Just talking about back hand english and pivots, if you got an aiming system that works, or if you pivot or whatever, just do it. I am not confused. this thread was not to poke fun at any aiming system you might use. If your system helps you play better just do it.
I just don't see anything but straight back and straight through from Mr R.
steven
With the top players you won't see any pivots and obvious adjusting. They know how to look at the balls and slide into the shot.
With ANY method of aiming the actual mechanics blend into a smooth motion as the player goes down into the shooting position after enough table time with it.
Stevie Moore uses ProOne and someone got on here a while back and swore that he doesn't because they watched him play all weekend. You can watch Stevie play and he simply sights the shot and slides into it and fires. If he didn't tell you what he is doing you wouldn't know it.
Same thing with Shane. He was gracious enough to explain how he aims but until he did it no one on the planet could have looked at him playing and said how he aims.
Same thing with Darren Appleton. He endorses a method called the See System and said clearly that it's very similar to what he already did before it was put into a book form. But NO ONE on the planet would have known what he does simply by watching him play.
Unless you hear it from Efren directly you don't know what he is seeing before he gets down on the ball. As for backhand english the movement is so slight that you wouldn't see it anyway.
Bustamante is famous for stroking to the lower left of the cueball on almost every shot and then coming through the cueball with whatever spin he needs.
Other good players do it as well, including Shane who says he does it because Bustamante does it.
The only recorded information we have from Efren is that he has several ways to aim depending on what the shot calls for. From a 1996 article on aiming.
Regarding the pivot it's just a body shift into position. Call it settling into the shot if you want to. That's really all it is. It's been blown way out of proportion with a lot of people trying hard to explain it. The best way to think of it is this in my opinon:
You sight the shot with your body in one position and as you come into the shot your body shifts (pivots) slightly to settle into the shot line. That's how I see it. Now it can rightly be described in terms of following an arc, and being centered in a certain area but it's really just sighting and then settling in as far as I can tell.
So you wouldn't see any discernible hard pivot movement with Efren. No visible stop at one point and then a hard movement to another position. What is happening is that the "pivot" is contained in the fluid motion from the standing-sighting position to the down-on-the-ball shooting position.
Approach-Sight-Slide In-Shoot.
Get yourself doing that and you will be happy as long as you are making more shots than you miss.
