Double hits, frozen balls & push shots

Very good to know!

very informative.  thanks...........

Question. In reading Phil Capelle he treats shots that are frozen and shots that are within close range as push shots, have you heard different definitions of push and double hit???

Yes, from the world standardized rules:

3.23 FOULS BY DOUBLE HITS
[...] If the cue stick strikes the cue ball more than once on a shot, or if the cue stick is in contact with the cue ball when or after the cue ball contacts an object ball, the shot is a foul. [...]

3.24 PUSH SHOT FOULS
It is a foul if the cue ball is pushed by the cue tip, with contact being maintained for more than the momentary time commensurate with a stroked shot. (Such shots are usually referred to as push shots.)

thanx for the clarification.

where do I find all the rules?

I wondered if you watched the video b4 posting this? He states up front that the 2-hit foul is mistaken as a push shot which I see in my league all the time. By BCA rules, any normal stroke on the cue ball if the balls are frozen is leagal, because the cue ball doesn't hit the object ball, rebound and hit the cue tip and go back in th edirection of the object ball. When frozen, there is zero space for rebound, thus no double hit occurs. Pushing has NOTHING to do with this.

Later in the video he explains what a push shot is and it is as it sounds. A push shot is when the tip of your cue remains on the cue ball and the ball is pushed down the table.  There's a fine line between that and a "normal stroke" but generally a push is obvious when the stroke isn't a normal stroke and you can generally see the ball being pushed down table. When frozen, the push shot as he shows, pushes the frozen ball out the way then the tip is used to push the ball forward.