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Is the "tension" for the resistance equivalent to what the weight of moving a full rack of balls would be?

If so, how would you adjust it for games with different numbers of balls in the rack?
The reason it works correctly to mimick hitting a rack of balls isnt the cords..that is only to make it return. Its the ball your are hitting. There is an assembly behind it that absorbs the shock of the break shot. The cue ball will give you feed back on whether you hit it square and learn to squat the cue ball.

From "aim by feel" to "aim at a point"

And that is also exactly my point--"you are aiming to make the contact points collide" is different than "focusing specifically on the thru the center of the cue ball aim line". When using a 'fractional system' aim line, the focus IS on the CCB aim line, so when shifting to joining the contact points, one is now "aiming" with a line that is parallel to the CCB.

Imagine this...If I put you in a pickup truck, and placed a basketball on a pole (wide enough for the ball to sit upon), and instructed you to knock the ball off with the passenger sideview mirror, you would not be driving straight at the pole--neither to hit it center-grill, nor in front of the driver. In this case, you would be "aiming" with the mirror, and not the centerline of the truck/driver. Now, you could also say that you are "aiming" away from the pole and are conscious of the offset of the mirror from the (main, non-mirror) truck body, but then I would say that introduces "feel". [Note, this assumes that you don't know the specific measurement of, say, your seated position to the location of the mirror, and could then estimate the amount to offset the truck, and drive so that the truck path is the correct measurement to strike the ball--Ironically, this could be done back on the pool table, where the equipment measurements are known!]
FYI, "aiming to make the contact points collide" is done "by feel", just like all aiming methods. Starting with a known visible "reference" alignment like "fractions" doesn't change that. Even if the shot is an exact fractional alignment (needing no adjustments) you only know that because you've learned to recognize it "by feel".

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From "aim by feel" to "aim at a point"

...If I put you in a pickup truck, and placed a basketball on a pole (wide enough for the ball to sit upon), and instructed you to knock the ball off with the passenger sideview mirror
I use the analogy of trying to hit the mailbox with your mirror
Hmm... glad I didn't grow up in your neighborhoods. :)

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Crazy story. I use a guy in the poolroom to do my tips. Wonderful guy, a little crazy, very crazy. Love the guy. Generous to a fault. He's in his late 60's and works for a major paint brand advising commercial builders on site on paints and textures.
So I give him the kielwood and ask him to put a hard pressed Triangle on it.
Apparently he soaks Triangles in milk before he presses them like a milk dud.
Well his daughter had a child about a month ago and he told me that he used mother's milk on the Triangle before pressing it. I kid you not.
Didn't know what to say.
Loving the shaft and tip.
Only in the pool world.
Did it make for a sweeter hit than normal? I'm still occasionally breast fed, so couldn't resist. :cool:

Pool player families and their aggression towards critics

Is this what pool has devolved into these days?

Someone makes a comment about them, and their families lose their sh*t and make asses of themselves all over social media?

All that's gonna do is bring more focus on the players in question, which means more criticism. Good job.

It's like watching families at Little League games, wrestling matches, or whatever other sports where little Johnny didn't get all the ref favoritism and audience fanfare the families wanted with parents losing it.

How utterly embarrassing.

One thing for sure, I will never expect ANY professionalism from the players who's families act like this. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree IMO.

If I was a major sponsor, those would be the players that got overlooked unless they publicly denounced their family's actions. I don't care how good they might play.

No wonder American pool is going into the toilet.

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