Tips on Approaching a Pool Shot: Online Billiards Lessons for Beginners

Video Transcript

"This is Richard on behalf of expertvillage.com, I'm now going to show you a tip on approaching a shot. You are approaching a shot in your game, most people will have the tendency to just walk right across and right into the shot. Actually the best way to approaching a shot, you come back once you step back from the shot and you approach it much like you would approach a golf shot. You view the shot from your point of view from the cue ball to the object ball to the pocket forming one line. Much like a golfer would approach his golf shot from the golf ball to his target which is 200 yards down the road. You line up into your shot and what you are doing here is you are just stepping into this shot, you just walk into the shot plant your feet. You want your feet to be anywhere from 18-24 inches shoulder width somewhere in that area, you want to be comfortable, you want to be able to stand, you don't want to be wobbling around much like your bridge. You walk into the shot, you approach it, you come down, you get down the ball, you getting down on the ball you want to get down as low as you possibly can. You don't want to be shooting at a ball when you are in a standing position and trying to hold your level of cue. You want to get down to where you are actually looking over it like you are looking at a barrel of a gun. Then once you are down on a shot, you select a bridge in this case a close bridge. Line yourself up, you are already lined up and you just give it a shot. "