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I started to play one game the other night with my cue extention (8 in) threaded onto the butt of the cue. I had used it on a couple of shots while playing scotch doubles (my partner must have enjoyed leaving me those hard to reach shots). Anyway, I decided to just leave the extension on for...

Yeah, I agree. I remember the thread that "debated" the whole "pulling or pushing" when referring to moving the cue forward. Fact is, people can call it whichever they want, but pulling or pushing is best defined by the action of the arm muscles being used in relation to where the balance...

A player's muscle memory might disagree with you. If you change cue weight or change the balance point of the cue, the muscles used to move the cue back forth could feel the difference, which could affect the fine mechanics of the stroke, despite you believing it's a nonsensical or pointless...

The back stroke primarily uses the triceps muscles, while the forward stroke uses the biceps. The balance point of the cue, in relation to where your grip hand is postioned, would affect the tension of these muscles. So, changing the balance point of the cue would cause a slight physical...

Lol...so you accept the bribe, rather than leave the deserved feedback?

I'm sure only purchasers of the products can actual rate a product. What other "control" can Amazon incorporate? Of course, multiple ratings and reviews are much more revealing. In my experience, ratings are certainly not useless, unless the product I'm looking at only has a handful of...

Yes, many self-published books are no good. Not sure what you consider "recent", as self-publishing has been around for over 20 years. Before self-publishing, there were vanity/subsidy publishers, which are publishing companies that print about anything you pay them to print. They still exist...

Exactly. What happens with the cb is that it squirts/deflects to the opposite direction from which it is hit. Left spin squirts the cb to the right, etc... And, depending on the speed of the shot and the distance between cb and ob, the cb will swerve back on/across the line. On softer shots...

Good post. I believe the same thing. Whether players realize it or not, the recipe for solid and consistent aiming skills contains a mixture of several ingredients - everything we've learned through experience, practice, and repetition. There is no single ingredient for aiming, though many...

Yeah, it's like the golf swing. I mean, once you've hit the ball well a few thousand times, you just line up with the shot, give a little waggle of the club, then swing. With pool, it works the same way. If you know where you need to strike the cb, those little off-line pre-strokes really...

There was another great player from a few generations ago that initially aimed the tip off to the side of the cb to get an unobstructed view of the line. But when he stroked the shot, he knew exactly where the tip or shaft was directed. A local player around here about 30 years ago would do...

I'm not thinking about fractions either. I simply look at the shot and know where I need to send the center of the cb in reference to the ob itself. It's visual/spatial recognition. A straight in shot requires 0 cut angle, so I know to aim center cb to the middle of the ob as soon as I see...

So true. Once we've developed consistency with pocketing balls, especially at the pro level, it's easy to say "aiming is simple", or "all you have to do is aim for the ghostball", or whatever other bs statement an experienced player might tell a novice. The truth is, most of the greatest shot...

I agree. However, we can think or imagine whatever we want. Reality is based on what we are actually seeing, whether directly or indirectly. In other words, we can imagine a ghostball location, but without having an ob in sight, the mind would have no way of accurately estimating the...

Niels is great. But it's funny when he says he doesn't "believe" in aiming systems, or that all aiming systems are "overrated". He describes how he only uses ghostball, and how the rest is just "feel and do". In other words, practice and experience with ghostball aiming has helped him...

During game situations, that's an excellent method to use. For convenience and simplicity during practice, I always liked placing the camera stand at the mirrored pocket at the other side of the table for an anchored reference. After enough times of referencing the camera stand's shaft, and...

A good practice tool for banks is a tall camera stand. Place it out from the table where the mirror image of the targeted pocket is. Then just aim the ob to the camera stand/pole.

From what I remember, Stan always stressed how CTE Pro1 "connects" the shot to the "geometry" of the table, or connects the ob to the pocket. He has curtain bank videos to show that he isn't looking at the rail, saying that all you have to do is know which perception and sweep to use, and with...

It's my belief that that should be the end result of aiming systems. They allow various ways to look at shots, but after a while it all becomes embedded/ingrained into the subconscious, along with everything else we know about aiming. Eventually, with enough successful repetition, all that's...

Common sense answer... The player would have to develop the visual experience to be able to recognize when to use a 15-inside or a 30-inside, or whatever particular "perception" might be needed to pocket the ball. I remember Stan explaining an example in a YouTube video years ago. Using a...