How to Bridge Up While Playing Pool

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Mike Lopez with Expert Village. Now we're going to go over bridging up, bridging up is the more complex thing you have to do cause you have to change your stroking point. One reason why you might have to bridge up is if you get down on your stance and realize that you are too close to an object in the room like the wall. So what you do is get down and you find the contact point of the ball first, and then when you realize that you do not have enough room you're going to elevate your stance from the rear making your cue go up. And at the same time you have to raise the top of the end of the cue to eliminate any English and you continue to do so until you have enough room to gently stroke the ball. The second and more common reason why you have to bridge up is to bridge over a ball that is obstructing your line of sight of the cue ball. So what you do is put your hand down you see the contact point and you just bridge it up until the flat contact point on the cue ball before you stroke it. And most of the time use an open bridge for this because if you use a close bridge well you can't bridge up high enough."