Interesting blind aiming demo

I don’t have a buddy in the Philippines that I know of. And the lessons were done in California. Please try to keep up.
Yes, you do
He's the one you were touting as cult to edge instructor there.
He posted here and disappeared.
You won't ask him because you'd rather stay as a pathological liar instead of hearing the truth.
 
Yes, you do
He's the one you were touting as cult to edge instructor there.
He posted here and disappeared.
You won't ask him because you'd rather stay as a pathological liar instead of hearing the truth.
Pathological liar, lol. All you’ve ever posted was your opinion, which is fine, but the fact remains that you’ve never posted anything to back up those opinions. Did you ever actually compete on the pool table? Just curious
 
Can you read?
He pivots from the left edge.
It's a gimmick.
You can't ACCEPT that.
And it hurts your feelings that the SAMBA dude no longer pivots..
It was a GIMMICK.
I have no idea if the Samba dude ever pivoted in the first place. You see I have no interest in something that I’m not going to use. I leave things that don’t concern me alone. But I see we have only your opinion that it was a gimmick. Nothing else unless you want to provide any proof. Can you do that? Even if it was a gimmick, Busti made pivoting work very well, as have numerous others.
 
Pathological liar, lol. All you’ve ever posted was your opinion, which is fine, but the fact remains that you’ve never posted anything to back up those opinions. Did you ever actually compete on the pool table? Just curious
Err, not my opinion.
I told you why Busti got used to stroking the left side of the ball.
 
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I have no idea if the Samba dude ever pivoted in the first place. You see I have no interest in something that I’m not going to use. I leave things that don’t concern me alone. But I see we have only your opinion that it was a gimmick. Nothing else unless you want to provide any proof. Can you do that? Even if it was a gimmick, Busti made pivoting work very well, as have numerous others.
Great.
You didn't have to jump on me then.
You didn't know he used to pivot.
 
Err, not my opinion.
I told you why Busti got used to stroking the left side of the ball.
Yea yea. Joey said it so it must be true. I’m not buying it. Busti pivoting while playing for thousands of dollars was a gimmick just doesn’t sound legit.
 
Yea yea. Joey said it so it must be true. I’m not buying it. Busti pivoting while playing for thousands of dollars was a gimmick just doesn’t sound legit.
Even if Busti was asked on TAR and he answered " I used to it."
Dude, you don't want the truth.
Busti and Efren stayed with my brother's best friend when they played at the Mohegan Sun at least one time.
His name is Alex and he was a manager at the Mohegan. And he's a shortstop level.player.
Busti hid the English from his opponents.
That's why he has the insane ability not stroke anywhere on the cue ball and in the.final.payoff , he hits the ball with the English intended


You want pictures of them and the trophy Efren gave Alex?
You want a picture the trophy Efren gave me too? 😂
I believe these are the only two US trophies not in the Denny Glen collection and Puyat collection.
 
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lol, yes! I was simply demonstrating that pocketing balls under a curtain does not necessarily prove anything, other than the pockets are in the same place they have always been. Actually, Lou had a funny story about that. He was taking a lesson with, I want to say Ray Martin, but I could be wrong. In the middle of a run the power goes out and all they had was a little ambient light. Lou stopped but Ray said something like, "Go ahead and hit the ball. The pockets haven't moved in over 100 years."
I don't look at the pocket when I bank, although my pocket have only been stationary for about 2 years.
 
That's why he has the insane ability not stroke anywhere on the cue ball and in the.final.payoff , he hits the ball with the English intended
And exactly how would you describe this last stroke? I’d have to say it sounds like he does some sort of pivot from what you’ve posted so far
 
And exactly how would you describe this last stroke? I’d have to say it sounds like he does some sort of pivot from what you’ve posted so far
You can call it whatever you want .
But, stroking to the left side of the ball is a gimmick he developed from hiding the spin on the cue ball.
Funny enough, Efren is sick in that department too. He can be stroking at the base of the cue ball and next thing you know , he hits the ball with a top spin .
 
You can call it whatever you want .
But, stroking to the left side of the ball is a gimmick he developed from hiding the spin on the cue ball.
Funny enough, Efren is sick in that department too. He can be stroking at the base of the cue ball and next thing you know , he hits the ball with a top spin .
And it’s only one way to do that, and it’s not a gimmick
 
Means obscured by the screen. You've seen countless posers close their eyes or turn their head away before shooting right? Well a while back it occurred to me that most of the difficulty in aiming is due to attempting to adjust for what you see in front of you and that most if not all of the aiming is in getting the cue stick to the cue ball properly. Towards that end I practice setting the stick in position and looking only at the cue ball.
For sure one of the toughest stuff in pool-- hittin the cueball where you want (or where you think you hit it, lol)- and to blindly trust your stroke.
Not hitting cueball where you think you really hit it.....and not really trusting your stroke are for very sure two of the greatest quests to fix :-)
And soon the famous "eye pattern" comes up- very important to find this eye pattern, which works for you only.

smooth strokes to everyone :-)
 
Did you notice how he even pivoted on that bridge shot he took a few minutes after this starts
Did you notice he loses the chicken wing on the last stroke ?
No chicken wing when he shoots from the back .
Used to give that as handicap . Plays decent players shooting from his back.
While Efren shot opposite handed or no bridge as handicap .

Has nothing to do with aiming .
 
Nope. I’m more interested in his PIVOTING!!!! He’s so very very good at it.
Yes, he is! Back in the old days it was called back hand English and MANY players used it all the time as you well know. It was a way to get spin to move the CB around and it was also a way to combine it with aiming and done dynamically during the stroke.

But it was in fact, a PIVOT which can be used pre-stroke with aim and alignment deviations or during the stroke like Busty does it.
A pivot can also be used as a preset to taking the shot and combining the aim and alignment as well as spin up front. BOTH are involved or it would throw off the shot line completely if it wasn't factored in and used together.

It's the bane of 2D drawings and the hack playing Geeks who live by and obsess over them. Bustamante is to pool more like what Jimi Hendrix was to the guitar.
 
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