Very good explanation of these shots. Great job Adam.

thank you

best explanation ever.. I was never able to count my diamonds properly, but these sistems make it clear and simple.. will try to put them in practice next time i practice...

Great video. Thank you

Awesome tip Brother 👊🏽👊🏽💯🇲🇽👌👌👍👍🙏🏿

Excellently explained. Thank you for making the complex simple.

Thank you very much for your teaching

Good job I love watching your videos

I have never been able to get this system to work for me. But I will try again. Thanks for the motivation.

You are so knowledgeable, thanks for sharing and your diagrams are clear.  Masterclass on this

I find this video useful to me

Excelente explicación gracias por compartir tus conocimientos saludos desde Colombia

Absolut super great explained, i missed a detail in your sketches but still great, i need a table to understand it perfectly, thank you so much, i read a good bock about karambolage and there are a lot of shots explained a video of it would be super nice

what if object ball is not in the rail and we need use that plus 2 rail system? thank you

The plus 2 rail system described kick at short rail and then long rail. Is the a similar 2 rail system to kick long rail first and then short rail? Thank you.

this is a great video! i like the plus 2 rail system. i was just wondering if there is a way to use this system also when the object ball is more in the middle of the table? any chance calculating this?

Dr Dave did a similar video about 2-rail kicks. I think his was more in depth and talked about how and when to make the adjustments. But in the end, it always ends up being complicated, ends up starting with find the midpoint and parallel shift, which isn't very accurate and, as pointed out here, doesn't work in a lot of situations. Poolometry just came out with a series of videos for 1-rail kicks and showed that you have to adjust your aim point for kick shots based on whether the approach angle to the rail is less than 45 degrees or greater than 45 degrees. The amount you adjust, if you can visualize a "vanishing" point for the shot is always the same for 1 rail kicks. In the end, so far that I've seen, 2 rail kick shot videos are always, here's something that works some of the time, when it doesn't work, guess. In my opinion, the parallel shift system is insufficient and studying 3-rail kicking systems used in 3 cushion billiards would prove more efficient because you can learn and memorize track lines and principles of the physics for making consistent hits. Since 2 rail kicks are 2/3'rds of 3 rail kicks... if you learn those and know the track lines, 2-rails become intuitive. In any case, this is as good a description as any I've seen about the midpoint parallel shift "system" even though I dislike the system myself. I expect that someone like Dr. Dave or Poolometry will eventually give a better solution, though I'd put my money on Poolometry to solve it first since I don't suspect Dr. Dave is trying to solve it and Poolometry is actively working on it already. I think the Plus system with running English would give someone way better results once he/she learns the track lines. For perfect accuracy, a 2 rail kicking system will have to take into account the 45 degree angle issue, using running English in various amounts depending on the angle of incidence (probably "gearing English" as Dr. Dave calls it) and speed of the shot.

You need a BridgeMate buddy. You'll be happy you bought one.