How to Jump the Cue Ball
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Learn how to jump the cue ball in a variety of situations, and the physics behind it. In this in-depth billiards jump shot tutorial, I give a lesson on my technique for executing a jump shot and some billiards tips and tricks to help you control your jump shots to make them accurately and consistently.
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Came to learn the jump shot, left with a physics degree.
But on a serious note, brilliant video
I just wanted to say that this is probably my favorite jump tutorial ever. It is a little long winded, and the calculations are kind of hard to follow, but when you start to just explain how it feels to you that really unlocked something in my mind. My jump shots got so much more consistent after watching this! Thank you! You're my favorite billiards channel by far!
Thabks zachary
Watched this and was able to jump a full ball from about 7-8 inches away in under 30 minutes with both my break cue and my medium hardness playing cue. Thanks man.
Wow, glad this helped
Damn bruh you gotta cut those toenails! Lol
I am taking note of that
I would just leave it to get more comments LOL, I'm here for the pool content not the nails on his toes or the paint on the walls. =)
The length looked more-or-less okay, but it looks like it was achieved using a machete.
BTW, this is why I'm always cautious of including my hands and feet in pictures/videos.
Who here fast forward past the math lesson to the technique 😅
Look pool ain't rocket science.... it's clearly far more complicated than space flight.
No it isnt
Try calculating trajectory in splits of seconds
Try making a rocket that would not burn in the atmosphere and survive -230 degree celcius
@@memerboi6944 r/woooosh
Pool is a children’s game that is complicated by adults.
YOU ARE SKILLED - [ Music + Editing + Math = Creativity At It's Best ]
I felt like I was watching a movie 01:07
Speechless.
This is 100% the best video on how to jump
Thanks man!
Really good video!
Thank you 🙏 I could jump a ball less than a day when I tried to jump a cue ball for years but you made me jump it thank you
Glad this helped 👍
Although the maths part of it i felt was a little too long, I appreciate how in depth this was and how even a beginner such as myself could understand it. Thank you!
Glad it helped. The math part is a little bit of a troll haha
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards nah, the guy in the video was so happy to put what he learned in school up. What you learned in school is to make you a nice 9-5 wage slave, not a pool expert lol. I don't know a single physics or math PhD whose ever won a pool tournament. The greatest pool players never even went to college, many didn't even go to high school let alone finish elementary if they even were allowed to go.
Imagine yourself at a pool hall with a beer in your hand trying to remember all these math calculations just to win a game 😂😂😂
It took me less than a day to learn how to jump from looking at videos and ive never damaged a table. I think some pool halls are worried about the hard hitting pool players damaging equipment. If you are a good player and know how to hit with speed and not hit hard you shouldn't damage anything well jumping.
This makes no sense. Hard is speed and vice versa. Kinetic energy is simply mass times acceleration so how hard you are hitting is entirely dependent on speed since the mass is constant if you hold the cue correctly. The pool halls are worried about miscues causing damage to the sticks or table. The probability of a miscue is much higher with an elevated cue.
Very nice jump shot tutorial. Thank you!
Really useful video, that has really helped me! Now all I need is a masse tutorial
I would make one, but I am terrible at Masse shots, so I would have to watch a masse tutorial first.
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards Haha ok
Masse shots are incredibly hard to control and even the best professional trick shot artists struggle with them.
I love this. A jump shot is so easy, lets start with Newtonian Physics. Then lets look at trigonometry. Mix in a little calculus and string theory and bammm! Its very easy. Nice video!
Thanks for the effort. The math makes me think about it a little more deeply but I need to know more about how to set-up, aiming, and body position. You did cover grip and arm position, so again, thanks for the time and effort. Every little bit helps
Don't pay too much attention to the math. It was just there for entertainment.
