write down the instructions in the paragraph below as they are going to vanish once you click the link on the wei table? Print out a hard copy of this and tape it by your cpu monitor.

When you see the pool table with 15 balls in a rack that is not the shot. You now have the table up and you can remove the rack of balls and view the shot the author is sending you. At the bottom right click the green paste tab that is just below the red tab. You will get a box that drops over the table, left click OK, once or twice if the box comes back and the shot then appears. Left click the red X in the top right corner to remove the box and see the shot if the box does not go away on its own. See, it was not that hard and being able to see and understand the shot is worth the work to reveal it.
Fast Loves ya, have fun with the shot.

If you want to draw and compose a shot to send to me you take your mouse and put your cursor arrow over the ball and or balls you want to place and drag and drop them where you want them. The un used balls drag and drop in a pocket. Go to the cue ball and move the black dot to show where the cue tip hits the ball.

There are several colored arrows below the bottom right of the table. Grab the bottom of the arrow and place on the cue ball, now grab and drop the top arrow on the object ball. Don’t use the yellow ones unless drawing a masse shot and you want to draw a curve. With a little practice and skill you will be designing shots in no time.
You may need to download a plug in: Macromedia website
You can find the latest shockwave plug in from
www.macromedia.com
Downloading the table
For Mac users, you can find it at
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/download/pooltable2.sea
for window users, you can find it at
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/download/pooltable2.exe

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[ccriderone]

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TRICK SHOT: JUMP 8 INTO THE RACK

3 Pages 11-1-04

THE SHOT IS A REAL CROWD FAVORITE. Every one loves it. The shot has real game applications. It was a favorite of Paul Gerni since the 1970’s and always has been in his show.

Rack up 15 balls; pull the 8 ball from the center. Make the 8 ball the cue ball. Set it at the bottom of the right side of the rack. Set the cue ball on top of the 8 about 3 balls above it, that location can vary. You need to find the place for the cue ball that makes the shot. Now shoot the 8 ball into the cue ball and jump it high into the air and it goes left and flips in the center of the rack, bow and accept your thunderous applause. Dodge the incoming flying roses, they have thorns.

Aim the cue ball at A, one diamond below left of the side pocket. Jack up hit one tip low left and learn to hit the speed and hardness the makes the shot. For me I do not have to hit hard. The left English now throws the cue ball right and pots into corner pocket B. You will have to play with that aim line as well. Put a rack to the right of that pocket and freeze the back against the rail and then the cue ball pots every time no matter how bad you hit it or miss it.

I play with a Meucci pp-4 and remember low deflection cues or shafts like Meucci or Predators do not jump well so in my show I use my Schuler with its stiff shaft for my jumps. If you play with a predator, grab a stiff house cue. If the 8 ball does not jump high enough the jack up higher and hit harder. I can jump the 8 ball over the rack or even off the table from this position. Just give it a sharp pop or jab and up it will go. I use a regular cue, no jump cue is required. My jump is low and barely clears the first row of balls, some times it comes in short and rolls off those balls and falls in the hole like in a pin ball machine. It looks best when it pops up and goes in clean, that is very impressive.

THE WEI TABLE. If you do not know how to open it instructions are at the bottom.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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THE WEI POOL TABLE, HOW TO OPEN AND VIEW IT.

Every now and then, someone will put a shot in their post which looks like this odd gobbly-gook code. For those who have not seen this before or know how to use it so that they can see the shot, here is an explanation of how to see the shot.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/8ball.html

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1)How to get the wei table so you can see the shot

Go to the following address in your browser-ie, internet explorer or netscape, by either copying it into your browser or clicking on the link.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html

This is called the 'Wei' table, and it is where you will be able to view the shots. Put this into your favorites/bookmarks.

When you go to the wei table for the first time, one of two things usually happens. It will ask you if you want to download 'shockwave' to which you click ok or it will automatically download. You cannot use the table without shockwave. If neither of those things happens, you need to download it.

Downloading shockwave

Mac computers:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool//download/pooltable2.sea

Windows pc computers:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/download/pooltable2.exe

If this does not work, go to the shockwave site and download it from there.

www.macromedia.com

The table looks very nice, like a small pool table with 15 balls and the cueball. If the table does not look nice, you may need a recent plug-in, which you can get at the macromedia site. It is unlikely that this will happen, however.

