Now that the technical aspects of how hard it may be are behind us, what I want to talk about here is how to "Make a Kick Shot". How do you measure the angles of a shot into and off the cushion? How do you know where to hit? How do you know if more/less speed, or english is necessary?
You may have heard of "angle-in vs. angle-out" on a bank or kick shot. It works assuming other factors are taken into account, such as speed and english, as noted above. What about those times where those angles are not obvious, or where the position of the balls makes it almost impossible to observe angle-in/angle-out? The most important question, is how do you do kick shots consistently? The angle in vs. angle out concept is applied here but this technique teaches you how to "find" the CB contact point on a kick shot, or the apex of your shot so the trajectory of the CB following the angles in/out are correct.
I have not seen this process for calculating CB contact points for kick shots anywhere else, so I might be the first to come up with it, even though I suspect many pro's have this in their heads. I modeled this kick shot process after a similar bank shot method I wrote about in another article that was taken from some tried and proven techniques from various instructions from various pro's that I condensed into understandable steps. I thought about this for quite awhile until I figured it out...I made so much money on the bank shot tutorial, I thought it only natural to come up with a kick shot tutorial...now I'll be twice as rich... ;) LOL...2 times 0 is still 0...
Anyway, I digress and dream of finer days when grass was green and times were good and right after the baseball game there were milk and cookies on the table.....Oh I'm off subject again, back to the kick shot!
Looking at Diagram 2 below for reference, if you follow the steps you will understand the process.
Set up your practice table for the kick shot with the CB and OB at the approximate positions shown in the diagram, then;
Step1: Draw a straight line from the center of the CB to the cushion you intend to bank from. (Line A) (Where the CB is does not matter, as long as it is in position to make the kick shot bank and the path to the OB and OB to pocket is open. You can use any of the below diagrams and move the CB and adjust your measurements accordingly. That way you can practice a allot of variations of these shots.)
Step 2: Draw a line between the object pocket through the OB and place a "ghost ball" directly on that line just behind the OB -- I used the 1 ball in the below examples. Here I use a Yellow Line. (not to be confused with the A line) (Make sure you put the pocket end of this ghost ball line at the best point of pocket entry to assure the best odds of making the shot. In this example, I have it going into the pocket to clear any cushion tip.)
Step 3: Now draw a line from the center of the ghost ball to the line A cushion point; here I use an "Orange" line (B).
Step 4: Now draw a line from the center of the ghost ball parallel to line A to the same banking cushion as the A line is pointing to; here I use a "Blue" line (D).
Step 5: Now draw a line from the center of the CB to the point where the blue line D meets the cushion. This line is shown as a "Green" line, C.
Step 6: Where Line B and C intersect, (the X) draw a line parallel to line A and D to the same cushion; here shown as the Black line.
Note: The CB diagram in the upper left corner of the table shows hit and speed, it is the same for all shots in this tutorial.
Diagram 2
START(%AY3P4%CX2Q0%Pg5Q9%Qg5I5%R3K0%Sb1K2%TW2I3%Ug5D6%Vg6S0%WZ8O3%Xg3C5%YY8D1%Zh4R5%[Y1D4%Y3R1%]`0D3%^`1M0%_D6Z7%`M9V0%aX0P9)END
