Tips On This Shot?

[Cornerman]

With that nice shot on the 6 you should have been out there. Sorry to hear your miss. When the ball is frozen to the rail aim to hit the rail first, not both at the same time... this only works on big buckets. Its funny how many players think hitting both at the same time is the pottable angle..

I think there's more subtlety to this than you are suggesting. Whatever someone calls it, there's a range of hits that makes the ball, regardless of table tightness.

If you hit correct spot #1 "on the way in" to the cushion, then the object ball leaves the cue ball, flies to the pocket, and the cueball spins off the cushion with whatever spin it had. That's how you'd hit, say, an inside english shot that spins to the adjacent cushion.

If you hit the correct spot #2 "on the way out" after hitting the cushion first, then the object ball goes to the pocket, and the cue ball takes a path as if it just caromed off the cueball, normally something closer to straight down the table (and scratches in the corner straight back if you're too aggressive).

Both of these spots are slightly different spots, I think. Throw and all that. One of the shots, (the first one, I guess) many people will consider "hitting the ball and cushion at the same time."

Edit: just read Unknown Pro's post. He posted exactly what I just posted.

Fred

 

[TheConArtist]

No need to use english on this shot.

On this shot, anything shot with a hair of english will swerve more than most people realize. So, that's probably why you missed.

Fred

yeah, and like i said with the cueball against or close to the rail its hard enough to hit the center of the cueball as you can only see the top of the cueball so let alone put english on the cueball.