Specialty Shots

Here's how "backhand english" can do wonders for your pool game.

All about jump shots including aim, technique and special equipment to get your cue ball high, fast.

Avoid costly english mistakes with these secrets of sidespin--turn pro and hustler knowledge to work for you now.

The expert carom billiardist loves the same cue ball that jilts the novice. We'll fix that with this article...

Make and believe you can make even multirail bank shots using our step-by-step guides.

Take your best carom billiards shot as we show you how to make a daunting kiss shot simple!

I've reduced pool draw to (one!) easy step anyone can follow for improved billiards play.

It's time for a little Magic 8-Ball move of the table position! A great game played great.

A kick shot in pool is the annoying little bugger where you need to drive the cue ball to a cushion before it rebounds to strike your target object ball. The pool kick shot can be converted to a deadly weapon of pool skill—you'll look like a pool hustler--if only you have a simple way to aim them with precision.

I’ve been preaching about busting open a tight rack of balls, but how can you have a tight rack without a quality racking device--like this pool 3-Ball Rack?

What makes a bank shot so difficult? You are not aiming at a typical target but an imagined rail point.

Break Shot Moves For Beginners And Advanced Pool Shooters

I teach you a 9-Ball break with amazing results.

Pool english question of the day as a reader takes their object balls for a spin. "I want to dig a little deeper with a pool english and sidespin issue. When I practice billiards cut shots, the object ball is always thrown to the same side as the type of english that I apply..."

Drum roll, please! The top ten tips on breaking in pool and billiards--for when you want an open break to scatter the balls to the winds.

Aiming bank shots in pool and billiards with precision is easy, if you use this method, which relies upon an aiming secret you already know.

I’d like to explain to you why it is that pro pool shooters often smack bank shots to the pockets at great speed and with a dash of english, too. How would you bank the striped ball to the opposite side pocket?

There are three typical ways to shoot billiards english, but today I'll share a fourth billiards english technique I think you'll find to be superb.

Spin banks are a deadly weapon in light of the right instructions. They will make all your pool banks easier in less than a minute's practice.

A fascinating look at billiards english turned body english. Very few players know this move!