Pool Lesson | How To Break & Run 8 Ball Step by Step - GoPro

In this

lesson

, I'll show you

step

by

step

how to

break

and execute a smashed 8

ball

. You'll see where I hit the cue

ball

on each shot. I also recorded slow motion videos and used my

gopro

so that you have the best possible learning experience with this video. First, we will talk about the brake shot and after that, we will

break

and run a crash while I present the different steps needed to run with an 8 ball. Let's get started I prefer not to brake perfectly from the center but a little to the left or to the right the most important thing that goes through everything on the brake is that you hit the first ball as straight as possible that way you will be able to transfer the maximum Turn on the brake, you want to make sure that there is absolutely no left or right turn on the cue ball because then it will deviate a lot when hitting hard, so if your keyboard is going crazy because you can't hit the first ball completely on the face, maybe consider taking it off a bit for more accuracy.

The goal should be for the cue ball to end up in the center of the table after the break, that way you will have the best and also the most options to shoot the ball. To achieve that you need to aim slightly above the center of the cue ball, the exact amount depends on your speed and then the dugout will bounce off the first ball and the forward rotation should keep it in the center you see here with just A little more forward rotation, the cue ball would have been perfectly in the center of the table, but I'm still very happy with this stop shot.

Here is another example. See how easy this rack can be with a good rest. I have very easy shots to play. It's fine here, unless you make a horrible position shot and have to get out of trouble. By the way, the design of this rack was too easy to use for this video, so let's break another crash and then try to run it together while learning the different steps. it takes, okay, let's break another rack and now you'll see how much time I'm taking for the brake shot because the brake is the most important shot you have in 8 ball.

Imagine that you are able to hit balls with the brake constantly. If you are able to control the cue ball, that means holding it in the center of the table, then you will have a much better chance of making a crash or even running several racks in a row, so don't rush the brake shot and take your time. We added too much, we followed the key well, that's why the cue ball came towards us, but other than that we have a very nice layout and we made two balls on the brake. The first thing you need to do now is identify potential problem areas. on the table and you see here with the solids and the stripes we have a big problem area the rest of the table above the table looks great so we only have one problem on the table the next step is to find a ball that is very easy to do that we can start the rack with and as you see here we have a ball in front of the side pocket, the striped ball, which is very easy, the 15 ball and maybe also the 6 ball in the side pocket, usually Now I would continue.

As planned, but since the 15 ball is a very good ball to open up that problem area and to push that 14 ball into open space with a safety ball on the 11 ball, I'm going to play that 15 ball first and then. I'm going to plan the rest of the rack, this worked perfectly and now we can do the next step that we normally do before playing our first shot and that is separating the balls into groups, as you see here we have a group of two balls. or maybe even three balls, we have one ball in front of the side and in front of the corner pocket.

After finding our groups, which we normally play separately, we look for a keyboard on the table and you see the nine ball here. It is a good key ball to get a good position on the eight ball, this means that the nine ball should be the last ball we will play on this rack. Now we can start our plan and it looks great to play that 11 ball first. good transition to the 14 ball and then play the group table above followed by the 9 ball and the 8 ball in the corner pocket, it would make no sense to go from the 11 ball to the group table above and then to the table 14 ball and then play the 9 because then you have to raise the table, lower the table and raise the table again, so always play them in a logical order.

This looks like a very good position on that 14 ball and now we have to transfer to the group table above. As you can see here from the angle, we're pretty straight, we have a little bit of an angle. Now I could just stop the ball and have a slightly harder shot on one of the two balls, but I'm deciding to follow the ball. because I have a little bit of angle and I can make life easier if I get closer to the ball, so here I am making a little more difficult shot to get a good shot on the temple, but this will open up a lot of messing up or finishing the rack If we get a good position on the temple all we have to do is play a stopped shot on the 10 ball have a good shot from the 15 ball two clubs to the nine ball play the nine and the e8 So this is already the winner of the match because the rest is very easy to do, as you see, we have a very good position at the temple and now we have to check where we want to be on that 15 ball because a stopped shot doesn't do it.

It doesn't help, we have to backtrack a bit to basically get straight to that 15 ball, so I'm checking where I want to be. I don't want to be too far away on either side because then I'll be gone, that's the danger. the 15th ball, so here is the last difficult shot, well it is not really difficult, but it is the most difficult shot we have left on this rack, so here we have to concentrate to aim it precisely at our point and we got a good position . We're not perfectly straight, but it's still good enough to just roll the ball and have a good position on a 9 ball.

