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Hi, I’m Andy “The Magic Man” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, let’s get started.

Alright, we’re playing 8-ball, the 8-ball is hanging the corner pocket, very easy shot. But, the cue ball is trapped behind the cushion. Now normally, we would shoot up table and down table or shoot around the table, but there are balls in the way. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to shoot off the pocket point and have the cue ball come down this way, and make the 8.

And that’s one way to win a game of 8-ball.

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Hi, I’m Andy “the Magic Man” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey. Doing some trick shots with full instructions. So if you’re ready, let’s get started. Alright, so in a game of eight ball, you have a cue ball frozen to the rail right at the third diamond. Eight ball frozen to the rail and a cue ball right in front of it. Now normally this would be an easy shot to shoot the eight ball straight into the corner but, there’s another ball blocking the shot. So what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna shoot the cue ball this way into the cushion, come back here. As I do that the eight ball’s gonna trickle up, be in front of the side pocket. The cue ball will then make the gate. Now the way you shoot this shot is I’m gonna shoot it with a little bit of right hand, excuse me, left hand english, um, if you’re shooting from the other side it would be right hand. And I’m gonna aim my cue stick just past the pocket point right there. And then of course based on the table you may have to adjust left or right.

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Hi, I’m Andy “the Magic Man” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey. Doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, let’s get started. Alright, so I’m playing nine ball and my opponent breaks, almost makes the nine ball. The one ball almost knocks it in. And all these ball landed up over here. Now, the table was maybe leaning a little this way or there was a breeze but in any event, the cue ball then rolled all the way around the table, came around here, hit something over here, jumped up and landed over here. I mean, I couldn’t believe it because all I have to do is hit the one ball to make the nine and win but um, fortunately I knew what to do.

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“Trick Shots/Intermediate Shots:

Scratching with Style

Hi, I’m Andy the magic man Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready let’s get started.

So what’s the one thing you never want to do when playing eight ball? Well, scratch on the eight. But, if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it with a little bit of style. So we have here the cue ball and the eight ball lined up for the pocket. If I shoot straight into the cue ball and make the eight and follow it in, that’s scratching, that’s boring. What I’m going to do is I’m going to have the cue ball come out to the left, speed up, pass the eight, curve back, scratch before the eight. Now that will be scratching with style. The way you hit this, I’m going to hit it with high English and right English. The high English is going to cause the cue ball to speed up and pass the eight. The right English when I’m elevated will masait a little causing it to curve around the eight and scratch into the corner. That’s scratching with style.”

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Hi, I’m Andy “The Magic Man” Segal. I’m Here at Willow in Hoboken New Jersey doing some trick shots and pooling instructions, so if you’re ready let’s get started. Alright, so for this shot I have the one, two and the three ball line up on the first diamond. Each one of them is on their diamond lines. What I’m gonna do is I’m gonna shoot the ball in reverse order (three, two, one)into that corner pocket but they’re gonna go in one , two, three. So the idea is for me to hit the three ball slowly just fast enough to get to the corner, shoot the ball a little quicker and then fire the one ball on the corner. The speed on this is critical. The first ball is really the key ball. Kinda like that.

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“Hi, I’m Andy ‘The Magic Man’ Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, let’s get started.

Alright, for this shot I have a cone, a rubber ball, bridge across the table, and a rack down there to expand the pocket. Now, the concept of this shot was originally invented by a friend of mine named Matt McPhail, nicknamed ‘no fail McPhail’. The idea, it’s kind of like a game of Jacks. What I’m going to do, I’m going to balance the ball and catch the ball but after I bounce it, before I catch it, I have to hit the one ball. The one ball’s going to go up table, come back down, I’m going to bounce it again, hit the one ball under the bridge, catch the ball, the one ball goes in the pocket. Then, I repeat for the two ball but this time I have to bounce twice and I have to hit the two ball after the second bounce. Then of course the three ball is three bounces. Oh, and did I tell you? The cue stick cannot touch the table. Just to make it a little harder.

And that’s a game of Jacks.”

