How to Practice Billiards

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Joe. I'm at Break Time Billiards, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and this is one way to practice your pool in order to get better. I think what you need to do is set shots up, and then shoot them into the pockets, and continue shooting the shots into the pocket until you get proficient at one shot, and then you move and you make the shot progressively a little tougher until you can make that shot. The other thing that you need to be able to do is you need to be able to make the cue ball go to a certain place on the table. So, when you're starting out it's no more then I want to make the three. It's going to hit this rail and I'm going to try to bring it over to this rail. So, I shoot the ball and I just make it come over to this rail. Now, as I get better I can start adjusting my speed to where I can get exactly on this rail where I want to get, but I just have to keep setting the shots up, shooting them over and over again, all right? A case like that where I missed I have to set the ball up again, and give it another try. And as time goes on these shots become easier and easier, and your practice starts making you into a better player. The only thing that you need to remember is that when you're practicing then you practice, but if you're playin' a game with somebody you don't practice. You either play or you practice, but don't practice while you play."