Center Then Edge

[straightline]

This is a very productive drill for all you practicers.
Practice jawing straight ins or near straight ins.
Then practice feathering balls.
Close or far, scale to your abilities. Spend a half hour on each regularly.

Very good technique calibration.

 

[ChrisinNC]

This is a very productive drill for all you practicers.
Practice jawing straight ins or near straight ins.
Then practice feathering balls.
Close or far, scale to your abilities. Spend a half hour on each regularly.

Very good technique calibration.

I don’t know why I would want to practice intentionally jawing balls. I do that enough even when I’m trying to center pocket the ball!

 

[measureman]

This is a very productive drill for all you practicers.
Practice jawing straight ins or near straight ins.
Then practice feathering balls.
Close or far, scale to your abilities. Spend a half hour on each regularly.

Very good technique calibration.

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[straightline]

Seriously though, I started doing it for lack of snooker tables, pfft even tight pockets. It's good calibration besides learning a lot of pocket. Stuff that would otherwise go down the gutters, so to speak.

 

[straightline]

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Actually I was posting in the Aim section and for some reason I posted this here. I reported it to get it moved but since you guys posted, the title is a CTE parody but the drills are good.

 

[iusedtoberich]

Are you saying practice just missing shots for your first point?

What is the second point of "feathering"?

I like the idea of the first point, maybe I'll try it. I don't understand the second though.

 

[straightline]

Are you saying practice just missing shots for your first point?

What is the second point of "feathering"?

I like the idea of the first point, maybe I'll try it. I don't understand the second though.

Straight and feathered are pretty much the limits of how you can hit a ball. Practicing both will help set those two references. Feathering gives immediate feedback on accuracy and touch. Rattling balls is the best way to get that feedback with full hits. It's something on the order of learning the absolute margins. Pocketing angles eventually become that much easier to determine.

 

[Tennesseejoe]

Straight and feathered are pretty much the limits of how you can hit a ball. Practicing both will help set those two references. Feathering gives immediate feedback on accuracy and touch. Rattling balls is the best way to get that feedback with full hits. It's something on the order of learning the absolute margins. Pocketing angles eventually become that much easier to determine.

Are you talking about certain English to jaw balls at the pocket?

 

[straightline]

Are you talking about certain English to jaw balls at the pocket?

Actually not at this stage since the idea is center ball accuracy although spinning balls to hang would be a more advanced component to this type of drill.

 

[Patrick Johnson]

Practice jawing straight ins or near straight ins.

If you mean aim for one side of the pocket or another, I do that a lot while practicing - easier to see small misses.

Then practice feathering balls.

What does that mean? Thin cut?

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chgo

 

[straightline]

If you mean aim for one side of the pocket or another, I do that a lot while practicing - easier to see small misses.

What does that mean? Thin cut?

pj
chgo

Besides it becomes fun watching the ball bounce around, this drill goes beyond just cheating the angles. It gives you repeatable and irrefutable feedback on how the ball was hit.
Feathering is hitting a ball as thin as possible. The literal result is a detectable hit that has no effect on the position of the feathered ball. You don't need the pockets obviously but the distances are your conditions.
Incidentally, both these drills reach deep into the game of one pocket.