Tips for Pool Table Diamond System Mastery-Learn how to be good at the diamond system pool table |
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This article is meant for the beginners and amateur wh wish to become better players in the billiards diamond system.
Tip 1: Learn the Fundamentals
Just like any other game, its easier to learn the game at an early stage that try to correct bad moves after you have learnt them. If you develop bad techniques and mechanics when first learning pool this could adversely affect your effectiveness later in using diamond systems.
Tip 2: Use the Diamond Systems to Enhance Your Natural Instinct
Many pool players argue that all you need is a ‘feel’ for the ball and you can forget any math or physics as applied to the game. These players can apparently make their shots without reverting to any ‘diamond systems’ and calculation and so experience is more important than learning some ‘trick’. The only problem with this approach is that when such players are having a bad day then they have nothing to resort to.
This is not to say that feel and intuition have no part in the game, but pool follows physical laws that the systems try to simplify for the pool player. Terms such as ‘hard’ and ‘soft’, ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ are of course imprecise and would mean different actual speeds (meters per second) for different players.
Tip 3: Take At Least Five Minutes to Learn the Table
Since diamond table systems are more taxing and involving, ensure that you are using a very good table. Since most tables have their own particularities that you must compensate for in your shots.
Ensure that you do some exercises in order for you to test the rubber, cushion, level of table, bad spots and whether the table is playing long or short. Simple things such as if the cue ball is dirty or new can significantly affect your game. If there is any inconsistency in the table then small mistakes will become magnified and your shots will be off.
Tip 4: Use the Correct Grammer with Diamond Systems
Grammer is often defined in tips, such as in ‘one tip of running english’. Diferent cues have different sizes and curvature of the tips; so a tip to the left of center for a 13mm cue tip will be very different for a 12mm tip. The point here is that ‘tip’ is not a fair measurement against the cue ball because different cue sticks have different size tips.
Tip 5: Learn the Correct Speed
In simple optics, the angle that light strikes a plane (flat) mirror at is the same angle that it will reflect at. In pool a rebounding ball approaches this same principle (assuming no spin) except that whereas the light doesn’t physically affect the mirror the ball compresses the cushion adding another factor to take into consideration.
As a rule of thumb the faster the ball hits the cushion the [smaller] the angle that it leaves the cushion. To get a feel for how this changes with speed of the ball will require constant practice.
This behavior of the ball is a little counter-intuitive
so it takes some ‘getting use to’ which is the
whole purpose of trying different speeds of the ball off the cushion
and experiencing for yourself the difference in the rebound track line.
Now that was some food for thought.
About the Author:
Richard Aubin runs and maintains the Kicking And Banking Secrets websites on Billiards Diamond System
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