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Hi, I’m Andy, the “Magic Man” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards here in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots. I’m currently the number 1 ranked player in the world for trick shots. I’m the current world champion, two time ESPN Magic Champion, three time Master’s Champion, three time World Cup of Trick Shots Champion. I’ve performed in various countries Russia, Hong Kong, Ukraine, obviously the United States. So I like to entertain, I like to play pool, I like to do trick shots, and trick shots is really a way to do both, entertain people and compete playing pool. I also run, run an APA league, which is Amateur Pool League, 8 ball and 9 ball. It’s part of the American Pool Players Association. We run that here out of Will Billiards. We have a whole bunch of players, a whole bunch of teams. The players play every night during the week usually and they have a great time. I started getting into trick shots when I met Mike Massey, and he kind of intro’d me into the trick shot world. Started competing, and once I started competing at trick shots that was the end of my 9 ball days. I’ve been doing trick shots probably since 2002, about 10 years, and I’ve been playing pool since high school, which is longer than I care to remember. What we’re going to do here is I’m going to try and teach you some of the tricks. Most of them I invented myself. A lot of them are classic trick shots that I’ve either just are using or I’ve adapted to my style, and I’m going to try and show you some of those tricks. In addition, I’m going to try and show you a few tips about playing pool. Hopefully you become a better player.

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Hi, I’m Andy “The Magic Man” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, let’s get started.

This shot’s called jump through the rack. We have the eight ball and the cue ball lined up pretty much straight into the corner, but there’s a rack in the way. So what I’m going to do is, I’m going to hit the cue ball down, causing it to jump a little bit. The cue ball’s going to hit the eight ball down, make the eight ball jump up, go through the rack, and into the corner pocket.

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Hi, I’m Andy, the “Magic Man” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiard here in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, lets get started. All right, here we’re going to discuss the different cue’s between 8 ball and 9 ball, two popular games. 8 ball, one player has the stripes and one player has the solids, and the idea is for one player to shoot all their stripes in first before the other player shoots all the solids. When you’re done shooting all of your group, you then go here and pocket the 8 ball to win the game. 9 ball’s a little bit different. You only have the 1 through 9. So you have these balls. And the idea is to shoot the balls in order. So first I’m going to make the 1, then make the 2, then make the 3 and so on, and whoever makes the 9 ball wins the game. So whereas in 8 ball I could run out six balls, miss, my opponent will then still have to run all of their balls before get to shoot the 8. In 9 ball, I can run all of the balls, miss maybe just the 8, my opponent can then just shoot the 8 and the 9 to win the game. So here what I’m going to do is shoot the 12. Then I’m in line for the 13. So now I’m going to shoot the 11, draw it back a little bit so I can get a little straighter on the 8. And now just pocket the 8. All right so in 9 ball, I’m just going to finish up here by shooting the 7, coming back a little for the 8, pocket the 8, and then just the 9 to win. Of course in 9 ball, sometimes you have a ball that’s tied up like the 3, so we can’t get to the 3. And in 9 ball, if you shoot the lowest ball first and pocket the 9, you can win the game right there. Just like that.

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“Hi, I’m Andy ‘the Magic Man’ Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So, if you’re ready, let’s get started.

One of the most important things are the fundamentals. You want to make sure you’re standing properly, you’re holding the cue stick properly. The one thing you have to look at when you’re shooting a shot is ‘which direction do you want to shoot?’ If you want to shoot say this way, I don’t want to stand like this because then I can’t stroke the ball. So, I’m going to turn my body about forty-five degrees and step to the side a little bit. That allows me to bend over and now I’m directly in line with my shot.

To create a solid bridge, solid stroke, what you do is put a circle around the ball like you’re making an ‘okay’ sign and then just wrap your fingers around it and that gives you a nice solid bridge.

