Patsy Cline - Crazy

Blue Hog ridr

Blue Hog ridr

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Did Patsy write this song just for me?

I believe I have read at somewhere, the possibility of using the reflection of the table lights on the balls to give you an aiming point.

I was practicing on a snooker table one night after a tourney. The guy who won the tourney was pretty much 3 sheets by then. He came over to the table and started giving me pointers. He did mention using the lights reflection. He is a god guy, he knows his game but sometimes has a hard time explaining what he wants to get across. It seemed the more I asked, the more frustrated he got.

Two weeks ago, another player showed me the reflection on the head ball on the rack. He said, imagine the light coming all the way down and you have center ball reference point. I started doing this and my break percentage has gone up considerably.

Last night I went to the hall to practice on a 9. I studied the reflections on the balls. Sometimes the light actually showed you where center ball is. Other times, I used the cusp of the arc and followed it down to where I perceived the correct spot to hit with the ghost ball.

I used a combination of light and ferrule aiming to do this. I did make some very nice shots.

Now, it could very well have been my imagination and all I was doing was
using the ghost and shot memory to make some of these.

Is there some merit to this type of aiming?

Oh nooooo, another aiming thread! Lets try and discuss this for at least a couple of minutes before we start a fight OK.

If I am crazy, just say, "Terry, yer crazy" and bury the thread.
 
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In da moonlight, BHR. In da moonlight.

Nut
 
It's called "Shooting the Lights" and is yet another form of an aiming system.... and like anything else, if you like and it works, have at it my friend.

Sometimes on long 9 foot shots, at my age, it is a nice reference point where "half ball" is and makes is easier to determine a 1/4 or 1/8 ball hit, so I can actually say I do use it now and again.....
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
Did Patsy write this song just for me?

I believe I have read at somewhere, the possibility of using the reflection of the table lights on the balls to give you an aiming point.

I was practicing on a snooker table one night after a tourney. The guy who won the tourney was pretty much 3 sheets by then. He came over to the table and started giving me pointers. He did mention using the lights reflection. He is a god guy, he knows his game but sometimes has a hard time explaining what he wants to get across. It seemed the more I asked, the more frustrated he got.

Two weeks ago, another player showed me the reflection on the head ball on the rack. He said, imagine the light coming all the way down and you have center ball reference point. I started doing this and my break percentage has gone up considerably.

Last night I went to the hall to practice on a 9. I studied the reflections on the balls. Sometimes the light actually showed you where center ball is. Other times, I used the cusp of the arc and followed it down to where I perceived the correct spot to hit with the ghost ball.

I used a combination of light and ferrule aiming to do this. I did make some very nice shots.

Now, it could very well have been my imagination and all I was doing was
using the ghost and shot memory to make some of these.

Is there some merit to this type of aiming?

Oh nooooo, another aiming thread! Lets try and discuss this for at least a couple of minutes before we start a fight OK.

If I am crazy, just say, "Terry, yer crazy" and bury the thread.
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Well BHR this is not the first I have heard of this. About 30 years ago I was playing eight ball on a snooker table at a private home in the plains of Colorado, the owner of the table had just passed away. I was there with the son of the recently deceased and he asked me if I had ever heard of this type of light reflection aiming. He said his dad had used it for years. I looked at him as if he was crazy and said no.

Since that time I have heard it talked about a couple of times here on this forum. I have never been able to see the spot with the light but then I have six 60 watt halogen narrow floods above my table. I don't know if this changes anything when you have multiple lights or not.
 
Mitchxout said:
Willie Nelson wrote the song.
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He also wrote.....Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountain
mornings.

"Hit it where the light shines"....I first heard this from an old-timer when
I was a teenager.....so I asked him "What part of the cue-ball hits it where
the light shines?"....got a blank stare...then he mumbled something about
smart aleck kids...he didn't take a shine to me at all.

