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Throw

Home | FAQ Encyclopedia | Throw

– adjusting aim for throw
– answers to common questions about throw
– ball cleaning and treatment effects
– ball size effects
– carom throw shot
– cling / skid / kick
– combination shot aiming
– cue ball direction effects
– cut-induced spin
– cut-induced throw
– draw and follow shot effects
– effects summary
– example throw shots

– frozen balls
– gearing outside spin
– “hold” or “kill” shot to limit cue ball drift
– inside spin effects
– maximum throw
– outside spin effects
– physics details and results
– small-gap combination shots
– speed effects
– spin-induced throw
– spin transfer
– stop shot with sidespin
– tutorial covering the basics

For more information, see “Everything You Need to Know About Throw” (BD, November, 2020), the System for Aiming With Sidespin (SAWS), Sections 4.04, 7.03, and 7.04 in The Illustrated Principles of Pool and Billiards, and Vol. IV of the Video Encyclopedia of Pool Shots. And for shirts and mug featuring the physics equation for throw, see:


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