Application of Spin and English to Billiard Balls

Pool playing tips and billiard tutorials for using english and spin on the cue ball.

Application of Spin and English to Billiard Balls

Welcome to the pool playing tips page that explains how to apply spin and english to pool and billiard balls. Perhaps one of the most advanced and difficult skills to master in all of cue sports. These tutorials and pool playing tips should help the average pool player to get a grasp of the spin techniques used by the professionals.

Thanks for visiting the pool playing tips page that explains how to apply spin and english to pool and billiard balls. Spin and english are very difficult to perform well and to perform consistently, yet when done correctly, can have the most profound outcomes when faced with difficult or non-standard shot situations.

Application of Spin and English to Billiard Balls

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• Title: Application of Spin and English to Billiard Balls
• Author: billiardsforum (Billiards Forum)
• Published: 4/4/2008 1:21:00 AM

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Application of Spin and English to Billiard Balls Comments

1. BassBoneIV from New York City, NY on 8/15/2008 9:32:08 AM

   This is a tip I haven't found here, having to do with english.

   When object balls are touching, english from the cue ball is transferred to the object ball, spinning the object ball (very slightly) in the reverse direction, much the same way as rotation transfers from one gear to another.

   That rotation is transferred again to the second touching "object ball" again reversing the direction of the spin.

   This can be useful if a little bit of english could cause an object ball to kick into a pocket off a corner rather than kick out of it.

2. billiardsforum from Halifax, NS on 8/15/2008 10:05:08 AM

   Thanks bassboneIV, thats interesting. I'll give it a shot later today.

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