I’m here to help if I can. Take these five tips “to the bank” shot:
1. Sight along the bottom of the cushions, not the top, for some time going forward in your banking career until your accuracy improves. The top of the rail, by contrast, provides optical illusions to your brain.
2. Play some "spin banks" every pool session, banking one rail all the way from near the corner pocket to the same side's side pocket. A spin bank widens the typical bank angles. Do it with a soft stroke and employ as much outside English as you can.
Send me an e-mail if you don’t comprehend how outside english works or to learn how to gain added English for this stroke. Just a few of these sunk successfully will teach you great things about manipulating a bank shot at will.
I do two or three spin banks to warm up for any banking session and play a few tight banks and I’m ready to handle any bank shot with my choice of spin technique, tight technique or regular aiming (see below).
3. Play some tight banks also, very close to the same side pocket. A “tight bank” stroke narrows the typical bank angles.
Hit harder than normal and with inside english and aim a tip’s width or two below center ball also. Once you’ve aimed the english, take a straight stroke but not some kind of affected, fancy english stroke. Aim on the cue ball and bam!, pop a straight stroke into it.
This is how I tighten the natural angle to bring the banked ball on a straighter line (smaller bank angle) to the pocket.
4. Build or acquire a reliable bank aim system like this one to cinch “regular bank” angles from which you may play them as they lie, tighten them or widen them as you choose.
Making Your Best Bank Shot Involves 3 Possible Choices
5. As mentioned above, pick bank technique #2, #3 or #4 from this list before bending to shoot. Adjust your aim accordingly for a regular bank, spinning the angle wide or tightening the final rebound angle.
In general, for a bank shot over a distance, widen it with spin. For a bank shot close to the pocket, especially a side pocket, tighten the given rebound angle to give yourself the best possible chance to sink it.
I believe these three techniques will enliven your bank shot play. Let me know with an e-mail if you need assistance!
