In this next clip I'm going to show you how to determine who shoots first or who gets the break but what's called the lag. Ok, so you have your balls racked and what happens is you usually take the head ball and the cue and you and your opponent go down, to the other end of the table, behind the headline. This is the headline and each of you both, simultaneously, will shoot your ball, he'll shoot the cue, I'll shoot the twelve, into the rail and whoever can bring it back closes to this rail, gets to shoot first. Now if you hit that rail and it comes back and hits this rail, it's ok. Hits the rail and bounces back, doesn't matter. If you don't hit the rail, it's ok too. Whoever is close or whether it hits or doesn't hit, after hitting that head rail and coming back, whoever is closer, wins the lag and gets to shoot. It looks something like this. You would say one, two, three go, you'd both hit the rail, it would come back down and again the closest guy, to this rail, would win. That would be a horrible lag, for the sake of the video and you would see that he would probably get the break. Here's a decent lag, where you would hit it, it would come down and whoever gets closest, gets to win the break. That's the lag.
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