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Once you put the Artistic Pool Trick Shot Template CD in your CD-ROM drive
the book with open on your monitor. Just flip through the CD book to
see live video clips, eye views and overhead views of each shot along with
detailed instructions. The CD book introduction contains details on pool table
testing The CD and templates will help you quickly learn the
shots. You can place them on the table to locate the placement of each object
ball. Mike Massey and Rick Malm developed this idea of a hardcopy template to help people
setup these multi ball trick shots quickly. The product also includes full table
overview and eye view diagrams of each of the 7 shots, as well as, the
a process to create detailed template diagrams on your own printer. Once the table is marked
with small chalk marks and/or 3 ring binder stickers and then by tapping in the balls, you are ready to shoot. You can
shoot the shots over and over after the template has been used.
These artistic pool shots are examples of professional show trick shots like
some of the ones you might see on ESPN's Trick Shot Magic. Show trick shots usually
have a large number of kissing object balls. These shots do not require extreme stroke
skills to execute. More skill is required to execute the 40 WPA skill shots found in the advanced "Artistic Pool Manual".
Once you get one of the template show shots setup you can ask any one of your friends
to shot at a specific aim point and it will most likely be a success. Artistic
professionals will setup these shots to test the table several hours before a
show and often have people in the crowd shoot the shot.
The template based product was created with an engineering drafting system so the
balls are draw as actual size. The product shows your all the details like kiss aim
points, ball spacing, the aim point to have the cue ball hit the object ball
set. The "Slam Dunk" thumbnail above shows and example some of
some of the setup details the product will teach you. All the details can only be seen in the product.
All template details are removed in the other two images for this web page only.
This FlipAlbum® technology is a whole new way of organizing, viewing, and sharing digital images and multimedia files to teach subjects that are very visual like Artistic Pool. Now you can spend practice time and feel productive since you can see how to hit the shots instead of just seeing an overview diagram. You will also get hints on corrections to make on each shot if you are missing the target. The base FlipAlbum® viewer program used in this product only runs on PCs and has been tested on Windows® 95, Windows® 98, Windows® NT, Windows® 2000, Windows® MP, and Windows® XP. To run FlipAlbum® on MACs you will need a PC emulation application like the one offered from Connectix.