Calling Complex Shots in Billiards

Video Transcript

"Alright, so, in this next clip we're going to talk about in obvious shots. Alright, so, in obvious shots, these are shots that aren't common. They're not your dead pocket shots that you could make with your eyes closed. These are shots that are bank shots or combination shots. Let me show you an example of an inobvious shot. Alright, as I discussed earlier, in the earlier clips about combination shots, here is an inobvious combination shot. I'm going for stripes, the scenario is, so I have stripes and I have to hit my ball first. And, during these clips I'll be telling you rules, so, rules will get instilled in you. So, anyway, the scenario is I'm playing the high balls and I'm going to make the 15 in the corner. So, that's not an inobvious shot, I mean, this by no means is an obvious shot, it's definitely an inobvious shot which makes it a called shot. It's a combination. It's a combination, like I stated earlier, a ball hits one ball and so forth and goes into the corner. So, we're going to just show you that playing this shot would be an inobvious shot. When we call it you would say, "I'm going to play the combination 14 into the 6 into the 15 into the corner." Alright, so, that was one way of an inobvious shot combination. Let me show you another inobvious shot. OK, here's an inobvious shot that you would call. Of course, I can't make the 6 in the corner with the 9 blocking it so I would bank the 6 and I would just say, "6 ball in this corner." So, that means, like I said earlier, this ball could by some luck hit some other stuff, go around, carum, cushion, as long as it goes in this pocket, it's a good shot, it's legal. And, realize, those rules are the universal rules of 8 ball. You can have some places, you go to different bars, there's different rules. They might tell you you have to call that if it hits off the 9 or something. You have to call everything. This is just simply calling the ball and calling the pocket. So, I would say, "6 ball in this corner." And, that's an inobvious shot that you have to call. Remember, there's different rules for different places. But, the universal rule says just call your ball and call your pocket. Alright, so, come back and we'll start getting into the real meat of this game called 8 Ball."