Follow Up Cue Ball Shot in Billiards

Video Transcript

"My name is Richard Buccola and I am going to introduce you to Pool 101. Okay, the next shot I want to talk about, these are all simple shots. I am just trying to express how we are hitting the cue ball. First one we did was dead center. Now usually dead center the ball will roll further but sometimes you actually want it to roll even further up to get a position of another shot. Now I am really execute this and actually I am going to scratch on the cue ball and basically instead of hitting it dead center, you are going to hit it up a little bit higher and this is called follow-up; where you are going to follow-up the ball. So here is dead center where you would go dead center and up here this will cause after hitting the 14 in the corner, the cue ball will actually follow-up. It should go right in the corner way. So here’s dead center, here’s follow-up; a little bit above the ball. You see it followed up with it. It didn’t go in but it followed up. We are going to come back and show you drawback"