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For me, the best thing I ever did regarding my stroke was to start having the cue touch the chest and the chin. This makes a straight piston stroke effortless, since your body (chest and chin) naturally block the cue from moving off line and due to the sense of touch from the cue touching your...

One drill I enjoy a lot is to place some (I do 3 or 4 usually) small rectangular pieces of paper (around the same size as a pool ball, or slightly larger) anywhere on the table, rack 15 balls, break them (if you pot balls on the break, I usually just throw them on the table, so it's always 15...

For me, the relevant factors to consider that relate to the space between CB and OB are: 1. CB shape. Obviously the distance has a large effect on the CB path and what spin and speed you need to achieve a certain result. 2. Sidespin aim adjustments. CB/OB distance is the main factor affecting...

How is it relevant at all to this discussion what someone said years ago? You seem very obsessed with trying to prove a point by quoting old messages to show Pat has changed his mind on something. No matter if he did or didn't, what's the point? As far as this original topic goes, go with what...

I'd say because of that OB rail compression, the double kiss angle to pot the OB would just be a slightly thicker angle than at softer speeds. Apart from that it's the same idea. Although, with the OB frozen to the rail, the shallower the incoming angle of the CB, the harder it is to get the OB...

With the angle shown in the diagram in the original post, it is definitely doable on most tables since it's like a 75-80 degree cut required, just requires a huge amount of power and some right spin.

Where did I claim to discover anything new? The point of the thread is to have people say their opinions and insights about this topic. There's a lot of variance in how people perceive and think about these. It's a conversation starter, not a discovery. I explained my own method, hoping others...

When you have done your aiming, no matter the method, you'd either end up staring at a certain point on the OB or not. If you stare at a point on the OB, depending on the method, this point could be the final target, or a baseline before adjusting for BHE, or the contact point, or many other...

It might cause steering of the cue off to either side if the decel is bad enough that you get muscle tension involved

121 posts, 72 points = 63% ratio

This has to be the least coherent post I've ever seen

Perhaps been mentioned before, but top 100 lists for different countries, not just USA, would be very informative.

Based on some crude and imperfect paint-illustrating, I could only go backwards from the 15 to the 9 ball until the drawing required less than 1 pixel level precision, so couldn't continue further. I'd be curious to hear some proper math about how precise the required hit is for 1 -> 15 for this...

Yes, every consequent ball amplifies the error. I haven't tried this myself yet, but just from the math/geometry alone it would seem like 15 balls on a 9ft table spaced out evenly like in the line up drill would be exceptionally hard.

Set up the balls like in this image. Line up drill style. Hit the 1 ball straight towards the 2 ball. Your goal is to have a chain reaction as long as possible before the next ball in line no longer hits the next one directly. If a ball bounces away, comes back and hits some further ball, it...

The method I use to aim almost all direct pots involves looking at the OB as a whole, focusing visually on the perceived OB/CB overlap, while sensing instinctually if the shot is too thin, too thick or neither. No conscious analysis or thought is necessary to find the correct shot line. It...

Not an instructor, just speaking from my limited experience: If the cue steers off-line when you draw it back, this could be caused by multiple things, and a video would help diagnose it better One common reason is that your stance causes some part of your body (typically the side of the...

Agreed. To diagnose, practice or drill in any change in your fundamentals, doing long straight in shots is the best one. Mighty X drill, or if you aren't at that level yet where you can follow or draw into a pocket, just potting the long straight balls. If the thing that you are changing has...

From the FargoRate top 100 in the world list, we can see that: #1 = 847 #10 = 831 #100 = 782 What would be the rating of the 1000th player? Or 10000th? Also, how many players would you estimate are out there that are in the top 100, 1000 or 10000 skill wise, but aren't in the FargoRate system...

For two-railers where I prioritize hitting the OB with the highest probability (such as your example), I use the midpoint parallel shift method, but with a thoughtful way of adjusting from it by feel. After doing the parallel shift and standing at the baseline from it, I do the following: (My...