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Summary: Backspin speed can have a great effect on cue ball positioning. Get expert tips and advice on billiards tables and pool cues in this free video.
Roger Long has been playing billiards for over 40 years. He has competed in billiards for about 25 years. Long has been a certified instructor since 1993 while owner/operator of Cue...read more
"Okay, back on using our backspin, or draw shot if that's what we want to call it, in conjunction with the tangent line at different speeds. We can start looking at what happens now, or what we can do with the cue ball if we'll start using those different speeds. Last segment we had what I consider a fairly soft draw shot. In other words, all I did was bring the cue ball back over this far. If I was to take pretty much this same setup that I had before and I shoot it at a faster speed, once again, let's see what happens now. Look at that. It followed the tangent line only a very, very short distance that time before the backspin took over and we came out with a drastic arcing action over to this point rather than over here with a slow point. Let's look at that slower once again. Here we go at a slower speed. Heads over this direction. At a faster speed, came back, even arced into the side pocket."
eHow Article: Backspin at Different Speeds