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Your experience is helpful to readers here, however, most pool shooters lock in bad habits with HAMB, and could stand a lesson or two in fundamentals--including aim instruction. For an example, yet again in my most recent lesson for a new student, I taught to cut all basic shots toward pocket...

Players can shoot well with their head two feet above the cue, Fats could blow away most of the world standing fully upright. I do like what the OP wrote about consistency. And consistent head height equals consistent head placement for most--Tom Simpson was the first teacher whom I heard...

Hello All, "Miss on the pro side" is quite a slight overcut, for example, work one side of the pocket with a game ball so a miss leaves the ball tough. It's called the "pro side' in part because they execute with a pro's precision. Instead, low level players aim for pocket center and overcut an...

All, Many pros aim by instinct, however their instinct is getting them to stance and aim cuts often more full than beginners and intermediates who overcut simple shots and miss them by two diamonds along the rail. If you are reading this and overcut often, simply stance, aim and shoot thicker...

I do not recommend (for most players) that they consciously try to follow through a large distance. If a FULL, gentle backstroke is taken, the length of the backstroke is about equal to the length of follow through for smooth strokes. Acceleration (or coasting or decelerating) should be SMOOTH...

Fiber, walking miles each day, enemas, being nice to people.

You may be unaware that unfortunately, there is no medication for people who have Narcissistic Personality Disorder--or medicine for people who mock people who have disabilities.

I'm my favorite poster, however, I am taking medication for Narcissism.

You need not be chin atop cue--a player can perform well with their head as high as two feet above the cue stick. Post some video footage or photos and several folks will offer more specific advice.

Tom Kennedy (Six-Time Florida Pro of the Year/Past U.S. Open Champion) and I did another Pro Pool Clinic yesterday. We both live in Florida and you are about equidistant between us. I can provide references for myself and for TK (including our clinic students who loved their day with us...

Two possibilities: 1) Laws of probability (lucky run) 2) Something clicked--identify the something, was it aim (see the lines/angles crisply), feel (slightly different grip perhaps), etc. I keep bullet point notes on my own game this way.

I would like to better understand. You typically run all the solids or stripes in Eight Ball (seven balls) and are surprised you ran 8 tough balls?

But there IS magic, or at least the fun pursuit of magic. Someone will try ghost ball instead of contact patch or vice versa upon a time, and instantly see their pocketing percentage soar. It's magic!

But shortcuts to good aim DO exist, for example, your own work . . .

I saw the OP title and remembered coaching three-ball runners to play safe until the last three in Nine Ball, a strategy which has helped them defeat far superior players. Play the player AND the table.

I appreciate your input and feedback. I'm not theorizing, I've addressed students who bridge hand slide and pull their arm out of position. But yes, you can use the bridge hand to place the cue or vice versa (as you do), based on personal visuals and proprioception. As for CB distance, I hear...

Allison Fisher is a good example of a slider, but she gets into superb position, of course.

There are times when you want to watch the OB the whole way down into the stance, for example, when training to ensure you stand the right distance to come down without a big tip gap, as in this thread. But since perception changes some from standing erect to lowering yourself into the stance...

Thank you for observing and reporting. I agree it might be useless, but I've also seen a different type of "slider". To duplicate it, you'd get into the stance with a relaxed extended bridge arm (slight bend at the elbow) then reach for the CB by sliding and extending. For me, I don't like the...

My $0.02: 1. There is more than one way to accomplish good pool. Gene Albrecht's Perfect Aim System has different eye positions used for different cuts. There are AZ'ers who praise this method. 2. So yes, it's possible to see a straight shot as a straight then have one preferred, different...