And for your backhand, hold it somewhere in the middle of the wrap, or if there’s no rap, just hold it where you feel comfortable. But, you want to make sure you that don’t hold it too tightly or too loosely. Hold it with about these two fingers and as you go back you make it looser, as you go forward, you make it tighter. And keep your arm as back as possible. You don’t want to have arm out here because then your cue stick goes like this. You bend over and you stroke it. Now, one of the things to help develop a straight stroke is to use this line between the bumper and the wood. What you do is you put your cue stick bridge right over the line, look down, and you shouldn’t be able to see any part of that line. Okay, and then just start stroking the ball like this, pretending there’s a cue ball right here. And if you’re stroking it properly, you shouldn’t be able to see the line at all. But, if you’re stick is waving like this, you’ll be able to see that line and now you know you’ll have to correct yourself. So just try this and that should help you develop a nice straight stroke. “

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“Pool Trick Shots / Fundamentals: Rack and Break

Hi. I’m Andy “”The Magic Man”” Segal. I’m here at Williard Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction, so if you ready, let’s get started. All right, so let’s discuss the first thing you have to do with racking the balls in 8 ball. It’s pretty straight forward, you just put all the balls inside the rack. The 8 ball goes in the middle and a lot of people, sometimes they like to mix up the solids and stripes. That doesn’t really matter as long as the 8 ball is in the middle. Now some places, as you can see here, we have the outline of the rack. Most places wont have that, but they will have a spot here. The head ball goes right on the spot and then the important thing is to make sure that the front few balls are touching each other. Sometimes when you rack it, the balls rolls off, you want to bring it back. Now when you’re breaking, the Q ball’s going to be on the other side of the table. You want to shoot directly into the head ball. Some players try and break like with a glancing blow like this, but the balls aren’t going to spread out as well if you hit it with a glancing blow. You want to try and hit it direct and solid, so where ever you break from behind the line, whether it’s this angle, this angle, this angle, you always want to come directly into the head ball. If you’re breaking from the side, you want to come in this way. If you break from the middle, you want to come in this way. That gives the most [inaudible] into the rack and spread the balls out the best, and that’s a good solid break by hitting the ball to center.Had problem understanding one word.

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“Hi. I’m Andy “”The Magic Man”” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiard in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, let’s get started.

After the break, the most important thing is to select the right group of balls. Now, if you make a solid or make a stripe on the break, you have to take that group, but in this case my opponent broke and didn’t make any balls. So it’s completely open. I can choose either group. So I’m going to be looking at this table, saying, “”Well, which balls are most open?”” If you look at the, the stripes, most of those balls are completely open, but these two, the fourteen and the nine, are a little tied up. And I may not want to mess around with that. So I look at the solids. The solids are completely open, so I’m going to choose the solids.

Now which ball do I shoot? Well, I have the option of shooting the three in the side, the six in the corner, the two, the four I have a lot of options. One thing you want to do when playing Eight Ball is say, try and clear one side of the table before the other side of the table, if possible. So in this case, if I start shooting the two, I’m going to be working down here, then I’m going to bring the cue ball back this way, clearing those balls, and then have to bring it back down for the eight. A better idea would be to shoot the four ball first, then shoot the three, and then just clear all the balls on this half of the table, shooting the eight. It’s a much better and cleaner way of doing it. So I would start by shooting the four.

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Hi, I’m Andy, the “Magic Man” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, lets get started. All right, a lot of people struggle with shots that aren’t straight in. Now I’m going to show you a simple technique to eyeball how to aim a shot that’s straight, that’s not straight in. I’m going to try to make the 5 ball in the side. So I would normally have to shoot the 5 this way with the Q ball, but I don’t know exactly where to aim. Now a lot of people and go like this, find a spot on the 5 that goes directly into the pocket and then aim at that spot. Well that actually doesn’t work. You’ll miss the ball if you do it that way. What I try and use is the ghost ball technique. Take another ball, line it touching the 5. Make sure it’s straight in. Now what I want to do is line the center of the Q ball to the center of my ghost ball. So I’m going to be shooting along this line right here. Now I’m actually aiming at the center of the 14, which is this point right here where it’s touching the table. Now you notice that this point is not the same as this point where a lot of people make the common mistake. So I’m going to be aiming right here, okay. Now in a game, I can’t obviously have a ghost ball, so how do you figure it out in a game? Well a ball is two and a quarter inches wide, so what you do is you come over here, find the spot like you would normally do and then pull it back about an inch, maybe a little over an inch. And that spot right on the table is the center of the ghost ball, and that’s where I want to aim to make the 5. You practice that and you’ll start making a lot more shots.

