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 billiard, I’d like to show you what is likely the most important shot in the game of pool, the stop shot.
Now to understand the stop shot, you should really understand how energy flows through the balls when they connect, when they make contact. You have two types of energy that transfer from the cue ball to the object ball. One is linear energy which is something like an arrow flying through the air. You have linear, it’s just traveling forward, it’s not spinning. And rotational energy is the one when the ball is rolling or spinning. They transfer very differently from the cue ball to the object ball.
If the cue ball is not rolling, it is set to have linear energy. And if the cue ball strikes the object, the cue ball will stop because all the energy will be transferred and the object ball will leave at about the same speed that the cue ball made contact. The cue ball will stop because it has no more energy left, all of it has been transferred.
If the cue ball is rolling, it is set to have linear energy and rotation energy. So if the cue ball is rolling forward when it strikes, all of the linear energy will transfer. And because the cue ball was rolling, it has rotational energy, it will keep rolling forward and transfer. So a stop shot, you want to be able to control the slide. If the cue ball is sliding, it’s not rolling, it will stop and that’s what we’d like to do. So when the cue ball and the object ball are very close, take a look.
So let me show you now exactly what I mean. I’ve set up two balls very close together and I’m going to hit the cue ball at center or slightly below center so it should not be rolling. You don’t want it to have time to get rolling. And if you look very carefully, you’ll see that the cue ball stopped because all of the linear energy transferred. It didn’t’ have time to roll so it didn’t go forward. That’s how you make a stop shot in a game of pool.
On behalf of TVLesson.com, this is Roy Pastor. Thank you for watching.
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