2)Getting the code onto the table

Highlight the code, including the words copy and end, and click copy, either by using the right click button (pc) or by using the edit drop down menu at the top of your screen.

Open the wei table, and click the paste button at the bottom right of the table. You will be asked twice if you wish to display this, click ok twice. The shot appears.

If you wish to put a shot into your post, use your cursor to put the unneeded balls into the pockets, then move the others and the cueball around on the table to show your shot. There are some lines beneath the table that you can use to show the path of the shot. Once you have done this, click the copy button at the bottom, and go to the post you are making by hitting the back button.

Hit paste and your shot will appear in your post in the 'wei code'
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[ccriderone]

TRICK SHOT: JUMP 8 INTO THE RACK

3 Pages 11-1-04

THE SHOT IS A REAL CROWD FAVORITE. Every one loves it. The shot has real game applications. It was a favorite of Paul Gerni since the 1970’s and always has been in his show.

Rack up 15 balls; pull the 8 ball from the center. Make the 8 ball the cue ball. Set it at the bottom of the right side of the rack. Set the cue ball on top of the 8 about 3 balls above it, that location can vary. You need to find the place for the cue ball that makes the shot. Now shoot the 8 ball into the cue ball and jump it high into the air and it goes left and flips in the center of the rack, bow and accept your thunderous applause. Dodge the incoming flying roses, they have thorns.

Aim the cue ball at A, one diamond below left of the side pocket. Jack up hit one tip low left and learn to hit the speed and hardness the makes the shot. For me I do not have to hit hard. The left English now throws the cue ball right and pots into corner pocket B. You will have to play with that aim line as well. Put a rack to the right of that pocket and freeze the back against the rail and then the cue ball pots every time no matter how bad you hit it or miss it.

I play with a Meucci pp-4 and remember low deflection cues or shafts like Meucci or Predators do not jump well so in my show I use my Schuler with its stiff shaft for my jumps. If you play with a predator, grab a stiff house cue. If the 8 ball does not jump high enough the jack up higher and hit harder. I can jump the 8 ball over the rack or even off the table from this position. Just give it a sharp pop or jab and up it will go. I use a regular cue, no jump cue is required. My jump is low and barely clears the first row of balls, some times it comes in short and rolls off those balls and falls in the hole like in a pin ball machine. It looks best when it pops up and goes in clean, that is very impressive.

THE WEI TABLE. If you do not know how to open it instructions are at the bottom.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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THE WEI POOL TABLE, HOW TO OPEN AND VIEW IT.

Every now and then, someone will put a shot in their post which looks like this odd gobbly-gook code. For those who have not seen this before or know how to use it so that they can see the shot, here is an explanation of how to see the shot.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/8ball.html

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1)How to get the wei table so you can see the shot

Go to the following address in your browser-ie, internet explorer or netscape, by either copying it into your browser or clicking on the link.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html

This is called the 'Wei' table, and it is where you will be able to view the shots. Put this into your favorites/bookmarks.

When you go to the wei table for the first time, one of two things usually happens. It will ask you if you want to download 'shockwave' to which you click ok or it will automatically download. You cannot use the table without shockwave. If neither of those things happens, you need to download it.

Downloading shockwave

Mac computers:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool//download/pooltable2.sea

Windows pc computers:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/download/pooltable2.exe

If this does not work, go to the shockwave site and download it from there.

www.macromedia.com

The table looks very nice, like a small pool table with 15 balls and the cueball. If the table does not look nice, you may need a recent plug-in, which you can get at the macromedia site. It is unlikely that this will happen, however.

2)Getting the code onto the table

Highlight the code, including the words copy and end, and click copy, either by using the right click button (pc) or by using the edit drop down menu at the top of your screen.

Open the wei table, and click the paste button at the bottom right of the table. You will be asked twice if you wish to display this, click ok twice. The shot appears.

If you wish to put a shot into your post, use your cursor to put the unneeded balls into the pockets, then move the others and the cueball around on the table to show your shot. There are some lines beneath the table that you can use to show the path of the shot. Once you have done this, click the copy button at the bottom, and go to the post you are making by hitting the back button.

