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

Video Transcript

"In this tip I'm going to show the execution in completion of a stroke. In this last segment we talked about the approaching the ball, in this one we are actually going to show the mechanics use in order to make the ball and what you are going to do as far as executing the hit on your cue ball. Once again I want to refer to golf, a golfer comes into a shot once he makes contact with his ball, the shot does not stop there the shot does not stop until he's got his follow through and he completes his swing. Same thing goes for a batter, makes contact with the baseball and once contact is made he follows through. Pool is the most important part to executing this shot as far as delivering the cue into the cue ball into your object ball for everything to work out the way that you have it set in your head the way you want the shot to be executed. You got to have your follow through. You got to have everything, has to follow order. Even the simplest of shots can be very easily missed, if you just walk into a shot and you just decided that you are going to hit the ball and you just let it fly and you just let things happen the way they happen. Well bad things happen you just make no shots. So once you approach a shot and you are on a shot and you are getting ready. You are coming down, you got your bridge, you got your cue level you are coming into the ball. Your cue tip is going to be up as close to the cue ball as possible and you are going to have what you would call your little warm up stroke as you are coming up into a cue ball. Once you come decide on your contact you are ready to let go and you are ready to release the shot, you are coming back, you are going to pause very little short little pause. Coming into the cue ball, once you have made contact with your cue ball, your cue stick is going to continue on through the cue ball all the way to the shot till your cue just comes to a natural stop. You don't want to come in and hit it and just decide that I have to follow through and come back through. It just got to be one motion, you are just hitting the ball, going all the way through the ball, your cue tip would naturally take a nose dive. Because of the shape of your shaft, because of the taper of the shaft you are coming in making contact, it is going to naturally come down into rest on the table. It will be going anywhere from four to six inches maybe even beyond. So with that in mind we will come up, we approach the shot, we come into the ball, lining up, you are going to hit, you are going to let your cue stick go right into the cue ball, your are going to lift your cue stick rest on the table and you are going to stay down on the shot until the shot is complete. It does no good to make the ball, jump up and walk away, you got to let the ball finish itself."