Throw all fifteen balls out and shoot any one you want. Use only center english on every shot, and shoot just barely hard enough to make the balls teeter on the edge before they fall in the pocket. Don’t worry about manipulating the cue ball for position – just be aware of, and attempt to catalog, what happens to the cue ball when you shoot as soft as possible with center english.


Add a position target to this exercise and it becomes far more powerful. Don’t change the way you shoot because of where you put the target – put the target where you think the cue ball will end up when you shoot as soft as possible with center english, and see whether you were correct.

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