On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. I’m a BCA accredited advanced level instructor with BilliardAcademy.com.
In this clip on advanced billiards, I’d like to show you how to break.
In this particular case, we have an 8-ball rack set up. Now, most break cues and there are cues designated specifically for the break shot are a little bit lighter than your regular play cue. Now if you remember your high school physics in terms of the transfer of energy, you want to give a little bit of a lighter cue, I can drive with more speed, the speed will translate into a greater energy transfer from the cue ball to the rack.
The first thing that we’d like to look at is, are all the balls touching each other? So you always go and take a look at the rack and see if they’re touching. If the first ball is off, it doesn’t matter how much speed or how much energy or how hard you hit the cue ball, there’s going to be a very poor transfer of energy from the cue ball to the rack because these gaps will have a tremendous loss of energy. So you want to make sure that the balls are touch and they’re nice and tight.
Once you determined that the balls are touching, then you can come back and make your specialty stroke, and breaking is a specialty stroke. You can normally take your bridge length and extend it. So this is one time where your bridge length will be more than the 68 inches that you were in your play cue. Once you extend that bridge, you have to hold your grip handle a little further back and this is the one time that you’ll have some movement. You want to control the cue ball but you can have a little movement in the stick and in your body to create momentum. And that’s how you break in a game of pool.
On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. Thank you for watching.
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