40-50 hours a week doing it less efficiently?
Then why do players say things like...."I overcut that ball" "I undercut that ball" "the thing wasn't frozen to the rail, I didn't see it" "I used the wrong English, what was I thinking" "I just didn't see the kiss coming"...and so on and so on????
If it's 'like breathing' then there should never be any comments of that nature. (I never hear anyone say...."I made a mistake breathing".) Breathing is a natural, biological, process of being alive. It begins at birth.
Pool shooting, golf, hitting a baseball, playing big time tennis, swimming, etc. etc. are not natural biological activities...excellence in these things is acquired through the execution of precise procedures. Golf excellence is acquired by learning to do an unnatural process in a natural way. Baseball players do not learn to hit the low and away pitch consistently unless they've been trained to do so.....by someone who is proficient at doing the same. Innate talent comes into play here. However, unrequited talent is almost an axiom. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.....they've missed the proper training or they've collapsed in their persistence.
The Asians are demonstrating this. Most are trained early in the most efficient techniques......THEN there comes the evolution into 'being like breathing', if you will.
The visualization in itself is an 'aiming point'. ALL pool shooting requires some form of mental activity to determine if the shot looks right before pulling the trigger.
The purpose of 'aiming systems' is to get there more efficiently without guess work....nothing more and nothing less. Aiming systems, methods, processes, procedures are AIDS to better play...not the be all and end all. Is that unreasonable??
