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The quickest path to a straight, repeatable stroke, and the best metric used to evaluate it.

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There is only 180 degrees.
Those diagonal drills, besides being too cramped, only tempt the player into best average. That said, playing those cramped (jacked/elevated/inclined) shots is part of using a pool table. More useful would be a variety of shorter shots - IOW, less distance to agonize over. They would be quicker to set up, and work your visual acuity in practical zones as well.
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The quickest path to a straight, repeatable stroke, and the best metric used to evaluate it.

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Also, is the cue ball spinning? You can learn to make this shot with an off center cue ball hit and drill in an error in your sight picture! The perfect shot pockets the object ball and isn’t spinning! Bert Kinister likes to have the cue ball just replace the object ball as well to groove your speed and tip placement as well.
I don’t think you ever graduate from this shot!
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Best 1Pocket Player of the 80's - 90's

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Bob Jewett said:
It's interesting that Hopkins didn't get elected to the HOF until he was 56, according to the article.

Hopkins used to offer this proposition: he would break the balls at one pocket and without taking ball in hand would run out all 15 balls in four or five tries. Of course, they didn't have 4-inch pockets back then, but still.
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Good enough drill. Lousy bet if you know anything about pool method
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Discussion: Focusing on the cue ball compared to other sports

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joelpope said:
You need to understand what aiming means from a standpoint of how & where you need to deliver the cueball (angle, speed & spin) which is table knowledge and physics and not dependent on execution other than delivering the cueball. Where the rubber meets the road is actually delivering the cue ball accurately and the prerequisite to that is being able to deliver the cue tip to the exact spot you desire on the cueball. If you miss the first step the rest doesn't matter.

If you have a perfect stroke, just set up and fire with your eyes closed because your set up and stroke are perfect and you will rarely miss or get out of shape.
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I tend towards most not knowing where the tip actually lands. How can they? They've never looked.


garczar said:
The VAST majority of top cuesport players are OBL. There's this one lone wingnut on here that had a 10yr thread that said how all top snooker players were CBL. Well Virginia, you're wrong. When i slowed down a bunch of top players its OBVIOUS that when they pull the trigger they are fixed on the OB. Sure you can play CBL but that's not the method of almost all top players.
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And we all know every last one is consistently flawless. :p

I think what it amounts to is they can look wherever they want to/need to/has to. Winnage is what drives them.
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How does USBA spend their money per states to promoted 3C??

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Here's my suggestion for the USBA: all external communication should be in four languages: English, Spanish, Korean and Vietnamese. 3-cushion in the USA leans heavily on players with an immigration background (95 % of Nationals winners in the past 40 years?), so deal with it in a practical way and tap into that potential talent pool.
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