OK, what did he get wrong and then only partly right?
Let me re-iterate that he did a good job on the video. However, I strongly believe that if someone is going to do a video, they should at least take a look at what info is out there, and make sure that the info on their own video is factual and true and not just their own belief. If they want to put their own beliefs out there, that's fine as long as it is stated as such.
In his free video, he refers to the pendulum stroke as the compact stroke. He apparently doesn't realize all the info out there about it. When it comes to aiming, he advocates the ghost ball. That's all well and good, but very, very, few people actually do use the ghost ball to aim. It's great for illustration, but not much more than that for most. He then goes on to say that any other system won't work. Well, he is dead wrong on that one. There are quite a few aiming systems out there that do work just fine. He then states that they won't work because you have to use english sometimes. Well, ghost ball won't work then either for the same reason.
He also doesn't seem to realize there is a thing called CIT, (collision induced throw), which means the ghost ball really doesn't work as he describes either. It also means that you can't make a rail shot the way he describes.
He says the way he applies english is a big secret. Well, it's not. It's called BHE or back hand english, and has been around for a long time. He also doesn't understand it by the way he describes it and uses it. He also stated there is a lot there you won't see anywhere else. Yet, I couldn't find a single item that isn't in almost any worthwhile book, or hasn't been talked about a lot on here. And, when showing how to get "on line", if you notice, he ISN'T on line with the cue. His cue doesn't get on line until he steers it there in the final stroke.
His explanation of how to get a stun shot was a little lacking. Rarely are you going to actually hit dead center cb. And, he doesn't seem to be familiar with the term tangent line. A number of times in his pattern play, he stated that a stun shot will go here, yet, in reality, a stun shot would not go where he thinks it would. Prime example is when he has an ob a little off the rail and is hitting it at an angle. He states that the stun shot will bring it straight across table. It doesn't unless the ob is on the rail.
He also does not seem to know about collision induced spin on the cb. He shows cutting a ball in the side, and the stun shot would make the cb go straight up table, and then straight back down the same line. It won't do that. Cutting a ball puts spin on the cb. So, when you stun it up table, when it hits the rail, it will have spin on it and come off the rail on an angle. If you want it to come back down the same line, you either have to slow roll with some distance or put a little inside english on it to counter the outside from the shot induced spin.
Some of this may seem nitpicky to some on here. Sorry, but I don't. If you are going to make a video, make sure that you do a little research first, and know that what info you are putting out there is factual. Otherwise, you will get people citing you as a source and perpetuating myths. If I really wanted to get nitpicky, there are a number of little things, but I don't see the need to go there.
