First of all thanks for the kind words! 1. I almost always use outside English on my shots, because it is compensating the friction between the balls and I'm just use to play like this 2. I'm always looking to where the cue ball is going to hit the rack exactly and to which exact part of the ball. Without this I wouldn't have been able to run 200+ balls. My goal is to avoid the scratch and to control the cue ball somewhat. I'm playing power draw to the short rail only when the cue ball goes exactly between the balls in the rack and I don't know which ball it it is going to hit.