00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - Stupid comparison of jump shots to guitar solos
01:18 - The Physics Behind the Jump Shot (Projectile Motion)
05:37 - The Four Important Takeaways from Projectile Motion for Jump Shots
06:20 - The Different Types of Cues for Jumping
07:15 - Technique and Form for Jumping
07:42 - How to Bridge and Jump Shot
08:05 - How and Where to Hold the Cue
08:40 - The Stroke for a Jump Shot
09:00 - Where to Strike the Cue Ball
09:25 - How to Control/Choose the Angle the Cue Ball Leaves the Table
10:34 - The Risks Associated with Jump Shots
11:15 - How to Determine the Minimum Angle you are Required to Strike the Cue Ball
12:15 - Determining How High the Cue Ball Actually Needs to Jump (Half-Ball/Quarter-Ball)
12:50 - When You Shouldn't Shoot a Jump Shot
13:52 - How to use the Jump Shot Strategically
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World of Pool and Billiards guitar solos is actually pretty accurate. Looks cool, sounds cool, dumb easy
Very awesome 👍👏
Holy shit its someone that actually knows how to jump! This is a very good video for anyone wondering. I grew up in a pool hall with my mother who is the #1 female in the world for trick shots her name is Stacy Mendrick. That being said not very many channels actually give out good information these days so its surprising to come across one. Great job man keep up the great work!
Also always take almost any other shot if possible! Its way more reliable than taking a harder jump shot that you can't control the cue ball as easily. I love to jump but end up either fucking myself by missing or fucking myself because I have no shape when I could have just played an easier shot of a rail and did a safe ;-;
Thanks for the endorsement!
I been at that pool hall, Ga Young’s academy. I played a tournament over there. I was stationed in K16 Seoul Air Base. I knew the Pros, the young ones, the one that plays there before they started to play internationally. I miss playing in Korea.
I really like the atmosphere here around pool. I miss the darker pool scene in the states surrounded by gambling and under the table tournaments, but the professional competitive atmosphere here with all of the high-quality equipment is a blessing.
This was a really good tutorial. I always thought you have to hit the center of the cue ball(center when looking at the cue ball horizontally) so I would try to hit the center even when elevated which now I found out will give unwanted backspin to the cue ball and make the shot difficult. After this, I tried to aim through the center of the cue ball and was making jump shots after 3-4 tries.
Glad this helped you
Good tutorial. The extra distance from the jump cue is mostly because of the additional stiffness so less energy is lost from the cue bending and oscillating. You can see the blur from the cue moving in your slow mo shots, that’s where the energy is going, along with some to compressing the cue and tip. This is assuming cue mass is the same; more mass will obviously let you transfer more energy from the inertia.
When your friend tries to show you how nice their jump shot is and rips the felt on your $9000 table. It’s shuffleboard for you from now on, friend.
I barely passed that Physics class, and probably got the calculations wrong, but I did my best. This video took a lot longer to edit than I thought it would, but I think it turned out alright. Thanks for watching, and don't forget to subscribe.
Shit! I forgot to subscribe
@@marcbathon2346 I'm calling the cops!
Came for the jump shot, left with the physics degree
Thank you for you efforts for this video. 2nd half seemed better to understand
I think the reason you're so good at jumping the cue ball and I'm not is because your thumb can do THAT...and mine can't. I got a cramp just trying.
Yea, I can pop my fingers out of joint on command. It comes in use in pool and guitar.
That's jokes your comment made me laugh so hard !!
Nice and simple video.
Hey man, what a great video, the math behind the jump shot is pretty interesting. Can I just about one detail? You said you think when jumping, you should grip the cue quite tightly. That goes against all the advice I have seen pros and coaches give. Si is it something that you somehow got to work for you, or is it something somebody else, like a wise pool guru, taught you? Thanks for your time man, much appreciated!
Dude where I park my car??? Lol 😂
Now I need to find a poolhall where they let me jump. Got the pure x jump break cue for Christmas . Do you think it's a good jumper?
I've never used it, but if its a jump cue it should do the trick just fine. I've only ever had problems with jump break cues when it comes to jumping, though that is still what i use.
Very interesting and well produced.
Thanks
nice vid :D keep it up!! I love to see science involve in this game :D
I thought it was pretty cool that I could actually see the formulas describe what I actually saw when reviewing the footage.
thanks this helped me
You sir got a new subscriber 👍
Great video man, love it
Glad you enjoyed it, I poured a ton of time into this.
I can tell👍
How do you snap when grip the cue tight?
Love the choice of music
Thanks!
World of Pool and Billiards can you tell me the name of the song? It’s fucking beautiful.
Parasdeep Singh eruption by Van halen
1:08, title??
I've been playing for over 20 years and have never seen anyone Damage a pool table.
The felt is made for a cue to go into it, but people still think that jumping and masse shots damage felt
World of Pool and Billiards Well it probably would damage “FELT” but only if done wrong, to hard or to less of an angle into the “felt”. Now If your playing on a home table or a tournaments table then more than likely you will be playing on a “CLOTH” table. Cloth is another level and the only thing any player worth his salt should be playing on and on cloth I would agree with ya, it would be very rare to see someone damage it by just learning to jump or masse. Just my opinion anyways!
