Natural Roll of a Cue Ball

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Part of the video series: Billiards: Basic Positioning Shots

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Summary: Learn about the natural roll of a cue ball from a certified pool instruction in this free pool instruction video.

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Roger Long Roger Long has been playing pool for over 40 years. He has competed for about 25 years. Roger has been a certified instructor since 1993 while maintaining a p... read more

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Natural Roll of a Cue Ball

So now we're going to start getting into what's happening with the cue ball to make our basic cue ball positioning shots. Our stop shots, follow shots draw shots again. What we have to start doing is looking at what kind of actions we want to be on that cue ball, on contact with the object ball. But the first thing we need to look at is what's happening on just about any shot where the cue ball is just rolling naturally. In other words if I don't try to apply any funny action to this ball to get it to do something specific. What's it going to do and where is it going to go if it just contacts that ball with a natural roll. Well let?s look at it. Let?s just let it hit it. And we'll see that with a natural roll it actually is a follow shot. Whether it follows it a short distance or a longer distance is going to depend on when it becomes more than a natural roll. In other words, when you start hitting the ball at a speed to where you are giving it excess top spin to make it farther than it would with a natural roll. But any shot with a natural roll is going to actually be a follow shot.