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How so? For me, doesn't make a difference if I close one eye or not, the OB location relative to the pocket is the same

Did you ever address this, Mensabum? If Bob understood your explanation of the system correctly, the image should clearly demonstrate why it doesn't work geometrically. So, is the image not accurate to what you are claiming, or is the system geometrically incorrect? It's one or the other. As...

7-1 vs 9-ball ghost. 9ft Diamond. One fluked 9 but other than that solid shooting, with a few tough recovery shots.

Imran Majid and Jeremy Jones are great. Knowledgeable about the game and shares their insights, great to listen for intermediate/advanced players who are trying to improve their game.

Watch the 10-ball on the rack. It's on Joshua Filler's side. When the lag ends, the CB on the side of the 10-ball won. That should show unanimously that Joshua won the lag.

Some of my key observations for combos: 1. Realistic awareness of their difficulty. Even a relatively short-distance combo, unless almost dead-straight or wired, can be often missed by even top pros. Extra variables (spin transfer etc.) and a weaker intuition for aiming them than normal shots...

In Finland, most clubs with 24/7 access are between 50-100€/month. Maybe some in the 100-150 range.

My opinion is that at the top level, it doesn't make that much of a difference whether they look at OB or CB last, or somewhere inbetween or nearby. The line has been chosen a long time ago, and the muscle memory of a straight stroke relative to their alignment has been burned in enough times to...

If you found an instant cure for this, you'd be a billionaire. I personally have found that improving my level of play, accepting that I will not play my A-game every time, and perhaps most importantly, repeated long time exposure to pressure situations is the only real cure. Some turn to...

If you have spare table cloth laying around, or the next time you change your table cloth, cut off a small strip from the old one before throwing the rest away, and keep that saved for jump/masse shot practice. Place the strip under the CB and the actual cloth on the table won't take almost any...

Low right. Stun route has increasingly better error margins the better your CB/spin control is, but low right is overall safer and I'd pick it over the 2 rail follow route, that one has a bit smaller range of good outcomes.

Let's take this image as an example of my sight picture. Once down on the shot, I focus on the OB/CB as a whole (red circles drawn in the image are what my focus is on), and sense that their overlap is correct (intuitive assessment, if it feels wrong, stand up and restart the PSR), and stays the...

My bad, didn't explain thoroughly enough since didn't want the post to be too long. I'll try to clarify the relevant part, and explain more about how I apply sidespin: I do my necessary aim adjustments (for throw, deflection, swerve, etc.) during my aiming process while standing. Once I'm down...

From a 600ish Fargo level player: I aim with a combination of ghostball visualization and OB/CB overlap intuition while standing, then drop straight into the shot. I don't focus on any singular point on the OB at any time, since it doesn't matter for me, I just focus on the OB as a whole, with...

Yes, but my point was that all of what you described is much clearer/easier to do with better eyesight.

For judging contact geometry you very much need eyesight though? It's harder to visualize things or pick a point and stare at it with a weaker eyesight.

It's a cropped section of this painting, no particular reason for using it as an avatar, just looks visually pleasant to me.

My head/eye alignment is in terms of CB->OB. For english, I just have my bridge hand off-center, I guess some call this FHE(?). I adjust for english by simply aiming into a different point on the OB while standing (adjustment is done by feel). This method seems the simplest and most consistent...

Food for thought, for those who have a hard time finding the zone: Place all 15 balls on the table. Pocket each one of them directly into any pocket. Even with a relatively shitty stroke this should have a 100% success rate with no conscious effort. Try to do this multiple times in a row. You...

Where I play at (in local, non-sanctioned events), it's a common courtesy in 9-ball to put large balls (typically 7 and 8) behind the 9 to avoid early easy 9-ball combos. People here don't see it as a bad thing, even if it's by some definition pattern racking. Doing it in reverse to put the 2...