"Aiming Systems" - TOOLS to improve your game

BC21

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If you're the average pool player, chances are you miss quite a few cut shots, usually at the perfect time in a game to end up losing. You probably play one or two nights a week, an 8-ball league night where you play 5 games in a 2 or 3 hour time span, and maybe a Friday or Saturday night to hit some balls around with your friends over a few beers. You probably watch the better players on league night and wish you were at their skill level. You might even play position patterns similar to the high-ranked players, only you miss shots here and there and they never seem to miss.

It's a hard truth to accept, but the reality of it is simple: Unless you make time to play a lot more pool, and you dedicate yourself to improving your fundamentals and shot making skills, in 5 years you'll still be playing about as well as you're playing now. But if you put in the table time and learn to be honest about what you can and can't do at the moment, and work at improving your game, you will get a lot better in due time.

If you adopt a good aiming system that you can quickly understand and work with, you'll get a lot better in a very short amount of time. Aiming Systems can be used like tools, drastically cutting the amount of time needed to improve.

Ignore the aiming system bashers and don't get caught up in the whole debate about whether this aiming system is better or worse than this one, or this one is professional and this one is for amateurs. That's all nonsense. With an aiming system that works for you, you'll find yourself improving rapidly. And that's what matters. If you don't notice improvement within the first couple of weeks working with your system, find a more effective system. And then one night you'll run a rack without even thinking about the system, and you'll know for a fact that you're on the right road to becoming that better player.
 
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If you're the average pool player, chances are you miss quite a few cut shots, usually at the perfect time in a game to end up losing. You probably play one or two nights a week, an 8-ball league night where you play 5 games in a 2 or 3 hour time span, and maybe a Friday or Saturday night to hit some balls around with your friends over a few beers. You probably watch the better players on league night and wish you were at their skill level. You might even play position patterns similar to the high-ranked players, only you miss shots here and there and they never seem to miss.

It's a hard truth to accept, but the reality of it is simple: Unless you make time to play a lot more pool, and you dedicate yourself to improving your fundamentals and shot making skills, in 5 years you'll still be playing about as well as you're playing now. But if you put in the table time and learn to be honest about what you can and can't do at the moment, and work at improving your game, you will get a lot better in due time.

If you adopt a good aiming system that you can quickly understand and work with, you'll get a lot better in a very short amount of time. Aiming Systems can be used like tools, drastically cutting the amount of time needed to improve.

Ignore the aiming system bashers and don't get caught up in the whole debate about whether this aiming system is better or worse than this one, or this one is professional and this one is for amateurs. That's all nonsense. With an aiming system that works for you, you'll find yourself improving rapidly. And that's what matters. If you don't notice improvement within the first couple of weeks working with your system, find a more effective system. And then one night you'll run a rack without even thinking about the system, and you'll know for a fact that you're on the right road to becoming that better player.
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Nonsense my a$$!

Stan Shuffett
 
SpiderWebComm

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I said I wasn't going to post again in the other thread but this is a new one.

I have no idea what made you think to do this but it's very well stated. We won't make comparisons but some aiming systems are far better than others and more deadly

You asked in the other thread when aiming started to be called aiming systems.
I don't know. But when I went back to the beginning of the archives in RSB (one of the early pool forums on the internet I think started by Bob Jewett in 1997) there was a lot of mention of aiming "systems". The internet probably had more to do with the explosion of aiming systems as well as EVERYTHING pool related than decades prior.

In 2003 a book was published by Todd Leveck called "AIMING ON THE CUTTING EDGE" HOW TO DEVELOP A PRECISION AIMING SYSTEM FOR POCKET BILLIARDS.

The book has 574 pages. It had to take him a lot of years to compile all of the aiming systems in the book so they had to be around for a good while.

I own the original book but went out of publication for a while but is being sold again.

https://www.bebobpublishing.com/product-p/ace.htm

Here's what it says "About The Author".

Todd Leveck has been playing pool since 1970 when his parents bought him his first pool table with a particleboard-playing surface. Since then, he has advanced to become a leading professional pool instructor and aiming specialist. Mr. Leveck is a Certified Instructor with the Billiard Congress of America (BCA). Todd is also a graduate and staff member of the American Billiard Academy. In addition, Todd is the first BCA Instructor selected to represent and serve Nevada. Todd has played in hundreds of tournaments, which includes invitational and BCA sanctioned events. Todd is also a featured columnist for the Billiards Connection magazine, which is Southern California's most informative billiard publication. He currently resides in Riverside, California where he enjoys playing pool, teaching pool and giving pool seminars. Aiming on the Cutting Edge - How to Develop a Precision Aiming System For Pocket Billiards! is the result of over 3 years of research and is Mr. Leveck's first book.

The original book is 11" x 9" with the binding and heavy. Google it to see other prices and I think there's now a softback but couldn't be very good because of tiny illustrations coupled with the amount of instructions.
 
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BC21

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SpiderWebComm said:
I said I wasn't going to post again in the other thread but this is a new one.