@@michaeltrimm8388 what's with the quotes around felt?
@@JayFreely Well when your talking about quality then you want something like worsted wool cloth which is nothing like felt and it plays a lot faster as well. Cost more but worth every penny it’s nothing like felt, it reminds you of the way a suit jacket woven material is and feels like. Felt is just your cheapest version stuff it’s real fuzzy stuff or Nappy as they call it if you know what I mean. If you ever put high quality cloth on your table you will never go back
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards Masse can damage felt, I have done it before. I know it can happen. You will rip it in no time especially if you are using a hard tip.
What shape of tip do you recommend? Nickel? Dime? Flatter?
Nickel is good. Just needs to be a decent round shape.
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards Damn....I screwed up then...I recently bought a cheap $150 jump/break cue and I shaped it to match my Meucci's playing cue's shape- a dime. I guess I can re-shape it to a nickle instead since my shaping tool has both sizes. I made the wrong assumption by thinking breaking cue and playing cue should be roughly the same weight and tip shape.
My local pool hall gives a 4x4" patch of felt along with the balls when you rent a table. Is that so you can protect the table cloth when you practice jump shots? I've never done jump shots and I want to practice but I'm afraid to practice on equipment that is not my own. Does giving players patches of fabric mean they are telling people it's ok to practice jump shots on their tables?
I would simply ask one of the employees. Generally it isn't recommended to practice them unless you ask for permission. In the middle of a game however if the shot comes up and there are no signs saying no jump shots it is generally accepted that you are allowed to shoot that shot without asking for permission. If they hand you a 4x4 patch of felt it may be for jump shots, but it is more likely to protect the table when you are breaking. I would just ask for permission before practicing them.
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards ok good idea. Thanks
Thanks for the great tutorial! I have been really trying this but I cannot get the ball to jump. I have a smaller pool table with an oversized cue ball (so that it returns in the cueball section. The cue ball might be a little heavier. Is it possible to jump the cue ball with the method in this tutorial? Can it be done with a regular cue? I only manage to jump the ball sticking my cue beneath it scrathing the table but I believe that's a foul.
You really need a jump cue, especially with a mud ball.
I was not expecting the bare feet lolol ..... annnnnd the trig and whatnot made my head hurt lol ..... I can’t stop visualizing the scarecrow on the wizard of oz talking the entire time you are .... “the square root of an isosceles triangle .....” lolol
the beginning of this video is a little troll for sure
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards lol well I liked it and saved it though bc after you get past the man of constant sorrow feet .... it’s very helpful 👍🏻 lol
Aw hell nah bros not teaching how to do a jump shot bros teaching things that Einstein can't even calculate💀💀💀
Was that solo Van Halen - Eruption?
Yea, but it was the easy part
Great content 👌
Thanks
Lmao I didn’t know I was about to get a math lesson it’s funny bc I use math in my own pool game
I was watching advanced hyper quantum physics and got sent here. Never the less, excellent lesson, thank you sir!
Wtf are you the next Albert Einstein
@@voilxy Gotta work on that hair cut first.
Ohh physics..
RUNN 🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃
If you are running at a speed of 8mph and another person who is 15 miles away starts running towards you at a speed of 7mph, how long would it take before you two would meet?
NO WAY! I M NOT GOING TO MEET ANYONE... btw u met me after 5 months MR 😉, nice to meet you,
Love from INDIA!
Useful info, but at no point do you actually aim your shot to travel through the center of the cue ball - or if you are aiming there, you're missing every time.
What I mean by the center of the cue ball is center from the angle of the cue , not center as viewed from plane of the table, but from the angle of the cue into the cue ball.
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards Interesting.
Going frame by frame at around 0:51 I see that you initially hit the ball slightly above center at an angle that would bring the cue nowhere near the center of the ball, but on your follow through this changes.
Forgive me if I'm being dense, but do you mean to say:
1) You're aiming at the center of where the ball touches the table, or
2) You're aiming for your stroke to stop its downward motion when it reaches the "middle," meaning the center of the line that would go straight down through the cue ball, but not actually the center of the cue ball, or
3) None of the above (LOL).
I had a similar issue with people who say "swing down at the ball" to hit home runs. I'd swing down and smack the ball into the ground every time until I realized that they meant something different than literally "swing down at the ball."
