How to Make a Split Shot: Croquet Rules & Etiquette

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Hi this is Ray and today I’m going to show you how to do a croquet shot known as the split shot. A croquet shot is where you place your ball against a ball that you’ve previously roqueted in order to take your next shot. In the case of the split shot, what we’re going to do is we’re going to try to send each ball in different directions. Now for this particular shot depending upon where you want the balls to go down the court, you’re going to use your typically half rolls, full rolls and three quarter rolls to accomplish this. But the split shot revolves around angles, so in this case if we want the red ball to head this way, and we want they yellow ball to head this way, what we’re going to do is we’re going to take our yellow ball and we’re going to place it against the red ball pointing in the direction we want the red ball to go. Of course we want the yellow ball to go this way, so what we’re going to do to accomplish that is we’re going to cut the angles. Now what we do is a little trick as if we put our mallet down and we use our arms to point in the directions that we want to send the two balls, if we collapse our arms together, we know that this is the direction we want to swing. So we’re going to, what I call, cut the angle. So for this shot we’re going to use your half roll, your pass roll, whatever it happens to be that you want to accomplish. In this case, we’ll do a bit of a half roll and what we’re going to do is we’re going to do a standard shot. We’re going to bring back, as you can see the two balls went in the two different directions.

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