Pool Lesson: Side Spin On The Cue Ball

sometimes you may just have to turn the cue

ball

to the

side

, welcome everyone in today's video. I would like to talk about how to apply lateral

spin

to the cue

ball

when hitting a shot. Now there are many different aspects we can talk about regarding how

side

spin

affects the cue ball an object ball a bench shot a kick shot and a variety of other shots, but what I would like to talk about today is how side spin affects the cue ball and how it changes the angle at which the cue ball comes off a cushion and we want to use those two pieces of information to make a shot and play the position of the next ball, so let's get started, let's talk first on how to apply a lateral spin on the cue ball we are referring to.

Lateral spin, we're talking about hitting the cue ball along its horizontal access here versus vertical access, like when we apply topspin or dips. Every time we hit the cue ball to the left of its center, we are applying left English on the cue ball, this causes the cue ball to spin clockwise as it travels across the table, compared to when We hit right of center, we are applying right English on the cue ball, which makes the cue ball spin counterclockwise. Traveling across the table, there are actually two different ways to apply English on the cue ball.

For most beginners, it is recommended to apply what is called backhand English and that is done by moving the grip hand and leaving the bridge hand still, so if you want to apply left English on the cue ball we move our grip hand to the right and as you can see this causes the tip of the cue to move to the left side of the cue ball so we can apply a left spin on the cue ball or to the left. The amount of English on the cue ball will always depend on how much spin you want to have when you hit a shot and then to apply the correct English on the cue ball we move our grip plate to the left or closer to our body which does that the cue tip moves to the right side to apply right English in q-ball.

The other way to apply English is what is known as front hand English, where we are actually going to move our bridge hand and leave our grip hands. Still, to apply left English on the cue ball, we're actually going to move our bridge hands to the left of center to apply left English and if we want to apply right English on the cue ball, we move our bridge hand toward Center forehand to start with, I would probably recommend using backhand English, so what you'll want to do is aim your shot using just a center ball shot and then before you shoot, apply the type of English you want, practice some shots and then shoot. the shot, but then as you improve, you will most likely want to switch to using English with your front hand.

Now let's take a look at what effect side spin can have on the cue ball as it travels across the table. We should all be pretty. Very aware that every time we hit the cue ball down the middle, the cue ball practically goes in a straight line towards whatever target we are aiming at when we apply the left or right English, especially when we apply it using the front English hand. will actually deviate from the line of aim in the opposite direction to the applied English game, meaning that if you were to apply correct English and the cue ball deviates slightly to the left of the line of aim as it travels across the table and if out To apply left-hand English, the cue ball will deviate slightly to the right of the aiming line as it travels across the table.

Now let me show you what I mean by that, you should see at the end of the table, there I have a piece of The chalk is my target that I'm using, because when I aim, I see the diamond and what I'm going to do is try to hit that piece of chalk with the correct twist, but if I don't take it into account. deflection I was talking about I hope the cue ball hits the rail somewhere here to my left of the chalk see how it works. I'm going to start in the center of the cue ball and aim directly at the chalk. and now I'm going to move my bridge hand to English with my right hand and watch where I hit on the rail, you'll see how far the cue ball actually deviated.

Now let's apply English with the left hand on the cue ball and see how it deviates to the right. from the line of aim I forgot to mention in my last shot that I used approximately a right hand English tip when we caused the cue ball to deviate to the left, so here I will use approximately a left hand English tip and we will make the cue ball deviate to the left. drift to the right without touching the chalk and making contact with the rail somewhere around here, so I'll crouch down and aim for the center of the cue ball where I see I'm hitting the target.

I move my bridge hand to apply a left hand English tip and let's watch where we hit the rail, the cue ball deviates to the right of the aiming line and misses our target on its right side before I show you how adjust for that. Deflection of the cue ball every time you apply backhand English. Let's take a quick look at backhand English because it doesn't seem like the cue ball deviates every time you apply backhand English. In this first attempt, I'm going to use a right-hand English tip. Using backhand English, I still start in the center of the cue ball to see that I'm on target and then I'm going to move my grip to apply an English writing tip and let's see where I hit on the rail.

I can see pretty well on the target, so now let's try the left English. I'm on target. I'm going to move my grip and give it a left English tip and let's see where I hit the rail and keep up pretty good. target, the reason for this is that every time you apply a side spin using the backhand English, you are actually changing the line of aim because instead of aiming directly down the center of the table at the chalk each time you hit the ball white in the center when I apply the left English. the line of aim actually changes like this when I use it with the backhand English and the cue ball actually deviates to the right, but makes it go straight to the target, much like when I apply the forehand English using the English backhand.

This is now our aiming line and the cue ball will deviate to the left and continue straight towards the target. Now let's see how to adjust the deviation of the cue ball when applying the lead hand. English. Now it's pretty fun until recently. I don't think I knew how to do it. I was adjusting to the deviation of the cue ball. I'm pretty sure that over the course of many years of playing and missing shots, I eventually corrected those missed shots and started taking them, which leads me to believe that I naturally began to compensate for the cue. deviation of the ball.

