What are some good examples of typical safety shots?
Safety play strategy and countless examples are covered in detail in Vol. III of the Video Encyclopedia of Pool Shots (VEPS), Vol III of the Video Encyclopedia of Pool Practice (VEPP), Vol III of the Video Encyclopedia of Eight Ball (VEEB), and Vol. IV of the Video Encyclopedia of Nine-ball and Ten-ball (VENT).
Here are a good collection of example safety shots from the BU Boot Camp. The shots are demonstrated in the following videos:
For more information, see “Safeties You Must Master” (BD, September, 2020).
Here is a great collection of safety shot examples from pro matches.
And here are some additional videos with good safety demonstrations:
- NV B.75 – 30° rule natural-angle examples, from VEPS III
- NV G.6 – How to Come Into the Line of Blockers When Playing 8-ball Safeties, from Vol. III of VEEB
- NV I.8 – 9-ball/10-ball Object Ball Hide Safety Examples, an excerpt from VENT-IV
- NV J.18 – What Would You Do Here? – Safety Follow-Up
For more information related to NV I.8, see “VENT – Part VII: Safety Play” (BD, April, 2018).
There are also lots of great safeties in an Kick Safe match between Shane VanBoening and Francisco Bustamante and in this 10-ball game between Lee Vann Corteza VS Anton Raga. Here’s a good example by Fedor Gorst where three consecutive well-played safeties can give you a game victory, even against a great player (Shane Van Boening):
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