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“Pool Trick Shots / Fundamentals: Stopping the Cue Ball

Hi, I’m Andy the “”Magic man”” Segal, I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken New Jersey, doing some trick shots and pool instructions, so if you’re ready let’s get started.

The first thing you have to learn when you’re trying to control the cue ball is the stop shot, that is the single most important shot when you’re learning position play. When you hit the cue ball, what happens is it just starts rolling and it’s a consistent roll. But if you hit the cue ball underneath, what’s gonna happen is its going to spin backwards for a while and eventually that backwards momentum will stop , it will slide forward for just a little brief moment and then start rolling again , something like this. You saw that is started sliding there and then it started rolling. While a stop shot is simply getting that cue ball to slide at the point of the ball, so I’m going to try and get the cue ball to slide right over here, I’m gonna shoot on the side of the club just so you can see an example. You noticed that it slid right over here which would cause the cue ball to contact the 12, have no spin at all and stop right at that point, so now I’m going to actually shoot the 12 and you’ll see the cue ball stop right there.

Now that’s the most important shot because that is how you base how much higher or lower to hit the cue ball to get a draw or top spin which will be covered in another video.

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“Hi. I’m Andy “”The Magic Man”” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiard in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, let’s get started.

All right. Now, stopping the cue ball’s important, but that’s the basis for learning how to use follow and draw shots. Follow is when the cue ball continues forward. Now, if you remember from the stop shot video, the cue ball will roll naturally if you just hit it, not below center, but just slightly above center. That natural roll is momentum for when it hits the twelve ball, the cue ball will continue forward after the twelve, kind of like that. Now, that’s just using the cue ball’s natural spin and natural momentum.

However, if you want, you can hit the ball above center. Now, by hitting the ball above center, it’s very difficult to see, but the cue ball is actually spinning forward faster than it’s rolling. So when it hits the eleven, it stops for a brief second, spins forward and then forces forward a lot faster than just with the natural roll.

Learning how to put a lot of follow on the ball, or a little follow on the ball, is the key to successful position play.

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Hi! I’m Andy, the magic man, Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey, doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, let’s get started. Alright, so for draw shots, you have to go back to the stop shot video and make sure you know that first. The stop shot video, you wanted the ball to slide when it got to the fourteen; in the draw shot, you want it to be spinning backwards when it gets to the fourteen. Which means, sliding out here somewhere, and wherever it slides, that depends on how much draw you put on the ball. The more draw you put on the ball, the further it will go when it slides. So for example, if I want the cue ball to slide somewhere over here, I’m gonna shoot it past the fourteen so you can see – shoot it like this, and then it slid right over here. But if I wanted to draw a little less, maybe I want it to slide over here – so it slid over here. So now, hitting the ball, what’s happening is when the cue ball gets to the ball, it’s actually spinning backwards so the cue ball will then pick up the friction and spin backwards. Kinda like this. Now, a common mistake when players are shooting is they have a ball hanging in the pocket and they figure, “I want to shoot it with backspin to prevent the cue ball from falling in and scratching”. Well, if they put backspin on it, but the backspin runs out somewhere over here and slides, it’s now going to turn into follow and it will probably follow it in and scratch. Kinda like that. You want to make sure if you’re shooting a shot like that, you put enough backspin on the ball that will carry it past the ball and that slide will happen beyond it, so it will still pull back. Kinda like that.

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“Hi, I’m Andy “”the Magic Man”” Segal, I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pulling structures, so, if you’re ready, let’s get started.

Alright, so, for this shot, we’re going to learn how to control the direction of the cue ball. We have a fairly straight end shot, we want to know where’s the cue ball going afterwards. If you remember from the Ghost ball video, the cut shot video, here’s the ghost ball, this is where i’m aiming the cue ball. Now you take this tangent line, and this is where the cue ball is going to travel, but, it’s only going to travel that way if you shoot it like, a stop shot, now obviously since you’re cutting the ball the cue ball’s not going to stop but if you have that slide happen right where the twelve is, the cue ball will follow the direction of this tangent line. So let’s try that.

Now you notice the cue ball hit right over here.

So let’s set that shot up again, and then we’re going to talk about altering that line, okay? Here’s the tangent line, right to that shaw. Now if I want the cue ball to go in a different direction, i can use either top spin or back spin. If I use top spin,what’s going to happen is the cue ball is going to be spinning forward and it’s going to push forward on this tangent line, so it’s actually going to go this way.

