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How To: Use proper pool cue stick grip, stance and stroke
Here is a basic technique in pool cue stick grip, stance and stroke. Reinforceable basics for beginners and advanced players. These are great tips to use before you walk into the billiard room. So, watch this video tutorial to see how to use proper pool cue stick grip, stance and stroke to get the shots in like they are supposed to be.
How To: Do the 9 ball control break in a pool game
Here is the set up and description of a 9 ball break that you can use to control the rack. Make the 1 ball in the side pocket while keeping the cue ball near the center of the table. After watching this billiards video tutorial, you'll be able to do the 9 ball control break in a pool game.
How To: Do a trick pool break shot to win the game
Making your handicap ball on the break can win you the game in one shot. This break is useful in Texas Express rules or other handicap pool tournaments. This billiards video tutorial gives you one example of how to do a trick pool break shot to win the game.
How To: Do a one rail 8 ball trick pool shot
Your opponent has scratched and left you with the 8 ball in the corner pocket -- your only option is to bank. Here is a situational trick shot you can learn to defeat this problem. Watch this billiards video tutorial to see how to do a one rail 8 ball trick pool shot.
How To: Do the Pool Hall Junkies rail trick shot
Here is the Pool Hall Junkies trick shot. If anyone saw this movie, they were out the next day attempting this pool shot, but nobody could do it. This video tutorial will show you how to do the Pool Hall Junkies rail trick shot with ease. A four-year-old could do it.
How To: Use precision in a pool bank shot
Accuracy and skill, not speed wins the game of pool. Learn to use precision in a pool bank shot. It could mean the pool game. This quick little billiards clip will help you succeed as the pool shark you want to be.
How To: Do the frozen rail shot trick from The Hustler
If you like the movie The Hustler, you've probably tried all of the tricks so you can be a pool shark too, but you can't seem to get the frozen rail shot. If you have seen this before, it's a 99.9 percent chance it was not a legal shot. This one is! Watch this video tutorial to see how to do the frozen rail shot trick from The Hustler.
How To: Do the 8 ball shot with The Hustler movie trick
The 8 ball and the cue ball are touching, trapped by the rail. What do you do? You play like The Hustler, that's what. This is a different set up for the 8 ball shot used in the movie The Hustler. This frozen rail shot is the legal version of this shot. So, learn how to do the 8 ball shot with The Hustler movie trick, to be the best pool shark you can be.
How To: Lubricate a 4x4 Rubik's Revenge Cube
Need to improve your Rubik's Cube time? Can't quite solve it as quick as you should be? Maybe you need a little lube, ey?
How To: Solve the miniature 2x2 Rubik's Cube
Can't solve the little 2x2 Mini Rubik's Cube? Then you need some help. This video tutorial will show you the algorithms needed to solve the 2x2 Rubiks Mini Cube. This is a great way to learn, showing you the way through the regular 3x3 Cube.
How To: Solve a 5x5 Rubik's Professor Cube
In order to solve a 5x5 Rubik's Professor Cube, you'll need to, of course, already know how to solve a 3x3 Rubiks Cube. First, you'll need to get the centers solved first, then you pair the edges (with the algorithm 2D*, R, F', U, R', F, D'*), and solve parity (with the algorithm 2R*, 2B, 2U, L*, 2U, R'*, 2U, R*, 2U, 2F, R*, 2F, L'*, 2B, 2R*), then you continue to solve it just like a normal 3x3 cube until it looks brand new, out of the plastic box.
How To: Lubricate a 5x5 Rubik's Cube with heavy duty silicone
Need to lube your Rubik's or Eastsheen Cube? Well, check out this video for a real tip on doing so. Here, you'll see how to lubricate your 5x5 Rubiks Cube with heavy duty silicone. If you can solve the Professor Cube, then this will help you solve it quicker.
How To: Solve the mighty Rubik's Cube
Need a little help solving the Rubik's Cube? This video tutorial will show you how to solve the mighty Rubik's Cube like you've never down before. Well, actually, not really, this is simply for beginners. If you're a beginner, then try this cross method out. Then, you can go to more difficult and faster solving methods, with harder algorithms.
How To: Fence in the office with Post-It Notes
Check out this Smart Show video by the Holiday Inn Express Hotels, which shows you how to have a little fun in the office. You can have your very own Office Olympics. Learn some basic team building skills, and learn how to play the games, like Post-It Note fencing, trashketball, and rubber band archery. Learn to work as a team, learn to have fun. The best thing here is learning how to Fence in the office with Post-It Notes. Yes!
How To: Take off Rubik's Cube stickers and clean the gunk
Having problems with your Rubik's Cube stickers? Are they keeping you from solving that cube super fast? Well, learn how to take off Rubik's Cube stickers and clean the gunk. You can easily take off those stickers with a cell phone battery cover, then use a little Tide-to-Go Instant Stain Remover to not remove stains, but to remove the leftover sticky crap on your Rubiks Cube.
