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Specialty Shots

These are important techniques, specialty strokes for different pool shots you will encounter at the table. Impress your friends and dazzle your opponents.
Kick Shot Pool - The Kick Shot Properly Aimed In Pool
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.
Three Ball Tight Rack - A Look At The New Pool Tight Rack
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?
3 Pro Techniques For Your Choice Of Bank Shot
What makes a bank shot so difficult? You are not aiming at a typical target but an imagined rail point.
The Break Shot - Two Moves For An Outstanding Break Shot
Break Shot Moves For Beginners And Advanced Pool Shooters
9-Ball Break - Two Moves For An Improved 9-Ball Break
I teach you a 9-Ball break with amazing results.
Top 10 Mistakes Made Using Pool English
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..."
Ten Top Break Shot Tips
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.
Basic Bank Shots
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.
Banking Like The Pros
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?

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