Prop Novelty Pool Shots - The Hand is Quicker than the Eye

Andy Segal: Hi, I am Andy Segal. This is our second prop novelty shot; it is called The Hand is Quicker than the Eye. We have another nine ball situation here, the Cue ball is behind the one ball which we have to hit first but we want to make the nine ball on the side pocket to win the game.

Let us see that in slow motion. Obviously, that is not a shot that you can use in regular game of pool, it is a little cheating that is why we call it The Hand is Quicker than the Eye. Let me show you exactly how to set that up and perform in. What we are doing is we are going to align the eight ball and the nine ball up straight, like this and you can have as much gap as you want; you can make it closer to be a little bit to start and you can widen the gap as you get better at it. The one ball, I am sorry the Cue ball is going to be about -- little more than a ball s width away from the eight and than one ball is about 45 degrees with about an eighth of an inch gap. Now what we are doing is, we are not going to take two strokes, shoot the Cue ball, shoot the eight ball. We want to have one continue with forward motion stroke, so it looks real. So I am going to go off to the side and show you how to do it. What you want to do is you want to follow the cue stick straight through the cue ball into the eight and pass the eight like this, so you can get used with the motion. Then when you come over here, you do not even want think about the cue ball or the one, all you want to do is watch the eight ball and pretend that is the first ball you are hitting. If you think of the cue ball, what is going to happen is you are going to hit the cue ball and then you are not thinking of the eight so you will probably miss hit it one way or the other. If you do not think of the cue ball at all, pretend its not even their, just think of the eight you have the much better chance of hitting it solid. You also want to have shorter bridge, that will help you follow through longer. So then you are going to shoot it, straight though thinking only of the eight and you make the nine ball on the side pocket. Now coming up next will a third and very nice Novelty Shot.