Pool Drills

Take the cue ball in hand and run the balls in numerical order. Start from scratch if you make contact with another ball. The diagram shows an easier variation of the drill. Once mastered this layout can be made harder by swapping 4-ball and 8-ball or 3-ball and 7-ball.

Start with cue ball in hand. The balls can be played in any order but you can increase the difficulty by playing them in ascending numerical order. There are many shot variations you can practice when doing this drill as it's very easy to get out of line and make every subsequent shot significantly harder when things go wrong. This drill forces you to plan your runout and maintain correct cut angles in order to keep the run as simple as possible.

This drill will challenge your one pocket skills. All object balls are frozen (touching the rails) and should be made into the corner pocket in order (1-6). Begin with cue ball in hand and start from scratch if you miss a shot. Good luck!

Run balls in rotational order without touching another object ball. Start from scratch if you miss a ball. Make sure you get the right shape in order to position the cue ball for the next shot on the other side of the table. The drill gets tougher with each ball you pocket and requires more precision in your cue ball control. You can make the drill even more difficult by placing 7 balls in each row.

The rules are the same as in Drill 4 although the position of balls has been altered. Start with cue ball in hand and make object balls from 1 to 10 to corner pockets. Start from scratch if you miss a ball. Make sure you get the right shape in order to position the cue ball for the next shot on the other side of the table. As you progress through this drill it gets tougher and requires more precision in cue ball control.

Start with cue ball in hand and run the balls in any order. You must not hit other ball than the object ball you're currently shooting. This drill will teach you how to limit your cue ball movement and look for stop shot patterns. You can make it harder by not letting yourself to contact rails either.

Start from scratch if you miss a ball. Make sure you practice from both sides of the table and frequently flip the setup. If you find it very difficult to complete then repeat shots after missing or getting a wrong position.

The 9-ball in the center spot makes this run-out significantly harder and forces you to plan each cue ball path more carefully.

This drill is called 'Capital T' due to the position of object balls. Run them in numerical order with cue ball in hand to start with. Also check out the classic "T-Drill".

This is called the T drill. Start with cue ball in hand and run the balls in rotational order.

The idea of this T-9 drill is to run the balls in rotation, but without moving any of the other balls with the cueball, when playing position on the next ball. The spin used in this drill is mostly follow (Top) english, but you may need a little left or right follow english, depending on the position of the cueball on your next shot and where you need the cueball to go, in order to get position on the next shot. This is a progressive drill and so, a beginner level player can start with the 1,2,3,4... then once that player is able to run them all consistently, then add the 5,6,7, and so on. Method of the drill:- 1, 4, 7 balls to be made on the lower right corner pocket, 2, 5, 8 balls to be made in the upper right corner 3, 6, 9 balls to be made in the lower left corner. Purpose of the drill:- The purpose of this drill is to learn how to become familiar with the speed of the cloth and rails of the table and to be able to adapt quickly to how the table's playability, but also it is important to know how to minimize cueball movement when playing position on the next ball, reguardless of the game you play being 9Ball/10Ball or Straight Pool/14.1. It's a great drill and it is a good way to help 'fine tune' your cueball control. I hope you enjoy this drill and I have alot more drills to share and so, be sure to stay tuned for more drills to take to the tale and try out.

Method of the Railroad Home drill:- Run the balls in rotation:- 1 ball lower left corner 2 ball upper left corner 3 & 4 balls in the upper right corner 5 ball lower right corner 6 ball lower left corner 7 ball lower right corner 8 ball upper right corner 9 Ball left or right side pocket, (SHooting player's choice) Purpose of the drill:- This is to help sharpen position play when shooting abject balls that are sitting on the rail and being able to strengthen the ability to minimize cueball movement when there is less room to move the cueball around. Drill Variations:- For Level 1 players, try this drill with 1, 2, 3, 4 all on the centre diamonds on the side rails and run them out. For Level 2 players, try this drill with 1,2,3,4,5,6 balls on the centre diamond of each rail as shown and again, try to run the balls consistently at least 5 times before moving to the next level. I will add the level 4 & 5 variations of this drill at a later time, but for now I hope you enjoy this drill.

Railroad Home (Advanced) Objective:- Run the balls in rotation without moving any of the other balls. Drill Route Map:- 1,2 balls lower right corner pocket 3,4 balls upper right corner pocket 5,6 balls upper left corner pocket 7,8 balls lower left corner pocket 9 ball lower right corner pocket 10 ball upper right corner pocket 11 ball upper left corner pocket 12 ball lower left corner pocket 13 ball either lower corner pocket 14 ball either upper corner pocket 15 ball either side pocket to finish. Drill Purpose:- This is to further strengthen the ability to play position more acurately when shooting balls that are on the rail and also to help stenthen to ability to concentrate on the task of making sure each shot is executed acurately and with delibeation.

Make all 6 balls in a side pocket using draw english on the cueball with a slow/medium speed to play position on the next ball. The drill purpose is to strengthen ability to draw the cueball back and to improve accuracy in playing position on the next ball when shooting draw shots.

Object:- Run all 15 balls in rotation without moving any of the othe balls in the drill on any shot. Drill Method:- 1,3,5,7,9,11 & 15 balls pocket into the lower right corner 2,4,6,8,10,12, 13 balls pocketed into the lower left corner. 14 ball pocketed into eithe the upper left or right corner pockets. Drill Purpose:- To strengthen all round cueball controll when using 1 or 2 rail position for the next ball.

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Combinations are not allowed so you must clear pockets before taking care of frozen balls on the rails.

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Frozen balls can be tricky to deal with. This drill will improve your accuracy & cue ball control when dealing with balls frozen to rails. Start from the beginning if you miss or hit other ball than your current object ball.