But I think it actually does make you play better...............
...'cause it makes you very AWARE of the object ball....
..your 'billiard brain' will do any adjusting
 
Yes he did, but in my mind, its much more romantic if Patsy sings it to me than Willie. I just can't see Willie sitting on my knee while strumming his
trusty geetar and singing love songs.
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
Yes he did, but in my mind, its much more romantic if Patsy sings it to me than Willie. I just can't see Willie sitting on my knee while strumming his
trusty geetar and singing love songs.
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True enough, but Patsy's weed probably wasn't as good as Willie's. :p
 
The Cut shot is a book about the method that was advertised here awhile back... I do not think it got very good reviews but I am always of belief if you get 1-2 shots out of a system it's worth learning.......
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
Did Patsy write this song just for me?

I believe I have read at somewhere, the possibility of using the reflection of the table lights on the balls to give you an aiming point.

If I am crazy, just say, "Terry, yer crazy" and bury the thread.
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Your two minutes are up! However I have to say that any method or system whatsoever that helps a person refine their aim works to some degree. One of the simplest systems is one I use for long truly straight in shots. Ignore the object ball in the way and try to fire the cue ball into the pocket. It seems to be a little more accurate than aiming at the object ball.

Hu
 
I was talking to Don Feeney after a big 9 ball tournament that he took a fifth place finish. I said it looked like he was handling the pressure pretty well by all the tough shots he was making. He said he was really nervous and couldn't make a ball, so he aimed at the lights and started to run out. :D

Best,
Mike
 
Hi Ho Hi Ho, its off to work I go. Another night at the salt mine.

Anyway, thanks for the posts and the funnies. As several have mentioned, as long as it gives a person a reference point and you feel comfortable working with it.

I am going to experiment with it further. I have billiard glasses but on close shots, it gets a little blurry. So I don't wear any glasses at all.
I believe the lights do make a nice reference point.

There are only so many positions or arcs from the lights that show up on the OB. There doesn't seem to be an infinite number. It doesn't work 100% of the time.

1. The end of the arc will point down toward the center ball.
2. The cusp of the arc itself will point down toward the center ball if you imagine it moving down from either the upper right or left side and moving from upper right to lower left and vice versa.
3. Given number 2, the arcs are obviously at upper right or left object ball. So there isn't many light positions to see.
4. On the shots where the lights don't seem to help, or point, just have to make do. I will study these ones and see if I can make something work on these. I'm just going blind here.

You still have to use the Ghost ball so if you're off on that, OB doesn't go in.

Using the lights and ferrule aiming, I probably had one of, if not the best practice session ever so it does warrant looking into further. I was really focused last night.

Thanks for the long shot tip Hu. Thats one that I forgot and will make myself remember next time. I really lag on those ones. In fact, I noticed how much I did suck on most of the long ones last night.

My game could really use a couple of extra balls these days and I think I may have just moved above my plateau a tad.
It feels great cause I feel my game has gone a bit stale lately.
Its not like I had a pool table epiphany or anything, its just kind of neat to have stumbled across something that seems to work.
 
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Blue Hog ridr said:
Did Patsy write this song just for me?

I believe I have read at somewhere, the possibility of using the reflection of the table lights on the balls to give you an aiming point.

I was practicing on a snooker table one night after a tourney. The guy who won the tourney was pretty much 3 sheets by then. He came over to the table and started giving me pointers. He did mention using the lights reflection. He is a god guy, he knows his game but sometimes has a hard time explaining what he wants to get across. It seemed the more I asked, the more frustrated he got.

Two weeks ago, another player showed me the reflection on the head ball on the rack. He said, imagine the light coming all the way down and you have center ball reference point. I started doing this and my break percentage has gone up considerably.

Last night I went to the hall to practice on a 9. I studied the reflections on the balls. Sometimes the light actually showed you where center ball is. Other times, I used the cusp of the arc and followed it down to where I perceived the correct spot to hit with the ghost ball.

I used a combination of light and ferrule aiming to do this. I did make some very nice shots.

Now, it could very well have been my imagination and all I was doing was
using the ghost and shot memory to make some of these.

Is there some merit to this type of aiming?

Oh nooooo, another aiming thread! Lets try and discuss this for at least a couple of minutes before we start a fight OK.

If I am crazy, just say, "Terry, yer crazy" and bury the thread.
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Placebo effect.

Dale
 
Placebo effects work if you believe. I do know a very good player who aims at the shadow the ball casts on the table.

Back in the day when lights hung from the ceiling and had a shade on them I used the lit spot as a aiming point.
 
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