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards Looking again, I think I see what you mean - you mean "center" as in the intersection of a line drawn straight down the middle of the ball that meets the angle of the cue when striking the ball, correct?
So basically by "center," you mean "center of the vertical axis"?
I find how to jump my ball, now I'm finishing my homework
It is due at the start of 3rd period!
im here after Supernatural season 15 episode 11. watch it now on CW app
I like the math! Amazing how much trig come into play in this game.
The true beauty comes from the feel after the ball continues rolling down the felt
The eruption solo 🤩🤩
At first I was very interested because I'm learning how to jump.But once he started talking about trigonometry and all that stuff.I decided to find a more simple video....😂
Nobody is at the damn pool table with a calculator.
You better bring your ruler too!
I was told there would be no math
Great video! But ehm I dropped maths last year so ehh 😂😂
Came here to learn to jump, ended up learning how to shred the guitar and read with my feet.
it was my 2nd time playing pool and just somehow got the teqnique
Ty
Come for the tutorial stay for the newton's physics lesson
I understand the theory, but whenever I try, the cue just goes straight and flat without ever leaving the table, and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. And somehow no one else seems to have this issue.
i don’t have a jump cue i just have playing cue what i can do? i cant jump with it
It depends on how stiff the shaft is and how hard the tip is. The harder and stiffer the better. Its possible to jump half a ball with most shafts, but there isn't much you can do with that cue to get better results than that. With a standard cue, you have to hit a lot harder and require a lot more room between the cue ball and ball you are jumping over.
If you have a break cue, you might get better results using it to jump until you feel ready to go out and purchase a designated jump cue.
that was good and i appreciate the tutorial. i'm decent at jumping, maybe 90% hit the object ball clean and 50% make a relatively easy shot.
one thing....given that you were willing to do a deep dive into geometry, why didn't you make that one last, and probably easiest and most useful, calculation and instead of instructing to calculate the angle from top to bottom, convert that to inches, or balls? i'm not going to calculate the angle every time i'm 10 inches from the ball in my way, but i certainly would benefit from a chart of angles based on say, 6 inches, 8, 10 12 14 inches and so on. that's much more likely to be used by your audience. actually, i think i'll make that chart.
again, nice job. impressive.
When firing - what are you looking at Last Q ball or object ball.
I am trying to look down my aiming line at the object ball
Is my nose bleeding right now?
Didn’t know Sir Issac Newton even shot pool!
I can't side arm jump for some reason and I really want to get it down
I see physics...
I run away 🤣
I find it much easier to jump using the Dart grip. I just can't seem to get it using the other grip which is more accurate.
I am the exact opposite. Dart grip feels very foreign to me.
I have been practicing and getting better with the over the shoulder grip. Dart grip is more effective when you are on the rail or when q ball close to the object ball
What is the intro music?
I can NOT get this down. I think I was able to lift the ball off the table only twice out of many ttys. I've tried holding the cir and hitting the cue ball at the same angle etc but I just put insane backspin on the cue half the time. And when I lift the angle higher I just fire the ball across the table. Soo frustrating
It could be your equipment. A medium or soft tip with a flexible shaft makes jumping nearly impossible.
ha ha I used to shoot at that pool hall when I was stationed in Itaewon.
They unfortunately closed a few years ago.
I lost you at e=mc2
Bryce VAN DER BYL if you’re annihilating a cue ball it’s quite useful
Pool halls in my area allow masse and jump shots
I really like your videos, but the physics lesson was serious overkill and totally unnecessary. All people need to know is where to hit the ball and and what angle, and how the angle affects how far and high the ball will go. It’s a matter of feel and muscle memory after that. There’s no way someone attempting a jump shot will be trying to estimate the speed of the ball and what that means for the path of the cue ball.
With all that said, I love your shot recreations. Always good stuff!
I went overboard, but I didn't want to leave any information that I had out. I put the timestamps in the pinned comment to hopefully help people skip the math/science part if they were not interested.
God Bless!
Please wait while I retrieve my protractor to calculate my next shot
are these haircuts mandatory in South Korea?
Yes
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards why?
Lol, Alex didn't jump into a safe, he called the 5 ball and got a lucky roll. Watch it again, he clearly points at the corner pocket with his cue.
You might be right lol, but it sounded nice
The slate, cue ball and felt were never meant to have cue balls bouncing across the table. Purposeful jump shots should be banished.