Here you see the straight line we have and we want to be on this side of the straight line and not this one. side. because we want to go towards the railing and not towards the eight ball, as you see, with this angle we can go towards the railing, the other angle would go towards the eight ball and this makes things difficult, so here it is better to be too short than too much long or maybe straight would be fine but I don't do too much because I don't want to be on the wrong side of the nine ball, you may have noticed the cue ball reaction, I actually got kicked here on the shot but still this it's great we're actually on the right side to have a good shot on the 8 ball and as you can see here this was very controlled we didn't get off the line and it was a really easy mess to start with and because this was too easy maybe let's do a second try to continue our maybe second break and run here and after I did the 8 ball I'm probably going to do here and we'll set up another crash and see how the second rack goes and if there's anything else that count and one important thing about the 8 ball, I'm not going to roll it.

I said probably 100 times I'll play it with a stun shot because that way I can avoid a putt because I just got kicked on that 15 ball so I don't want to putt again of course okay let's stop again and An additional tip on the brake is to visualize what the cue ball should do on the brake. because generally when you make shots you visualize how the object ball falls and where the cue ball should travel, but it actually also helps to visualize the behavior of the cue ball on the break, that means how the cue ball bounces and stops in the center of the board, this can really help you with the brake, well this time it didn't work, but the brake is so hard that it can't work 100 of the times you do it, so practice makes perfect here with the brake stroke, OK?

The rack looks much better because we don't have any real problem areas on the table, so we didn't detect any problem areas and now we have to find balls that we can open the rack with. We have those 15 balls, we also have that. 14 ball table, we also have that ball and maybe even the number 12 ball here to open the rack. This time we have to think a little more about which group we choose and as you see the 15 ball would maybe be a keyboard for Let's go with the 15 ball, but the 4 ball is blocking the way so it's a little difficult to get a good shot with the 8 ball.

I think we should go for the solid ones here because we have a good group of 1 and 5 balls. I also have a good group of fours and sixes that could be maybe a keyboard or a good cable on the ball eight and also a group of three, seven and two, so the big problem here is that if I am using that ball, I want to hold the ball for the five balls in the corner, but the problem is that I have too much angle, so I need hitting the ball very soft with internal English, which is very difficult.

I could also play that ball and transition to another group, but then this 5 ball table is alone and it's very difficult to get there, so I'm looking for a different ball to open the rack and here you see the 7 ball. The 7 ball It is a little more complicated than the single ball. but with the 7 ball I can make a good transition to the first group, then go to the second group table and have a good shot with the eight ball, so my plan here is, or our plan should be, to make that seven ball, but it's very important if you don't feel comfortable with that ball like I told you in my last video, don't play that shot and take an easier shot because you don't want to miss, but I feel very comfortable making that 7 ball here and as you see, we got a very good position on the two balls with the right angle to go towards the free ball and we already cleared the first group on the table and here is the interesting part after we made the two balls and got a good position. on the free ball with an angle, of course, to go towards the center of the table, we don't want to clear the entire group of balls in the center of the table, we want to use those four balls to transition to the table group because This is not very difficult and then from the table above go to the 6 ball because the 6 ball is the perfect keyboard, of course you can also try to stick the whole group in the center of the table first and then go up to the table .

This is totally fine. and it works here too. I have a good angle to follow my plan and go up the table towards the five ball and the single ball and the good thing here is that I have room for error regarding speed control because if I go too short or too long. I have the five ball or the single ball and from those balls I can easily transition to the sixth ball, so I am playing this shot with a little bit of English left. I want to get that 15-ball bounce to the short side and then I have a chance with the fly ball or with a ball, as you can see, I ended up a little bit in the middle.

I have too much angle on the five ball and am on the wrong side for the single ball, but this is still very doable. just play the ball with your left and english and slowly roll in to have a good angle under a ball either straight or you have the angle where you can move away from the short rail here i ended up straight but this is totally fine we just have to draw the qr back, go straight to the sixth ball to the side and we don't have to be perfectly straight either, we could go a little bit towards the eight, a little bit away from the eight and now you'll see we have a very good shot. a very good keyboard, all we have to do is roll the ball, we have a good angle and we have the easiest help we could ask for.

As you see, 8 ball can be a really difficult game, but it can also be very easy if we are playing the right shots by playing the right pattern, so I hope I can help you with this video. Well guys, to be honest, shooting can sometimes be a really difficult game, but on the other hand, as you just saw in this video, if you're doing the right things, that means playing the right shots, making the right decisions. correct, playing with the correct patterns, you can make the game at least a little easier for yourself, okay, one more thing, if you like my t-shirts, for example, this one, the smash dead t-shirts or the alive t-shirts more

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lesson

, take care.