how to hit the ball in pool?

Answer 1

Alot of it depends on exactly what you want to do with the cue ball after if contacts your object ball.

Som e very basic rules of thumb are-hit low center and the cue ball will draw back towards you, hit just a hair under center and if will stop after straight contact, hit top of center and the cue ball will follow the opbject ball.

But, a caveat--when you first start playing pool do not worry as much about how to hit the cue, worry more about shot selection, smooth cue strokes, and a good aiming habits.

Once you master these, then you can worry about follow, stop, and draw--an dthen banks, running/reverse english, etc!

Answer 2

There is the cue ball, the cue stick, and the game balls. Wherever the cue ball is placed, or comes to rest after normal play, you have to find two targets: which ball you want to put into which hole. For a straight-in shot you want to add some spin or deflecting angle or extra strong strike to keep your cue ball from following the target game ball into the hole. Many are bank or angle shots. Part of that is because you either don't have a straight-in shot or there are other balls in the way. The line of your cue stick, the swing of your arm in moving the stick, the placement of the strike in respect to the center of mass of the cue ball all have a bearing on where and how the cue ball travels. Bank shots usually want a straight-on hit, so that the momentum of the cueball is transferred to the gameball in a straight and predictable line. The angle of the gameball striking the bumper, the game play walls, will cause the game ball to travel in a mirrored angle toward your target hole. Notice too, how the strike on the cueball is made: too low and it will bounce upward and lose energy; too high similarly loses energy but also risks a corruption of motion if you don't have a good follow-through with your cuestick motion. Now on angle shots, you want to get the cueball to strike the gameball off center. Fortunately, cueballs rolling on the same surface as the gameballs reduce the geometric complexity to a basic two-dimensions. Still the amount left of center, say, the cueball strikes, determines the angle to the right in which the momentum is transferred to the gameball. Tthe farther from the center, the less of momentum is transferred. In short it is geometry that has to be carefully practiced.

Answer 3

Try using the cuestick.Onother way is to put your eye right above the stick that your using to hit the ball.

Answer 4

depends on the site...go to the HOW PLAY section

Answer 5

use the cue stick.