Why does this happen on break shot...

sidepocket7

sidepocket7

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Hello everyone. Lately, I have been watching alot of 10 ball and have been paying close attention to Shane Van Boening's break. It seems as though he is "popping" the break shot. Kinda like a quick wrist pop, and dropping his elbow/arm into the shot. I tried this style of break, and was able to squat the rock pretty well at first. However, as I broke more and more, I seemed to be putting a ton of topspin on the ball, causing it to go forward, and upon hitting the back rail, spinning all around the table as the balls hardly moved at all. Alot of the time, my tip was slipping off the ball, creating an awful sound, along with sometimes missing the rack completely. I was just wondering what the cause of this would be? Too much power? Off center hit? Gripping the cue to tightly? When I did break the balls well, the cb seem to kill; almost jumping back. Any ideas?...
Thanks
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dude, thats an easy fix. You are dropping your elbow before your tip hits the cue ball. The elbow drop raise the tip, creating massive follow. Some people cancel this effect out by cueing as low as possible on the cue ball during warmup strokes before breaking. Myself, I just make sure my tip hits the cue ball exactly where I want it. You might be dropping the elbow to early because you are trying to add to much power.
 
What he said, make sure you hit where intended. The theory that I've heard is that a little top is okay.

What happens is... the ball hits the rack, which is bigger and heavier, so instead of just stopping it bounces backwards. If it bounced backwards with perfect zero english it would probably roll back towards you a bit just because it was moving backwards in the first place. But with a little top, it pops up, bounces once, and then its backward movement is killed by the top spin. You often see it take a little dive forward and then run out of gas suddenly.

So try hard to aim where you want. That's what makes shane's break so killer. He's not the most muscular dude there is, he just hits perfectly on the cue ball and perfectly dead on the head ball, and that's gonna mess'em up pretty good.
 
@Creedo - hi my friend:)

you absolutley don t need muscles (a few of course, lol)- it s all about acceleration and precision. Good expample is ShaSha breaking! Technique and acceleration rules the break^^

Sidepocket7: If you really want to work on your break, then work seriously on it. Start just with that speed you can control! Increase your speed on the break step by step! 1/2 to 1/4 tip under the center of the cueball is a good starting point- deadcenter works also for some ppl. But always: Just use the speed you can definitley handle.

lg from overseas,

Ingo
 
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