Hit paste and your shot will appear in your post in the 'wei code'
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[ccriderone]

DRILLS: BANKS. 10 pages 10-26-04 DC, Bpn, czm, upp, rsb.
TRICK SHOT: Mosconi 6 rails for the 41 Title. (10 SHOTS.)
9 RAILS STOP ON A DOLLAR BILL.

There are a zillion banks and you have to have them all mastered. I could come up so many bank shots it could fill an entire book and I need to write that book some day. I will not attempt to show them all here, just some of my favorite ones everyone needs to know and be able to make.

SHOT #1. The 5 ball cross bank Caras shots.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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Set up 5 balls in a line close together, then bank all 5 in the side pocket A cross bank in rotation. Cue ball in hand, set up a good angle and shoot into the one ball and draw back out of the way, catch cue ball in hand, replace it very quickly behind the 2 in the correct angle and repeat cross bank, then do the 3-4-5 as fast as you can which is the impressive part of it. Making the first 3 is easy, the 4th gets tough, and the 5th is missed a lot. Even in my shows if I make 4 and miss the 5th this still gets huge respect. The faster you can do this the more impressive it becomes. Jimmy Caras was very quick on this, but I was quicker beating his best time and both of our runs is on one of my video tapes I put out. Jimmy Caras was one of my main teachers.

You must draw back each time with out touching or moving any of the balls in the line. I use center ball low draw 6:00 on all 5 shots. I just see the angle, I call it angle in, angle out, It always forms a A from where I shoot. All there is too banking is seeing and feeling angle in, angle out, it does not get any deeper than this, trust me here. Yes it is not a perfect A, but you learn to see the imperfect A, learning to see the angle that makes the shot is the method I am suggesting. Teaching a no method no system on banks drives some teachers who are teaching others to be mechanical insane. They can’t imagine that this can work. On most bank shots, the angle out is a little shaper and wider than the angle in. This can also be changed either way by how thick, how thin, or using left or right English. This is called making the shot run long or making the shot shorten up. You must practice and be able to create, master and see, all 3 of these A angles.

This is what the A looks like on the table.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html
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I have had the privilege of playing with the top 8 bankers of the 20th century and closely in person observed the other two. I asked them all what their system was, none of them had one. They shot by feel and by years of experience, they just saw and envisioned the shot. They just saw the angle in and out.
All those bank systems are like most systems, BS, draw up by a bunch of egg head PhD’s, post hole diggers that can’t run 3 fooking balls and don’t have a clue. Draw angles, cross angles, draw an obtuse triangle, give me a break here, we are half drunk pool players choking in a match over a C note, all that stuff breaks down in the real world. We don’t play in labs, we play in loud bars, our systems to work, must be non systems without any thought.

You bank with low draw center ball because draw, English reverses, puts running over spin on the object ball. Once you get beyond l.5 diamonds off the left side of the side pocket that changes and I will begin to use English to throw the ball back on its normal A line. Here is such of an example.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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When you get off angle like this I would use low left draw which imparts right follow running English on the OB.

You bank hard on all shots, all the greats did, and they burned them in. Banking with the same force each time gives you angles you can count on. Use less speed, bank soft and the angle widens and you must adjust your aim or you will miss the bank right or high of the side pocket. Bank too hard and the angle shorten and you will miss to the left of the side pocket. A good banker will change his speeds to do different things to make banks.

Tables, get on old 20 year old worn out bar boxes from hell, or your typical 15 year old table in a pool hall that has never had the rails changed and all of them should be after 5 or 6 years, banking can be a crap shoot at best. Mosconi told me he would rather cut 90 degrees than bank and he was an outstanding banker but he realized a cut was a certainty and a bank is always an uncertainty. You can make the shot and the poor table robs you of it. You get dead spots in the rails where the banks hit the most, hit that spot and it goes bunk and comes off weird.
Kids sit on the rails and the rubber gets cracked and loosened, they rarely go under and tighten the rail bolts in a pool hall which they should check them every couple of months to keep them tight. Let them get loose and then none of the banks repeat. Most places replace the cloth every year and the rail bolts are never checked. I see a lot of rail bolts on the floor where they fell out from the constant vibration of the shots.

