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Um, I've mentioned "bridge aim" on quite a few AZ threads. That hand is several FEET closer to the balls than the stroke hand. With beginners, I show how the thumb/forefinger channel makes a handy aim device for an open hand bridge. Plop down your hand bridge onto the shot and shoot without...

Most right-handers I've done VC with have theirs about halfway between their right eye and their nose--incredibly, students have had the same VC even before and after the catastrophic loss of one eye! For some, they can make a lot of good cuts if the VC is in place, with less than ideal...

Yes, I see. It would be a vision center if the head position that made the 1/2 ball cuts appear the same cutting left or right made a stop shot look dead straight. Having said that, sometimes on cuts I invite a student to move their head laterally off VC, to better see the target on the...

I think it's obvious that Fast Eddie was playing dumb against Amos, "Oh no, the three's still on the table, I forgot!" before Amos used the same against him. Ha!

The pros have an astonishing commitment to fundamentals, and are far more disciplined than amateurs.

I hear you, but my conversations are: You see how the shot looks perfectly straight? Yes. Now move your head laterally, first right . . . now left . . . with the head off to either side, this straight shot looks like a cut shot, yes? Yes. So your perception of the degree of angle on cut...

How about neither overlap nor one point on the CB only? Rather, stand so that the OB's pocket path is clear, and take that in or some of that path in peripherally while hitting the shot with your choice of OB target or overlap.

"Settled on a location" means you've found an optimal vision center to align, even though yours is an adjusted one (location a priority but not "looks straight" a priority). Also, you avoided the suggestion--though Mark is an excellent instructor--to go under the chin, to an optimized location.

Have you considered how pros were taught as youngsters "shoot like a rifle and put your dominant eye over the cue", emerging as pros while others were misled by the "like a rifle" claim? Many students have a vision center a short distance away from their dominant eye . . .

For my stance, since my feet are near 45 degrees to the shot line, I allow my head to move (naturally move) with the trunk, whch brings my left eye closer to the balls than my right eye (I'm right handed). Head position is a combination of vision center over the line, the degree of head...

You shouldn't be leaning over (from the waist). I'm also tall and have shown many players to stand more like you want to try to lift the table from the ground. Sitting down into the stance, flexing into the knees like a wrestler or boxer, you straighten your lower back in the stance. Students...

And . . . head height is important and head rotation. My feet are close to 45 degrees to the shot line for many shots, I allow my head to turn with my trunk into the stance, so my left eye is closer to the CB as a right-hander. When you next play well, make note of your precise head position...

You are right. I've been a technical advisor for several books and TV shows. I don't think the pool technical advisors received Color of Money royalties, though.

Thank you! I'd seen Mataya-Lawrence and others but not Chris Sigel. I think we (at least I) are getting old, I can't believe I'm doing more pool clinics with "That guy Fast Eddie plays next!" . . . next.

IMDB still shows Mike as Color's technical advisor, Richard Price as the credited screenwriter . . . and "actress Christina Sigel" as a waitress in the film, a new one on me!

Frustration from AZB naysayers, so I appreciate your sincerity. APB is thoughtful, methodical, a kind person. Thank you.

Of course this information is helpful, relevant. My first thought is a clinic looking at stun/soft, then speed, then line shots. Why not?

Hand at the aim point/ball starts the downswing. It's not true to accelerate through the shot, it is true that some acceleration as needed to begin the forward swing smoothly IMO.

Let's make a deal, I'll stop breaking my balls if . . .