0:52, horrible cueball placement with ball in hand. On this 1-ball that 6-ball on the rail is in the way of the path you would actually want the cueball to travel, which is why you hit the cueball short and went into your next object ball. You got "really" lucky to hit the 4-ball the way you did and still leave yourself a shot, if that cueball hits the 4-ball a little higher towards the headrail side of the 4-ball you were SOL. You got really lucky to hit it dead straight and still have it pass the 7-ball. The correct pattern for that shot was to take the cueball and place it about exactly where the line between the two side pockets and the line between the 6-ball and 8-ball bisect. That leaves you with about a 1/2-2/3rds ball cut to the right, which you play with a bit of low left and run the cueball two rails off nearly the center of the footrail and into the side rail at roughly 1.5 diamonds up from the footrail. This leaves the cueball playing into the angle on the 4-ball in the side. You paly the shot with the speed to come off the side rail 3-4 inches or so with the cueball following the path of a straight in shot on the 4-ball.
9:44 you miss the 5-ball. If you watch your pre-shot routine and getting down on the shot you will see you are pretty much still walking around the table half hunched down as you got down on the shot. It caused you to be set up poorly which was part of the reason you missed (I will cover the "other" part of why you missed that below). In most of your shots you are actually fairly good about stand up and approaching the shot from behind the cueball and only "then" getting down into your stance. Don't get fast and skip that step, most great players are methodical about their approach and setup and they do not compromise that even on the easier shots that many armatures think are easy and take for granted.
22:01. You "attempt" to play a draw shot to go from the 4 back to the 5-ball and end up hooking yourself. Looking at your warmup strokes prior to shooting the shot even before I saw it I knew you were in trouble. You are cueing the ball at almost center ball on the warmup strokes and when you actually took the shot you dove the tip through the follow-through after contact. You hit that ball with almost center ball which is why it stunned instead of giving you the draw you needed. A little bit of left hand siding would have also helped the cueball spin back towards the proper path towards the line you wanted to be on for the 5-ball. You also hit the ball hard, given where the 9-ball is you really did not want to do "too" much with the cueball there. About 6 inches off the side rail and parallel with the 7-ball is all you could really do there leaving yourself a 5-ball with tops and maybe a bit of left hand siding to come down for the 6-ball on the rail. Playing for a straighter 5-ball then that flirts with the 9-ball too much for a power draw shot.
Overall comment on your ability to see the angles the cueball comes off at. You see this poorly. You use your arm and cue to attempt to see the right angle of the cueball path coming off the object ball. It is not working.
Your shot on the 9-ball was not even close to a scratch playing tops or even center ball. The cueball is below the footspot, it is quite a thin cut, it is clear with center ball or a little left hand siding (if you play outside siding on cuts as many better players tend to at times) that the cueball is going to the upper diamond on the footrail as we face the table. Given the exact placement of the 9-ball and the cueball it would actually take a "really" good draw stroke to pocket that 9-ball and scratch in the corner, we are talking Busty levels of spin.
As per my comment above about 9:44 this killed you again because your inability to judge the angle the cueball was going to take ended up in you playing the shape very wrong. The natural angle for the cueball with center ball is hitting "just" low of the center diamond on the footrail as we face it. The only way to scratch on that shot is to power draw it, which is actually what you attempted to do but you undercut the 5-ball and that is the only reason you were able to pull the cueball above the corner and into the 6-ball. You had an easy and safe shape shot there playing a lower power stroke with a little bit of lower right hand siding, sending the cueball into footrail at about 1.5 diamonds up from the corner, and then having the running English track the cueball to about 1.5 diamonds from that same corner into the long rail around the 6-ball. Now your cueball is traveling along the angle of the shot on the 6-ball and almost regardless of speed of the shot you are going to fall on it. For ease of the next shot the center of the table would be perfect.
9:44 you miss the 5-ball. If you watch your pre-shot routine and getting down on the shot you will see you are pretty much still walking around the table half hunched down as you got down on the shot. It caused you to be set up poorly which was part of the reason you missed (I will cover the "other" part of why you missed that below). In most of your shots you are actually fairly good about stand up and approaching the shot from behind the cueball and only "then" getting down into your stance. Don't get fast and skip that step, most great players are methodical about their approach and setup and they do not compromise that even on the easier shots that many armatures think are easy and take for granted.
22:01. You "attempt" to play a draw shot to go from the 4 back to the 5-ball and end up hooking yourself. Looking at your warmup strokes prior to shooting the shot even before I saw it I knew you were in trouble. You are cueing the ball at almost center ball on the warmup strokes and when you actually took the shot you dove the tip through the follow-through after contact. You hit that ball with almost center ball which is why it stunned instead of giving you the draw you needed. A little bit of left hand siding would have also helped the cueball spin back towards the proper path towards the line you wanted to be on for the 5-ball. You also hit the ball hard, given where the 9-ball is you really did not want to do "too" much with the cueball there. About 6 inches off the side rail and parallel with the 7-ball is all you could really do there leaving yourself a 5-ball with tops and maybe a bit of left hand siding to come down for the 6-ball on the rail. Playing for a straighter 5-ball then that flirts with the 9-ball too much for a power draw shot.
Overall comment on your ability to see the angles the cueball comes off at. You see this poorly. You use your arm and cue to attempt to see the right angle of the cueball path coming off the object ball. It is not working.
Your shot on the 9-ball was not even close to a scratch playing tops or even center ball. The cueball is below the footspot, it is quite a thin cut, it is clear with center ball or a little left hand siding (if you play outside siding on cuts as many better players tend to at times) that the cueball is going to the upper diamond on the footrail as we face the table. Given the exact placement of the 9-ball and the cueball it would actually take a "really" good draw stroke to pocket that 9-ball and scratch in the corner, we are talking Busty levels of spin.
As per my comment above about 9:44 this killed you again because your inability to judge the angle the cueball was going to take ended up in you playing the shape very wrong. The natural angle for the cueball with center ball is hitting "just" low of the center diamond on the footrail as we face it. The only way to scratch on that shot is to power draw it, which is actually what you attempted to do but you undercut the 5-ball and that is the only reason you were able to pull the cueball above the corner and into the 6-ball. You had an easy and safe shape shot there playing a lower power stroke with a little bit of lower right hand siding, sending the cueball into footrail at about 1.5 diamonds up from the corner, and then having the running English track the cueball to about 1.5 diamonds from that same corner into the long rail around the 6-ball. Now your cueball is traveling along the angle of the shot on the 6-ball and almost regardless of speed of the shot you are going to fall on it. For ease of the next shot the center of the table would be perfect.
. It's not a critical thing since I am pretty much retired from pool for a while, but I still like to see how much I have regressed so I know what I need to work on if I start playing again.
