jimstone said:

How do the players here that use fractional aiming recognize what fraction the hit is? The basic ones, full, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4,1/8 I can usually see, but its the 3/8 , 5/8 , etc .. those are the ones that give me real trouble.

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As Patrick Johnson said, the main fractions are the easiest to "see", or you could say "align". And, while learning to *feel* a little more or less, remember that the eighths are between the others--like, 5/8 is between 6/8 (3/4) and 4/8 (1/2). One reason that you could just go with "feel" is that given the distance one tends to be viewing the target ball, an eighth either way is minor. It's aruguable, but I think all you need to do is put a little focus on hitting to one side or the other of one of the standard fraction alignments, to get the same result as you would with being able to see the eighth difference. (Yes, I know that this differs with the distance the ball travels to the pocket, and also that some will claim to be able to see down to sixteenths, but that's their problem! )

Eighths not really represented, but yet again Dr. Dave has you covered here for fractional aiming.

Looks like a Jamup player. Love the chainlink ringwork.

This one has some nice pics.

I would like to get warned whom to listen when get advice. So many early years are destroyed by bad advice that beginner don´t know that is not good advice.
So my advice would be use your own head... listen tips you get and what works use it and what not trash it.

I’m not going thorough this 13 year old thread, and I probably wrote the same13 years ago:

Cyclop balls were excellent in staying clean. Miles better than anything else at the time. Dynaspheres today are basically the same ball made by the same company. Both stay clean. The only ball in its class is the Aramith Duramith sets, which we’re not in use 13 years ago. (They were available then, but all the major events were using Super Aramith Pro).

Any actual skids 13 years ago were either slow rolling a full hit, coincidence, chalk, or the Diamond pocket black marks. Def not Cyclop balls.

tim913 said:

We had corporal punishment in grade school with teacher’s proudly displaying their weapons, various shaped paddles, on the wall with cute little names like enforcer, screamer .. etc. Agree with it or not we learned not to disrupt the class

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LOL, been there done that.

We had corporal punishment in grade school with teacher’s proudly displaying their weapons, various shaped paddles, on the wall with cute little names like enforcer, screamer .. etc. Agree with it or not we learned not to disrupt the class