Get serious Brian. We all know Lou isn't a pool instructor but you claim to be with a "Fractional Aiming System" for the world of pool players.
The height of hypocrisy. "Do as I say but not as I do because I can't even start to tell you what I do. It sure as hell isn't what I'm telling you to do with these dumb ass fractions and grid layout".
Funny how neither of you can start to describe your aiming but many of the top pro players can. Maybe both of you should stay out of the Aiming Forum since there's nothing to add regarding the subject as non-aimers.
It's like a 100% heterosexual hanging out daily in gay or transsexual forums to post?
WHY? What sense does it make? NONE!
Same with you two in aiming forums.
This is the "Aiming Conversation" forum, not an exclusive "Aiming Systems" forum. I believe that means any form of aiming, even the mysterious and unexplainable forms, are subject to conversation. Regarding aiming systems, I happen to be in favor of those that help players improve. That can be ANY system, depending on the individual player's personal liking and workability.
I was agreeing with Lou about right brain vs left brain when it comes to playing speed pool. One doesn't have to be a pool instructor to discuss the workings of the human brain and how it relates to pocketing pool balls. Here is how the brain functions for a "feel" player when playing pool:
The left side of the brain primarily handles logic, language, etc...more objective, systematic processes. The right side is more artistic and creative, handling spacial recognition, intuition, perception, etc...more subjective, nonsystematic processes. No one is strictly left brained or right brained. Both sides work in harmony, like a tag-team, tagging each other in and out as needed.
In hand-eye related activities, such as playing pool, the left brain takes care of all the analytical thinking and required judgements needed to devise a good plan. This is all done while standing up and looking at the table. The right brain processes the visual imagery, the patterns, then the left brain decides what to do with this information, formulating and comparing various options at lightening speed and making judgements as to which option is best for any particular pattern, preferably planning at least 3 shots ahead.
Once the best plan gets locked in, the right brain gets tagged to perform its artistry, which involves pocketing the OB and dancing the CB to it's next location in accordance with the plan. This is automatically done as one process. It may have once been a multi-systematic, conscious process, where an exact directional aim was logically determined and an exact CB spin was purposely applied. But, eventually, through repitition/experience, these actions became one subconscious process, a form of art, like painting or dancing, free from the constraints of any analytical/systematic control.
Equipped with a left brain plan, the right plan simply performs. The left brain monitors the performance through images received from the right brain, double-checking the layout and making any additional comparisons or judgements if needed. If the CB ends up exactly where the left brain wanted it to end up, the left brain immediately recognizes this and the performance continues, uninterrupted by the left brain. The right brain remains in action, free-wheeling within the framework of a plan devised by the left brain. If the CB misses its predetermined location or something interrupts the plan, the left brain immediately recognizes this and calls for a tag from the right brain. The tag is made and the left brain takes over in order to revise or redesign the plan before tagging the right brain back into action. This process can take anywhere from a fraction of a second to several minutes, depending on the player and the nature of the plan revision.
Unfortunately, all of our senses are processed in the right brain. The plans devised by our left brain may be absolutely perfect, but when passed over to our right brain for execution they are immediately subject to possible failure based on a variety of right brain influences, including visual distractions, hearing distractions, and emotional distractions, not to mention the occasional lack of artistic ability.
Speed pool players must be flash-planners. They've developed the ability to quickly analyze patterns, devising accurate plans with their left brain and then immediately tagging the right brain to execute those plans. There is always that left brain/right brain harmony at work, but any tagging between the two happens so fast that it looks like they play entirely right-brained, free-wheeling all haphazard like. In reality the right brain is performing all the shot making and CB maneuvering at a subconscious level, and at the same time the left brain is monitoring, double-checking, comparing and itemizing every situation at a conscious level in case it needs to jump into the action.
The brain is incredible, fully capable of performing lightening-fast analytics on its own creative processes. But I'm no pool instructor, so none of this information holds any value.:wink:
