A very decent player with good mechanics yesterday said he has a problem with a particular shot of cutting to the left down the rail and bringing the cb back to basically the same area he shot from. I think it's something like a 30 degree shot but basically the same shot in a hillbilly bryant video on YouTube called the 3 diamond rule.
I saw the shot relationship on the table that he had set up and I looked at it and said you are probably overcutting it based on what I know that is typical for a right handed player with a dominant left eye. He laughed and said yes.
I said in your stand up, you are guaging it thick, correct? He said yes.
I said you are guaging it thick because you need to dig in and twist the cb and throw it to achieve the desired cb static destination. He said yes.
I said the problem is for a right handed player with a dominant left eye, it's very difficult to produce the correct stroke because the corner of the table from where you are shooting from, gets in the way just enough to force your stroke out to the right at launch point and this also creates a problem of when you do make the shot and spin back, the cb carries too much speed and catches the rail too quick and you either don't come back far enough and zig zag above and past your intended cb destination or well below because either way it carries too much speed.
Sure enough, he shot it a few times and happed to stripe it in the hole perfectly but ran well past his shape etc etc.
I said what you need to do but it's very difficult, is sight in with your right eye and that will help produce a outside angle inward on your delivery stroke but don't go down that road because it's going to mess you up and open a big can of worms that I doubt he wants to do.
There are a number of remedies but I told him the best thing he can do without opening up a pandora box, is too be aware of how he sights down the cue and retain that when in the stand up.
He sights dead down the middle of both eyes.
I said that when you are tired or under pressure, you will or should notice, you tend to sight more with your left eye in the stand up and be aware of that and that will help big time or else you are DEAD. He laughed and agreed and said he was sort of aware of that but now knew his suspicions were right.
I said for this shot, we'll do a test and do what stan shuffett calls a sweep. I said you want to stand up with a bias of left side of the shot line, which will obviously force more right eye into the shot.
The funny thing is, he couldn't do it and that's what I call a left side tractor beam because his left eye is owning him and this puts him skewed to the right side of the shot line and the rest is history and you're doomed before getting down on the shot, and have no choice but to spin out with too much speed etc etc
I said, dude, get your ass way over to the LEFT side of the shot line and don't go anywhere near "over there" , referring to the right side of the shot line.
I said this will not feel comfortable but just trust it so you get a idea of the difference and effect.
He did after two attempts finally, the force is strong on that left tractor beam lol, and he hit the shot so full and made it, but the cb didn't do much but hold a lot straighter and a ton of perfect 3 0'clock spin on its axis and NO DRAW.
I knew right away what this means and that is the can of worms i was talking about, but he now realized a thin relationship in the stand up produces a fat shotline in reality. This is incongruent with what a right handed left eye player expects but this is the phenomenon of the sweep. Sweep to the right to cut left should produce a thin hit and it doesn't unless you dig and spin out.
I told him to forget about the sweep because this man, and it does exist, is a true over the top target shooter. Hard to believe, but this man does not sweep and that's also why his stroke arm is tucked well under his midsection, where you cannot see his grip if you stand in front of him.
It has to if you are sighting down the middle of your eyes which he does very well. But, I believe this limits dimension and I know it does because he can't conventionally produce the correct launch of a outside inward attack that produces a bend that slows the speed down with draw.
This is also why I disagree with hillbilly bryants video because when I saw it, I said to myself I can get it past what he calls a great hit and I did in fact set up the same shot and got it past his best by a half diamond on my first attempt on worn out green simonis on a tight brunswik. In his video, he has the blue simonis but it's on a diamond table and i know the diamond table rail height is slightly lower, so I'm not sure if that hinders the effect, but I do know that the blue simonis is very user friendly for draw and bending.
A stop shot on the equipment I play on will draw the cb back on that blue simonis. So, I venture on his table, I believe it's possible to damn near scratch in the corner pocket coming back if one could warp the cb enough. Im probably stretching the imagination but my gut tells me for a good reason.
Anyway, not everyone sweeps or sweeps nearly as much as average, but its rare in reality. Most people sweep or offset something or other. If our stroke arm came out the middle of our chest, I assume we would never miss and beat God on a bad day.
