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 make a follow shot.
Now a follow shot is that we’re applying some rotational energy to the cue ball. If you recall, if you understand a stop shot where we strike the ball so it’s sliding the cue ball and transfers all the linear energy from the cue ball to the object ball, we’re adding the rotational energy. So we want to hit the cue ball high of center along the vertical axis, not left to right, just right in the center above the center ball. We want to keep our cue stick nice and level. A big mistake that is commonly made is that a new player might drop the butt of the cue up and try to pick that tip all the way up in the air. That will not get the action. We want to keep our same stroke, keep the cue stick level, follow through on our stroke and hit the cue ball high.
In this case, what will happen is that all the linear energy will transfer. Because I’ve applied rotational energy, I’ve hit the cue ball above center ball, it will have some additional energy. It will stop and then follow through.
Let’s demonstrate. Let’s see how this works. I’ve approached my cue ball. I think that you can see on your side of the cue ball where it says hi, that’s where I’m aiming. I’m keeping my cue stick as level as I can, take my practice strokes, pause, freeze. And in that case, what you saw was the cue ball transferring the linear energy to the object ball. Since it had that spin on it, it retains a spin, the spin doesn’t transfer to the cue ball so the cue ball will follow the object ball in that forward direction. That’s how you make a follow shot in a game of pool.
On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. Thank you for watching.
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