I think the rails are too high on the gold crowns, a left over thing from the old 14.1 days. I like the hotter rails of the Olhausens which are lower and repel the ball better. Let rails get too high and when you bank hard, the OB is actually driven under the edge of the rubber and then is spit out with back spin on it, not good.
This is what the gold crown does. To make banks on that table I have to reduce my force by 50% and bank medium and then the balls bank well and that is the reason.

This is so important I carry a rail height gauge and check all 4 rails of every table I play on. Many times I find one rail way too high, rail bolts loose, wood rails wrapped, and I avoid all banks on that rail.

When rubber gets worn out and old and I see that on a pool table I drop all banks in my show because all it does is frustrate me and makes me look bad. Mosconi used to get in a lot of trouble with the fans when he would tell them the reason he missed the shot was not him but it was the piece of shit table he was on. Room owners love you for doing that. This was true, but nobody wants to hear that, they think it’s an excuse which it was not. Bad rubber does not repeat you can hit diamond one and it can hit diamond three ways left and on the next shot way right using the same English. Trying to make banks on such a table will drive you to drink so I just play safe.

To test a table when I first get on it I run this shot, a 3 rail bank pot one in the left corner.
SHOT #2. 3 RAIL BANK.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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The cue ball is in what we call position A, the diamond are numbered 1, at the very top and go down in numbers, so A is 1, B is 2, C is 3, D is 4, there is no diamond at 4 on a pool table because of the pocket but there is one on a billiard table. Keep on counting the diamonds down the rail and they go 5-6-7.

The diamonds connect using slight running English, and I usually hit the cue ball medium force and use l/2 to l tip right running or 3:00. I begin by putting a piece of chalk on diamond 2; you always aim and shoot through the diamond or chalk aim point. Most normal tables make this shot off dia 2, new table, rubber and simonis it will always play short a diamond and you will see 3 works, on a bad bad table that might be dia 1.

I divide up the space between the diamond in 10 sections so if the rail point that makes this shot is half way between dia two and one that is l.5. Last night is was l.8 on my table I was on. No two tables will ever be the same and this can change even when you know the aim point if the temperature and humidity changes as the night go on. Let’s now say this is 2.0, I remember that number for during the evening so if this bank comes up I am on it.
This is even more important if I get hooked because I can then see tracks to kick into balls and not give up cue ball in hand. An example:
If the cue ball ends up left of my A track, I lay my cue out in a line from that track into 2.0, then just pull my cue left holding that line until on the cue ball and there is my new track to shoot into.
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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If the cue ball is right of track A, you swing the cue parallel right of that line.

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Now knowing and understanding how the diamond system works and tracks, when the cue ball gets one diamond off of Track A, we hit one diamond different to kick the ball in and this is how Efren is kicking in all these balls on TV using this system. You know hitting dia 2 connects into the corner, so hitting dia 3 connects to dia 7.
\http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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Move the one ball again a full diamond and hitting dia 1 connects to diamond 6 on the short rail.
These tracks should then be remembered and memorized and every diamond number on the rails to memory as well. It is best to take a lesson from a pro that is qualified to teach the diamond system and few are.

 

[ccriderone]

The further you get off angle from A, you will have to add some English to get back on that track, sometimes I have to jack up and hit a masse with 3 tips to juice it around, or hit a half tip reverse to kill a angle. Experience tells you what to do there.
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Practice long banks also and sees the same A it is just larger and longer but the same concept.

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We have now done a 1 and a 3 rail bank, here is a 2 rail bank that can be used but few know it. Pot in side pocket A.

SHOT #3. 2 RAIL BANK OF OB.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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SHOT #4. 4 RAIL BANK OF OB.

4 rail bank.
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http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html


SHOT #5. 5 or 6 rail bank to pot 9 ball.

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http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

SHOT #6. Willie Mosconi's 6 rail bank for the 1941 title trick shot.

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SHOT #7. 9 rails stop on a dollar bill.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

Part A, the first 6 rails, don’t have enough arrows to show all 9 rails on one diagram, sorry.

