Soft Break How to

Bluey2King

Bluey2King

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Hello; Happy New Year to all..!!
I want to learn to Soft Break like I have seen Cory Duel.
I have hurt my shoulder and it hurts my tendons to Hard Break. I have been just going with a stiff stop shot a little off center of the foot spot.
I would like to get some concistancy and I am not sure where to aim. I did notice he breaks from the side I don't have any tapes of him I am not sure how far to the side and where to aim and what I should be looking for as I get closer to pocketing the 1.

Thanks
Bluey2King
 
Get Racking Secrets by Joe Tucker. It tells you how to analyze the rack, and decide on the breaking spot to make the wing ball.
 
I'm sure you can find some matches with Corey in them for free on UTube. Just watch them a few times each. Then get someone to come with you to rack. Keep moving the QB, where you hit the rack, speed, and english until you can make the same ball a high percentage of the time and have a shot on you lowest ball. It takes hundreds of racks to get it right...but worth it if yoy play a lot of pool. It's also a pain in the *ss and boring to practice it. Johnnyt
 
I was watching him at the sands a few years ago and i went home and practised his break for a while. He was shooting about 3-4 inches off the left side and hitting the head ball left of center with a enough low left to bring the cue off the rail and back toward center. The left corner ball was going every time and the 1 would lay up by the side pocket. How hard you hit the rack determined where the 1 stopped,meaning soft enough to keep it from going past the side. He was also racking in the same order every time and the balls rolled close to the same places every break.The 8 and 9 never left the center of the rack and he shot them in the same pockets time after time. Of course that was a rack your own tournament and he had the tables dialed in. But it does work on my table to. Good Luck. Don:cool:
 
You can break pretty hard without moving or putting strain on your shoulder. Try this and see how it works for you:

Stand straight up, away from the table, not holding a cue, with your arms hanging at your sides. See how quickly you can make your right arm go from totally straight to fully bent (fist touches shoulder). Do it several times, just concentrating on quickness. Visualize yourself doing it so fast you don't even see the movement, just a straight arm one instant and a bent arm the next. Feel how relaxed your muscles have to be to accomplish this with extreme quickness. Do it several times until you've really internalized how it feels.

Then grab a cue, get down in your stance, and stroke through that cue ball with the same quickness, visualizing your hand disappearing at the end of the backstroke and reappearing instantaneously at your finish. Use the same visualization you were using without the cue, and try to achieve that same relaxed feeling that allowed you to move your hand so quickly before. You'll find that even with no elbow drop, no shoulder movement, no leg movement, nothing except a quickly darting right hand, you can really smash the rack. Maybe not quite as hard as if you got your shoulder and your whole body into it, but still really hard, and there should be no strain on your shoulder. Should allow for a very accurate stroke and good CB control as well, once you get used to it.

-Andrew
 
That's why

it is called 'practice'. You trial and error until you get it figured out, but I do understand you trying to get a head's up on it. Back when I grew up, tips about Pool were real rare, and you had to figure every thing out on your own.

There were a few books out then, but most everything was trial and error.
 
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