I'm pretty sure many of you can relate to that, but for everyone else I don't want to leave you with that. I don't want to tell you to practice until you naturally start to compensate for the cue ball drift, so I started studying how I was adjusting and this is what I came up with when I applied a right-handed English tip, which I ended up doing It's just that I start changing my line of aim until I can see. that left hand English tip is actually aligned with my target or the chalk, in this case now when I can see that sheet and you can see that I hit the chalk right on the target, now let's try the same with the left hand English . so I'm going to apply a left English tip and then I'm going to change my line of aim until I can see that a right English tip is lined up with the chalk and then I'm going to shoot and I hit my target so remember that whenever we apply English from the front, the amount of English you put on one side you have to change your line of aim until the same amount of English on the left side is actually aligned with your target on this For example, here I used a tip of the right English, so I changed my line of aim until one tip of the left English was actually aligned with my target and then vice versa.

Alright, there's just one more thing we need to go over before we start demonstrating. shots and this is how lateral spin affects the cue ball coming off a rail in each of my videos where I talk about applying spin to the cue ball you have heard me mention half an English point, one English point and even two. English tips and they are all for good reasons especially when I try to understand how the cue ball will come out of the rail if I were to shoot this cue ball directly into the rail without any spin we would expect the cue ball to just come back and hit my cue is explained by itself, but if I apply a tip from correct English on the cue ball, we expect the cue ball to spin to the right, but the question is how far to the right do we expect it.

To go well, it is quite concrete, a tip of the correct English will make the cue ball spin a diamond as we move across the width of the table. Let's see how it looks. A tip of correct English is a diamond too many, so what do we do? If you think that two points of the correct English could work well if one point of the correct English makes the cue ball spin on a diamond, we should expect that two points of the correct English make the cue ball spin on two diamonds or land here in the pocket from the corner let's see that two tips of fried English make the cue ball turn two diamonds to the right now let's see the left English on the cue ball here is a tip of left English that should make the cue ball turn left by one diamond and now let's look at two left English tips and watch how the cue ball falls into the side pocket.

It's pretty concrete. If you ask me now, you just heard me talk about how one point and two points of English make the cue ball spin one or two diamonds in the direction of the applied English and every time we shoot across the width of the table, but every time If we shoot across the table, the number actually doubles, which means that if I try to shoot the cue ball directly into the short rail with a right English tip, I would expect the cue ball to turn two diamonds, which would make come here towards this corner pocket and then if I applied a left English tip, I would expect the cue ball to spin two diamonds like this and come towards this corner pocket and then remember if I try to apply two English tips so the cue ball will actually come out with four diamonds which I can't prove when we shoot across the table now that Finally we can take all the information we just went over and try to apply it to a couple of shots.

In this first example, I set up a relatively easy slice shot on the eight ball and we have to position ourselves on the nine ball because we are playing. In a nine ball game, I have to cut the eight ball slightly to the left, which means my cue ball will naturally go slightly to the right, so let's first take a look at where the cue ball will end up. No English at all, not bad. Let's see if we can do something a little better. Now let's try the same shot, but this time with a tip from the correct English.

Now it's not much easier to shoot the nine ball. Now let's do the same shot, but from the other side. way we can apply left english on the cue ball, except this time let's apply two tips from left english on the cue ball. It seems like we're getting a lot closer to the nine ball on these last few shots. Let's look at the initial shot I hit at the beginning of this video where I hit the eight ball in the side pocket and get a position on the nine, but first let's see where the natural role of the cue ball will go.

It's actually not bad, but it's a very, very fine shot on nine. Now let's try to get a better position on the nine ball. Ideally I would like to end up somewhere around here instead of right over here, which is where the natural role of the cue ball was going when I hit the bottom rail, so instead of going down here. In fact, I'm going to try to apply two left English tips to widen the angle and come here and hit this railing and see if we can end up in our perfect designated area and for our final shot, let's really try to replicate it.

What I did at the beginning of this video is not to use this rail at all and still get a decent position on the 9 ball. We're going to use a correct English tip so that when we hit the bottom rail instead of it coming out towards our to the left, we'll force it to go to the right and it'll go straight down the table and again perfect. Did you get this far because we just covered a lot of information about cue ball lateral spin and I haven't even touched it? The surface of what we can do with sidespin on a variety of other shots, but for now this is where I'll end today's

lesson

.

I think I covered the most important basics of how I apply sidespin on the cue ball. using front English or backhand English and how to take into account the deviation of thecue ball when we apply side spin and then how to use side spin to change the exit angle of the cue ball outside of a cushion after taking a shot in order to play better position on the next shot. I hope you all found this video useful if you give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe and here is the winner of the raffle I did for the players cue who was kind enough to send me a photo and video of him using the cue take care everyone