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I made a neat video a few years back that addresses a similar shot, though closer to the pocket...

Yes sir. But I have to believe winner breaks is definitely an advantage for better players. If the better player snaps off several racks in a row with winner breaking, the weaker player will likely never be able to catch up. At least with an alternating break format the weaker player has a...

Depends on your tip width. If you are aiming a 12mm tip so that the middle of the tip is lined up to center cb, then you move it "half a tip" to the right (the tip being 12mm, half is 6mm), you are now applying half a tip of right english. The left side of the tip will be lined up to center cb...

I believe most good players probably don't pay much attention to exactly where their tip is going to strike the cb, meaning the actual contact point between tip and ball. Instead, they simply aim 1 tip or half a tip or a tip and a half from ccb, whatever distance looks right for the given shot...

I agree 100% with all of this, except the part of 10 to 20% error. I certainly didn't mean to insinuate that's it's okay to be off 1 or 2 millimeters when striking the cb. I was just saying that it typically won't be as disastrous on most shots unless your cue is jacked-up/elevated, or...

I remember watching an Allison Fisher YouTube video where she and Gerda Hofstätter were taking questions. This was one of those questions - cb or ob last?? Both said they normally look at the ob last. The exceptions (when they focus last on exactly where they want to strike the cb) are...

I knew all along that Bill was saying he sometimes likes to use his strong dislike of the CB's deflection path to help aim certain shots. 😉 I get a bit antipathetic myself at the cb's deflection path when it surprisingly leads to a pocket after glancing off another ball by accident. But...

Yes, right. And in this game, what you see happening is what matters. For close shots, the quick massè/swerve created by top side spin has an obvious sharper/larger curve effect than when using bottom side spin, so it creates a different path from CB to OB. It looks like more massè because in...

It can be surprising just how much the slight natural elevation of the cue causes the cb to massè on close-up soft to medium speed shots. Of course using low side spin can also cause the cb to massè, but it's usually not as much as when using top side spin, unless you hit the low spin with the...

The top right spin squirts the cb left, but it has more massè/swerve on it, compared to the low left shot. Still, it lands where it needs to land. The "low left" shot squirts to the right, then slightly swerves back, striking the ob a touch thicker, but it spins across the face of the ob...

This is the primary goal of Poolology - to help train the mind to recognize the overlap or "fullness" of hit needed to pocket any particular cut shot. The fractional labeling is not important, other than to provide a foundation for lining up the shot. From there it's a matter of visualizing...

HAMB. Simply put, you just keep doing it over and over and over until you've missed enough times to finally allow your mind to develop the correct alignment for that particular shot. It's trial and error programming. Having an approximate alignment for the shot, (based on your best estimate...

You are correct. Some shots are off. The primary goal of the system is to help you develop a feel/eye for pocketing balls. Some shots, due to simplifying the system into straight lines, end up not being perfect. In fact, they could be off by 3 or 4 degrees. But the system still provides...

Keep in mind that the exact angle to the pocket is NOT the angle you get when you actually cut the call, due to collision-induced throw. The Poolology system provides a slight overcut to compensate for throw, but the system is not perfect. There are limitations, as shown in this video...

The Poolology book is not that complicated. It's a simple tool that works very well for the vast majority of shots that come up on a pool table. But the system has its limitations. For the 8ball shot, the system does not work. This has been addressed here and on YouTube. As the alignment...

Instead of using all that fractional stuff, try using your tip/ferrule to fine tune the aim. In other words, ob position is 15. If the alignment value were 7 or 8 it would be a half ball shot. With an alignment value of 10, it's obvious that it's thinner than a half shot but not as thin as a...

Right. This only applies when your stroke is consistent enough to provide accurate cue delivery. Until then, missing thin or thick could be caused by aiming error or stroke error, and the player has no idea which. Once a consistent cue delivery is developed, and after shooting a particular...

I agree, but I believe part of that visualization can include the overlap required to send the ob to the pocket. The Poolology system uses two references for a starting point to determine how to aim the shot. Those two references are: Centerline between the cb and ob (to see how far away...

I agree. And that's the end goal of Poolology. The method is just a shortcut tool to help players develop a feel/eye for cut shots, without having to guess or rely on time-consuming-old-school hamb methods such as ghostball or contact points or the traditional 5-lines fractional guesswork...

Too much math thinking going on... just simply use the ob position value (30 for this shot), then divide that in half. 15. So if the alignment line from center to center points to 15 it's a halfball shot. If it points to 7 or 8 it's a 3/4 ball shot. And if it points to 22 to 23 it's a 1/4...