Yes of course Bob - 10:30 & 1:30
Three Rails Around Question
- Thread starter DrCue'sProtege
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At that distance from the first cushion, the cue ball will be rolling smoothly on the cloth when it gets to that cushion. That's full follow. The exception is if you hit the ball hard and low so it arrives partly sliding. The "partly" is a huge problem.
Moe Szyslak
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Maybe I'm missing something. Why would I be hitting low? I just take all the variables but one out of it. Just make speed, only running English, and the rails do all the work for you. If you have done test shots and know how the table is running, you know the adjustments that need to be made starting from the short rail or moving down the long rail, and just hit the right from-to line, the Diamond System is incredibly accurate. Even the spot on the wall thing Beretta talks about works pretty well. Adding top or bottom to it just warps it. Which you may need to do for a given situation, of course.
Nice shooting. Just for arguments sake. With your pool stance, hitting high addresses at least one more issue; the need to see the object ball. Hitting high allows a better viewing angle of both balls.
Moe Szyslak
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Now I'm really confused. Hitting high english on the ball itself means you have a better angle on seeing on the balls?
If you look at his pool playuh stance, he can peer over the top of the CB while having the tip and first ball in his field of vision. I wanna say this is a significant factor in his high average - but IDK.
Expecting a rain of banks to counter this notion...
I see where you are coming from but I don’t notice myself changing eye height between pool and carom. I think I shoot low for a carom player. Either way it isn’t a variable I adjust to get a better view of the balls. When I aim it is by feel and properly stepping into the shot. I never connect the tip in my lower peripheral vision to anything in my upper peripheral vision. I rely on my setup position.
What I do is that I look at the shot, and run many mental simulations rapidly, trying to find the exact line and tip position I want to use with the right speed. Then I spend all of my conscious energy exactly matching my set up tip position to the tip position my brain told me to use. My brain is usually right but it is up to me to execute it perfectly. I have a good stroke if I remember to use gravity to start my forward stroke and then gently hit the gas right before contact. Otherwise I will engage my shoulder and tip position will suffer. I am getting better every time I play.
No doubt you're past the pedantics. Just saying that view is integral.