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Shoot into A, because of a shortage of arrows you have to mentally connect arrows to points B & C and the cue ball makes its circle twice around, the arrows pick up from C and go 9 rails stopping on the dollar bill at point D.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

Part B, the 2nd half of the 9 rail shot. Remember, the cue ball was shot from A, which hit B on the right long rail, C on the short foot rail, D on the upper opposite long rail and we now pick up the arrows and follow it around the table. This shot is called a double around. For most the cue ball will barely make the last short rail, the 9th and come off of it a couple of inches. Where to cue ball begins to end up is where you place your dollar bill, then announce you will hit 9 rails and stop your cue ball on the bill.

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History of the shot. Jake Schaefer and Maurice Daly were shooting it in the 1880’s on a billiard table. They taught it to Willie Hoppe who performed it for the entire first half of the 20th century. Charlie Peterson in the 1949 movie Table Toppers on a 3-c table goes 9 rails and knocks over a standing cigarette. A small target. Paul Gerni made the shot popular as one of his standard 30 shots he performed in the 70-80-90’s.
I perform the 9 rail shot one handed. On my videos on a 10’ table I have gone 9 rails and knocked over a cigarette, actually stopped and froze the cue ball to the standing cig, stopped on a postage stamp on the one ball break spot. I have done double 9’s, putting a cue ball on each long rail and two dollar bills on the short rails, then hit shot one, slide over and hit shot two and stop both cue balls on both bills at the same time. I speed one shot up and English and slow the other shot down to match their speeds and change their tracks so they do not run into each other.
The shot is easy for Paul and every one else because they can only hit 9 rails and Paul can’t get any further off the 9th rail than a few inches. He hits it with all his beef and the cue ball stops on the bill with no problem. I have a distance control problem as I can blow another 9’ back down table and 4’ back up table, or run 12’ past the 9 rail shot. I have to now hit it with about 60% of my power. For 159 years, 9 rails were the farthest any one could hit a bank shot. 10 rails was considered impossible, pools 3 minute mile until I came along and hit 10 rails in 1993, 11 rails in 1994, and finally 12 rails in 1995.

SHOT #8. 11 Rail shot. In two parts, part 1 shoot into 8, bank 7 rails into B

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Part 11 we come off the 7th rail at B and go down, around and back down to hit 11 rails at A.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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SHOT #9. A nice 2 or 3 rail reverse shot to have.

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SHOT # 10. A long bank max reverse nobody knows, hit it hard loaded cue ball.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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THE WEI POOL TABLE, HOW TO OPEN AND VIEW IT.

Every now and then, someone will put a shot in their post which looks like this odd gobbly-gook code. For those who have not seen this before or know how to use it so that they can see the shot, here is an explanation of how to see the shot.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/8ball.html

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1)How to get the wei table so you can see the shot

Go to the following address in your browser-ie, internet explorer or netscape, by either copying it into your browser or clicking on the link.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html

This is called the 'Wei' table, and it is where you will be able to view the shots. Put this into your favorites/bookmarks.

When you go to the wei table for the first time, one of two things usually happens. It will ask you if you want to download 'shockwave' to which you click ok or it will automatically download. You cannot use the table without shockwave. If neither of those things happens, you need to download it.

Downloading shockwave

Mac computers:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool//download/pooltable2.sea

Windows pc computers:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/download/pooltable2.exe

If this does not work, go to the shockwave site and download it from there.

www.macromedia.com

The table looks very nice, like a small pool table with 15 balls and the cueball. If the table does not look nice, you may need a recent plug-in, which you can get at the macromedia site. It is unlikely that this will happen, however.

2)Getting the code onto the table

Highlight the code, including the words copy and end, and click copy, either by using the right click button (pc) or by using the edit drop down menu at the top of your screen.

Open the wei table, and click the paste button at the bottom right of the table. You will be asked twice if you wish to display this, click ok twice. The shot appears.

If you wish to put a shot into your post, use your cursor to put the unneeded balls into the pockets, then move the others and the cueball around on the table to show your shot. There are some lines beneath the table that you can use to show the path of the shot. Once you have done this, click the copy button at the bottom, and go to the post you are making by hitting the back button.

