Seeing the shot

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duckie

GregH
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It appears that some can not understand the concept of seeing the shot, seeing where to put the cue ball.

Seeing the shot comes after committing to one method of putting the cb where you want and using just that one method until it is second nature, requiring no thought to do or perform.......kinda like breathing, sorta comes natural.

Do you think about walking or do you just do it? At one point in your life you had to learn to walk unlike some animals that walk right after birth. But you have even doing it for so long, it is second nature.

I've noticed my play is better when I do not aim. I do not go through the thought process of determining where the cb needs to go. My thought process is all focus on cue delievery, how I'm gonna stroke the ball, getting in the stance that best help me deliver the cue to the cu ball. When I'm in this mode, balls just fall. When I start thinking about aiming and not what I need to do on the shot, I miss.

But then again I practice more than most and as such there are very few shots I haven't seen, and when I do, I have a deep data base to pull from to help me make that shot.

Want to just see the shot, stop thinking about aiming and practice.
 
I'm confused......so now you are telling us not to use an aiming system and to just get up and fire the balls in the pocket?
 
duckie said:
It appears that some can not understand the concept of seeing the shot, seeing where to put the cue ball.

Seeing the shot comes after committing to one method of putting the cb where you want and using just that one method until it is second nature, requiring no thought to do or perform.......kinda like breathing, sorta comes natural.

Do you think about walking or do you just do it? At one point in your life you had to learn to walk unlike some animals that walk right after birth. But you have even doing it for so long, it is second nature.

I've noticed my play is better when I do not aim. I do not go through the thought process of determining where the cb needs to go. My thought process is all focus on cue delievery, how I'm gonna stroke the ball, getting in the stance that best help me deliver the cue to the cu ball. When I'm in this mode, balls just fall. When I start thinking about aiming and not what I need to do on the shot, I miss.

But then again I practice more than most and as such there are very few shots I haven't seen, and when I do, I have a deep data base to pull from to help me make that shot.

Want to just see the shot, stop thinking about aiming and practice.
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Kesuke Miyagi say, "Wax on... wax off."

Duckie, you're not contributing anything new. The idea of just letting go and let your subconscious take care of the minutiae is as old as the hills. Heck, I wrote on in the 14.1 forum, but you'd never know, because you don't go there. Instead, you seem to be fixated here, in the Aiming Conversation forum. (Which is odd, coming from someone who is trying to advocate against fixating on aiming!)

Take a read of something that is w-a-y more complete than your "wax on, wax off" post above:

"Leveraging your subconscious (read: don't let your conscious get in the way!)"
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=216564&highlight=subconscious

That's how it's done,
-Sean
 
Here is a recent example,

Last 14.1 League night, my match was 40 to 100, me 40. I have seen this person play and they can play.

My nerves made me on edge. My first shot of the game I fouled the CB, which I called on myself and the other player never saw it.

He ran the rack, 14 and I owe 1.

Second rack, played a bad safety, he ran the rack.

Third rack, I realized I was thinking too much about what and how I was gonna do the shot before me. From my practice, I realized I need to shift to just seeing and doing, with no how.

My thought process was more like "Make this ball there, put the CB here" and then just doing it. It is like painting. No thought just putting the CB where I wanted without any thought about doing it. Things just starting flowing.

This is what is meant amount forgetting technique, style, systems. This is playing empty, also known as Mushin......its a zen thing.


Oh, the final score......me 40 him 53. Not a fan of handicaps leagues but this is the only place to get any 14.1 games. I'd rather the game was to 100 each, cause I was catching him and wish I could have seen if I could have.

He wasn't happy either..........another big bump for my handicap is coming after this game. I'm going for the highest in the league.
 
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