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My most common usage of drag is on full-table slow rolls, to avoid table imperfections related roll-offs. Niels mentioned those in the video too.

Most snooker players.

For me, the best ideology for almost all 1-2 rail kicks is to use a mirror point as a baseline, then adjust from there by feel/experience/whatever you want to call it. No numbers, no calculations, just a systematic approach for locating the point where you'd have to hit the CB if the rail...

Yes, this change is good. I have done similar changes to my stance and it is more comfortable to stay down like that compared to bending the upper back or neck more. For me, another important aspect to help neck strain is to extend the bridge arm forward and further, so that your stance is...

Perhaps try to look at tall pro players who are down low and try to emulate their stance. e.g. Fedor Gorst or Eklent Kaci. In this example it doesn't look like Eclent has to bend his neck a lot to achieve a good stance, which is because his lower back/waist is bent a lot. If you bend from the...

What do you mean with "too much in my periphery"? The CB and OB appear closer to eachother in your field of vision the lower you are on the shot, so wouldn't the image be less peripheral the lower you are? Am I mixing up some definition here? I can understand not wanting to go low due to lack...

I really enjoy the "finding and executing crazy difficult and/or creative shots" aspect of pool. In a typical 9-ball match you'd almost always opt for a safe instead of going for something really funky, just because the odds are almost always against you with that funkier option. Sometimes I...

Good stuff, agreed with others. I'm at a point in my game where if I'm alone on a practice table I barely miss any routine balls potting wise and position play feels very natural too, if I played at that exact level in tournaments I'd be a 650 fargo at least, 600 being the actual level I...

Ah, so you mean more like a real chess clock. This makes more sense.

I have thought of it too. A button on a table next to the players seats (or one button for each player), that is pressed to restart the countdown from 30 seconds. It would be exhausting for the shooting player to have to walk back to wherever the shot clock is inbetween every shot, so the...

While I agree with shot clocks being good for the game, I find this quote to be misleading. A pro thinking over 30 seconds is almost never them not having any ideas of what they could do, but rather them spending extra time trying to pick the best option out of everything available. Perhaps they...

I second this. A steer in your stroke is often a result of something else, not directly related to the stroking hand itself, e.g. your upper body being in the way of the stroke causing a steer, or elbow/shoulder/wrist related stuff. Recording yourself is the fastest method of diagnosing the issue.

Yeah I agree, my point was just that if an aiming system claims to have something new to offer or be profound in any way, it should be able to be broken down into its components and understood on a theoretical level. If this theory can't be explained at all, it just sounds like a misleading...

What are "visuals" in this context? Mathematics are one way of explaining how things work under the hood. I don't get the claim that an aiming system could have "nothing to do" with math or can't be explained using math. Whatever you are doing visually in this aiming system must have some...

Something about your break technique is sensitive to a different table height. Take a video of yourself breaking on both different table types and try to see what is different.

12 pages about a sales pitch with OP making multiple long posts beating around the bush, not revealing his ideas on any useful level. A bunch of grandiose claims with the goal of selling your product. Threads like this should be banned, either share the method and discuss it with others, or go...

9 ball: 4 racks vs real opponent, 6 in practice 10 ball: 3 in practice 8 ball: 2 or 3, don't remember I play 9-ball much more than the other two, by a huge margin. Probably done many thousands of 9-ball racks but only a few hundred of 8-ball and 10-ball.

While I agree that the end goal is for your intuition/experience to fully take over, for beginner players systems like this can be a great way for speeding up the process of learning. Depends on your personality, some learn faster with systems, some despise them even as beginners. But whatever...

A chess clock style shot clock might be good for 9-ball: Give both players 3 minutes per frame, which keeps ticking down whenever they are at the table. once that 3 minutes is up, every shot afterwards will be on a 15 second shot clock. This could result in faster matches than the typical 30...

That last shot you missed, those are very deceivingly simple looking. CB too close to the OB and my normal aiming intuition breaks down and feels like never can make them 100%, just have to avoid having to shoot them.