I've been holding onto this secret, if it really is a secret, for several months or even years now. Not because I don't want to share, but because it doesn't come up often enough in my play to take advantage.
It's the dreaded frozen pair spotted, and trying to make the headball into the corner, like you would in one-pocket.
Now, many/most of you have shot this shot many times, seen it many times, and can't possible wonder what kind of secret there is to it. You've all read Bob Jewett's 10x fuller system (or you should have by now), and you've all seen top one-pocket players pocket this or come close.
But now I've seen dozens of one pocket players trying to show this shot to people, and they miss it over and over until they've adjusted the one glorious time and they say, "just like that!" Ask JoeyA. We watched someone shooting this shot in attempt to show it off a dozen time before he made it. And I had just shot it one time a little earlier (with my method) and buried it on one.
I "discovered" the system that makes this shot so simple, I am amazed I have never seen it in print. In fact, I deduced the theory from another poster, Dr. Dave Alciatore, who talks about judging the natural forward roll of a cueball at and around the halfball hit (~30 deg. +/- a couple) by using your fingers in a peace sign. A peace sign is close enough to 30 deg. for many of us.
For any frozen pair, you can get that first ball rolling forward pretty immediately by just hitting straight at it. Most of us will use draw to get the cueball away from the collision, and possibly inducing forward roll on that first object ball.
So, how to aim? I find the 10x fuller system tough to judge. So, the secret I discovered was to use the peace sign. Put the crook of the fingers over the middle of the front object ball. Point one finger to the pocket. Wherever the other finger pointing, that's the aimpoint.
{Edited Table 9_26_07 with notation}
It's the dreaded frozen pair spotted, and trying to make the headball into the corner, like you would in one-pocket.
Now, many/most of you have shot this shot many times, seen it many times, and can't possible wonder what kind of secret there is to it. You've all read Bob Jewett's 10x fuller system (or you should have by now), and you've all seen top one-pocket players pocket this or come close.
But now I've seen dozens of one pocket players trying to show this shot to people, and they miss it over and over until they've adjusted the one glorious time and they say, "just like that!" Ask JoeyA. We watched someone shooting this shot in attempt to show it off a dozen time before he made it. And I had just shot it one time a little earlier (with my method) and buried it on one.
I "discovered" the system that makes this shot so simple, I am amazed I have never seen it in print. In fact, I deduced the theory from another poster, Dr. Dave Alciatore, who talks about judging the natural forward roll of a cueball at and around the halfball hit (~30 deg. +/- a couple) by using your fingers in a peace sign. A peace sign is close enough to 30 deg. for many of us.
For any frozen pair, you can get that first ball rolling forward pretty immediately by just hitting straight at it. Most of us will use draw to get the cueball away from the collision, and possibly inducing forward roll on that first object ball.
So, how to aim? I find the 10x fuller system tough to judge. So, the secret I discovered was to use the peace sign. Put the crook of the fingers over the middle of the front object ball. Point one finger to the pocket. Wherever the other finger pointing, that's the aimpoint.
{Edited Table 9_26_07 with notation}
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