try this spot shot

alphadog

alphadog

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Place cueball anywhere in kitchen,shoot spotshot and try and see how close to the pocket you shoot into you can get cueball to the rail.
On a 9 diamond with year old cloth and super aramith balls,I can get 1.8 diamonds from the pocket.
I practice many spotshots,always trying to find where I can get whitey to go!
Let me know how you do.:wink:
 
alphadog said:
Place cueball anywhere in kitchen,shoot spotshot and try and see how close to the pocket you shoot into you can get cueball to the rail.
On a 9 diamond with year old cloth and super aramith balls,I can get 1.8 diamonds from the pocket.
I practice many spotshots,always trying to find where I can get whitey to go!
Let me know how you do.:wink:
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its definitely possible to scratch, but really tough
 
alphadog said:
Place cueball anywhere in kitchen,shoot spotshot and try and see how close to the pocket you shoot into you can get cueball to the rail.
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I don't understand. Are you following it to the rail near the pocket? Or can you go off other rails first?
 
Allen Brown said:
You don't have to masse to not hit a rail at all. Just a good stroke and proper English.
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Definitely possible - but I don't use English. You're hitting it soft enough that the English will be gone anyway. Cheating the pocket a bit helps, but mainly just hitting it as soft as you can to dribble the ball in the pocket.
 
BRussell said:
Definitely possible - but I don't use English. You're hitting it soft enough that the English will be gone anyway. Cheating the pocket a bit helps, but mainly just hitting it as soft as you can to dribble the ball in the pocket.
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Agree - side spin (especially masse!) is an unnecessary complication.

Some good one pocket spot shot drills involve stunning the CB toward the other foot corner pocket, either bumping a ball in that's jawed there or getting behind a ball that's near there.

pj
chgo
 
Allen Brown said:
I can do it on a bar box, but I've never tried it on anything bigger. You can do it too.
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BRussell said:
I don't understand. Are you following it to the rail near the pocket? Or can you go off other rails first?
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Patrick Johnson said:
Agree - side spin (especially masse!) is an unnecessary complication.

Some good one pocket spot shot drills involve stunning the CB toward the other foot corner pocket, either bumping a ball in that's jawed there or getting behind a ball that's near there.

pj
chgo
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Okay I gotta see somebody do this on a 9 foot. There are masse shots where you can draw back without hitting a side rail and almost stop shot as well but they arent much use in a game.
 
BRussell said:
I don't understand. Are you following it to the rail near the pocket? Or can you go off other rails first?
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Pocket the ball with inside English

Cue ball goes to the end rail and then back to the same longrail as ball pocketed in.
 
alphadog said:
Place cueball anywhere in kitchen,shoot spotshot and try and see how close to the pocket you shoot into you can get cueball to the rail.
On a 9 diamond with year old cloth and super aramith balls,I can get 1.8 diamonds from the pocket.
I practice many spotshots,always trying to find where I can get whitey to go!
Let me know how you do.:wink:
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I just tried it once on a Gold Crown with Centennials and old, dirty Simonis... Shooting to the left, using low-right, I got the cueball 3/4 of a diamond above the pocket, rebounding about 4 inches off the second rail.

Made the no rail shot on my fourth try... I've seen this shot made one-handed.

Maybe I misunderstood your shot?
 
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PhilosopherKing said:
I just tried it once on a Gold Crown with Centennials and old, dirty Simonis... Shooting to the left, using low-right, I got the cueball 3/4 of a diamond above the pocket, rebounding about 4 inches off the second rail.

Made the no rail shot on my fourth try... I've seen this shot made one-handed.

Maybe I misunderstood your shot?
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Inside cut to thr right use right . See if you can get within 2 diamond from vorner.
 
Just for fun, here's how Virtual Pool models these shots. I think it comes pretty close to reality.

1. The slow roll shot

2. The OP's sidespin shot (slightly elevated cue)

3. Extreme Corey-style masse that actually hits the other side of the pocket

pj
chgo

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Patrick Johnson said:
Just for fun, here's how Virtual Pool models these shots. ...
3. Extreme Corey-style masse that actually hits the other side of the pocket
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For the last one, the standard shot for real people is to stop the cue ball dead as it hits the ball on the spot. Well, Efren people, anyway.

As for softly rolling the spot shot in and not touching any cushion with the cue ball, that's a more standard challenge shot that takes nothing more than a flat table and a little touch or a crooked table and more touch. It helps to have a worn, light cue ball.
 
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