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or any way that works for you.

that is how u hit the right spot on the ob with the right spot on the cb. you get the offsets (A=A) equal for any given contact point.

tools r good if u r using them. i wish i could understand somehing like cte but so far all the details seem to cryptic for me to grasp. lamas see post 12 in this thread.the diagram u posted. see how A = A ?? that is the offset i refer to. from the stroking line of the center hit cue ball the...

jb if cte doesnt work by itself, what must it be combined with to be useable? what does "system" mean? how many "systems" must be used simultaneously in order to shoot pool? if none of the "systems" work by themselves how can they possibly work together? is it a situation where multiple...

lol ops the shot percentage posts seem to imply that people w/o aiming systems think they are better than they are and cte or something will improve their shooting. maybe so. a couple of my original posts were rather tongue in cheek. sorry you all missed it.i dont use ghost ball myself, only...

im hardly a young guy. ive never said there is any thing wrong with the various aiming systems. but so many of you imply that not using one of the systems you tout is inadequate. read the topic of the thread again. im gonna vacate this thread now. go ahead and turn it into anything you want. jus...

dont have anything against any method, i just think its funny how some people respond to the fact that i dont use some kinda system they might know about. the feel thing doesnt apply at all as i know exactly where to hit the ob and can make contact conistently and exactly. im sure these systems...

never actually considered that the contact point is hard to see. does being on a sphere make it harder for some to see a specific point? interesting.

i see. sorry to hear bout that. hope it clears up for you somehow. vision problems suck.

"Of course. You can't know the contact point anyway, you can only estimate it's position." bs. the contact point is an exact point. if you only estimate it, it dont work very well. r u saying for a straight in shot, 1 ft from the pocket the contact point can only be estimated??? lol i dont...

i only mentioned ghost ball cuz shaky seemed confused about contact point. at least thats what i thought??

i was simply trying to discuss what i believe to be a term which divides rather than identifies. if feel is a system then why not treat those who use it with some civility? i guess i dont get the debate or the conflict or whatever.i could care less how a person gets to a shot. i am now...

i posted that before your explanation of feel in a visual medium. so there are varying levels of feel? at what point does feel become informed enough to be considered a mechancal system? it still would have a portion of its effectiveness contributed by feel? instinct seems like a better word. i...

jb do some aiming systems allow you to pocket balls without actually knowing the contact point?

shakey draw a line from the center of the pocket through the center of the object ball. the point where the line exits the side of the object ball furthest from the pocket is the contact point. perhaps you should look at ghost ball and try to get that in your head. i hope this helps.

no real problem with what people choose to use, i just think the term "feel "misses the mark entirely. unless your eyes are closed, the brain is making decisions based on lots of information that is mechanical in nature and boiling it down to the shot. semantics. people 'feel" their way around...

feel? "Feel is guessing. Pure feel is going into the shot with no measurement of any kind. Systematic aiming is using certain steps to get to the line which are repeatable. Pure feel is at one end of the spectrum and mechanical aiming is at the other end." jb true feel would exclude vision...

i guess its easiest for me to just hit the correct part of the object ball with the equal but opposite spot on the cue ball.doesnt confuse me at all or trick my eyes at all.

neil i didnt say anything was wrong with any system?? perhaps i would pass on a shot cuz it lets the cb loose or has no next shot.who knows? very few shots im afraid of but some are not the best way to go for any number of reasons. makin shots is one thing, playin good billiards encompasses much...

"Golfers do not have an aiming formula. Quarterbacks do not. Bowlers do not. Archers do not. Marksmen do not. Kids on the playground do not. Baseball pitchers do not. Baseball hitters do not. Basketball players do not." neither do pool players. some just dont realize it.