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Hey Gene. A quick question. Players have different stances at the table. Some square up to the shot others are slightly turned. Some stand more upright while others have their chins on top of the cue. Many shoot with the cue between their eyes others will have their stick positioned under the dominant eye. With all these variables can someone use perfect aim with what they have always used or will they have to conform to the system?
Hi there eezbanks,
First of all I want to thank you for asking.
I don't claim to be an expert on the stance but there are some pretty standard ways to position your stance so your own body can function the best when you stroke the cue.
First you need to be solid. Like a boxer you need to be balanced. If your feet are to close together you are wobbly. Some players if their head is to low it cramps up their stroking ability. Some if they are to high they don't see it the best when others see it better when they are lower. Some of us have injuries that only allow us to function a certain way.
But as far as squaring up or being slightly turned it is up to the individual and how it feels the best. There are many good instructors out there that can help tweek your stance.
As far as having your chin on the cue or being up higher I shoot both ways. There again when I get real low I have some physical limitations because of age and injuries. But being up higher gives you some valuable info for when you get lower. Many players don't even relize that as they are going down on a shot they might just be going past the spot on the way down that it actually looks better for them and their body will function and do the best. Especially on shots where the balls are close you want to be higher. Try this and you will see that you can see the shot much easier. When you get low on these your eyes can almost seem to go a little cross eyed. Up higher this deosn't happen. Huge tip if you are not already doing this.
Most of us shoot with the cue somewhere between the eyes. Where the cue is depends on the degree of dominence.Some players appear to have the stick under one eye but they are just really strong eye dominent and other players look at this and think they are only shooting with one eye.
There are very few players that shoot with only one eye. I have seen some players that should be shooting with one eye that have tried to shoot with 2 for years. When they understand that they are one of these one eyed wonders and get the cue where they see it the best they are one happy camper. Sam Yancey is one of the Perfect Aim players that found this out while learning Perfect Aim. Now he sees the shots so clear he couldn't believe it.
Sam, I hope you don't mind me bringing up you name and your welcome to comment if you want. I remember you saying you only wish you would have found this out 25 years ago. I will take you up on the dinner also some day...................when I come through and I will..........
For the players that are truely one eyed players they usually know it. But many players feel like they are playing with one eye when really they play with both. The ones that truely play with one eye could put a patch over the other eye and it would make no difference. This simple test will tell you the truth. If you are not one eyed it will look terrible. You would wonder how one could see that way. But that is the way their eyes and brain are wired. Perfect Aim will not help these players have the eyes in the right position because it is just eye. One eye. There are some techniques that will help these players get the one eye in the right position and I help all of them I can. It seems like nobody quite understands how this works so it kind of puts these few players on an island. I understand because when I see one I try to learn everything I can from that individual. And with this knowledge I try to help whenever I run into one. I do it for free. These players usually shoot with a higher degree of accuracy. They don't have the problem of trying to get both eyes in the proper position. Or one trying to do more than the other. Perfect Aim does and will help all of these players.
Perfect Aim can be used with anything you are doing. Just like with a rifle if you don't have the sight lined up in the little slot it doesn't matter what you do you will not hit the target consistently.
With aiming a pool shot there is only one spot that is Perfect for that peticular player on that peticular shot. Once you learn how to find it you are opened up to a whole new world. You now can teach yourself how to find it on every single shot you shoot. Kind of like when you go to the eye doctor. Does this look better or does this. Or this or this.
Now that shot that you would get down on you don't quite see it right, it just doesn't feel right, now you know why and you can correct yourself. The fun part of this is now you don't have to give up on any shot. By this I mean when your down there you know it doesn't look right and you shoot it anyway. That is giving up. Sound familiar.
There is a song I think was sang by Freddy Bender. It starts out , I can see clearly now the rain has gone. This would be a Perfect theme song for Perfect Aim.
Good:grin-square: questions and thanks Geno..............
