Ever been stuck behind that 1 ball that is keeping you from winning a game of billiards? It happens to all to many of us when we are playing the game and sometimes it is the reason we’ll lose a few dollars, if you are brave enough to put money on your skills. A couple solutions to this problem can be banking the ball of the side rails, or taking out the middle man and hopping the ball over. Ball hopping is a very difficult thing to figure out when you are not used to doing it. You have to make sure that your cue stick is placed right in between the ball and the table and that the higher you need to go, the greater the angle of your cue stick. So in an example, when you’re stuck behind that stripe your opponent has left and the 8 ball is sitting on the lip of the corner pocket, just aim carefully and put the perfect amount of height on the jump as well as a little backspin to stop the ball from possibly scratching. It sounds hard but in the long run, if you can get it down, you can master these hard situations without the middle man needed.