BOOK 3 - HOT SHOTS PLUS Cue Ball & Shot Manipulation
- LEARN English, Follow, Throw, Stop, Stun, Drag, Draw, Curve, Jump, and Massé, PLUS!
- LEARN how to shoot OVER, AROUND, and THROUGH object balls!
- LEARN to avoid foul shots (scratches).
- BECOME very adept at creating cue ball and object ball actions and reactions.
- GREATLY INCREASE your pool playing PERFORMANCE.
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ENGLISH (short excerpt from Book 3)
“A rotation or spin of a ball in defiance of its natural roll, caused by various extents of striking the ball off center”
“English” refers to side spin only, in the pool players vocabulary. It does not pertain to “follow, draw, stop.” Unfortunately, many pool players try to apply their version of various English on almost every shot, from the initial break shot on an “8” ball or “9” ball rack and then, through out their game.
As important as it is for you to follow the advice of the great “Willie Mosconi,”i.e; “shoot softly and softer,” it is equally important for you to heed the advice of most top Pros .i.e; ”The less English used, the less often you will get into trouble.”
The ability to understand English, how it works, what it does and how to and how much to apply to a particular shot is confusing to the pool playing majority who use English hoping something good will happen. Then, after missing the shot are left hoping their opponent was impressed with the cue ball action imparted by their skill.
How often do we hear, “Oh no, the English didn’t take, I put low right on the dang cue ball.” An advanced player easily recognizes that you did strike the cue ball low right but did not apply low right spin (English) to the cue ball.
Should you have the desire to understand English in its total package (as you must do) and be willing to accept that simply banging the cue ball high right, low left, etc. Might really not be enough to characterize you as a complete pool player, then read and re-read this section with its diagrams until you absorb all facts of the English phenomena!
(Continued in Book 3)
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STOP SHOTS (short excerpt from Book 3)
The Stop shot is a “punch and slide” shot. It is imperative for you to include this important shot ability into your shot repertoire, because you will be using this shot stroke on many of your up coming shots.
When you shoot at an object ball that is dead on to a pocket and regardless of the shot speed, the cue ball stops dead on contact with object ball, it is obviously a stop shot.
When you shoot at an object ball that is on an angle (cut shot) and stop shot is applied, but with cue ball naturally caroming off object ball at an angle, it becomes a stun shot.
The concept in its entirety is to have cue ball slide into object ball, regardless of the distance between the two and regardless of straight on hit or slant angle hit have NO spin movement on cue ball at all. No forward roll, no back spin and no side spin.
To put emphasis on the stop shot movement is to have the cue ball glide over the felt as a square block sliding over ice.Shot speed is most important. You cannot shoot the cue ball slowly on Stop shots and expect it not to pick up a forward roll. Slow speed is a no, no on this type of shot. Stop shots must be shot with considerable speed, no matter how short the distance between cue ball and object ball to make the cue ball stop dead on a dime (so to speak).
It is important to note, the great playing “Willie Mosconi,” during all of his tournament games of 150 balls; would use stop and/or stun shots on over 100 of his shots and obtain great position throughout. Therefore your goal should be to punch in most of your shots applying stop and stun.
When shooting the Stop shot, ALL of the cue ball’s ‘energy must be transferred from the cue ball into the object ball. Cue ball must be absolutely energy free after contact, thus creating complete stop at contact point.
(Continued in Book 3)
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