On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. I’m a BCA accredited advanced level instructor with BilliardAcademy.com.
In this clip on intermediate billiards, I’d like to show you how to draw a ball.
The cue ball in this particular scenario, I like the cue ball to strike the 10 ball in and come back towards me. Now in terms of physics, what am I doing? I’m applying rotational energy to the cue ball and making it spin backwards towards me so when it strikes the object ball straight on, the linear energy transfers, the object ball goes forward. The cue ball then still has rotational energy that does not transfer very efficiently and it will continue to spin back towards me. It will keep some of the energy. If I would have no spin on the cue ball, the cue ball would just stop. It would be a stop shot.
Back spin gives a lot of people trouble. The first thing that you should do is make sure that you chalk the tip because you want to create a lot of friction between the tip and the cue ball so you don’t miscue and terrible things will happen. So make sure that you have a lot of chalk on the tip of the cue. Second is that you want to keep the cue stick as level as you possible can. A big error that a beginner might make is that a beginner might elevate the back of the cue and again, all you will do is that it will aid in miscue and you might jump the ball. So you want to keep the cue stick as leveled as you can when you approach the table.
I want to hit below center pretty well. Keep the cue stick nice and level. If you look at my bridge, you’ll see how low I’ve dropped my bridge on this shot and I want to play reverse rotational energy, some back spin, pause, freeze.
Now, I’m taking the same stroke mechanics that we’ve done in other clips and what we’ve done is we applied the rotational energy, the cue ball hits the object ball, spins back and that’s how you make a draw shot in a game of pool.
On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. Thank you for watching.
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