I’ve been playing pool for five years. I’m 73 years old and have watched numerous videos on the Diamond system. Your explanation and demonstration is the easiest to follow that I’ve seen. Just want to compliment you and say thank you!!
The big question everyone wants to know is how were you able to convince your wife to let you put a billiard table in the living room? Inquiring minds want to know.
LOL! Actually, it's in the basement. But, thanks. I'll take that as a compliment. I agreed to every renovation she wanted upstairs... as long as I got the basement and the garage, and I could renovate them any way I wanted. You made my day. Stay cool.
While his is actually in his basement I was able to convince my wife to put the pool table in the living room. We got married in 1983, bought a house, had a large size family room where we hung out & were deciding what to do with the living room which was empty. I told her my parents had a living room that never got used except for when they had guests over. I suggested a pool table & she said "Sure". That did surprise me. And we added a ping-pong table that would sit on top of the pool table. Now, years later, we are in a bigger house & the pool table is in the bonus room above the garage. Due to Covid our living room is now my wife's office (since we never used it anyway) where she works 2 to 3 days at home & 2 to 3 days at her work office.
So clearly presented! Thank you. Sadly, after excitedly subscribing to then check out all your other lessons, I see there aren't any. Please do more like this one.
Great stuff. I knew the diamonds meant something, but good job finally making sense of it. Glad you said to aim for the actual diamond and not the bumper in front of the diamond. I've been doing that wrong my whole life. haha. You lost me a little bit when you started counting by 20 on the diamonds. Wasn't clear on how you came up with those numbers. Do you have any pictures you can post a link to that labels the diamonds so I can see it visually? Thanks!
I’m pretty certain it’s because the table rectangular and is therefore shorter on that side, so you have to divide the table into larger increments. Hope that makes sense
Shooting hard will close the angle because of how the ball compresses the rail cushion. So when shooting hard, your aim point is not the diamond on the rail, but the point on the edge of the cushion directly in front of the rail. This opens up the angle a bit and compensates for the hard hit. Try it and see.
Really Good video, thanks for making. I wish you'd had an overhead view when talking about the half diamond shots, some of the explanation went over my head. Nice and concise though, no reason a topic like this has to be a half hour video like so many others that just waffle on.
Well, good shots but they are SET SHOTS and tell me HOW MANY TRIES? What thrills is Efren Reyes' pressure shot selection in real tournaments, with real good opponents, real hecklers, real prizes and real pains and hurts if you lose🙂
Hi. Thanks for the question. The video has no cuts... one continuous run. It does take practice. I think the most important factor is stroke-power. Since there were no followup shots, no ball placement was needed. So I just concentrated on just enough stroke-power to pocket the ball. BTW, Efren is the best "under pressure" player I've ever seen.
sure ,like the 8 ball is allways hanging in the pocket,while you have ball in hand.why would you do a bankshot then anyways.explain while 8 is on the spot and cueball is on the spot.Bank that.
someone needs to more clearly explained when you say I'm at the diamond. in the tip of the diamond the center the back of the diamond you have balls sitting on chalk cubes are you aiming for that? are you aiming for the side of the diamond
This is wildly wrong on my table, like not even close. For example, copying your shot at 1:40, the cue ball ends up not even half way on the short rail. I wonder what's going on.
At the 3 minute mark, the cue ball is roughly at the 140 diamond, not the hundred diamond. I can see aiming for the 50 diamond will be on target for potting the 8 ball, but not quite sure why you used the 100 diamond when the cue ball is further along and closer to 140 diamond??
When you shift.. are you shifting the entire line and keeping the angle until you are above the cue ball? Or just shifting the tip of the cue and the angle changes?
Thanks for the vid. I'm playing in Argentina and they got some really funky rules here. Opponent get two shots if you scratch and two shots if you don't hit your ball, and two shots if you sink one of their balls. Also, the 8 ball has to go into the pocket where your last ball drops. You ever hear of such a thing? Pool in Bizarro world.
Thank you for the video. I am confused, though. Near the beginning , for the long end, you said you're going by 20s and call that far end pocket 160.. but closer to the end of the video, you're calling that long end pocket (back left from the perspective of the viewer) 40.
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I know the diamond system. But if I want to show someone-I just send them the link to this vid. Far easier & no clarification required. Better than I can explain it.
Love it when you say, "It's that simple." For you, of course. Seriously, great video! Never knew what those diamonds were for. Shame on me. Can't wait to get good enough to use them.
David thanks posting all your vids. Helps us schelps with no sims to figure out what ur doing. You have improved much since this vid I know. Good luck in the cup car class. Cheers Michael.
It depends on the size of your table. 9ft - diamonds are 12.3" to 12.5" apart 8ft - diamonds are 11.5" apart 7ft - diamonds are 11" apart Hope this helps.
You made it so easy to understand, THANK YOU 🙏🙏🙏🙏 I've been searching through loads of videos and all of them either over explained or didn't explain enough 🙃🙃🙃🙃🎱
