09/06/2026
Cue the Experts S3 Ep 02 - Bob Jewett: There Is No Secret
Bob Jewett walked into the Berkeley student union in the 1960s, found seventeen pool tables, and lost interest in his math degree. He turned that background into a career nobody else in the sport has: a week in Jacksonville in 1998 shooting cue balls at 12,000 frames per second to prove how cue ball deflection works, 500 articles for Billiards Digest, and a billiards library of two thousand volumes. Ask this PBIA Master Instructor for hidden gems and he tells you there aren't any. We discuss why the secret everyone hunts for does not exist, the ripped ferrule that accidentally gave him a low deflection cue in 1980, why a ball sinks half an inch into the cushion, the 80 percent rule behind his 15-level Runout Drill System, and why only one student in ten practices between lessons.
Get Bob's course info and his 20-page handout at sfbilliards.com.
Billiard University Runout Drill Systemhttps://billiarduniversity.org/documents/BU_Exam-IV_Runout_Drill_System.pdf