You notice here the cue ball hit at this location, and that with a backspin, you actually can get the tangent line here, it pulls the cue ball back this way, so you can actually get a big difference in where the cue ball goes.

And that’s how you decide what to use first look at the tangent line, that’s your stop shot, and then if you want to pull it back from the tangent line or push it forward you use top spin, or back spin. “

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Hi, I’m Andy “the Magic Man” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey. Doing some trick shots and full instructions. So if you’re ready, let’s get started. Alright now, how hard or how soft you hit the cue ball is pretty important when you’re talking about position play. Most shots you don’t really need to use a lot of english. You can just control the cue ball based on how hard or soft you hit it. So, as an example we’re gonna shoot the ten in the side. We’re gonna just roll the cue ball down. We wanna get a nice shot on the twelve ball next. So we don’t wanna hit the cue ball too hard, we’re just gonna roll it nice and easy. The cue ball should stop right there for a good shot at the twelve But let’s say. Let’s say instead of having the twelve ball there. Let’s say the twelve ball was off the table. And we had this same shot. Now we don’t wanna roll the ball that softly. Because if it stops down there you won’t have a good shot at the eight. So we’re gonna hit the cue ball a little bit harder so it bounces off the rail and comes out here.

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Hi! I am Andy the magic man Segal I am here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken at New Jersey, doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you are ready let us get started. For side spin you have to understand a concept called running and reverse English. Running English is English that helps the Cue ball around the table and reverse English is English that checks the Cue ball up and stops it from going around the table. So for example, if I am going around the table this way, from my point of view it is going around to the left; so I want to use left English. So the cue ball is going to be spinning this way it is going to hit the rail and it is going to help it around the table. And like this. If I were to use the opposite English, the right English that is checking English or Reverse English and we will see that the cue ball does something a little different. You see how it checks up? It does not go around the table like it is supposed to be. Now running English is helpful because it allows the cue ball to go around the table more easily and it does not, you don’t have to hit the balls hard. For example, if I wanted to get a nice shot at the eight ball, I would shoot the 15 ball in the pocket, 1:2 quotients, so I am going to use right English, running English and the cue ball would come over here. And I am left with a good shot on the 8. Now the other important thing is to know when you are drawing the cue ball back the English is reverse, so if I want the cue ball, if I want the cue ball here to come back and I want the cue ball to go to the right afterwards, I am actually going to put left English on the ball because left English from this direction is left English from this direction but from this direction the cue ball is actually going to go left not right, so what I am going to do is I am going to put left English on the cue ball closing it to spin this way and then it hits the rail and kicks off to the right. So you have to reverse it when you put a back spin on the ball and it goes to the right so left English makes it go to the right when you are drawing back into a cut.

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Hi, I’m Andy ‘The Magic Man’ Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey, doing some trick shots and pool instructions. So if you’re ready, let’s get started.

Alright, now a stun shot is really a stop shot but you hit it very hard. The reason you have to hit it hard is because if you have a shot that’s a cut shot, a stop shot is going to cause the cue ball to go right along the tangent line as you remember from the other video. But if you have a shot like this where cue ball and the fourteen ball are almost straight in, there’s not much of an angle for the cue ball to be traveling. It’s not going to go very fast. So, when you shoot the fourteen in, the cue ball’s only going to move very, very little. So you have to hit the cue ball a lot harder. When you hit it harder, the cue ball actually travels along the tangent line a little bit further. So in this situation, I’m going to shoot the fourteen but the three ball is in the way, I want to get around the three ball so I need the cue ball over here. So if I were to just shoot this ball with a stop shot, I’m going to be behind the three. So what I need to do, is I need to use something called the stun shot which is basically the stop shot but hitting it a lot harder and it’s going to *ensure* the cue ball to travel a lot further. Now, I have a good shot at the eight. Next to last sentence where he says “…and it’s going to *…..the cue ball to travel a lot further.

