DUCKIE .....I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU

[chefjeff]

The contact patch is where any ball touches the table. With contact patch, you dont aim at the OB, you aim for a spot on the table that is 1/2 ball width from the OB.

Put a ball on the spot. Next freeze a ball to that ball such that it goes into one corner pocket. Place the CB some distance and angle from the spotted ball.

Remove the spotted ball. The spot now represents where the CB contact patch needs to roll over to make the ball go in the corner pocket.

With contact patch there is no need to look at the OB. If you look at the OB, you are not looking where the CB needs to be. By look at, I mean your central vision is on the OB.

Now go stand in a postion that is behind the OB and on a line to the center of the pocket. The spot is gonna be on that line also which is also the same line the OB contact point is on.

Now place the cues tip on the center on the spot and rotate till the center line of the cue is over the top of the cue ball.

Now you are on the shot line.

This is nothing new. What I have done is just added more detail to Babe Cranfields spot on the table he taught. His training aid the arrow points to the to where the CB contact patch needs to be.

And there you have it……..and no 13 chapters needed to explain it.

I used to do it that hard way. For years.

Now, I have just 6 aims that accomplish the same thing. Each aim is helped by using the OB.

It is sooooooooooo much easier now with better or the same results. And, I can sustain longer because it takes less energy to shoot each shot.


Jeff Livingston

 

[JB Cases]

For Duckie regarding edges.

 

[chefjeff]

It is a perceived edge that is the edge spoken of.

A ball hasn't a real edge, but who cares? When looking at it, it has an edge to see and use for aiming, so a lot of player see it that way and use it that way successfully.

The ball isn't really solid, either; in reality, it's mostly space. Try aiming with that in mind.


jeff Livingston

 

[bbb]

For Duckie regarding edges.

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This was such a great detailed explanation of the
“ apparent” edge of a ball
I had to repost it

 

[Cameron Smith]

Edge is easier to say than outermost visual part of a sphere.

I agree and it makes intuitive sense to anyone I’ve ever explained the half ball hit to. Anything that allows a student to understand concepts quicker and more intuitively is a good thing.

 

[JB Cases]

Pool balls are spheres. Spheres don't have edges.

An edge is where two faces meet. For example a cube has 12 edges, a cylinder has two and a sphere has none.

See below.

Which edge of the pool ball touches the table?

The bottom edge.

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Spheres have visual edges - you know, like in the sense that's relevant to pool (that thing we talk about here).

pj
chgo

Right.