![]() ![]() I am the TARGET and I’d be delighted to talk. “Hello Jim, “BANK SHOT” passed a letter to me that you sent him recently and asked that I follow up with you. In two days, we had a response with the exact name of the target we should contact, with these words: ![]() We carefully formulated a letter to the President of our targeted Fortune 500 company, indicating in rough, but vague-enough terms, what we were after and that we didn’t know exactly who to contact. We were recently working on a problem of trying to formulate a go-to-market strategy for a client, and one of the markets we were aiming at was totally foreign to our client and ourselves. In the situation I am describing, a bank shot is a cold call shot at someone in the organization in order to get to the target you are after. LinkedIn is networking, which is kinda, sorta the same, but not the same. In new business, a bank shot is when you rebound your initial contact off someone in an organization to get to your target. ![]() In billiards, a bank shot is when you use the cue ball or object ball to rebound off a cushion in order to make the target ball go into a pocket. It just helped me understand banks a lot when I set up this simple bank and tried it a bunch of ways.I’ve often wondered why people don’t take more bank shots in the pursuit of new business. It closes the angle, where the first example opens the angle. The first bank you’re using pure “helping” English to spin the ball in from a full ball hit, the second bank is putting the opposite spin on the object ball because of the cut angle and that spin holds it up off the rail. Now with the same setup use a harder hit and hit center of the cue ball, you will now have to cut that ball a lot to make the bank, cut it so much it seems like it will be landing somewhere in the middle of the short rail. You can shoot the ball full in the face, fairly soft, and if you put outside English on the CB it will twist the ball back to the pocket. The object ball should be 2 ball widths off the rail, cue ball about 4-6 inches behind it. Two quick banks I can think of that have given me AHA moments when I first started.1 diamond up from the corner pockets put a ball and the CB in line with that 1st diamond, just a simple short bank back to where you’re standing. If you’re on a table often enough you will get to know it well (in your back brain at the least) and you’ll be able to make adjustments depending what factors are working against you. I’ve got the book “banking with the beard” which has some good stuff in it but I haven’t gotten too in depth with it. It’s the interaction, synergistic / canceling effect of these factors that gets even more confusing to try to consciously think about. Things that affect banks: speed of the ball, action of the ball (rolling, sliding, twisting because of English or because you cut the ball), rails, the cloth, humidity, how often you shave, etc etc. I bank a lot better than I kick.įor banks there is so much to understand it can almost seem impossible. Are some tables just junk or am I looking at a place that needs to replace their stuff.įYI we've also tried the rolling english that some guys recommend on rail kicks and it literally takes to tips over of english to get it barely to the pocket.īanking and kicking can be a finicky art, as others have said. I've had my roommate try it as he's better than me and the same. I've tried several 'known angles' and similar results of coming up short. It consistently goes to the 1st diamond on the same side of the table instead of the pocket. I tried doing basic to test the table like put the cue ball in the side pocket and aim for the middle diamond on the other side and it should to in the corner. Banking has always been a week spot of mine, I can usually get it in or close going length wise but side to side pretty far off. I've been watching plenty of videos and going to the local hang out to practice on their Diamond tables. I jump from 4-5 depending on my nights apparently. ![]() I just started taking it more serious this year and joined an APA league. I've been playing typical bar billiards for years and am ok. ![]()
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