So maybe your character will improve if you stop trying to belittle aiming by feel.
pj <- not holding my breath on the character improvement
chgo
I didn't belittle it Pat. Is that your fundamental problem. I said feel exists on a spectrum from ignorant groping, as the completely beginner at the pool room yesterday struggled with, to refined measuring as someone highly trained employs.
Total Guessing at one end and Educated Guessing at the other end.
What you call Aiming By Feel lies closer to the to Educated Guessing end of the spectrum because you have developed your sensibility through the application of the Ghost Ball method and trial and error.
It's inevitable that if you attempt a task enough times with an adjustment each time eventually you figure out the right way to do it.
Now I can set you down with some leather tools and a picture of a flower and say put that flower on the leather and leave you alone and when I come back hours later it's doubtful that you will have made much progress. When I show you the steps however then I can come back hours later and you will have progressed with a reproduction of the flower.
Is that so difficult for you to understand that knowledge is helpful?
Now, what if instead of me teaching you to tool the flower according to the standard method I instead gave you someone who had been doing it for 40 years and whom had developed much better methods to tool. That person could teach you a better way to do it and in the same few hours you would know more and be better than what I could teach you.
Furthermore that knowledge would stay with you and allow you to build on it.
OR
You could decide to skip any instruction at all and go along blindly trying to tool the flower. You might end up being the greatest tooler ever having discovered many interesting techniques or you might very well end up just being a fidgety hack who doesn't understand basic backgrounding.
That's how I see "feel" in pool.
Last night I watched a young woman trying to learn. The poor girl set up a line of balls using each as the cue ball and tried to shoot them into the pocket with about a 25% success rate. Terrible bridge, no stroke, awful stance and worst of all being advised by four people who themselves can't play. I watched this for about ten minutes and had to go over and help her.
I fixed her bridge, taught her the basic stroking mechanics and got her stroking on the kitchen line. Then I got her shooting a ball on the kitchen line. She wouldn't listen on the stance preferring instead to be shooting one ball into another. At least I was able to get her pointed in the right direction. I suspect you would have done the same and not left her to flounder about with no clue as to what she was doing.
you don't drop down on the right side of the ctel. Once your comfortable that you have picked up the correct two lines and your position is set, those two lines are now meaningless. You now just focus on rotating to a half tip offset position or ccb if using pro1.
