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When talking about breaking in general, you should bear in mind the following tips so that you would be able to do a proper break shot:

1.       Never shoot from next to the head spot right on the head strong and hit the 1-ball in the rack directly. From here, you will contact the cue ball right above its center. There are some players who still do this but with majority of the professional billiard players, they do not do this anymore.

2.       Use the floating cue ball where you can move it right about anywhere along the shoot and the head-string.

3.       When you hit the cue ball, make it to the tip’s height above the center and have it get the 1-ball flush. This will make the cue ball to zoom away from the 1-ball in a slight manner and arrive to a dead stop.

4.       To commit a major mistake on breaking would permit a wild cue ball which can really fly off the table and cause a scratch.

5.       The main key is to be in full control of the cue ball.

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If you really want to improve on your break shots, you must not always concentrate on power but on control. This is very important when breaking the balls, regardless whether you are in the beginners, intermediate or advanced stage. Do not make it a habit to hit the rack so hard without coming to a scratch. During every break, remember to always just utilize the amount of power you can control which would of course vary on your present skill level.

The side break is much more recommended and you do this by placing the cue ball about 3 to 4 inches from the rail. This can be done even without the headstring. Do not try to use English on the break shot since it can be reckless to have the cue ball follow into the rack. And another is that you could miss the chance of making the cue ball be in contact with the right one.

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Watch Hoppe, Greenleaf and Willie Mosconi. You will see is them flicking their wrist into every shot they make. It’s what they do to make the cue ball dance the way they want it to. When you’re swinging all your wrist and forearm together as one, you can’t flick the wrist like Mosconi because you never cock it back so it can unload and flick into the ball.
You need to begin your stroke not by moving your forearm back, but with a back bend of your wrist that moves your forearm along behind it. At the back of the swing you then release the cocked wrist with a flick and again the wrist leads with the forearm following through the ball.
Let the arm hang loose, now bend the wrist back, farther and farther until pain hits you, then flick it hard, that is your power to your stroke. Your break shot will double in power. You goal is to see how far you can learn to bend your wrist back and that’s how you can measure the force on each shot.