Dominic Esposito became a Professional Pool Player at 19 years old, after 5 years of lessons with Straight Pool Champion, Thomas P. Parker, in Cleveland, Ohio. He married at age 21, but, his wife didn’t want to be married to a professional pool player. With that, he agreed to stop playing pool altogether. Some 25 years later, after the loss of his first wife, he married Linda. On the way home from a visit to his daughter’s college union hall, Linda commented about his having

For some of you, it’s about time you learned how to jump a cue ball. For others, it’s time to perfect your jumping skills even more. While some people would rather complain that jump cues don’t belong in the game—most of whom, I guess, don’t jump very well themselves—jumping is an integral part of pocket billiard games and a jumping cue is nothing more than a tool that can make executing the jump shot more effective. You still have to work at becoming proficient with a jump c

Every player who has played an important match knows that feeling of having nervous butterflies. Your breathing becomes short and erratic, your muscles become tense and flinchy, your blood pressure rises, your pace of play is completely unsettled, your palms may sweat, and worst of all your ability to think clearly becomes clouded and replaced with multiple “what if” thoughts. Your impending doom is predictable and more often than not, you do bomb out. But wait; did you ever

Dominic Esposito has done it again. He is introducing a new cue that will change the way you play. We all know and love the Drill Instructor and his work. Please take a look at this short video he has created about the M1A1-XT Playing Cue. It is an extremely high deflection cue that is designed to help you find your true center when shooting. It also come with an aiming system that will help you see the natural angles off the cue ball. #demonstration #TheDrillInstructor #M1

Last time I described the situation where your opponent has executed a safety, placing the cue ball behind a cluster and you have to kick out and make a good hit. That same drill gives you the foundation to accurately learn to apply 1, 2, and 3 tips of English on the cue ball. That will come in handy every time I write you a lesson and suggest the amount of English needed. This time we will again focus on kicking, only this time shooting the length of the table to kick out an

Your opponent has executed a safety, placing the cue ball behind a cluster and you have to kick out and make a good hit. Do you walk up to the table and think: “Now what do I do!” Or do you think, “I know how to kick this!’ Drill One: Place the cue ball in front of Diamond Point 0, from four inches to three diamonds out from the rail. Place an object ball on the rail at Diamond Points 1, 2, & 3, as shown. Shoot, with 1-Tip of English, Right of Center on the cue ball, into Dia