Albuquerque: Razor Pool has announced a new billiard (pool) instructional product called Bullseye Billiards. Players can use Bullseye...

Closed bridge After learning how to make an open bridge, it is easy to change and form a closed bridge using the idea that a closed...

One of the biggest problems new students of the game have in being able to draw the cue ball is that they are simply not hitting the cue...

If you are getting inconsistent results in your break, you have an inconsistent stroke. The key to developing a good break shot is to...

The three practice techniques I’m going to describe have helped everyone that has tried them. The first is a way to practice your setup,...

The arm with which we hold the upper part of the cue (shaft), is the arm which controls the spot where cue hits the ball. We call it the...

The arm with which we hold the back part of the cue is the arm that forms the catch or the grip of the cue. We should answer some...

See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series. In the last three articles I have covered the fundamentals and types of stance, how it...

If you look around the room and don’t see any suckers….you are the sucker! You have stripes here. You each only have one ball left and...

If you read my first article Cue Ball Control like the Pros {Part 1} and you practiced the concepts you should have seen improvement...

Getting above the Stick: Shooting Tall Most of us have pretty good bridges for getting over a blocking ball—at least when the blocker is...

*See Part 1 and Part 2 Comfort: You have finally placed your legs beside the cue in a balanced position. It is the time to bend towards...

A cold breeze and the drizzle of rain marked a cold November afternoon back in 1997. Shadowman’s Billiard Parlor in Campbellsville,...

If you arrive at a point in the game and find yourself losing your edge, just slow down. Take two steps back. Attempt to slow the stroke...

It is one thing to miss a shot, but you need to find out why. There is a big difference between a reason and an excuse for missing shots....

Going through the elements of your pre-shot routine in pool does not have to look like Step One then Step Two then Step Three then Step...

See Part one here. Stance part 2. In this article we will cover more about stance and how it relates to your shooting technique. In order...

Kicking System to Make the Pocket When you have an object ball in the jaws and need to go three rails to pocket it (Diagram 1), use this...

Alpha and Omega The beginning of our conversation starts with four fundamentals of billiards which are: stance, grip, bridge and stroke....

In the last edition of Black Belt Billiards, we started working to increase our ball pocketing skills with a game called Straight Pool....