Hit the cue ball here
Above center (center)
Red dot shows where your tip should contact the cue ball.
Source
Bert Kinister · Streaming Library
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Rack the Shot
Cue ball
4 diamonds off the foot rail, 1.5 diamonds off the left rail
Object ball
On the right rail, 4 diamonds from the TR corner pocket
Target pocket
Right side pocket
Cut angle
Straight (full ball)(0° off the pocket line)
The faint outlined ball on the diagram is the ghost ball — aim your cue ball straight at it and the object ball goes in the pocket.
The Setup
Straight-in cut to the side pocketSide pocketThe two pockets at the midpoint of the long rails.. After contact the cue ball nips the near long railLong railEither of the two long rails (the sides of the playing surface). and floats diagonally back to the upper middle of the table.
Technique
StunStunA shot where the cue ball has neither follow nor draw at contact. with a touch of followFollowTopspin from hitting the cue ball above center.; medium pace. The tangent walks the CB into a clean rail-and-out for upper-middle shape.
What it teaches
SideEnglishSidespin applied by hitting the cue ball left or right of center.-pocket cut paired with single-rail tangent shape into the upper middle.