Kiss shot
The term kiss shot is used in pool billiards and belongs to the combination shots.
A kiss shot is performed in game situations in which a direct hole in an object ball is not possible or if it can be used to gain an advantage for positional play. With the kiss shot, the object ball is not directed into a pocket immediately after contact with the cue ball, but a combination with one or more balls is created, through which the first hit or a later indirectly moved ball is sunk into a pocket.
The kiss shot tangent , in English Tangent Line , describes the path of the game ball after contact with the object ball. Depending on whether a follower, stopball or puller was played, the route changes. This applies to all billiards disciplines.
There are different variations:
- A kiss-shot combination, where the ball to be punched is at a distance from the crashing ball.
- Kiss shots, in which the ball to be punched is pressed against another and is sunk into a pocket solely by the impulse of the game ball and the alignment of the kiss-shot tangent .
- Game situations in which the cue ball is played on an object ball in order to let the same run onto another object ball and sink it.
Web links
- 1989 billiards film called Kiss Shot with Whoopi Goldberg , accessed February 11, 2019
- 1. Glossary of billiard terms , accessed on February 11, 2019
- 2. Glossary of billiard terms , accessed on February 11, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://billiards.colostate.edu/glossary.html#T Kiss Shot Tangente