Stun control drill

Ralph Kramden

Ralph Kramden

BOOM!.. ZOOM!.. MOON!
Silver Member
I think this is a good CB stun control drill for both direction and speed.

Put the CB on the center of the table (center spot). Place an OB touching the CB and lined up toward either side pocket.

Roll the CB away, leaving an angled cutshot on the OB. Pocket the OB in the side and stun the CB, stopping on the footspot.
Try the same shot, passing the footspot and stopping the CB within one ball from the center diamond on the short rail.
With the same setup, pass the footspot, come off the short rail, and try stopping the CB within 2 balls from the footspot.

Starting with the CB on the centerspot, the tangent line runs directly through the footspot and to the short rail diamond.
 
Last edited:
I think I saw this drill in bob jewett's progressive practice pdf.

Sent from my BlackBerry 9780 using Tapatalk
 
pmata814 said:
I think I saw this drill in bob jewett's progressive practice pdf.

Sent from my BlackBerry 9780 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Some of the best fundamental drills in a easy format with trackable results. On top of it all, he offers them up for the low price of $free.99
<-- has spent quite a few hours practicing the drills
 
pmata814 said:
I think I saw this drill in bob jewett's progressive practice pdf.
Click to expand...

The centerspot, the footspot and short rail center diamond are all in one line.

The stun drill I proposed is for both the speed and direction of the cueball.
I was mainly suggesting the visual tangent line. The CB crosses the footspot.

IMO all Bob Jewett's progressive practice drills are excellent.
 
Ralph Kramden said:
The centerspot, the footspot and short rail center diamond are all in one line.

The stun drill I proposed is for both the speed and direction of the cueball.
I was mainly suggesting the visual tangent line. The CB crosses the footspot.

IMO all Bob Jewett's progressive practice drills are excellent.
Click to expand...

I'm going to explain the related drill we made up and do in our Foundations Course. It's actually a fractional-ball aiming drill as well as a stun drill

It's a little easier to demonstrate than to explain in writing

(1) Place the cueball in the exact center of the table with an object ball frozen to it lined up for a side pocket. Carefully place donuts (paper hole reinforcers) under both balls.

(2) On one side of the opposite long rail, freeze three balls to the rail—at a half diamond, a full diamond, and two diamonds from the side pocket. (The easiest way to place a ball at the half-diamond is to place one temporarily at the center of the side pocket and then find half way to the full-diamond ball).

(3) Place three donuts on the rail anywhere on the lines from the cueball through each of the three object balls.

(4) remove all the balls except the object ball near the center of the table. The donut next to the object ball is the ghost-ball location and is the aim-point from anywhere.

These three lines, from the rail donuts to the ghost-ball donut, are three-quarter, half, and quarter-ball hits respectively. [SAM 4, 3, and 2, if that's the way you roll]

While lining up the cut to the side pocket, the cue on a half-ball hit will be directly over the “half-ball” diamond.

• How far does the cueball travel when the shots are hit at pocket speed?
• Use stun on each cut to send the cueball back and forth along the center line
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top