Hit paste and your shot will appear in your post in the 'wei code'
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[ccriderone]

TRICK SHOT: Hoods 4 in 4 side pocket lineup shot.
Hoods 4 in 4 Side Pocket Lineup 4 pages 10-25-04

This is one of the fans all time favorite shots. It was in Willie Mosconi’s show and every major player has featured it. It was invented in 1908 by Joe Hood who gave it no name. The shot had no name and Hoods identity had been kept a secret. I exposed Hood as the inventor of most of our modern shots and named this shot for him in the mid 90’s.

The Wei diagram, if you do not know how to open it instructions is on the bottom.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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Line up the balls in the side of the pocket, not in the middle so the 3 ball can then throw into the middle of C. Set them up in the middle of A and the 3 will throw and hit the left point of C. The one ball has its back edge even with the rail and the 1-5-8-3 is all frozen together in a straight line which is critical. If any of these balls, 1-5-3 are unfroze the shot will fail.

I draw a line between the 3 and the 8 and place the cue ball in the middle of that line. On some tables I put the cue ball dead on line with the 8. If you get the cue ball too far right of the 8 you won’t have enough power to hit the 3 ball over and this can really come into play on very slow house cloths or bar boxes.

I shoot the cue ball with center ball 6:00 with l/2 tip below center, level cue, do not be jacked up, you do not want the cue ball jumping. How low I go depends on what angle I can produce to pull off a 2 or 3 rail draw bank so I can pull the cue ball over to the top right corner and pot the 6 & 9 balls turning a 4 ball shot into a 6 ball. Making these two is very tough so I usually announce the 4 and if I make the 6 I go where did that come from? Making it a 5 ball shot has a chance potting a single ball there. Trying to make two is too difficult. I use a Siamese, two stuck together and that solves this problem. I like to use a large plastic cup I lay in front of the table also and put the cue ball in the cup which flips up and goes in the pocket with the cue ball with a thud, the fans love that move. If I make the 4 in 4 and miss the cup I say nothing and just move on. I never announce the cup and make it a surprise because the 4in4 I am going to make 99% of the time in 3 snaps and I am going to miss the cup 50% of the time.

I just split the 5 and 8; shoot between the two, that’s it. That works on most tables.

The one ball pots in the A side pocket, the 5 goes up the rail to pot in the corner pocket B, the 3 goes across table to pot in side pocket C. The 8 ball is the problem ball to pot. It goes up table behind the 5 wide of it, misses the pocket hitting the short rail and long banks down table to pot in D.

Before the shot I tell everyone this is an 8 ball game and my opponent has solids and left me this shot on the 8 to win. What pocket will I put it in? I then ask everyone to stand by the pocket it will go in. Those who do know the shot never figure it out.

There are some tables this shot will not go on. I have seen the greatest in the game and hall of famers crash and burn on this shot. So have I. The secret to it is knowing what to do when the shot won’t cooperate. The common problem is the long bank of the 8. Usually is won’t come back, on some tables it comes back in too fast. For the table where it wont come back in I find if you hit it harder it will miss the pot in D but long back up in B and pot on some tables every time, I take it and say nothing. If any body brings it up, I say any body can make that using 2 rails; I bank it using 3 to show how good I am. To help close the angle by hitting hard, to help widen the angle I hit softer.

I don’t like to but some resort to hitting the shot with low left or low right. I rarely do. I just alter the long bank on the 8 by hitting it thicker or thinner and alter my speed of stroke.
If they won’t throw at all you then put a small l/16th gap between the 5 and the 8 which helps them throw. You UN freeze these two balls. Another method is to apply chalk between the contact points of the 5 and 8 and freeze them together. Don’t use too much or they will throw too much.

The real secret of this shot is knowing what to do when the shot won’t go. Every cloth and every set of rails you get on is going to make this shot different. Because dirty balls throw better than clean or polished ones I always carry my own set so the balls throw the same.



THE WEI POOL TABLE, HOW TO OPEN AND VIEW IT.

The following code below makes no sense and is a bunch of gobble gook numbers and letters but they will open up the shot and display it for you to view. If you do open the code you will see on of my favorite show shots where I make 5 balls in one stroke a shot I invented. The shot takes a lot of skill to pull off.
We need to do a little work to make this table viewing or drawing of shots now happen. This may seem complicated but once you do this once, the 2nd time is easy. Just left click on the corner at the bottom right of the last word of the code words below and then pull the mouse cursor up the left side to the top , blue it all in, then right click and hit copy when the box drops. You do not do that on the code below, this is an example of what it looks like. You blue in and copy the code you see posted on the forum you are reading. You then have to dump that code into the wei table you must now produce, read on. ACTUNG, WHEN YOU COPY THE BELOW CODE, DO NOT COPY THE LAST LINE THAT SAYS END, BEGIN YOUR COPY ON THE LINE ABOVE IT ON THE FAR RIGHT HAND SIDE ON THE LETTERS AND CODES.