I have no idea what made you think to do this but it's very well stated. We won't make comparisons but some aiming systems are far better than others and more deadly

You asked in the other thread when aiming started to be called aiming systems.
I don't know. But when I went back to the beginning of the archives in RSB (one of the early pool forums on the internet I think started by Bob Jewett in 1997) there was a lot of mention of aiming "systems". The internet probably had more to do with the explosion of aiming systems as well as EVERYTHING pool related than decades prior.

In 2003 a book was published by Todd Leveck called "AIMING ON THE CUTTING EDGE" HOW TO DEVELOP A PRECISION AIMING SYSTEM FOR POCKET BILLIARDS.

The book has 574 pages. It had to take him a lot of years to compile all of the aiming systems in the book so they had to be around for a good while.

I own the original book but went out of publication for a while but is being sold again.

https://www.bebobpublishing.com/product-p/ace.htm

Here's what it says "About The Author".

Todd Leveck has been playing pool since 1970 when his parents bought him his first pool table with a particleboard-playing surface. Since then, he has advanced to become a leading professional pool instructor and aiming specialist. Mr. Leveck is a Certified Instructor with the Billiard Congress of America (BCA). Todd is also a graduate and staff member of the American Billiard Academy. In addition, Todd is the first BCA Instructor selected to represent and serve Nevada. Todd has played in hundreds of tournaments, which includes invitational and BCA sanctioned events. Todd is also a featured columnist for the Billiards Connection magazine, which is Southern California's most informative billiard publication. He currently resides in Riverside, California where he enjoys playing pool, teaching pool and giving pool seminars. Aiming on the Cutting Edge - How to Develop a Precision Aiming System For Pocket Billiards! is the result of over 3 years of research and is Mr. Leveck's first book.

The original book is 11" x 9" with the binding and heavy. Google it to see other prices and I think there's now a softback but couldn't be very good because of tiny illustrations coupled with the amount of instructions.
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I've seen this book, the new one that is. Looks like a good resource. You are probably correct about the internet explosion bring the big bang of "aiming system" terminology. I'm not out to reinvent definitions, just curious as to when certain things got labeled something other than standard or common sense. To me a system goes was beyond common sense.

Like if someone at a firing range asks you what system you use to shoot so well, and you say, "I look at the bullseye, center target, and imagine the bullet going right to that spot, then I shoot." Lol. I would have to say that's not a system. But if you had a group of specific moves or steps, from the target visual to the stance, the raising of the pistol and the placement of your grip and trigger finger, the way you breathe, the exact focal point you use while slowing pulling the trigger back, etc.... Now that's a system anyone could follow to improve their target shooting.
 
SpiderWebComm

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BC21 said:
I've seen this book, the new one that is. Looks like a good resource. You are probably correct about the internet explosion bring the big bang of "aiming system" terminology. I'm not out to reinvent definitions, just curious as to when certain things got labeled something other than standard or common sense. To me a system goes was beyond common sense.
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I wish the word system was never used mainly because the word itself has been the spark that has started more flame wars on internet pool forums than anything else.

"Method" would have been better. I think most want to believe what they're doing is something they came up with on their own or don't want to be part of a crowd in lock step with each other. Tough sh!t. It is what it is. I wonder why more don't rebel to the words Diamond System or Banking System. Maybe because not many take the time to learn it which can be quite difficult in it's most complete and complex versions.

I think the internet spread the word rapidly just as world news and events are learned in a matter of minutes either during or right after they happened now.

Who knew what was going on in other pool rooms all over the country? You played out of one to three main places and that was the entire world of pool. Pro players never told any secrets or methods because they didn't want to lose money to someone who took their knowledge to beat them. Not much got discussed.

Different world now.
 
BC21

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SpiderWebComm said:
I wish the word system was never used mainly because the word itself has been the spark that has started more flame wars on internet pool forums than anything else.

"Method" would have been better. I think most want to believe what they're doing is something they came up with on their own or don't want to be part of a crowd in lock step with each other. Tough sh!t. It is what it is. I wonder why more don't rebel to the words Diamond System or Banking System. Maybe because not many take the time to learn it which can be quite difficult in it's most complete and complex versions.

I think the internet spread the word rapidly just as world news and events are learned in a matter of minutes either during or right after they happened now.

Who knew what was going on in other pool rooms all over the country? You played out of one to three main places and that was the entire world of pool. Pro players never told any secrets or methods because they didn't want to lose money to someone who took their knowledge to beat them. Not much got discussed.

Different world now.
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Agreed. And I think you're dead on with banking/kicking systems. Most players want to know the systems but never bother studying or practicing them enough to really learn them. It's the same way with pocketing balls....most players want to be more consistent but they either don't have the time or don't want to spend the time needed to improve their game.

That's where a good aiming system/method can help by reducing the amount of practice time needed, a shortcut to improvement. Of course, if they stick with ghostball there is no shortcut, just the good ol time-tested traditional hours of hard table time.
 
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