Bridge Hold Against the Rail in Billiards

Video Transcript

"My name is Richard Buccola and I am going to introduce you to Pool 101. Okay, the next bridge I want to talk about is if the cue ball is against the rail. Now you can’t use your standard bridge, you can’t use your elevated bridge, so the bridge I want to talk about is actually having a bridge where you would be able to keep your hand here and have it sturdy and firm. You could do this and have your bridge like that. I tend to teach my students where you put your hand like this and you keep your thumb against it so there is actually some force. You can actually see the stick. What you want to do is put a V right over and that is your bridge for that and this gives it a nice sturdy thing. I am going to show you from this way. I am going to put the stick right next to it, right next to your thumb and you are just going to wrap your forefinger and middle finger over it. You see that you’ve got that nice straight arrow and that is the way you want to do that. Those are your 3 bridges."