How Slide Affects the Cue Ball

Video Transcript

"The next thing we want to look at, as far as the action on the cue ball in conjunction with the tangent line, is the sliding action. Same kind of an action we would put on the cue ball if we were going to make a stop shot out of it, if it were a straight in shot, but in this case it's not. Once again, it's our cut angle to the left which means we're not going to be able to stop the cue ball dead still, so where's it going to go? Well, it's going to start out, once again, following the tangent line and this time our tangent line says it's running over to this portion of the cushion, right here. But how far will it follow that? That, once again, depends upon whether it's got a top spin, sliding action, or a backspin. Well, the sliding action is the one action that's going to get us a more true direction right along that tangent line. So, let's put this over here just as a target and see how close we can come to that, if we get the cue ball to slide right into that. Let's see how closely it actually follows the tangent line. Not bad."