Gene,
How you gonna teach it when you can't even spell it??![]()
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Hu
Hu:
His eyes were in the wrong place. Ba-dum bum.

J/K,
-Sean
Gene,
How you gonna teach it when you can't even spell it??![]()
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Hu
Hu:
His eyes were in the wrong place. Ba-dum bum.
J/K,
-Sean
Sean,
I thought I was being a little cold ragging him about the typo, you drive a stake through his heart!![]()
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After years of trying to be a newfangled pool player I have figured out that sometimes you can't teach an old dog new tricks. What seems to be the core principle of Perfect Aim doesn't work for me but neither does a pure pendulum and a lot of other newfangled stuff. I'm better off just trying to put a ball in the hole and the cue ball over yonder and not worry about style points.
Hu
Hu:
Actually, I hope that if Geno himself reads that, he sees the real good-natured humor in it, and laughs himself. Although I make no bones about the fact that I disagree with his marketing tactics, I think in my heart of hearts that he's a genuinely good guy. He means well.
As for the product itself, like I said, I have a copy of the original version (it still has Geno's hand-writing with a black Sharpie marker on it). It wasn't new information for me, especially in light of the fact that I already had digested Richard Kranicki's great published book, Answers to a Pool Player's Prayers. But the fact it was a review of one aspect of Kranicki's book didn't bother me; I just shrugged my shoulders and put the DVD aside, to give to someone in the future that may make better use of it. Like I said -- no problem here with Geno or with his material; it's the marketing/sales tactics.
As for my own approach, it's a combination of what was taught to me in snooker (putting the head and the eyes in the correct place is part and parcel of snooker fundamentals); formal instruction; self-taught material from SPF and other books too numerous to mention here; as well as tens of thousands of hours of trial and error. Committing the "put the ball in the hole" to subconscious / muscle memory is what finally wraps it up for me. I agree with the no style points thing; pool is an outcome-based sport; not an execution-prettiness-based one.
-Sean
Hu.....you've just coined a new phrase for the pool lexicon....Sean,
I thought I was being a little cold ragging him about the typo, you drive a stake through his heart!![]()
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After years of trying to be a newfangled pool player I have figured out that sometimes you can't teach an old dog new tricks. What seems to be the core principle of Perfect Aim doesn't work for me but neither does a pure pendulum and a lot of other newfangled stuff. I'm better off just trying to put a ball in the hole and the cue ball over yonder and not worry about style points.
Hu
Sean,
I know you far too well to think any malice was intended, I put a few emoticons and such for those that don't.
Speaking of snooker fundamentals, I notice video of both Shane and Alex centering the cue sliding on their chin, looks real snookerish! When I could get that low I sometimes let the cue slide along the side of my chin, a beard helps there.
Hu
Not to worry. I'm coming out with a chin gaurd for players that like rub their cue on their chin. Johnnyt
Would that, per chance, be a moosehead bridge with a strap to go behind the neck? (Picture moosehead bridge over the front of the chin, with a strap around the back of the head.)
-Sean
Hu.....you've just coined a new phrase for the pool lexicon....
..I've played a lot of 'yonder' position myself
Hey guys, just curious here. Now I stopped coming to AZ for 2 years or so and just started up this past summer.
When i first learned about perfect aim, and other instructional things like traveling schools and new DVDs and what not. I saw them on the main forum.
Now it seems that this is not OK? If so when did that start happening? And is there a why too?
I just seem lost here.
Thanks.
Pete