How To: Solve the last two centers on the V-Cube 7 puzzle
This tutorial video will show you how to solve the last two centers on the V-cube 7, the Rubik's Cube style puzzle. These 7x7 V-cubes are difficult to solve, but like most puzzles, become easier to handle with practice. Good luck, V-cubers! Just don't expect to solve this puzzle in less time than a Classic Rubiks or a 4x4 and 5x5.
How To: Solve the Rubik's Cube with the Fridrich Method
If you've wanted to solve the Rubik's Cube, there's no better tutorial than this. In this video, you'll learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube with the Fridrich Method.
How To: Prevent your Rubik's Cube center caps from popping off
So, you're solving your Rubik's Cube, like the speedsolver you are, and all of a sudden... clink, its center cap falls off. What do you do now?
How To: Solve the overlooked Rubik's Clock
You're confused? You don't know what a Rubik's Clock is? Well, like most lazy gamers, you thought the buck stopped at the Rubik's Cube, but you were wrong.
How To: Solve the Rubik's Twist or the Snake
The Rubik's Twist, not quite the Rubik's Cube, but just as fun. If you don't this puzzle by the name Twist, perhaps you know it by its more familiar nickname, the Snake.
How To: Solve the Rubik's Magic the easy way and the fast way
If you've never gotten a Rubik's Cube because you thought they were too hard, maybe you should try your hands at something smaller, something simpler, something to get you motivated, something called Rubik's Magic.
News: Blow human-sized giant bubbles
These bubbles are incredible. The key to their stable state is in the homemade bubble recipe.
How To: Solve the Rubik's Clock
Get ready for a brainteasingly good time and watch this video tutorial to see how to solve the Rubik's Clock. Wait, the Rubik's Clock, not the Cube? Yes.
How To: Flip the Rubik's Cube logo
Need a new trick with the Rubik's Cube? Watch this video tutorial to see how to flip the Rubik's Cube logo. Learn the algorithms to perform the logo swap and you'll impress all of your Rubiks friends.
How To: Solve a Rubik's Cube using strategy
If you've ever wanted to solve a Rubik's Cube and look like a genius, you're going to have to watch this puzzle solving video tutorial. This video will show you how to, yes, solve a Rubik's Cube.
How To: Build a wooden chessboard
Have you ever wanted to build your own chessboard? Well, you're in luck. This video tutorial series will show you how to build a wooden chessboard. If you follow these seven videos, you'll be playing chess in no time.
How To: Make a green environment spinner game
Check out this video tutorial from the Homemade Game Guru for a new idea in making the clean-up of pollution, emissions and litter more enjoyable for everyone. This video will take environmentalism and make it into a game anyone can make from home. So, see how to make a green environment spinner game.
How To: Make a homemade fridge checkers game
For too long the family refrigerator has had to endure a boring existence. Merely a place to store food and the occasional family photo, its place as an enduring destination for family entertainment has been overlooked for too long!
How To: Make a homemade Sesame Street bean bag toss game
Have you ever had the urge to throw a ball at someone, but knew you could never do it? Regardless if for merely a gag or out of frustration, we all have that someone we would love to use as target practice, but know fully well we can't purposely try to hurt another person. Well, we have the solution here...
How To: Win a game of chess with two rooks against one
See how to play a game of chess with Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk. This chess video tutorial will show you how to win a game of chess with two Rooks against one.
How To: Catch Black from all sides to win the chess game
Learn chess from Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk. This chess video tutorial will show you how to play a game of chess, like the masters. See how to catch Black from all sides to win the chess game.
How To: Solve a chess study in geometry by Troitzky
Let Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teach you how to play a game of chess in this chess video tutorial.
How To: Win the chess game with an invincible rook
Yes, Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk is here to teach you how to play a game of chess. Just watch this chess video tutorial to see how to win the chess game with an invincible Rook.
How To: Solve a difficult chess study from Ryabinin
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play a difficult chess study from Ryabinin in this chess video tutorial.
How To: Take the initiative in a chess game to win
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teaches you how to... you guessed it, play a game of chess. This chess video tutorial will show you how to take the initiative in a chess game to win.
How To: Use Philidor's position to win the chess endgame
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play a magnificent game of chess in this chess video tutorial on the very difficult Rook and Bishop against Rook endgame. See how to use the Philidor's position to win the endgame of chess.
How To: Win the endgame of chess with a pawn and king
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, in this chess video tutorial, you guessed it, teaches you how to play a game of chess.
How To: Win chess with the Poisoned Pawn Sicilian Defense
Let Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teach you how to play a game of chess in this chess video tutorial.
How To: Prove that black is better off without his chess pawns
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk shows you how to play chess like a master in this chess video tutorial.
How To: Mate with a bishop and knight versus a king in chess
Let Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk teach you how to play a game of chess. This chess video tutorial will show you how to checkmate with a Bishop and Knight versus a King.