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Practicing cb reaction off the the points and cushions is beneficial, because that knowledge comes in handy at times. And it's not too difficult to develop a decent skill with it. But that's not the same as wasting an hour trying to pocket a 6 rail bank shot or a miraculous triple jump shot...

Frozen rail shots come up all the time. I would call that a common shot that all players need to learn from different angles. As far as run-stopping shots go, I find that usually they are common shots, simple shots that we know very well. We take them for granted and slack up on focus. The...

Lol. So, you never have a shot where the ob is froze to a cushion? Rail shots come up quite often. A drill that incorporates 15 such shots is a good way to practice them. And the L drill is a great drill for practicing common shots that come up all the time - another great way to work on...

For me this sounds like the standard results of practice. Working on eliminating stroke flaws can definitely lead to improvement. And if a player shoots a specific shot over and over again, paying attention to how it looks and feels when shot correctly, they will eventually become more...

Thanks. I know I can be talkative also, and I actually have to think about that with every video I post. In the beginning I wasn't very good at it! Lol

Same here, unfortunately. I kept skipping forward, looking for substance, anything to grab my attention. And that's a bummer. As Dan mentioned, there might be something useful or helpful somewhere within all those words.

A lot of places have 500 and lower or 400 and lower rated tournaments to get more local beginners/weaker players involved in tournament play. I think that's a good idea, as long as no outside/unknown sandbaggers creep in.

I've gone from a super soft kamui back to a med hard tip, and the other way around, several times. I like the hit/feel of softer tips, but also the consistency of harder tips. The only playability difference I notice between soft and hard tips is with draw and stun shots. With a soft tip, a...

Seems a bit complicated, a lot of guesstimation, doesn't it? With Poolology, the OB is at 26. The cb-ob centerline lands at about 13 or 14 on the end rail (not quite 1.5 diamonds from the pocket. Immediately this tells me a halfball aim will pocket the ball. No guesswork.

Here is one of my older videos. The sound quality is terrible, but it's not a bad video for demonstrating fractional aiming from half-table distance...

I think I found that there were only 6 differently aimed shots in Stan's curtain window. Some were to the left, some to the right, but only about 6 cut angles used in all 14 or 15 shots. I made a video with a curtain and shot each one, maybe missed a couple...can't remember, don't think I...

You're right... I don't understand it. Lol. I think you're the only one who understands how it works. I thought it was you that said a good starter rate should be 525?? Lol. Can't remember. I know we have had league players who were started out at something rediculous like 250 or 300...

Most leagues set the starting Fargo too low. It will be a long ride into the 500's if you were started in the 300's. I start all new (unknown) players at 525. From there the score pretty much moves up or down fairly quickly in relation to your game. At 386, based on some of the video...

Of course. But that's not a cue pivot. It's a whole body pivot or upper body pivot. Or, as I think Stan Shuffett would say, an "air" pivot or "disguised" pivot. That type of turning/aligning your body (stance) and cue to the shot is a natural approach to aiming, rather than coming down on...

Hmmm.... Pivot: A lateral rotation/movement of the cue stick, based on a fixed point, like the rotation or movement of an airplane propeller. With a cue stick, the fixed point could be the bridge hand or some imaginary point between the bridge hand and the grip hand. Pivoting the cue to...

Not sure about gimicks, but I believe any pivot performed perfectly to land on the correct shot line is a great example of the subconscious at work.

A pool table in the home of a non-player is more or less a piece of fancy furniture. So they go with eye-catching appeal that stands out, like red cloth or cloth with their favorite football team logo all over it. It looks cool/neat, but it's not very practical. That doesn't mean a world...

In the snooker video you posted, the guy is not aiming for the ob contact point, not at all. He is aiming for a point on the ob or just outside the ob. He finds this aim point by using the ghostball line (the centerline between cb and gb, where it lands in reference to the ob).

I made a similar video like this a couple of years ago, showing how effective it is to visualize an aim line referencing the ob itself, rather than an imaginary ghostball...

I look at the cb-ob overlap needed, then focus on an ob target (a point on the ob or outside the ob) that will produce the desired overlap.