spot shot

[obclassicut]

Sorry, my question was not specific enough. Which new factors are you aware of that come into the shot when you add side spin? (What I'm trying to do here is see if you already know the answer to your original question.)

Squirt (deflection), Swerve (spin induced alteration of cue ball path) i think you were successful in your attempt. thank you, seriously. Now i think i asked a pretty dumb question, hah

 

[oshua86]

Here's a trick to making a spot shot, provided you have a reasonably straight stroke.

Lay your cue (red line) over the center of the pocket going up to the 2nd diamond on the long rail. Where your tip ends up is where you want to put the CB (as shown in the picture). This sets up the CB-OB relationship as a half-ball hit.

Now get down on the shot using center cue ball, and aim your tip at the edge of the OB. Then just shoot the shot.

I've made over 10 spot shots in a row using this method. Really simple.

This shot comes a lot in ring games, I used this system a lot and works good for me. I also like moving the cue ball closer to that left rail about 4" off the rail and aiming the cueball to hit the first diamond on the short rail closest to the target corner pocket, I usually look past the OB just trying to hit that diamond and since the object ball is on the CB path it goes on the pocket. There are several "spot shot systems" out there, they good to know if you play a lot of ring games