"Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly
proportioned to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall
that piece of knowledge and use it better.”
-Mark Van Doren , 1894-1972
Here's another billiard situation which you'd find a
little bit challenging and would require a bit of
special handling like any other frozen shots.
This time the situation is the object ball is frozen to
the rail. So, how would you deal with this? Keep
in mind that whenever you have a frozen shot, you have
to avoid to place or impose a force on the object
ball that would go against the rubber rail.
Again, you must, by any means, prevent a force
against the rail that's coming from the object ball you
want to pocket. Think about it for a moment... if
you do that...the object ball will simply bounce off
the rail away from your intended path. So keep in
mind whenever you have a frozen shot you have a quite
delicate billiard situation. Again, see the
billiard diagram below.
What I show you is the ten ball frozen on the rail.
The cue ball is at some angle. In order for you
to hit the object ball without imposing a force against the
rubber rail, you must hit the object ball with force
that is parallel to the rail. So, how would you
go about executing it if your cue ball is at this
angle? Easy enough! You have to hit the
rail first with some slight English illustrated in
our billiard diagram above. If you hit the cue
ball in this fashion, the cue ball will rebound from
the rail so the force is not against the rail anymore
and the English applied would help the cue ball to hit object ball
and
roll to the pocket.
Good Luck!!!
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