Where to Hit a Cue Ball In Pool

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Mike Lopez with Expert Village and now we're going to go over how to find the content point. The content point is a point on the object ball or the ball you're shooting that allows you to pocket the ball in a pocket. So what you're going to do is come up over and you're going to find where you're going to line up like you're going to shoot the 8 ball in the pocket. Now what you want to do is you want to put that spot in your mind because the cue ball has to hit that spot to make the 8 ball go in. If not if you shoot it too straight it's going to hit the rail and come back off so we're going to demonstrate how not to do it and then how to do it. Once again if you hit the ball too straight it's not going to make it in the pocket, now what you want to do is cut the 8 ball a little bit further so that it squeezes in the pocket. You're going to use the right part of the cue ball."