Simple blows (№1 (21) from October, 22nd, 2009)

We continue conversation with the deserved master of sports Jury Pashchinsky about subtleties of billiard skill. A theme of a today's lesson – simple blows.

We take кий

To make productive blow, first of all it is necessary to take correctly кий. To begin with we will define a capture place. For this purpose we take кий and we put it on a palm edge, trying to catch balance that кий was in horizontal position. After the balance is found, we divide distance from a bumper to a balance point. This imagined centre also will be a capture place (a photo 1).

Кий it is held by two fingers – index and big. It is not necessary to hold кий as a toothpick, and at the same time it is not necessary to show death grip, as though at you in hands a spear. You should that is called, to feel кий, to feel its weight.
I will share with you a small secret. Its sense in learning to beat in weight кия. Кий for Russian pyramid weighs about 700 grammes. You do not need to use all force of your hand because superfluous pressure can prevent to get to you to the necessary point, but also, will negatively affect smoothness of a course кия. It is necessary to learn as though to throw out кий during blow. I am insolent кий index and a thumb. When I take away it back and immediately I spend forward, it a fraction of a second is in free flight. Thus, I do not transfer it superfluous force of blow. Carrying out this reception, it is very important to learn in time to catch кий. After the label has adjoined to a sphere and has set to it inertia, the same second it is necessary кий to stop, because the further continuation will deform blow.

Correct rack

The hand which holds кий, should move free back and forth, without disturbing our body. We put feet and we place the case in such position that the right hand left a little aside, thereby providing movements necessary freedom. The left foot (for right-handed persons) is pushed a little forward and a little bent – on it there is a support. The right foot is extended, the right hand does not disturb to the case. The left hand against which leans шафт, is not further than in 10–15 sm from битка. This ideal distance.
 

The right hand bent in an elbow which holds кий (I has already explained, how it correctly to make), forms a corner of 90 degrees.

About elbow position now there are many disputes. Who says that during blow when the hand with кием makes advance, it is necessary to lower an elbow, someone is the opponent of it. We will admit, when I trained at the known master on снукеру Dereka Hilla before the European championship on снукеру, it convinced us that it is necessary to lower an elbow up to the end. In own way, as снукерист, it is right. But we play Russian billiards, here all is more difficult: it is less than billiard pocket, spheres it is more. We simply do not presume to take advantage to ourselves of such filigree technics, as in снукере. I hold the opinion that the hand should make short movements. The more long the pronose кия back, the is more risk to commit error at blow. I have managed to achieve that my short blows are strong enough – I can strike on a sphere so that it will take off from any short board. There is such saying – who strongly beats, that strongly plays. Width of a game billiard pocket – 71–73 mm. Diameter of a sphere of 68 mm. It turns out, we have a stock of all in 3 mm.
When we beat with the big force, rubber is pressed through, and in our disposal already a billiard pocket in width not 71, but 72 mm. Therefore, even having made a small error during an aiming, on strong enough blow it is possible to press through a sphere. But do not forget: the more strongly blow, the more amplitude of movement кия back, accordingly, the is more difficult to result a label in that point where you aim. Therefore it is necessary to try to play on blow technics, instead of to thrash from all force. It is considered that the good player owns technics of elastic, smooth blow on which, however, it is possible to beat so that the billiard pocket will crack.

Sight

When you stand in a rack and prepare for blow, you should see before yourselves more half of length кия. Now we will consider another's sphere. At first I look on биток, at that part in which I wish to strike. Has fixed. Then I look at another's sphere and as though I direct through it an imagined line to a billiard pocket. Then again I look at the sphere, I take away a hand back, I maintain a small pause, and during directly blow I look at an aiming mark of another's sphere.
In a case сыгрывания the sphere, I look at a point in which the label will adjoin to it, I find an aiming mark on another's sphere, I connect it mentally to the chosen point on the sphere, and during blow I look again at another's sphere. That is in both cases during blow it is necessary to look at that point where you send or the sphere, or wish to get an aim sphere.
Ideal time of an aiming should make no more than 5 seconds. If you aim less, you will not have time to adjust accurately all. At a long aiming of eyes simply gets tired and cannot long hold the information. Though happens, on tournaments players aim for 20–30 seconds, but it seems to me, it is necessary to protect forces which leave on concentration of attention. Eyes is very important tool.

Клапштос

One of my favourite blows. I consider that it is very important to any beginning player to fulfil this element. And it is fulfilled in the interesting way. The aim sphere is put on an end where usually at robbery it is put биток. Биток it is placed on a line where the pyramid is exposed. My problem is reduced to that after blow the red sphere has appeared on a place white. Blow is put by soft, smooth blow precisely on the sphere centre. Соударяться among themselves биток and aim should also the centres – «a forehead in a forehead». This blow becomes both on an average, and on weak or strong blows. But when you do клапштос on very silent, soft blow, it is simply healthy! This game element allows to do the most difficult screw, the central rotation. Клапштосом you can win tactical positions – to create for the partner a critical position when it simply will have no place to disappear. Because you at any moment can leave биток in that place in which it is necessary for you.

Накат

If to present a sphere in the form of a dial the centre of crossing of arrows will be a place where blow at performance клапштоса is struck. Накат it is played at 12 o'clock. It is the top screw – difficult enough. Any error here emerges. If you initially beat through all table, the error on a millimetre share follows in centimetres. Blow passes by the top part of a sphere strictly over the centre. I am soft прокатываю forward, the sphere hammers aim and continues movement on the trajectory. Накат it is often used in отыгрыше, for exits. After all than the professional differs from the fan? The fan simply hammers, and the skilled player tries to make an exit constantly. The standard situation which is very often applied in game when the another's and stand on one party small are sharp. Here it is very favourable to play the top part of a sphere. It is sharp itself allows битку to leave in the necessary direction. Here only it is necessary for the to strike in sphere top, and aim practically «in a forehead». The stranger falls, and the comes back in the right billiard pocket. Very conveniently.

Delay

It, perhaps, most widespread blow. If you look competitions on the TV,
Will see that in most cases players beat under a sphere bottom. Many ask me a question why. The explanation to that is usual physiology. The person is arranged so that making blow, under condition of correct capture, it is the most convenient to it to carry by кий downwards, as though teasing a sphere. Actually after a sphere accent кий passes above битка, that is does such amplitude – from below upwards. It is the most reliable kind of blow. Also do not forget that at such blow you can always punch a billiard pocket. When you beat in the bottom part битка, even at not so exact, but strong blow it is possible to send a sphere in a billiard pocket.
The effect of a delay is opposite to effect наката: the sphere after impact will sweep back. In such a way it is possible to supervise an exit easily. The delay is often used in a dynamical pyramid when hammer in an aim sphere from a hand, or extend on the middle, in a glade far corner where break a pyramid. Blow should be short. Here just is better to apply technics кистевого interception about which we already spoke when кий the instant is in free flight. Thus it is necessary to catch кий while the label is not has left further, than on half of sphere. If will spend hardly further, the sphere забуксует on a place and will not sweep back. If stop кий too early, the sphere will simply leave forward.

I would name a delay, or the bottom screw, the most important blow whereas the top screw still it is possible to manage, and central – to ignore. In game of professionals of 80-90 % of blows it is necessary under a sphere bottom.
 

The quantity of existing billiard blows is estimated in tens. Today we have considered most simple of them. However simplicity – conditional enough concept. The player, in perfection owning art клапштоса, наката and delays, as they say, is well armed. Having mastered simple blows, it is possible to pass to more difficult and interesting about which we will talk in the following number.