The Skinning Game

JoeyA

JoeyA

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The SKINNING GAME was invented by Filpino Bobby H of New Orleans and JoeyA.

It is an exercise to increase your ability to play better safeties when the object ball is located near the foot rail wherethe attempt to pocket the ball by making a bank or cutting the ball in could mean a loss of game.

STARTING POSTION:
The object ball is placed on ball off of the back rail, near the Center foot Diamond. At the beginning of each game, the cue ball is placed in the kitchen anywhere behind the headstring.

the object is to hit the object ball without knocking it out of the box which measures two diamond wide by one diamond deep. The way we play is if any portion of the object ball touches or passes the edge of the box, it is loss of game.

In addition after making a good hit on the object ball, the cue ball MUST pass the side pockets for it to be considered a legal shot.

When a legal shot has been executed, it is your opponent's turn at the table and he must shoot from wherever the cue ball is (anywhere passed the side pocket). Your opponent must "skin" the object ball and leave it within the one foot by approximately two foot rectangular area.

If a foul is committed the object ball and the cue ball is again placed in the starting position.

If you fail to make a legal shot, the game is over. Typically we play races to 3 for ten or twenty dollars and primarily this game is used to improve our safety play but I can assure you that if you become proficient at it, you will be able to best better players who have not practiced this game.

If you have any questions please let me know.

JoeyA
 
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This sounds like a fun game -- good information, Joey. I've recently begun to practice thinning balls a lot. This will def make it more fun.

Dave
 
EZMoney said:
Sounds good. Instead of playing safety, can you pocket the object ball and win the game?
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The entire point is to thin the ball... and to keep thinning the ball and to become proficient at it. This comes up all the time in 9b and 14.1. Most people dog these shots by hitting way to thick.

It's actually very hard to do consistently. I watched old video of Irving Crane and he would paper thin balls at will--- and I never knew how he was so accurate. Now that I've been practicing this a lot and know how to align--- it's getting easier.
 
Also sounds like a great drill to do by yourself to see how many times in a row you can pull it off. I think I might have to give it a try tonight!
 
I watched TJ Davis do this drill on an empty back room table about two hours one night at a tournament in Ft Worth a few years back. I picked it up from him. He's "skinned" his fair share, that's for damn sure!
 
oh ok

There is an italian business saying that you can shear a sheep many
times but only skin him once . I have no clue what that has to do with this but it
looks like a good game to build finese with safties .
Got a friend comming by later and he is always geared up to beat me .So I
may just make him play this with me instead .
 
Good idea Joey
Do you leave the 9-ball where your opponent left it (like the cue ball)
or move it back to the original position for every shot?

Thanks
Mike L.
 
The Skinning Game.

LA toolman said:
Good idea Joey
Do you leave the 9-ball where your opponent left it (like the cue ball)
or move it back to the original position for every shot?

Thanks
Mike L.
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Mike,
Th object ball ALWAYS stays where it lands unless it goes outside of the box and in that case you start the game over.

The cue ball stays where it lands unless you don't make it back past the side pocket. If the cue ball hits the object ball (and the object ball doesn't go outside of the box) and doesn't go past the side pocket, it is still loss of game. The theory behind that is that it is easy to play a thin safety when the cue ball is less than 4 1/2 feet from the object ball.

Leave the cueball sitting on the middle diamond in the kitchen and watch him struggle to make a legal safety shot.

By the way, on rare occasion Bobby and I have kicked at the object ball and made a good and legal shot but that is a rarity.

This is a game that you can become proficient at and win a few bucks against better players. :wink:

JoeyA
 
Johnnyt said:
Cool way to practice safes and thin hits. Thanks JoeyA. Johnnyt
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You're welcome. Playing this game will help you to win games at nine ball, eight ball and straight pool.

It is far more effective to "skin" an object ball and play a GREAT safety than it is to hope that the stars align themselves for a lucky bank or even luckier cut.

JoeyA
 
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