General:

• How to use VEPP (workout routines and log sheet), with drill log sheet (for tracking how you improve over time with a specific skill)
• Billiard University (BU) playing-ability exams and instructional video series for assessing pool skills and deficiencies, and for monitoring progress over time
  • The BU exams are a good alternative to the workout routines recommended in the “How to use VEPP” document.
• Dr. Dave’s online billiards resources website and instructional products website
• Bob Jewett’s website and collections of articles from Billiards Digest
• answers to Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs) about various pool and billiards topics
• “progressive practice” handout
• glossary of pool and billiard terms and phrases
• pool tutorial covering fundamentals
• Video Encyclopedia of Pool Shots (VEPS) series (excellent companion product for VEPP)

VEPP-I – Fundamentals and Basic CB Control

Preliminaries and Fundamentals:

• “ring” target (for marking a position target)
• ghost-ball target discs (for marking ball target positions on the table or rail)
• pool tutorial covering fundamentals
• “vision center” resource page

Aiming and Cut Shots:

• throw resource page
• Cranfield arrow (for ghost-ball aiming visualization)
• ghost ball template (for visualizing and practicing aiming, ghost ball center, line of centers, and tangent line)
• “progressive practice” handout
• VEPS-I – Basic Shot Making and Position

Speed Control:

• speed control lag drill

Stop Shot:

• “progressive practice” handout

Follow Shot:

• “progressive practice” handout

Draw Shot:

• draw technique resource page
• “progressive practice” handout

VEPP-II – CB Position Control and English

CB Control Basics:

• “progressive practice” handout
• 30-degree rule resource page
• VEPS-I – Basic Shot Making and Position

Wagon Wheel Drills:

• cue ball control resource page

Basic Target Practice:

• cue ball control resource page

English Effects:

• throw resource page
• english effects resource page
• squirt, swerve, and throw aim compensation resource page
• VEPS-II – English and Position Control

Position Control Basics:

• squirt, swerve, and throw aim compensation resource page
• VEPS-II – English and Position Control

Advanced Target Practice:

VEPP-III – Patterns and Safety Play

• squirt, swerve, and throw aim compensation resource page

9-ball Pattern Drills:

• 9-ball Clinic handout

8-ball Pattern Drills:

• 8-ball Clinic handout

Safety Play:

• “ring” target (for marking a position target)
• VEPS-III – Safety Play and Strategy

VEPP-IV – Banks, Kicks, and Advanced Shots

One-Rail Kicks:

• ghost-ball target discs (for marking ball target positions on the table or rail)
• Cranfield arrow (for ghost-ball aiming visualization)
• VEPS-IV – Banks, Kicks, and Advanced Shots

Two-Rail Kicks :

• Plus System resource page
• VEPS-IV – Banks, Kicks, and Advanced Shots

Three-Rail Kicks :

• Corner-5 System resource page
• VEPS-IV – Banks, Kicks, and Advanced Shots

Banks:

• bank shot aiming system resource page
• VEPS-IV – Banks, Kicks, and Advanced Shots

Jump Shots:

• jump shot resource page
• VEPS-V – Skill and Specialty Shots

Masse Shots:

• masse shot resource page
• VEPS-V – Skill and Specialty Shots

VEPP-V – Challenges, Games, Run-outs

Rating and Challenge Drills:

• 9-ball Clinic handout
• Hopkins Q Skills Challenge
• Fargo rating drill
• Equal Offense challenge drill

Drills For Special Skills:

• cue ball control resource page

Custom Drills:

• squirt, swerve, and throw aim compensation resource page