Chapter 2 - Fundamentals

Chapter 5 - Position Play and Strategy

Chapter 3 - Executing Basic Shots

Chapter 6 - Bank and Kick Shots

Chapter 4 - Spin and English

Chapter 7- Advanced Techniques (Shot Making)

Additional clips not referenced in the book
but referenced in Billiards Digest articles and online discussion threads:

Just  "CLICK " on a chapter below to be launched to that section:
 

from the movie "The Hustler"

Additional Links:

from the movie "The Color of Money"

See also:

from the movie "Pool Hall Junkies"

Chapter 2 - Fundamentals

• NV 2.1 - Miscue due to off-center hit with no chalk

• NV 2.2 - Close-up of the grip during a good stroke

• NV 2.3 - Mechanical bridge stroke with elbow out

• NV 2.4 - Mechanical bridge stroke with elbow vertical (see NV 2.3)

• NV 2.5 - A good stroke

• NV 2.6 - Steering follow through

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Chapter 3 - Executing Basic Shots

• NV 3.1 - Practicing contact point and ghost ball visualization

• NV 3.2 - Using the cue to help visualize the impact and aiming lines

• NV 3.3 - Addressing the ball and taking your stance

• NV 3.4 - 90° rule with various cut angles

• NV 3.5 - Using your hand to visualize the 90° rule impact and tangent lines

• NV 3.6 - Stop shot

• NV 3.7 - Using the 90° rule to check for and prevent a scratch

• NV 3.8 - Using your hand to visualize the 30° rule

• NV 3.9 - 30° rule example

• NV 3.10 - Using the 30° rule to check for and prevent a scratch

• NV 3.11 - Following the recommended routine for planning and executing a shot

• NV 3.12 - Side pocket near point effects

• NV 3.13 - Corner pocket near rail effects

• NV 3.14 - Near rail rattle (see NV 3.13)

• NV 3.15 - Large target size for shallow-angle rail shots

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Chapter 4 - Spin and English

• NV 4.1 - Stun shot

• NV 4.2 - Using a draw shot to prevent a scratch

• NV 4.3 - Straight-on draw shot

• NV 4.4 - Using draw to minimize deflected motion of the cue ball

• NV 4.5 - Using a follow shot to prevent a scratch

• NV 4.6 - Straight-on follow shot

• NV 4.7 - Following an obstacle ball into a pocket

• NV 4.8 - Rail dribble follow shot

• NV 4.9 - Normal follow shot into a rail

• NV 4.10 - Effect of left English

• NV 4.11 - Effect of right English

• NV 4.12 - Using English for position control

• NV 4.13 - Squirt due to high speed English

• NV 4.14 - English swerve due to an elevated cue

• NV 4.15 - Using throw to make a partially blocked shot

• NV 4.16 - Over-cutting a cut shot to compensate for throw

• NV 4.17 - Rail cut shot with natural English

• NV 4.18 - Large cue-ball deviation from the tangent-line with follow and small cut-angle

• NV 4.19 - Large cue-ball deviation from the tangent-line with draw and small cut-angle

• NV 4.20 - Delay of follow and tangent-line deviation with higher speed

• NV 4.21 - Delay of draw and tangent-line deviation with higher speed

• NV 4.22 - Avoiding a tangent-line scratch using slow speed

• NV 4.23 - Cue-ball path control for a cut shot next to a rail

• NV 4.24 - 30° rule speed effects

• NV 4.25 - Positioning the cue ball at all spots on the table from an easy side-pocket shot

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Chapter 5 - Position Play and Strategy

• NV 5.1 - Using speed and angle-control to pocket a three-ball sequence

• NV 5.2 - Using speed and angle-control to pocket another three-ball sequence

• NV 5.3 - Using side English to help run a four-shot sequence

• NV 5.4 - Using reverse English to kill the cue ball motion off a rail

• NV 5.5 - Hitting the rail first for position

• NV 5.6 - Hitting the rail first to avoid an obstacle ball

• NV 5.7 - Cheating a pocket

• NV 5.8 - Freeze the cue ball on an object ball for a safety

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Chapter 6 - Bank and Kick Shots

• NV 6.1 - Equal distance bank method

• NV 6.2 - Equal extended-rail-distance bank method

• NV 6.3 - Parallel-line bank method example

• NV 6.4 - Kick shot mirror-image method

• NV 6.5 - Equal separation-distance kick-shot method

• NV 6.6 - Bank high-speed effect

• NV 6.7 - Bank low-speed effect

• NV 6.8 - Kick shot with natural English

• NV 6.9 - Kick shot with reverse English (see NV 6.8)

• NV 6.10 - Using English to create an angled kick-shot

• NV 6.11 - Using reverse English to straighten a kick shot

• NV 6.12 - Bank outside-cut creating reverse English

• NV 6.13 - Bank inside-cut creating natural English

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Chapter 7 - Advanced Techniques (Shot Making)

• NV 7.1 - Aiming a combination shot

• NV 7.2 - Cue ball billiard shot

• NV 7.3 - Object ball carom shot

• NV 7.4 - 30° rule billiard shot

• NV 7.5 - Frozen ball throw

• NV 7.6 - Frozen cue-ball throw

• NV 7.7 - Power break stance and stroke

• NV 7.8 - Soft 9-ball break

• NV 7.9 - Two-rail parallel-line kick-shot method

• NV 7.10 - Double kiss of a ball frozen to a rail

• NV 7.11 - Large-curve massé shot

• NV 7.12 - Small-curve massé shot

• NV 7.13 - Jump shot

• NV 7.14 - Bunjee Jumper video demonstrations

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Additional clips not referenced in the book (but referenced in Billiards Digest articles and online discussion threads:

• NV A.1 - Cut shot vs. carom shot example

• from the movie "The Hustler":

  • NV A.2 - 8-ball bank hustle shot

  • NV A.3 - Illegally pocketing a ball with cue follow-through

  • NV A.4 - Cue ball carom into a frozen-ball combination

  • NV A.5 - Perfect setup object ball carom shot

  • NV A.6 - Massé-draw shot carom (billiard) shot

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• from the movie "The Color of Money"

  • NV A.7 - Post safety, dead on, frozen carom, two-rail kick shot

  • NV A.8 - Frozen bank, corner rattle artistic shot

  • NV A.9 - Frozen kick off the rail shot

  • NV A.10 - Power draw for run-out position

  • NV A.11 - Partial jump shot, dead-on combination shot

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• from the movie "Pool Hall Junkies"

  • NV A.12 - Partial jump shot

  • NV A.13 - Frozen cue-ball carom-kick shot

  • NV A.14 - Double bank-carom or bank-double-carom shot

  • NV A.15 - Kick shot out of the jaws of a pocket

  • NV A.16 - Rail-assist jump shot

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Additional Links:

• NV A.17 - Effective squirt vs. speed

• NV A.18 - Colin Colenso's throw test video (effects of speed and English)

• NV A.19 - Colin Colenso's back-hand-English saga (for squirt compensation)

• NV A.20 - Colin Colenso's power break instructional video

• NV A.21 - Bank shot using throw and spin transfer

• NV B.1 - Mike Page's squirt and swerve video

• NV B.2 - Mike Page's double hits, push shots, and frozen balls

• NV B.3 - Mike Page's aiming video (part1, part2)

• NV B.4 - Mike Page's draw video

• NV B.5 - Mike Page's pre-shot routine video (part 1, part 2)

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See also:

• Links to many other online billiards videos

• High-speed pool and billiards video clips

• Instructional articles

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