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How do you best pocket an object ball frozen to a rail? This is a question asked by many billiard beginners, and a question that can be answered relatively quickly. Both the angle of approach and the use of English are noteworthy items in explaining now to pocket an object ball that is frozen to the rail.
Basically, the sharper the angle of approach becomes, the more difficult it becomes to make the shot accurately. The reason for this, is that when you are shooting straight on, your "target" is larger, and relatively easy to shoot at. As your shot angles out more and more, the area of the object ball you want to hit becomes smaller and more difficult to strike accurately. You can only improve here with practice, but just know that it gets more difficult as the angle becomes sharper. Additionally, the degree of difficulty increases as the distance of the object ball increases from the pocket.
In order to send the object ball straight down the rail, you must try to contact the rail and the object ball precisely at the same time with the cue ball. Use of "running English" is known to help in making this type of shot, and the sharper your angle becomes, the more running English you will need.
We hope this article has been useful for helping you understand the unwanted situation of having an object ball frozen to a rail. If there are any other tips for this type of shot that you know of, please contact us with them.
The object ball frozen to the rail article was posted on 8/20/2006 12:33:00 PM and updated on 8/20/2006 12:33:00 PM. The object ball frozen to the rail article was edited by Billiards Forum Webmaster.
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Can you please explain running English better?
"In order to send the object ball straight down the rail, you must try to contact the rail and the object ball precisely at the same time with the cue ball. Use of "running English" is known to help in making this type of shot, and the sharper your angle becomes, the more running English you will need." I believe that you must contact the rail first with the cue ball. Striking them both at the same time would drive the object ball off the rail...POPS
My understanding has always been that "running english" means simply this: we all know that english on the cue ball will throw the object ball in the opposite direction (e.g. left english will throw the object to the right of "straight"). Applied to a shot at an object balll frozen on or close to the rail, you'd want to put left or right english on the cue ball (depending on which rail the object is on) to throw the object ball slightly toward the rail, so that the object ball "hugs" the rail on the way to the pocket. Putting the oppisite english on the cue ball would throw the object ball off of or away from the rail, and too much of the proper english will force the object ball into the rail, causing it to bounce out or off of the rail, so this use of english is delicate .
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