Lets try something for a quick example. Consider this the end rail of a table where the top 3 diamonds are on the short rail and the diamonds on the side are the side rails. On the side rails each diamond is a number and the side pocked would be #4. On the end rails the diamonds are every other number with the even numbers being halfway between the diamonds.
All of the shots of 2 rails or more use running English. For this example we can look at a 2-rail kick shot starting from the right side rail (point A) hitting towards the end rail. If A is on a direct line between 3 on the side rail and 3 on the end rail we can shoot the cue ball directly at 3 with running English (top left) and the cue ball should go 2 rails and end up in the corner pocket. You need to shoot the shot a few times to see how much English and power you need to use to get it to go in and then use that same stroke for every shot. So to get to the corner pocket we shoot from 3 to 3, 4 to 4, 2 to 2, etc.
If you shoot from 3 to 5 we just take 3-5=-2 so you should end up with the cue ball coming directly at the 2nd diamond up from the corner pocket. If you go the other way and shoot from 3 to 1 we take 3-1=2 and you should end up with the cue ball coming directly at the first diamond on the short rail from the corner pocket. Remember that on the short rail each diamond is 2 so #1 would be a half diamond and 2 is a full diamond. The farther you get from the pocket, the less accurate this is and you have to just practice to get the feel for it. Hopefully this makes sense. It is hard to put in writing. Search youtube for videos explaining it.
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1
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2
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3
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Last edited by Suit; 06-18-2016 at 12:08 AM.