Just aim and shoot, damn it? Quit calculating.
There are so many threads about aiming and systems, and calculating. It is no wonder nobody can make a ball!
People make it too complicated! Just point the fvcking ball, will you?
On any given shot, to make the object ball go where you "intend" to, you only have to hit the correct spot on it.
To make the object ball go left, you have to hit it on the right with the left side of the cue ball. Since a cue ball is 2 1/4 inches wide, that means you have less than 1 1/8 inches of object ball to hit. Of that 1 1/8 inches, there is only a small "fraction" of that area that you can hit and make it travel along the intended line. The closer the pocket and the wider the angle, the greater the margin of error, even though quite small.
The spot on the cue ball to hit is the same spot as you need to hit on the object ball. That ain't hard, is it? Everybody worries about English when they hit the inside of the cue ball. The first thing you need to learn is to QUIT worrying about is English. Just SHOOT the ball. You can worry about English after you learn to aim and pocket balls.
When you hit every shot like this, your "learning" of English will come along with it. Everybody is TOO hung up on trying to spin the ball.
Once you play "naturally", the rest will fall into place.
I think everybody who can make a ball has some sort of "system". Whether they can explain it and define it and teach it is another matter. One man's "ghost ball" is another man's "CTE" and another man's "overlap", etc., etc. Everybody sees things differently, yet they are the "same". The brain sees the image that is required, but the mind of each individual processes the path to find the answer in a different manner.
It is like math, there may be more than one way to come up with the right answer, but the result is the same if you come up with the correct answer.
Aloha.