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Hi, I’m Andy “the Magic Man” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiards in Hoboken, New Jersey. Doing some trick shots and full instructions. So if you’re ready, let’s get started. Alright, now, so for position play you have to think also one ball ahead. You wanna think about what side of the ball you wanna get on. For example, I’m gonna shoot the two ball in the corner. And now, I have a choice. I can either follow the cue ball, draw the cue ball, stop the cue ball. If I stop the cue ball, the cue ball is gonna be right here. And now I’m shooting the three ball in the side. But the cue ball, which way is it gonna go? I’m cutting it this way so the cue ball’s gonna go this way. Away from the eight ball which is the next ball I have to shoot. So I don’t wanna shoot the cue ball and stop it because then I’m gonna have a bad shot on the three. I can still make it but the cue ball’s going in the wrong direction. If I shoot the three now the cue ball goes down the table away from where I have to shoot. So let me show you how to think about that shot. Three ball, one ball, cue ball. So what I really wanna do is I really want the cue ball to be over here on this side of the three. So when I cut it inside, it’ll go forward. So in that situation I have to say, ‘well, I can’t just stop the cue ball’. I’m draw it back a little bit so I’m gonna hit it underneath. Pull the cue ball back a little bit. And now, I’m on the right side of the three so I can shoot it and have the cue ball go down the table for the eight.

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“Hi. I’m Andy “”The Magic Man”” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiard in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, let’s get started.

All right. Now, how do you know when a shot’s a scratch shot? Well, a lot of people think that when the ball is right on the spot, it’s a scratch shot. Well that’s actually wrong. The ball on the spot is not a scratch shot.

What I like to think about is a three-point basketball line. From the corner pocket Pretend this is the foul line. The three-point line would come out here, around up here, and then back down. That’s the scratch line. So if I shoot the eleven ball in the corner, there’s no scratch. But, instead of here, if I was up here on the three point line, that’s actually the scratch line. Okay?

So, now how do you avoid the scratch if the ball is on that three point line? Well, one of the ways is to use the concept of the, of the position play, from that video. Remember, the tangent line is going to go this way, right into the scratch, if I’m shooting the stop shot. So if I want to pull it back from that tangent line, I would use back spin, and that would alter the direction of the cue ball to avoid the scratch. Like that.

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“Hi. I’m Andy “”The Magic Man”” Segal. I’m here at Willow Billiard in Hoboken, New Jersey doing some trick shots and pool instruction. So if you’re ready, let’s get started.

Now, when you have two balls lined up, and they’re touching, or frozen, what you have to remember is that when you shoot the ball, if you shoot it straight they’re going to go right along the line that they’re lined up at. But if you shoot it at an angle, the friction of the tangent point is actually going to push the ball off the direct line. So, for example, here we have the ten and the twelve lined up right for the corner pocket right for the side pocket. Okay? If I shoot straight into the ten, the twelve ball will go straight in. But if I shoot it at this angle, what’s going to happen is the force of the cue ball, and the ten, and the friction, is going to push the twelve ball off the line, and you’re actually going to miss. Okay? Now these two balls are lined up for here, so if I shoot directly into them, the two ball misses. But if I shoot over here, that same concept that caused me to miss the other ball is going to push the two ball into the side pocket.

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Hi, I’m Andy “The Magic Man” Segal. I’m Here at Willow in Hoboken New Jersey doing some trick shots and pooling instructions, so if you’re ready let’s get started. Alright now for Carom shots to work yo have to understand position place so look at that other video. What’s gonna happen is I’m gonna shoot the twelve ball on the side and I want the Q ball to travel down the rail to make the ten. Well if you remember the Ghost ball technique, We have a ball for ten ball here. The tangent line is right down the path that I want the Q ball to take, So I’m gonna shoot the Q ball as if I’m gonna do a stop shot and that should make the Q ball to travel directly down that line and pocket the ten. Now you’ll not always gonna be so lucky as to have a direct shot like that, so for example if you have a shot like this, the Ghost ball is here, the tangent line brings you into here. Ok? So in order to alter that tangent line you have to use back spin, pull the Q ball back from the tangent line, pocketing the one and making the fifteen ball in the corner pocket, so I’m gonna use backspin here. You always have to make sure that you know which tangent line you’re looking at and whether you wanna push it forward, bring it back or keep it right along in that line.