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To see the 5 in 3 Fast Eddy’s Easy Action trick shot you must first acquire and display the wei pool table.
Put your mouse cursor arrow over and on the underlined link on the next line down for the table to appear. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/8ball.html
Left click it twice fast. If the http above does not display an underline it will not open and you will have to copy it and put it in your internet explorer and hit enter for the table to appear.

If it is underlined and does not open, then hold down ctrl at the bottom left of your key board and left click on your mouse and then it will appear. Before you do that write down the instructions in the paragraph below as they are going to vanish once you click the link on the wei table? Print out a hard copy of this and tape it by your cpu monitor.

When you see the pool table with 15 balls in a rack that is not the shot. You now have the table up and you can remove the rack of balls and view the shot the author is sending you. At the bottom right click the green paste tab that is just below the red tab. You will get a box that drops over the table, left click OK, once or twice if the box comes back and the shot then appears. Left click the red X in the top right corner to remove the box and see the shot if the box does not go away on its own. See, it was not that hard and being able to see and understand the shot is worth the work to reveal it.
Fast Loves ya, have fun with the shot.

If you want to draw and compose a shot to send to me you take your mouse and put your cursor arrow over the ball and or balls you want to place and drag and drop them where you want them. The un used balls drag and drop in a pocket. Go to the cue ball and move the black dot to show where the cue tip hits the ball.

There are several colored arrows below the bottom right of the table. Grab the bottom of the arrow and place on the cue ball, now grab and drop the top arrow on the object ball. Don’t use the yellow ones unless drawing a masse shot and you want to draw a curve. With a little practice and skill you will be designing shots in no time.
You may need to download a plug in: Macromedia website
You can find the latest shockwave plug in from
www.macromedia.com
Downloading the table
For Mac users, you can find it at
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/download/pooltable2.sea
for window users, you can find it at
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/download/pooltable2.exe

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[ccriderone]

TRICK SHOT: FAST EDDY’s 4in3 easy action shot. 5in3 & 7in4. (Three shots.) 4 pages 11-1-04 CR,

This shot goes back over a half century. It looks hard but it is actually easy and very repeatable once you have the set up wired in tight and understand how to hit it. It’s a one snap shot and the fans go wild over it. When balls go left and right at the same time and everything falls their eyes can’t follow it all and amazement ensues.

The inventor of this shot is unknown. This was one of Fast Eddy’s show shots, his signature shot and I perform it in my show to honor his name as he is no longer with us. Fast Eddy really was, he and I came up in the same pool hall together, Kling and Allen’s in KCMO. We were life long friends. He was one of my teachers and advisors on artistic. He loved my shots. His name was Fast Eddy Parker. They changed that to Fast Eddy Felson in the 1961 movie, the hustler. Paul Newman played him.

If you do not know how to open the Wei table diagram instructions are at the end.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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SHOT #1. 4in3. Secret to the shot is to just thin the 6 and have a full ball hit on left ball, the 5. That allows you to hit it softly with center ball only one tip above center and stay hugging on the rail and not come off. The two back balls, 1=5 are on the same line and as far apart as possible in the pocket you have, at least and inch apart. The top right ball, the 6 can be now hit very thin. The ball behind it, the 1 can be a half inch off the rail line if it pots and the 6 goes down the rail well to the right and does not blip out. Line up the cue ball directly in line with the 2nd ball on left, the 5. Put the 9 ball high and wide left of the pocket in the far top right bottom corner.

The 1=5 pot in the side A, the 6 goes right up the long rail to pot in corner B, the cue ball hugs or bumps the left long rail and pots the 9 in left corner C. 4in3.

SHOT #2. 5in3. Replace the single 9 ball with a 2 ball Siamese, which is two balls held together with a screw that can not be seen and the shot now pots 5 balls.

