A visualization method that's working for me

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bdorman

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Load your flame throwers with napalm and strike a match....

Here's something I've been doing for the last few days, and it seems to be working for me:

I find that I make a very high percentage of shots when the OB is on a rail. Thick or thin cut doesn't matter; it's like the rail gives me an additional visualization/reference point that helps me line up the CB.

So, I thought "why not imagine a rail where one doesn't exist?" Just draw a rail "in my mind's eye" regardless of where the OB is on the table.
Before trying it, I half-doubted it would work because it would be difficult to imagine/visualize a rail in space. But it turned out to be quite easy and reliable.

The pictures are a very rough approximation:

First pic: I find it helpful to first imagine/visualize the rail from the OB to the pocket.

Second pic: That helps it stick in my mind for when I've "stepped back" from the table to line up the shot:

Third pic: And the imagined rail stays there when I'm down on the shot:

I've used it in combination with my Equal Overlap method although I wonder if I even need to do both...or if that's an amount of overthinking.

Anyway, "I got my flame suit on..." (sung to the melody of Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham and the Pharohs...if you're old enough to know the tune :grin-square:
 

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I like the image I get from that. But now, the secret's out! :smile:

I do that from time to time, mainly on back cuts where I'm looking away from the pocket. It's a simple cut, but the pocket is in your peripheral vision.

Best,
Mike
 
bdorman said:
Load your flame throwers with napalm and strike a match....

Here's something I've been doing for the last few days, and it seems to be working for me:

I find that I make a very high percentage of shots when the OB is on a rail. Thick or thin cut doesn't matter; it's like the rail gives me an additional visualization/reference point that helps me line up the CB.

So, I thought "why not imagine a rail where one doesn't exist?" Just draw a rail "in my mind's eye" regardless of where the OB is on the table.
Before trying it, I half-doubted it would work because it would be difficult to imagine/visualize a rail in space. But it turned out to be quite easy and reliable.

The pictures are a very rough approximation:

First pic: I find it helpful to first imagine/visualize the rail from the OB to the pocket/

Second pic: That helps in stick in my mind for when I'm "stepped back" from the table to line up the shot:

Third pic: And the imagined rail stays there when I'm down on the shot:

I've used it in combination with my Equal Overlap method although I wonder if I even need to do both...or if that's an amount of overthinking.

Anyway, "I got my flame suit on..." (sung to the melody of Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham and the Pharohs...if you're old enough to know the tune :grin-square:
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Isnt it amazing what something like that can do for you game and how much it can heighten your feel?
 
bdorman said:
Anyway, "I got my flame suit on..." (sung to the melody of Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham and the Pharohs...if you're old enough to know the tune :grin-square:
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Oh Little Red Riding Hood.. You sure are lookin' good.. You're everything a big bad wolf could want.

bdorman.. I like the way you think :idea2:
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SpiderWebComm said:
The method described in this thread was one of Robin's RAM methods in his Aim is the Game book.
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I wrote that book as a pathway of the transitions that a player would go through as he finds his best game, there were 10 of those methods. What is amazing to me is there are more and more and more little tricks of the trade that I keep finding in different areas of the game some which I find absolutely nowhere in print.

Pool is really still full of uncharted territory. In 2005 when I came back to playing, there was very little aiming information out there. I think Hal was showing people his systems still and CTE was being developed but none of the other methods was really talked about much.
 
336Robin said:
Pool is really still full of uncharted territory. In 2005 when I came back to playing, there was very little aiming information out there. I think Hal was showing people his systems still and CTE was being developed but none of the other methods was really talked about much.
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55 years ago you learned by playing. No one would say squat about their game.
No internet.. no videos... maybe you'd see Mosconi or Fats on black & white TV.

The only advice I got was to hit on the right side of the CB if I was aiming to hit the right side of the OB.
No one mentioned 3rd ball throw or how to draw, but those old guys, now all long deceased, could play.
If you wanted to learn, you lost your lunch money in the poolroom and practiced on tables at the YMCA.

Books had been written back then, but none I knew about. Today there's a load of information available.
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Works for me. I use my stick from the edge of the OB to the pocket/target.
Thanks

Be well.
 
Thanks for the post.

Took the idea to the table this morning.

For me, it works. What I noticed was that the point on the OB to the pocket pops out at you. Kinda feels like all shots are rail shots.

Thanks again.

John
 
BilliardsAbout said:
If you like this aim help, you'll really enjoy Robin's new Power Shot System book.
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Thanks Matt,

I would like to ad in that my book information is original never before published copyrighted information that is my stock in trade. I designed it simple and effective from the players end of things so you understand exactly what I ask you do. It does work very well for me and the book beyond it...The Flight of the Cue Ball teaches the application of English in Aiming and they are very interrelated. You would do best to have both books.
 
Robin, I want to order your book. How do I do so?

What pool materials do you have for sale right now?

Get in touch. I sent you a PM on Facebook a day or 2 ago.
 
fathomblue said:
Robin, I want to order your book. How do I do so?

What pool materials do you have for sale right now?

Get in touch. I sent you a PM on Facebook a day or 2 ago.
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Get both of his books. They're not expensive and have loads of helpful techniques like this. I'm still working through his second book.
 
Facebook

fathomblue said:
Robin, I want to order your book. How do I do so?

What pool materials do you have for sale right now?

Get in touch. I sent you a PM on Facebook a day or 2 ago.
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Fathomblue,
Im sorry Im a terrible facebooker.

I am selling The Pool Power Shot System. I have others coming and a few copies of the Original Aim is the Game in Pool.
 
Robin,
Is there anyway you could put PPSS on your FB page. I would like to share with some family members.

Thanks

John
 
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