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If you can't see the shot: don't shoot. If you can't see the shot line: don't shoot. If you can't see the cue stick center axis: don't shoot. If you can't align the cue stick onto the shot line: don't shoot. If you can't lock in the cue stick alignment: don't shoot. Intent, focus...

Come on... A 9-foot off the rail thin cut shot across the table is definitely a hard shot, just to give one extreme example.

"And just about anyone can be taught how to do this using a precise step by step approach that can also be used to aim and shoot any shot." "can also be used to aim and shoot any shot."

Why I never became any good at playing pool until... I first began going into Fremont Family Billiards in my home town when I was 15. A high school buddy told me about it. I used to play the pinball machines at the bowling alley on the other side of the parking lot. He mentioned that he used...

Tommy Kennedy is another good example. He not only shoots for center of pocket but minimizes everything that can be minimized to eliminate error prone degrees of freedom. It is laughable how some "knowledgeable" pool experts trash talk Hopkins and Kennedy because of their style of play when...

Bingo!

You are not talking about not being able to hit the center of the pocket. You are talking about your strategies/tactics for not aiming for the center of the pocket. Duh. But you've never intentionally not aimed for the center of the pocket when that was the only way to win, and you end up...

There is one thing every single professional pool player does. He/she delivers the cue stick as perfectly and consistently as humanly possible. The only question is: how will you do this? Opinions are like... everyone has one. Advice? How about knowledge. How about technique. How about...

Tip top advice for all pool players: "put in the work" "Guys get "good enough" just by keeping on doing it." "The math is 1% inspiration, 99% perpiration. But, it's gotta be efficient and concise work or it's just global warming." "A good breathing routine helps endurance as well." You mean...

Luck, by definition, happens infrequently. And if it's rare enough, it's called a miracle. So, if you get lucky, get a few rolls, in a session, but you lose much of, if not all your cash to a better player, a good player, you can walk away happy? I think not. Good is consistency. You can...

Fallacy: "When they start giving center pocket a higher value than the rest of the pocket then I'll start aiming center pocket." You mean that whenever you make the ball it doesn't matter if you hit center pocket. How much money have you ever taken down by not aiming center pocket and missing...

Cole was talking about a slouch. Not a hustler. Don't forget, it takes one to know one and Cole was unquestionably one hell of a hustler. I met a guy at Hard Times, Bellflower. He would come in regularly there for a while. He told me that Cole wouldn't come into a town to hustle up a game...

I'd sure like to. What do you mean: "work the shit out like it's the work it is." You mean hit a million balls? Maybe someone else might also like to offer an explanation?

I wasn't trying to launch Starship. I just wanted to frame the proposition. When you shoot a million balls you take the time necessary to shoot a million balls. The time you take includes figuring out your next shot, walking around the table, etc. 30 seconds is quite reasonable. T-minus 30...

30 seconds per shot is reasonable is if you are learning and focusing to remedy errors and perfect your routine.

You agree that I started this 10,000 idea, "Who said 10,00 balls guarantees to expunge all flaws or grant you championship status?" or anything nearly so? This poster that you are replying to obviously made a typo. But the comma indicates he meant 10,000. But my reply about 10,000 was to this...

If you say so. You know what is best.

I use Allen Hopkins as an example of mitigating or eliminating as many degrees of freedom in your technique to minimize or eliminate errors.

Calvin told me he watched Buddy Hall run 11 racks right there on table 10 at Hard Times, Bellflower. If you look at his play on the many YouTube videos, he doesn't shoot much faster than once in 30 seconds. And he's one of the greatest ever. But I commend you for making Earl your bench mark...