How To Clear a Pool Table - The KEY Ball | Pool School

[@H3Cult]

Hi mate, been following your stuff for a while now and just wanted to comment to say it’s great to see you’re still making videos. You can tell you put a lot of time and effort into them because they are so well done and very helpful, so thank you and I hope to continue seeing more! All the best

[@PoolSchool]

Thank you really appreciate that. I should release videos more often really but like you say, as I’ve tried to improve the quality, they take longer to make. I have another channel (completely unrelated) and with work as well, it’s hard to find the time. I’ll keep trying to post as often as I can though. Hearing that they’re helpful to people makes it all worthwhile.

[@dpbuc32]

You're a great teacher and the graphics you use are very helpful, for example showing the tangent in line in conjunction with the actual play helps me a lot. Thank you for putting this together. Also don't listen to those people who are here to be negative, keep doing what you're doing.

[@PoolSchool]

Thank you really appreciate that. Yeah doesn’t bother me, you have to expect plenty of criticism when you put stuff out there. If it helps just a few people then I’m happy.

[@mbro4490]

Thank you for your pool videos mate. They have really helped my game to a level that I’m now starting to enjoy the game of pool. Keep up the good work you do.

[@mediapartners9950]

These videos are so helpful and have really improved my game over the last 12 month or so since I’ve been following you. Many thanks

[@PoolSchool]

Cheer’s that’s great to hear.

[@dorischikwani3281]

Great video. This is my current goal and you give such great insights.

[@stevejones3180]

You’ve put a LOT of work into this excellent video. Thank you. 👍🎱🎱

[@PoolSchool]

Thank you

[@Darkens101]

I think it would have been easier to leave the red along the cushion for last. If you got in behind it you only had to run through a few inches for the black/8. From the position at 8:30 you can scree back just past straight on the ball to middle and then screw to the cushion

[@gurdeepchumber2764]

Great video as always 👍🏾

[@PoolSchool]

Thanks

[@maccaz1991]

excellent video!!!

[@Terziak]

At 8:30 there's an easier way I think, depending on how shallow an angle you have. Take the middle ball first and leave the same angle on the one to the corner, so you can just drop the ball down the cushion in and be ideal on the black.

[@PoolSchool]

Yes that works well. I can’t remember the angle exactly, not always easy to tell looking back at the video. You’d be running away a little but it’s probably not too much of an angle to be running too far. There’s always lots of ways to go about things!

[@Terziak]

@@PoolSchool So long as the black is potted at the end of the day!

[@stevejones3180]

Great video but I agree with others that the ball to get onto the black is usually referred to as the key ball and the ball or balls that you are talking about are normally referred to as problem balls.

[@PoolSchool]

As I said in the video, “it’s what I would refer to as the key ball”, I could easily have called it something else like the “important ball” or “vital ball”. I’ve obviously used a term that others use for something else so sorry for any confusion but that wasn’t the intention.

[@MG-wp4gl]

Brilliant.

[@onniroy4975]

Good shot on that last red. That needs a lot of bottom to effectively cheat the angle. I think without the yellow being there to play off it would be difficult to get position to pot the black in the middle?

[@PoolSchool]

Cheers. I think it might have still just had enough of angle had it missed the yellow and came into the cushion and back out. Clipping the yellow was probably the better result though as it took a bit of pace off it.

[@waynecooper3811]

Can you do a skill shoot video and a break video the 2 things I’m really struggling with… This would be very helpful mate @pool school

[@PoolSchool]

I already have videos for both of those if you look through the channel.

[@waynecooper3811]

@@PoolSchool hi mate yeh I did see them but they were quite a while a go was just seeing if you were going to do some updated ones as things change all the time…👍

[@PoolSchool]

Yes I am going to update quite a few of my early videos so I’ll let you know when I do those ones.

[@waynecooper3811]

@@PoolSchool thanks mate very much appreciated…👍

[@RadioTom103]

Clearing a problem ball may be the key to winning, but that doesn't make it the "Key Ball." That term is nearly always saved for the ball before the 8. Otherwise, a great lesson.

[@PoolSchool]

Is that an American term? It’s not something I’ve heard in the uk (but happy to stand corrected if I’m wrong). Sorry for any confusion I was merely referring to what I would class as the “key ball” in the clearance, not the definition of a term I didn’t know existed.

[@RadioTom103]

@@PoolSchool I'm not sure if it is an American term. Many of the American KZbin Pool instructors use it the way I mentioned. They even go as far as to say that the ball before the "Key Ball" is the "K2" ball. See Shortstop on Pool, FX Billiards, etc.

[@robertturner2516]

Shouldn't you be on yellow, since that was the first ball potted

[@PoolSchool]

No, I’m playing international rules here and the colour you pot on the first shot after the break is the colour you claim. Potting a ball on the break doesn’t mean you are that colour, just that you continue your visit.

[@davidnorman5488]

The KEY ball is the ball before the 8.

[@PoolSchool]

Not if you don't get that far! 😂

[@CornishTigerTV]

Wrong

[@elpacho....9254]

Spoiler alert!

[@johnlarkin3020]

You could have gone for the key ball first shot 😂

[@PoolSchool]

True, bit ambitious maybe! 😂

[@johnlarkin3020]

By the way I’m very impressed how you did the video with the same layout. Brilliant content. 👏👏🎱👍