Backspin Draw Shots in Pool

Video Transcript

"Okay, we're back to our draw shot. We need to understand what kind of an action do we have to have on the cue ball on contact with the object ball in order to draw the cue ball back to us. The action we need to have is backspin. If it's not spinning backwards when it contacts that object ball, it's either going to do one of two things. It's either going to be a stop shot because it slid into the ball, or it's going to be a follow shot because it rolled into the ball. But, for a draw shot, we don't want that. We want it to come back to us. So, what we have to do is have the backspin. How do we impart the backspin on that? That's what I'm about to show you. To do that I'm going to use my little training ball here because it's got the stripe on there that shows you where my tip position is with the cue. So, to do that, what I need to do to put backspin on it, is get the tip down below the center of that black line there. So that as I come through with my follow through on the stroke, it goes through the bottom side and it gets the cue ball spinning backwards, and if the cue ball retains that spin by the time it gets over there, it will come back. How far back? That depends. How low did you hit it? How fast did you hit it? How much backspin did you put on it? So, if you want just the right amount to say, get back over in this area, you're going to have to practice how far below center and just how fast to hit it. About like that."