share me your style for masse

i love playing pool, and i play all the time. i've competed in two junior national championships, im 18. basically a masse shot consists of elevating the back of the cue and striking the cue ball on the lower left or lower right hand side of the ball. the inital effect is for the ball to "deflect" or "squirt" to the right or left, but the spin applied causes the ball to move back towards the original path. masses in real gametypes, not trickshots, are usually at an angle of 30 degrees maximum, maybe 45 degrees rarely. keep in mind that the softer you strike the ball, the more curve you will actually get. masses are most useful for balls that are hanging in pockets, or just making good hits in rotation games like nine ball. WARNING: extreme angle masse shots exceeding 40 degrees can and will do damage to table cloth. if you strike to hard at too high of an angle, you will compress the cloth leaving a small dot in it. you will see these all the time on bar tables, and they are permanent. if you have a table you care about and you want to practice masses or jumps (shots that require driving the cue ball into the felt) put some addition felt under the cue ball to protect the table. hope this helps! keep shooting!

I use masse shots quite often. Now I don't look for masse shots to do everytime I play a game, but I only do them when the situations arise. For example, if I'm hooked on a ball, and the only way I can pocket that ball is if I have to use the cue ball on a bank, I would likely have a better chance to masse the shot if the ball is only hooked slightly with the cue ball. Now, doing a fancy shot like trying to make the cue ball spin right back towards you are only shots done as tricks, and are rarely seen in any billiard game. But slightly spinning a ball around a blocking ball is very doable, and is done quite often in tournaments, etc. If it's a slight hook, I would put the cue up at a small angle as to just spin the cue ball around the blocking ball. The bigger the curve you need the higher you bring your cue. It takes a lot of practice, but once you get used to it, you can pretty well make the shots more than half the time.

I do not use masse when playing billiards, personally. I don't think it changes all that much your gameplay and to me it's more of a thing people do to strike a pose more than anything else.

I have heard of masse,but currently I do not know how to masse,my friend knows how to masse,and he has showed me a couple times how to masse,and he has showed me how it helps you when you have to make difficult shots, however,at the pool halls around here, they do not allow masse.