|
|
|
Visit Forum
|
"Lessons to be Learned"
Pool Table Accessories
Get high quality pool tables accessories at low affordable prices.
Everyday low prices and a wide selection.
www.thepoolhustler.com/PoolTableAccessories
Pool Cues
Free shipping, low-price guarantee.
Huge selection of great discount pool cues.
www.thepoolhustler.com/poolcues
Billiard Supplies
Get free shipping, everyday low prices, and great service.
Shop our huge selection and save!
www.thepoolhustler.com
Pool Table Cover
Discount pool table covers for every budget.
Free shipping - Huge selection - Everyday discount prices
www.thepoolhustler.com/pooltablecover
|
|
|
|
I have analyzed the positional possibilities
shown in Fig. 36 to make clear that if the
cannon is made as it should be, you have
several chances, all of them good, of a following shot at the red. Any of the alternative
leaves I have mentioned may be accepted as
quite satisfactory. It is a bad mistake to
try to play two cushion cannons at long range
with the intention of leaving the balls to a
fraction of an inch. The right thing is to
play in such a way that you are sure to have
something useful to go on with unless your
strength or direction is at fault to an unpardonable extent. You have every opportunity to prove how true this is by working
carefully at the instructive cannon shown in
Fig. 36, together with its positional sequences.
If you do this at all thoroughly, you will gain
an invaluable insight into the general
principles of break-making. You will learn
from your own cueing why it is that professional exponents get the balls under control from leaves which look anything but
promising, and are away on a break in a
manner which is very mystifying until explained. I have taken a good deal of trouble
to thrash out the positions given in Fig. 36
very thoroughly in this respect, and if you
repay me by taking the trouble to work it out
on the table with its positional sequences, I
can promise you that your game will improve
far more than it will if you dally with nursery
cannons and spot-end billiards. When you
have played this instructional and lucrative
cannon from the measurements I have given
until you can handle it to your satisfaction,
you will see that you can play variations of
it by moving the position of the white and
changing the lie of your ball in the "D."
By all means try this out as far as you are
able by plain-ball striking and a half-ball
contact with the white. Beyond this I do
not advise you to attempt much in the way of variations, as if you begin to use side and
vary your ball-to-ball contacts, you introduce
complexities and uncertainties in place of the
certainty the cannon always is if played as I
direct. The point is that the half-ball contact
and plain-ball striking makes correct contact
with the second object-ball a sure thing, and
thus provides a rare and profitable exception
to the general rule that you should concentrate
on the position of the first object-ball only
when playing cannons.
|
Pool Cues Accessories
Discount pool cue accessories to improve your game.
Win more often! Free shipping, lowest prices.
www.thepoolhustler.com/PoolCueAccessories
McDermott Pool Cues
Free shipping and the lowest prices, guaranteed.
A huge selection of professional McDermott cues.
www.thepoolhustler.com/mcdermottpoolcues
Viking Cues
Free shipping and the lowest prices, guaranteed.
Shop our huge selection of discount Viking Cues.
www.thepoolhustler.com/VikingCues
Cuetec Cues
Free Shipping - Free Cue Case - Free Cleaning Cloth
Save on billiard's most technologically advanced cues.
www.thepoolhustler.com/cueteccues
|
|
|
billiard game - PlayingBilliards.com - All Rights Reserved. - Sitemap - billiard lighting |
