Shots & Skills (Advanced)
How to Control the Board / Throw Better Blocks
Own the front of the board with blocks that make your opponent's life miserable.
High-level cornhole isn't just about putting bags in the hole, it's about controlling the board so your opponent can't. A good block flips the pressure onto them. This is the strategy that wins tight games.
What a block does
A block is a flat bag placed right in front of the hole. It guards the hole so your opponent can't roll straight in, they're forced to throw a harder cut or airmail, or knock your block out and risk leaving you a clean look.
Placing it
The block lives just below the lip of the hole. Use a soft, stopping flat bag so it stays exactly where it lands, a block that slides into the hole or off the side does you no good. Distance control is everything.
Thinking a bag ahead
Board control is a chess match: block when you're protecting a lead or sitting on points, open it up when you need to score. Read what your opponent throws best and take it away. Combine clean blocks with rolls and cuts and you control the pace of the whole game.
More in Shots & Skills (Advanced)
- How to Throw a Cut Shot (and Reverse Cut)→
Cut around blockers and get to the hole when the front of the board is clogged.
- How to Cut Around More Blocks (Reverse Cut Explained)→
The reverse cut explained, get around blocks from either side.
- How to Hit More Airmails (Without Guessing)→
A repeatable airmail, the in-the-hole shot over a blocked board.
- 3 Airmail Tips + the And-1 Shot→
Three tweaks to dial in your airmail, plus the And-1 shot.
- How to Hit the Bar of Soap→
The bar-of-soap shot, the slide that ends up exactly where you want it.
- How to Do the Rodeo→
The rodeo, one of the flashiest, most useful trick shots in the game.
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