The Nurse Shot......... You Are Welcome

hemicudas

hemicudas

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I believe this shot should no longer be a secret to only a few players. This Nurse shot can win games, sets or even matches, if you can recognize it and exicute it at the right time.

This is a one pocket situation where I only need one ball. Many of the other balls are close to my oponent's pocket but why would I want to knock them away from his pocket when I can win the game with this one simple Nurse shot. Learn to shoot the shot. It can only help your game........ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=308552133128617502&hl=en
 
I play that shot...only I didn't know it was called the nurse shot. Maybe it was called something else in NY :) . Thanks, cool shot though. Johnnyt
 
hemicudas said:
I believe this shot should no longer be a secret to only a few players. This Nurse shot can win games, sets or even matches, if you can recognize it and exicute it at the right time.

This is a one pocket situation where I only need one ball. Many of the other balls are close to my oponent's pocket but why would I want to knock them away from his pocket when I can win the game with this one simple Nurse shot. Learn to shoot the shot. It can only help your game........ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=308552133128617502&hl=en
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Years ago we were in Vegas ans USrfer Rod was playing Hopkins last pocket 8 ball at the old Serene Room for $1000 per game. Rod was playing the best i had ever seen him play, you guessed it really getting his ass handed to him. Hopkins was running out like a magician.

I think Rod had lost like 11 games in a row when this shot came up. This was on the bar box with the big ball and as you well know you could do some weird things with that ball. Rod did a lot of weird things anyway, but he let her rip and Hopkins said, "Rod, I'm impressed, I didn't know you knew that much about Pool"

Rods face turned so red I thought his head was gonna pop. I thought right then and there that if they go to the parking lot I'm giveing 8-1 and betting every dime I have on it.
 
I thought the nurse shot referred to the rail nurse in Straight Rail Billiards. The balls are nursed, or moved very slightly along the rails, in a series of very short shots. Referees needed very good eyesight to call these.
I've seen the shot in the video before and even had occasion to shoot it a few times.
 
hemicudas said:
I believe this shot should no longer be a secret to only a few players. This Nurse shot can win games, sets or even matches, if you can recognize it and exicute it at the right time.

This is a one pocket situation where I only need one ball. Many of the other balls are close to my oponent's pocket but why would I want to knock them away from his pocket when I can win the game with this one simple Nurse shot. Learn to shoot the shot. It can only help your game........ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=308552133128617502&hl=en
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So is this a skid shot where the CB stops skidding right before it meets the OB?
 
supergreenman said:
So is this a skid shot where the CB stops skidding right before it meets the OB?
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Yes, with inside english which throws the object ball toward the pocket when it double kisses. Ironman is right. Back in the old days with the big heavy cue ball it was hard to miss the shot, if you put the correct english on the cue ball.
 
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hemicudas said:
Yes, with inside english which throws the object ball toward the pocket when it double kisses. Ironman is right. Back in the old days with the big heavy cue ball it was hard to miss the shot, if you put the correct english on the cue ball.
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Any more secret from the old days you would like to share for new students?? :thumbup:
 
I must admit I am having trouble making this one.

Are you using low left, I assume? Hitting center of the object ball?

I WILL learn this. It comes up in 8 and 9 ball too.

Thanks
Courtney
 
desmocourtney said:
I must admit I am having trouble making this one.

Are you using low left, I assume? Hitting center of the object ball?

I WILL learn this. It comes up in 8 and 9 ball too.

Thanks
Courtney
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Low right i think would throw the OB towards the pocket and the kiss. He says Inside though so not sure.
 
Nostroke said:
Low right i think would throw the OB towards the pocket and the kiss. He says Inside though so not sure.

Exactly right, in this case. All you really have to remember is which way you want the object ball to spin. In this case you want it to spin with LEFT english. To get the object ball to spin that way you must put RIGHT english on the cue ball. The double kiss you fear all your life is your objective here.

The only way to put SLIDE on the cue ball is with bottom english. Efren kills his cue ball frequently with SLIDE. You want the SLIDE to end just before contact with the object ball. This shot must be practiced. If you have good fundamentals in your stroke you can exicute the shot with a hight success rate. It only takes about 10 seconds to set this shot up over and over to practice it. Good luck.

Strokeofluck, is exactly right too.
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hemicudas said:
Yes, with inside english which throws the object ball toward the pocket when it double kisses. Ironman is right. Back in the old days with the big heavy cue ball it was hard to miss the shot, if you put the correct english on the cue ball.
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Wouldn't the inside, in this case, left english/spin also put right spin on the OB and help it "spin" into the pocket??

Seems to be the case to me...

Russ
 
poolhustler said:
Wouldn't the inside, in this case, left english/spin also put right spin on the OB and help it "spin" into the pocket??

Seems to be the case to me...

Russ
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You are thinking in reverse, poolhustler. The first thought you should have after recognizing the shot is available is to see what english the object ball must have when it double kisses the rail. Here when it hits the rail the second time it must be spinning with LEFT english to throw it toward the pocket. The only way to put LEFT on the object ball is with RIGHT english on the cue ball.

If you look at my pre-stroke you will see I am aiming at the bottom right portion of the cue ball.
 
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Neil said:
I also have never heard it caled a 'nurse' shot. I have only heard that term referred to in straight rail billiards. But, that pobably just depends on the area you are from.??

There is a way to actually aim these shots. Jimmy Reid shows a way to aim when the balls are frozen together in vol. II of his tapes. The same method works here.

I tried it on my table, and couldn't get it to go. Which really surprised me, because I know this shot. Then, I finally realized the problem- My pockets are too small! I was consistently hitting the point of the pocket. Notice on the video that the pockets are decent size, and the ball is not going cleanly into the pocket.

The way you aim it is this- take the distance from the ball to the pocket, cut it in half, and aim the cb there with a lot of inside english and a soft stroke. If the ball is farther off the rail, you will need follow on the cb.

And, yes, the old big cb made this shot almost a gimmie. There were things you couldn't do with the big ball that you could do with a normal size cb, and vice versa.
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Every word, Neil, says is true, folks. My table is a GC4 with standard pockets, which are slightly larger than Diamond pockets. The shot can be made on Diamond or any tight pocketed table also. Someone who really does know how to exicute this shot will notice I hit it badly. The slide I put on the cue ball came off far too soon which caused the object ball to come farther off the rail than it would have had I slid the ball much closer to the object ball. If the slide comes off the cue ball about one or two inches from the object ball, retaining it's spin, the object ball will hug the rail tightly on it's way to the pocket.

I have trouble walking around the table lately, bad back, and even though I hit the shot badly on my first try it did go in so I posted it.

Practice sliding your cue ball where the slide comes off as closely as possible to the object ball. One or two inches is great. This will keep most of the english on the cue ball.

Jack Breit and Uttley J. Pucket referred to this shot as a Nurse shot. It is like a Nurse shot in that you are trying to double kiss the object ball off the rail. In this case you are moving it one way or the other.
 
Aiming the nurse

I read Neil's description of aiming the shot but I'd like to ask how thick you hit the object ball and will that change with the distance of the object ball to the pocket?
 
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