Shots from corner to corner diagonally seems to be the hardest for me. I play with a low setup and open bridge. I play on Brunswick tables and Valley barboxes mostly. It doesn't seem to make any difference how long or short, or what angle, if its diagonal from corner to corner, its a tougher shot for me. Any pointers or feedback would be apreciated.
Need Help with Diagonal Shots from Corner to Corner
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Hi there Steve,
How's Ohio.
The shot you are talking about is one of my favorite to practice because it forces you to have the eyes in the most correct position or it won't look quite right and might not go.
I set the cue ball up about 15 inches from the corner and put the object ball about 15 inches from the other corner or should i say kitty corner.
I set a goal for myself of making 200 of these in a row before I quit for practice. It usually takes me 2 o 3 times for me to get to 100. It forces you to get that dominant eye in the most correct position. Really work on getting it as far as you can and still see the shot. That's what this excersize is for.
Make sure your there in the preshot. Keep it there all the way down. If it looks good fire. If not you need to work the eyes some more.
For me this is one of my most important practice shots.
Give me a call sometime and I'll run you through it like we did before.
Be good to hear from you. Thanks again geno...........
Hi there Steve,
How's Ohio.
The shot you are talking about is one of my favorite to practice because it forces you to have the eyes in the most correct position or it won't look quite right and might not go.
I set the cue ball up about 15 inches from the corner and put the object ball about 15 inches from the other corner or should i say kitty corner.
I set a goal for myself of making 200 of these in a row before I quit for practice. It usually takes me 2 o 3 times for me to get to 100. It forces you to get that dominant eye in the most correct position. Really work on getting it as far as you can and still see the shot. That's what this excersize is for.
Make sure your there in the preshot. Keep it there all the way down. If it looks good fire. If not you need to work the eyes some more.
For me this is one of my most important practice shots.
Give me a call sometime and I'll run you through it like we did before.
Be good to hear from you. Thanks again geno...........
JC
Coos Cues
So do you walk over there and reset the shot yourself each time or do you have a slave to do that? 12 feet walking down there and 12 feet back on a nine foot table times 200 shots is 4800 feet of travel just setting up the drill. You walk around the table a mile for just this one part of your practice routine? Really? No wonder you're not fat.
JC
If you have half of the balls on each end of the table, you just need to set up your next shot from where you are standing before you walk to the cue ball. That cuts the walking in about half.:wink:
Be glad you are not a golfer! Chiping and pitching onto the practice green goes like this. Hit 3 or 4 balls about 30 or 40 yards. Walk up, round them up. bend down and pick them up, walk another 20 yards to get back off the green, then repeat. Do this for an hour or 2. Then start putting practice the same way. When you are done with that......................
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Increments
As with all shots, the correct way to learn is in increments. Set up a 2-foot shot on the corner to corner line and when you've made it a few times in a row, lengthen the shot until you eventually get to the 10-foot shot. The ultimate is shooting with the OB half way between the pockets and the CB in the jaws. My former teammate, the late/great Billy Steele used to make this shot with amazing consistency. One of his secrets was aiming at the bottom of the OB. A second was posing after the shot to affirm that the cue tip comes to rest on line with the intended pocket.
Donny L
PBIA/ACS Instructor
As with all shots, the correct way to learn is in increments. Set up a 2-foot shot on the corner to corner line and when you've made it a few times in a row, lengthen the shot until you eventually get to the 10-foot shot. The ultimate is shooting with the OB half way between the pockets and the CB in the jaws. My former teammate, the late/great Billy Steele used to make this shot with amazing consistency. One of his secrets was aiming at the bottom of the OB. A second was posing after the shot to affirm that the cue tip comes to rest on line with the intended pocket.
Donny L
PBIA/ACS Instructor
Assuming you mean dead straight shots corner-to-corner, I find it really helpful on these shots to aim my cue not at the center of the object ball but at the point where the base of the object ball meets the cloth.
Even when it's not dead straight, the base-cloth point makes a nice visual reference from which I can adjust.
Cory
Even when it's not dead straight, the base-cloth point makes a nice visual reference from which I can adjust.
Cory
a simple trick for dead straight shots
There is a simple trick for dead straight shots, forget the object ball. Fire the cue ball looking at the pocket dead behind the object ball instead of the object ball. For a lot of people the longer sight radius gives better accuracy.
Hu
There is a simple trick for dead straight shots, forget the object ball. Fire the cue ball looking at the pocket dead behind the object ball instead of the object ball. For a lot of people the longer sight radius gives better accuracy.
Hu
I tried this at the pool room this past week. It worked for me. I am going to work on it some more with the longer staight in shots. You need a good stroke to execute the shot. Thanks Hu.
glad it worked for you
I'm glad it worked for you. As you noticed it will let you check your stroke in a hurry too. With a straight stroke I am sometimes looking wherever is comfortable instead of at the object ball when I fire. Might be in front of or behind the object ball. As long as it is on the path or extended path of the cue ball it doesn't matter.
Hu
I'm glad it worked for you. As you noticed it will let you check your stroke in a hurry too. With a straight stroke I am sometimes looking wherever is comfortable instead of at the object ball when I fire. Might be in front of or behind the object ball. As long as it is on the path or extended path of the cue ball it doesn't matter.
Hu
Plain and simple, you're not striking the cue ball where intended, therefore the object ball is also not hit where intended. Reasons? Could be anything, like poor delivery of the cue with twitching or snatching, too twitchy too fast backswing, steering the cue, bad grip which tightens heavily before strike taking the cue offline, shaky bridge, misaligned cue from the start due to no preshot routine...etc...the list could go on and on and on...but the worst enemy of accuracy is probably head/body movement which itself produces many errors mentioned above...
If I were you, I'd take instructions. Couldn't hurt.
If I were you, I'd take instructions. Couldn't hurt.
Easy way to squash an "am I aiming correctly" concern is to get someone to give you a hand.
Have them stand at the pocket you are shooting into, holding a cue aiming straight at your cue, get down on your shot. Make sure when you aim straight at the object ball your tip is pointing directly to their tip. Now, when you stroke the cb hold the finish. If your tip finish position isn't pointing directly at the other cue tip... you have a stroke issue, not aiming. The person holding the cue at the pocket should also look to see - how and where the stroke goes off line. I can usually help someone in a few minutes with this shot.
Potting tip on this shot is to picture the object ball as the pocket and you want the sides of the CB to pass between the edges of the OB. Aiming for the back of the OB might help.
Have them stand at the pocket you are shooting into, holding a cue aiming straight at your cue, get down on your shot. Make sure when you aim straight at the object ball your tip is pointing directly to their tip. Now, when you stroke the cb hold the finish. If your tip finish position isn't pointing directly at the other cue tip... you have a stroke issue, not aiming. The person holding the cue at the pocket should also look to see - how and where the stroke goes off line. I can usually help someone in a few minutes with this shot.
Potting tip on this shot is to picture the object ball as the pocket and you want the sides of the CB to pass between the edges of the OB. Aiming for the back of the OB might help.
Do Bert Kinnister's "Mighty X" drill.
I too like that practice drill..
I also struggled with this shot for some time. Just had trouble sighting it until a friend of mine gave me a piece of advice that worked. If it is dead straight-in just pretend the object is on rail road tracks and run the cb down the same track to replace the the ob. Basically, I am matching up both edges of the ob with both edges of the cb.
It may sound funny but after about 10 or 15 shots you just see it and making the shot becomes very easy, as long as you have good fundamentals and are hitting the cb exactly where you want. Give it a try, it will work.
This sounds great. I'll need to give it a try.