Opening break shot question.

as a referance point as to how much of the corner ball to hit try....just cutting the corner ball into the oppsite corner pocket.it is so much easier to judge how much ball to hit. then just ajust spin and speed to catch the other 3 rails and you have it.
when i used to play seigle he would use a wider angle and draw the cueball off the corner ball with extreem spin and just barly make the corner ball hit the bottom rail , the other corner ball would come straight back and replace the same spot it was in!he didnt hit 2 balls to the rail sometimes but when it did you were screwed!but that is mike for you.
 
poolshark52 said:
as a referance point as to how much of the corner ball to hit try....just cutting the corner ball into the oppsite corner pocket.it is so much easier to judge how much ball to hit. then just ajust spin and speed to catch the other 3 rails and you have it.
when i used to play seigle he would use a wider angle and draw the cueball off the corner ball with extreem spin and just barly make the corner ball hit the bottom rail , the other corner ball would come straight back and replace the same spot it was in!he didnt hit 2 balls to the rail sometimes but when it did you were screwed!but that is mike for you.
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Good idea. Gotta try that. Thanks.
 
mullyman said:
Hold up, for the past 25 years I've thought running english was outside and a little above center. The above center moving it forward (running) and the spin (english). Are you 100% sure running english is center outside?
MULLY
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All of these terms (inside/outside, running/holdup) refer only to the sidespin on the ball. They have nothing to do with whether or not there's follow or draw on the ball. You can have any of them with either follow or draw.

As Bob explained, it's conventional to use inside/outside when hitting another ball and running/holdup when hitting a rail, but the definitions of outside/running and inside/holdup are essentially the same:

  • Outside/running = sidespin that tends to speed up (or at least not slow down) the CB when it hits a ball or rail (spinning "with" the CB's direction).

  • Inside/holdup = sidespin that tends to slow down the CB when it hits a ball or rail (spinning "against" the CB's direction).

pj
chgo
 
poolshark52 said:
...when i used to play seigle he would use a wider angle and draw the cueball off the corner ball with extreem spin and just barly make the corner ball hit the bottom rail , the other corner ball would come straight back and replace the same spot it was in!he didnt hit 2 balls to the rail sometimes but when it did you were screwed!but that is mike for you.
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The other corner ball is the most important one anyway; it's the one you might leave a shot on if it doesn't get back to the rack.

pj
chgo
 
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