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When taking the straight cueing priority to the table as prioritized over the aim line I’ve become aware of two things. The relationship of the cue, the head (vision center) and shoulders set the one piece unit that leads the alignment. The exactness of this configuration doesn’t have the luxury...

Welcome to this ever evolving thread. I use a journal regularity but a video journal with the idea of vocalizing while videoing to externalize the internal dialogue makes sense. Under stress attention narrows and internalizes. I sometimes utilize an external dialogue as a coping and refocusing...

As with most descriptions, the wording is mapping terminology and not exactly the actual thing. A pistol fired from the hip often fails to align the vision center to the barrel and upright stances, have that sense of the gunslinger. The instructors using the sniper analogy are moving the...

A dictionary definition of analogy is “a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect” The spirit of CJ’s explanation was a comparison of the sameness of the alignment part of both activities, with respect to the visual perspective, despite the...

This topic was about moving from being the player who plays a lot and isn’t yet pro caliber, to the next level. Those players have played a LOT. Based on your contribution here, the paradigm that gets you there is becoming illiterate, and just shooting balls at balls without thinking or...

In my opinion, this paradigm shift is literally game changing. Each context has one thing at the top of its evaluation list. That criteria, in the case of those who fixate on finding the target line, is the shot line. Years ago when learning I was introduced to the idea of developing a stroke...

Your use of the word “normal” is where meanings can get mixed. If your normal was to find the shot line first then arrange your body to the line, that is the primary reference for the shot. If your body position for delivering a straight cue is your primary reference, and it’s your normal...

My take on this was Joe Davis claiming it was a diversion adopted by billiard pros. Billiards research talked about snooker replacing billiards as the game of choice over time in the halls.

I worked on doing it last night. In a way it’s a bit like the video game pov where the guy has his gun up walking straight ahead. That guy knows the importance of being aligned to his gun. The shot has less influence on the setup. I’m left eye dominant and right handed, and sometimes I get...

Have to give it a good try. Thanks for the insight. I currently step towards the impact area so i can find my square hip position. My left foot sets the hip line, by moving forward about half a shoe length then bending my hips, I fold into my aligned position. My focus is on being in a looking...

I do both. On shots where I can make a reference stance, I walk into the shot. On less standard situations, aligning the upper body then finding my foot placement, is the solution.

Agree. The folding of the hip crease is determined by the left and right foot placement. Once the body knows what the upper body cue delivery alignment looks and feels like, the footwork to get it there using the initial reference position, acts as an anchor triggering the alignment. Balance...

The upper body is the key to proper alignment. The lower body needs to morph to adjust to the equipment and other demands that might arise to keep the upper body delivery system in place. The role of the standard stance, as presented in instruction, is to help us find that alignment slot. That...

Just realizing how the bigger picture is built gives us clues as to where everyone’s strengths lie. The tapping of inner awareness resources is about understanding what is right under our noses.

There is YouTube video where the 35000 fps camera was used. The claim of professionals being able to maintain tip contact longer and I assume spin the ball better with the extra grip, was tested. The self report by the pro would have been to test awareness of the feel vs just just looking at the...

Who knows? Maybe the lesson is to trust the inner process. Maybe what we need to learn is how to get out of our own way.

From the early days when Penfield mapped the brain by actually touching the surface, to today‘s use of more sophisticated mapping, new evidence is making mapping more precise. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00658/full Each digit phalanges has been mapped with the...

Speculating as to why such a large part of the brain is allocated to the mouth and hands it seems starting at the beginning makes the most sense. Our first introduction to the world around is our exploration of it using both hands and our mouth. Research reveals that the fingertips are so...

Anticipation is part of what separates the best from the rest. Sir Alex Ferguson, when he signed a defender who was considered only average for speed said, “he has already made the first two steps in his head.” Knowing how your opponent will respond to a style of play or temptation puts you...

There was no intent to correct. I think we each might experience a situation differently due to which sense is dominant in the consciousness description. I don’t apologize for my sensory experience being different as a result of my past history, leading to an understanding difference. There...