Ultimate Trap Shot

Here's the main part of the setup for this shot (Figure 1). The five ball (solid orange) in the picture is just a spacer ball placed at 1 1/2 diamonds along the side rail. The cue ball is frozen to it and the rail, with the blocker balls placed as shown. Before shooting the shot, remove the five ball. To make it easier, you can remove the blocking ball not in the wall and cut the wall down to one or two blockers. To make it more visual, I spaced out some blocker balls 1 1/2 diamonds from the long rail. Also to make it easier, you can set up a combination on the hanging ball.

This shot is a lot tougher if you're not as a tall. But if I hit it, I'm sure you can too with enough practice. As you see in the video, I throw my leg on the table to get a good angle on the cue ball. Hopefully, you're limber enough to do this and quick enough to get off the table before the cue ball comes back. My other foot is actually on my tip toes. If it's too difficult, you can do this shot along the short rail too, but with fewer blocking balls.

I aim to hit right at the first diamond and then rotate for high left english. Then stroke through it to juice it up with spin. It might take some getting used to since you're holding your cue awkwardly. Honestly, my arm started getting sore after practicing this shot for a while.

Video: Ultimate Trap Shot

Figure 1