Early 2-back pioneer
Normal 4 ball break from hoop 5
Roquet hoop 5 pilot B
Make hoop 5. Croquet B to 1-back pioneer. Roquet pivot Y and take off to hoop 6 pilot K
Make hoop 6. Croquet reception K to 2-back pioneer. Roquet pivot Y and take off to 1-back pilot B
Make hoop 1-back. Croquet reception B to 3-back pioneer. Roquet pivot Y and take off to 2-back pilot K
Ready to make hoop 2-back with pilot, pivot and hoop 3-back pioneer in place
All shots are standard. Simple straightish half-roll croquet shots and take-offs.
No critical shots, and minor errors are easy to recover from.
Hoop approach shots and runs are non-critical.
Early 2-back pioneer from hoop 5
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Roquet hoop 5 pilot B
Make hoop 5. Rush B to 2-back pioneer. Take off to pivot Y and croquet it to 1-back pioneer getting close to K
Make hoop 6. Rush K to N boundary. Croquet K to pivot getting close to Y
Ready to make hoop 1-back with pilot, pivot and hoop 2-back pioneer in place
The hoop approach and run at hoop 5 are critical.
If you don't get the rush on B to 2-back pioneer you have to proceed with a normal 4 ball break.
The hoop approach and run at hoop 6 are critical, and a mistake is more serious.
If you fail to get the rush of K to the N boundary the break collapses.
Resulting pilot, pivot and pioneer permutation is equivalent to conventional pivot swaps at an odd then an even hoop.
These two pivot swaps may be harder and riskier than the early 2-back pioneer.
What's the point of the early 2-back pioneer?
If the particular permutation it gives is required for a leave it may be simpler than
a pivot swap at an odd hoop followed by one at an even hoop, but if the requirement is to make 3-back off either oppo ball
one relatively simple pivot swap at 5 is the most that will be required.
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