I'm trying not to spend a lot of time on this because you seem to refuse to have a normal conversation, and to at least make an attempt at understanding what I am saying. Let me try one more time:
Not at all. You haven't said anything of value that makes sense up to this point.
Everybody aims by feel.
First disagreement which started this entire thing off. My views are everybody aims with their eyes that align one ball to another ball and in most types of aiming to a pocket. (or rail for safeties, banks, etc.) Then the feet, body, and bridge are aligned.
What is feel? It is a feedback mechanism that your brain uses to learn. For instance, when you drive a car down the road you may observe that the car is drifting left toward the double yellow line. Your brain tells your hands to turn the wheel to the right a little. When the car veers too far to the right side of the road, your brain tells your hands to turn the wheel back a tad to keep the car going straight down the road. After you have been driving long enough, this process is done subconsciously. How many times have you driven home only to realize you don't remember half of the trip?
The analogy that makes more sense to me is shooting a pistol or rifle to a bullseye. It's all visual with the eyes. See the back sight of the gun (CB and cue tip) aligned to the front sight (specific part of the OB) aligned to the dead center of the bullseye. (pocket)
Likewise, the brain learns how to pocket balls by hitting balls and observing the outcome.
Same with the gun. But it's feedback for better eye, body, and gun alignment. Naturally recoil plays a major role here along with nerves to hold it steady and not flinch before pulling the trigger. If you're saying FEEL is what is used in hitting balls, I think it's an overuse and misuse of the word. It's TRIAL and ERROR with a lot of TRIAL and a lot of ERROR until homing in on something more consistent than the things causing error. Here's where teaching aiming cuts down on the trial, error and learning process.
Overcut, undercut, perfect shot. That data goes into the most powerful computer in the world and eventually becomes subconscious knowledge.
True, but if any part of the alignment in pool is inadvertently altered or consciously altered the undercutting, overcutting, and perfect shots have to be reprogrammed. That's why a strong visual system taught from the beginning is important. When an alteration or misalignment occurs, then YES, the eyes and brain go off telling you subconsciously something is haywire and that is when the INTUITION, 6th SENSE, GUT REACTION, BETTER JUDGEMENT (sometimes worse judgment) aka FEEL adjustments take place. It's to RIGHT A PERCEIVED WRONG. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
When confronted with new playing conditions, the brain takes a few minutes to get used to the new feedback it is receiving (fast cloth, sticky balls, etc.). Rempe always said the person who adjusts to the table conditions quickest will win.
Nobody would disagree with this. Observation, or eyes, give you the feedback. There may need to be a slight alteration in aiming. FEEL comes into play with how much harder or softer you need to strike the balls to get desired results. That's in the hands.
So is there anything controversial about what I just said? Is there anything even debatable about it? This is what I am calling feel. The rest of the shooting process comes down to delivering the cue straight, which is the harder part of the equation.
Are we in agreement so far?
