"Importance of After-position"

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Articles:

The Natural Angle

"Narrower" and "Wider" Angles

Value of Half-Ball Play

Other Ball-to-Ball Contacts

The Value of Practice

Half-Ball Losers

Importance of After-position

Angle and Cue Delivery - part 1

Angle and Cue Delivery - part 2

To resume with the stroke shown in Fig. 13. I want to show you why you should strive to keep the red in the centre of the table at all costs. Suppose you play with such bad strength that the red stops on the pyramid spot. In this event, Fig. 14 shows you how to cope with the situation. Place your ball a full inch and a half inside the right-hand spot of the baulk line, play a free and true half ball loser into the left top pocket, and bring the red round into good position over the middle pocket as shown in my diagram. In the much more likely event of the red stopping on the centre-spot, place your ball seven and a half inches to the right of the centre spot of the baulk line, play a long half-ball loser into the right-top pocket, and bring the red into position off three cushions, as shown by the artist in Fig. 15. And allow me to inform you that you will be an artist with a cue if you can make the strokes shown in Figs. 14 and 15 with consistent accuracy both as regards the actual score and the correct after-position of the red ball.

My immediate object is to prove that you have the chance of leaving these strokes, or others of a similar nature, if you keep the red ball well towards the centre of the table. But if you manage to scramble in-off the red somehow into a middle pocket, and leave the red too close to a side cushion for a half-ball loser to be playable from hand, you are in trouble. Remember, then, when practicing as in Fig. 13, that while strength of stroke is most desirable, as you cannot do better than leave the red in its original position, yet correct direction is absolutely indispensable, as it gives you an opportunity to retrieve your break when your strength is at fault, as it is sure to be sooner or later.

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