So why you watching a jump shot tutorial lol
This is what I hate about watching pool jump tutorials; almost every tutorial video contradicts the other. One will say hold the cue firmly, the next will tell you to use the lightest grip you can. Another will say follow through the cue ball, and the next will say a quick poke with very little if any at all follow through. Who's right? Maybe they all are?!
If it works, it isn't wrong
The only thing that matters is delivering the tip of the cue at the correct speed to the correct place on the object ball at the correct angle of elevation. How you do that is decided by whatever works for you.
The only thing that matters is delivering the tip of the cue at the correct speed to the correct place on the object ball at the correct angle of elevation. How you do that is decided by whatever works for you.
I think people recommend whatever tricks helped them overcome problems in their stroke. For example if someone is struggling to draw the cue ball, it often is because someone tightens up their back hand and that lifts the tip upwards a little bit, causing you to not hit low enough. So a loose grip solves that problem. But it's possible also to draw with a tight grip, and maybe for one guy, tightening it up solved some other problem he was having. So you'd get different advice from those players.
At the end of the day you just need to elevate enough to clear the ball, hit hard enough, and not let it get trapped or miscue.
I think I clicked on wrong video
Skip to 6:20 if you want to actually watch something more related to the title, and what you searched, instead of hearing him nerd out and flex a bunch of physics applications no-one thinks about while making a shot.
I would pin, but I already pinned the timeline at the top of the comment section.
bro just finished physics 1. please just tell me how to jump it lmao
My brother who is pretty good never jumps at all but I do. Even though he is a fraction better than me I've taken many games of bca 10 ball 9 ball and 8 ball by getting good jumps on him from safetys he was certain I couldn't get out of them. I've done jump combos on 10 ball several times for the win against him.
Me and my mate always call this a Chipping Norton
Clean dem toes bro 😂😂
Finally got around to this. Consider it done
What for was hitting super low on the ball and it would just pop right up
Easy explanation of how to jump, let's first learn trig lmao...
I just wanna play pool I don’t wanna learn science lol
Just skip that section, all time stamps are in the comment section
Is it possible to jump on a mdf pool table?
Ive never played on one before, so its hard to say. I would guess that you can, but since the bed isn't as hard you probably wont get as high as you usually would.
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards I tried to jump on it but i could only jump about 1 cm max. First I thought I was just bad at jumping, but then I realised the table is just not good for jumping.
@@markostipcevic yea, I guess the table is absorbing a lot more of the energy than it would on a slate.
You definitely didn’t go to a Chicago Public School
St. Louis > Chicago
I'm going to skip jumping if it has to do with all this math.
Skip the math part, you dont need to know any of it, just something to help out those interested in the physics
Ang galing pwede kang sumali sa 9 ball tournament
Where are you from? I see you playing on the Chinese brand, Xing Pai.
I am playing in South Korea. They have a lot of Chinese tables here.
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards ohhh I lived in China for 5 years. I go back and forth now on business. In China most pop abandon the American style tables and only play on Chinese 8.
Why was there a ga young Kim sign on the wall
It was her pool hall
Its depend upon heavy the cue of cue ball simple words.
Man by the time you take to do all that math you could have wrapped up a game 20x bro know what your doing an shoot
Why is it illegal to scoop jump a ball? For one, it’s way easier then coming straight down, two, it is way less risk of damaging the felt then coming straight down on to the table. I feel like some jag off created the rule because his buddy was better than him at it, so he had to invent a rule to make it more difficult. I don’t even play pool, but when I notice dumb things in life, I often wonder why.
If you have good hand/eye coordination and good judgment you can scoop jump the que ball with great accuracy, you can get a good angle/height, and save the felt all at the same time.
In my opinion it is because you are only allowed to contact the cue ball with the tip of your cue, and you are only allowed to contact the cue ball once. When you scoop, the cue ball kind of rides up the shaft for a second and is then launched. This means you are either pushing the cue ball or touching it twice, both of which are fouls even on regular shots.
@@WorldofPoolandBilliards thanks for the explanation, I always wanted to know why, and that makes sense. Although, I would argue the side of the que tip is still technically the que tip (they screw on right?) and as far as a double tap, or ride up the shaft, in my opinion, that would only happen to someone who didn’t execute it properly. I still think it’s a lame rule, but I really do appreciate the insight. I probably would have never known otherwise. Thanks