Setting Up a Pool Shot

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Summary: Setting up a pool shot requires that you take a few warm up strokes. Get expert tips and advice on pocket billiards and pool cues, tables, and skills in this free 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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Setting Up a Pool Shot

Now let's set everything up to make a shot. What we have to do is go back to where we began, with the stance. We have to approach the shot correctly, which means that we're going to line it up with the right side of our body if we're right handed such as I, going to line up the stick so that we get our line of aim. Then all we have to do from that point is just turn the right foot out maybe to a forty-five degree angle, step straight forward with the left foot, distance of whatever feels comfortable to you, then bend forward keeping your bridge distance once again which we said is going to be six to eight inches on an average, setting up the bridge hand six to eight inches behind the ball, getting our line of plane, everything all lined up correctly so that we can get down and line-up, in this case, center to center because it's a straight in shot. So once again it's just like a four step deal. You just line up the right side, turn the right foot out to the right about a forty-five degree angle, step forward, bend down. Just a four step process. Very easy.