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Pre Shot Routine:
While Chalking.
Step 1: Look at the table lay out (8 Ball, 9 Ball, 10 Ball, or ect.)
Step 2: Where does the cue ball need to be for the next shot.
Step 3: What is the best shot (top, bottom or stun: do I need spin) to play to get to the next angle, ball or area.
Step 4: Is a Safe better and what is the percentage of playing a Safe.
Step 5: Make a decision; go for the shot or play safe. If deciding on playing Safe repeat step 1-3.
Stop Chalking.
Step 6: Measure the speed the you need to apply cue ball and object ball.
Step 7: Line up to the shot and get down to your shot.
Step 8: Look at the object ball, at the down position, to may sure you are lined up. If not in line, get up and repeat Step 7.
Step 9: Aim at the cue ball on where you want to hit the cue ball.
Step 10: Look at object ball and see the spot you need to hit.
Final Step: Focus on the spot on the object ball, practice stroke, pause refoucus on the spot, shoot the shot by delivering the cue stick as straight as possible with a smooth follow through when hitting the cue ball and stay down until the object ball or cue ball stops rolling.
Some players look at the cue ball last, but I look at the object ball last. If you look at the cue ball last, on “Final” replace “object ball” with cue ball. Hope this helps.
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What's going on YouTube? On today's video we're going to talk about pre-shot routine and why I
think that is one of the most important thing for the mental part of billiards. A pre-shot routine
is pretty much a routine what you're going to do before you actually approach the cue ball.
What I like to do is when I see the cue ball itself for an example on this shot I have the
one ball placed on the first diamond on the long rail and the first diamond on the short rail.
And I know I have to get positioned for the two ball on the first diamond on the short rail.
What I like to do is chalk my cue and analyze the table itself. The biggest thing is
is when you're chalking your cue you are thinking when you're standing up. You never think when
you're on a down position when you're taking the shot. So this is the time to actually look at the
table and think of the position and the speed control on how you can do this. That's why you
see people chalk. So I know when I'm doing this, this is not seeing if my cue is actually smooth.
This is telling me this is how much speed I need to apply it on the cue ball. And once I get that
I will analyze this also and see what path my cue ball is going to take to get me to the two ball.
So what I'm going to do is think about what shot I have and what object of objectives I have in the
way. Since this is only two balls this is pretty simple. What I'm going to do is apply a little bit
of draw to get off the first cushion here and try to bring it to this area. So that is what we are
doing on a pre-shot routine. Everything is thinking when you're standing up. So this is my pre-shot
routine. I'll do my chalking. I'll get my analyzed table and see where my cue ball is going to go.
Measure the speed itself. Once I get to that part that I am comfortable with and getting my alignment
I'll go down to the shot, line up. As you notice when I came down to the cue ball I wanted to do
a closed bridge. I came down with a closed bridge. I did not come down with an open bridge and go to
a closed bridge. That's why when I was doing my previous videos with the stroke is you want to
come whatever you're going to come down with what what bridge you're going to use come down with
that bridge. So I'm going to do a closed bridge. So I go down to a closed bridge. Aim.
For your pre-shot routine you want to have your routine as simple as possible but not too simple
or you're actually missing steps. The biggest thing is what I like to do like I said before
is I actually like to chalk and think at the same time. That tells me what I need to do if I need to
do a follow shot a stop shot or a draw shot. Once I know what shots I'm going to take now I know
now I'm going to analyze the table on how that cue ball is going to act by doing a follow shot
stop shot or a draw shot and I'm trying to get into an area of where I want that cue ball to
actually land at and once I get that I'm measuring my speed. That's why you'll see a lot of pool
players do this is we're measuring our speed we're measuring how much stroke we need because
that's probably one of the hardest thing to actually develop in billiards is getting the
speed control. You'll as you keep playing and you'll figure out where the cue ball is going
but you'll notice your speed control is going to be one of the most difficult to actually master.
I hope this video is informative. My next video is going to be on English side spin and how to
measure the side spin itself. Thank you for watching. See you next time.
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