Tschmidt said:

Hope you stay ok. I get it on riding in a car/truck.

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I've learned that when I'm on a lumpy road, I sit forward like I'm riding a horse and let my hip absorb the bumps. But if someone never road a horse they can kind of imagine it.

straightline said:

Is the shift vision canter related? I use double vision with CBL. Pretty much creates centered vision.

Regardless, good you're still at it.

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Not really. Once you get the fundamentals correct and the eyes correct the cue has to be in a totally different position than is naturally happening. 99% of all players are not doing this naturally but many of the pros are doing it but don't even know they are doing something different and they definitely don't know how to teach it. They are just doing this.

This is also why a player has trouble hitting center ball. You can do drills trying to hit center and it will seem to be such a grind but once a person learns how this shift works, center ball is fairly simple. For example. A left eye dominant person gets too much left English and not enough right English. The sad thing about it is the dominant eye covers this up and the player doesn't even know they are lacking the English. But once you raise your head you will see the problem.

This is so fun to teach because the player can see with their own eyes that this is correct. 100%. And how I show to fix it with the shift, they can also see that this is the solution and it makes the aiming so much better. The eyes stay in the correct position and not allowed to drift too far.

I've read all 9 pages so far. I dunno, I'm perplexed. While I understand the various methods to aim, with my brain and my perceptions, I can't imagine a simpler way to aim then to visualize the ghost ball, and aim the center (bottom, if you will) of the CB to the center of the imaginary GB.

When I was first learning how to aim, on some shots on which I simply could not visualize the GB consistently, I'd ID the contact points, then link them together, then from that determine the position of the GB, then aim at that. From that Reid/straightline diagram, I aim using the black line where it intersects with the yellow line. If I was a little unsure, I'd visualize the red line, then translate that to the black line, then shoot.

I understand everyone learns and perceives things differently, but for me, "see it, shoot it" works. I just picture the GB in my head, and aim the CB to it, even on shots where the center of the GB is well off the boundaries of the OB. And this is from someone who can manage to overcomplicate *anything*. Luckily, GB and aiming work for me.

having short races tends to let all players have a chance or seem to have a chance and that creates interest.

just having the best players slaughter others is a waste of time as a failure is for sure.

The rack the ultimate pool league uses looks ok especially for carrying with you. The rear is open and it folds. I've only seen it on TV so it may not be as good as it looks.

i just get bigger spots and win faster than before when i bother to play.
who cares how good you play unless you are a top player and have to play even or always give weight.

that is what matching up is all about.