The relationship between throw and stroke speed

If you want to increase your shooting percentage, you have to rotate cue ball and object ball well.

What does that mean?

In fact, as you can see in the video explanation below, intentionally rotating the cue ball stabilizes the movement of the object ball.


On the other hand, if the cue ball hits the object ball without rotation, it is likely to cause a large amount of throw, resulting in unstable rotation and unpredictable movement of the object ball (The ball is greatly affected by friction called throw).

The advice is to give the cue ball a little spin each time if you want the object ball to run stably.
If you do too much, it will cause too much defraction and curve, so be conservative.

Also, the slower the cue speed, the bigger the throw, so the faster the cue speed is better.

Also, by deliberately speeding up the cue speed, you can deliver the cue ball to the object ball while retaining the spin of the cue ball.

The reason for this is that by cueing the cue ball faster, the cue ball glides over the table (i.e., less friction of the table), so the amount of spin on the cue ball is not diminished.

This is why professionals don’t stroke with slow cue speed.

This is because the friction between the object ball and the table is greater, which not only shifts the trajectory of the object ball, but also takes the spin of the cue ball with it.

Beginners are often afraid of miss shot, so they sometimes stroke the cue ball too slowly, but which causes the opposite effect resulting in miss shot.

If you do not want to miss shot, it is better to stroke at a certain speed.

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