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Summary: Learn how to hit the cue ball for a draw back shot in this free online video lesson on playing pool and pocket billiards.
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"My name is Richard Buccola and I am going to introduce you to Pool 101. All right the next shot I want to execute is this drawback. I showed you dead center, follow-up and next one I am going to show you is drawback. That is actually where instead of hitting you want to come behind me and get a better shot on it. Here’s dead center where you want to drawback you are going to come below dead center but when you hit the ball you are not going to go through. You are going to hit it and pull back on the stick and that will cause an under spend on the cue ball, so when it hits the 11, the 11 goes in, the ball actually comes back, drawback. Let’s see if we can do it. Dead center, here’s a little bit lower, we are just going to hit it and pull the stick back. You see the ball comes back. When we come back, I’ll show you English."
eHow Article: Doing the Draw Back Cue Ball Shot in Billiards