SHOT #3. 7in4. Place a ball tray around the D location, fill the tray with spare balls to add weight to it so it won’t move on impact. Tilt the tray to such an angle so when the cue ball pots the 2 balls in C, it comes up off of the back short rail, hits the tray and deflects back down to pot 2 more Siamese in the bottom left corner, 7in4. You have now taken a great shot and made it a spectacular shot. Shot 2 & 3 are inventions by me.

A word of warning on Siamese balls. They are cool and I like using them. Nobody knows they are stuck together unless they are an artistic player, so they fool 99.9% of the audience. Hey, it’s a trick shot show, you come to be tricked, right, that is my answer when anybody confronts me with this. I also say, that is why they call me Fast Larry, what do you expect from a guy with a name like that. You make a joke and everyone walks away smiling. After the shot I leave them down in the pockets so not to reveal them. When I do bring them out I cover them with my hand and wrist to hide the fact they are stuck together. I toss them in a case from view. Never use cheap balls to make Siamese, they will bust up, they do not have the quality of the resin to hold up to the force put on them.

Use only Centennial or super pro aramiths and buying singles is going to cost you about $15 per ball. Drill a hole in each ball about 1”, screw into the first ball a deck screw, then cut off the head of the screw and back the 2nd ball on the screw until they fit tight, that’s it. Pool halls have some old junk messed up balls they will probably give you or sell you real cheap. Experiment with those first before you mess up $30 worth of new balls.

Placing the Siamese is also an art. You soon realize by turning them in the pocket you give your self a much wider target which is true, but one out of 10 shots your cue ball will squeeze in beside it or thin the top ball and the two roll sideways and hang and not pot. I am a poet and don’t know it.

I put them in so the back ball almost over hangs the back ledge of the slate so no matter where the top ball is hit, the back ball drags the top ball into the pocket. Do not get greedy on the placement turning them wide, do so and expect to get burned. Bank on it.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/9ball.html

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THE WEI POOL TABLE, HOW TO OPEN AND VIEW IT.

Every now and then, someone will put a shot in their post which looks like this odd gobbly-gook code. For those who have not seen this before or know how to use it so that they can see the shot, here is an explanation of how to see the shot.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/preset/8ball.html

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1)How to get the wei table so you can see the shot

Go to the following address in your browser-ie, internet explorer or netscape, by either copying it into your browser or clicking on the link.

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html

This is called the 'Wei' table, and it is where you will be able to view the shots. Put this into your favorites/bookmarks.

When you go to the wei table for the first time, one of two things usually happens. It will ask you if you want to download 'shockwave' to which you click ok or it will automatically download. You cannot use the table without shockwave. If neither of those things happens, you need to download it.

Downloading shockwave

Mac computers:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool//download/pooltable2.sea

Windows pc computers:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/download/pooltable2.exe

If this does not work, go to the shockwave site and download it from there.

www.macromedia.com

The table looks very nice, like a small pool table with 15 balls and the cueball. If the table does not look nice, you may need a recent plug-in, which you can get at the macromedia site. It is unlikely that this will happen, however.

2)Getting the code onto the table

Highlight the code, including the words copy and end, and click copy, either by using the right click button (pc) or by using the edit drop down menu at the top of your screen.

Open the wei table, and click the paste button at the bottom right of the table. You will be asked twice if you wish to display this, click ok twice. The shot appears.

If you wish to put a shot into your post, use your cursor to put the unneeded balls into the pockets, then move the others and the cueball around on the table to show your shot. There are some lines beneath the table that you can use to show the path of the shot. Once you have done this, click the copy button at the bottom, and go to the post you are making by hitting the back button.

Hit paste and your shot will appear in your post in the 'wei code'

 

[Jal]

My buddy works at a seniors ...

Here's an easy one, a ball separation shot. Hit the 1-ball straight on and follow to sink the three.

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Here's a harder one, but not too hard. Pocket all three balls.

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The balls need to be frozen with the one and two lined up as shown. Strike the 1-ball with about a quarter ball hit on the right side. Use right english to help throw the 3-ball into the same pocket as the two.



How about the six ball butterfly shot! It's easy and pretty impressive, although well known:

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Jim