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I really like this guy's style. I've watched several of his videos and subscribed to his channel a few weeks ago. He's entertaining and provides a lot of useful information.

You're right, Poolology is not for you. It's really geared toward helping players reach your level of pocketing skills. Thanks for getting "Playing to Win"! I think it's a much better book than Poolology, especially for players that already have a good eye and stroke for pocketing balls.

N We're good. And no need to talk to Tom. He wasn't disrespectful at all, not in the slightest. He just had no interest in talking about anything other than ghostball when I mentioned aiming. His main point was that the ghostball is always 1.125" away from the ob. My point was how that...

Dr. Cue (Tom Rossman) has the same mentality when it comes to teaching aiming. He is 100% ghostball and refuses to consider the value or benefit of using any other method. I had just published Poolology, and I was going to give him a copy of the book to read so I could pick his brain...

Ok. You stand in the camp with those who think fractional aiming is a limited or insufficient method when it comes to learning how to aim. That's fine. You're not alone. But I happen to think your entire camp is a bit in the dark when it comes to understanding how aiming skills are...

Yep, but it's really not much of an issue unless the cb is closer to the ob. For example, using your diagram, the angle difference when shooting from the farthest cb, compared to the middle cb, is less than 1°. But the angle difference between your closest cb and farthest cb is over 4°...

It's like this: The halfball overlap is from two different cb-ob relationships, due to the difference in cb-ob distance. This applies only when the cb remains on the centerline between cb and ob. If the cb gets moved along the aim line (center cb to ob edge), then the angle doesn't shift or...

That's right... A halfball aim will always produce a 30° cut angle (ignoring throw), whether the distance between cb and ob is 2 inches or 60 inches. Varying distance between cb and ob doesn't change that 30° angle. It simply shifts the angle away from center pocket. If we set-up a center...

I had a friend who was in a car wreck and suffered a broken arm in several places. He had a cast on his right arm for a few months and couldn't stroke the cue, so he started playing left-handed. He is now an ambidextrous player, plays equally well right or left handed. He never struggled...

Exactly. And sometimes the mind will do this automatically on its own, without us having any conscious awareness that it's happening.

I'm just describing what a dominant eye is, as far as what is known scientifically and medically about how our vision works. It's not my opinion. Research has shown that the brain will occasionally switch its preference from the normally dominant eye to the non-dominate eye, depending on...

Many people think a dominate eye sees better or faster or whatever, but that's not quite the case. The dominate eye provides slightly more visual data to the brain, due to more neural connections. So it becomes the leader (for lack of a better term) when it comes to processing what we're...

Correct... If we measured the halfway distance from center to edge on the actual surface of the ball (the circumference), it will not be the same as the halfway point along the diameter from center to edge (the radius), not from our visual perspective. For fractional aiming, what we actually...

Those anchors become triggers for the subconscious, and you find yourself automatically lining up for most shots with little conscious effort involved.

The more visual data provided to the mind, the more efficient and accurate we become at determining where/how to aim. Eventually, with experience, we know how to play most shots as soon as we look at them... no ghostballs or contact points or fractional lines needed, just our eyes looking at...

The bottom "V" formed between the ob and cloth is a good reference point for aiming small cut shots, much more concrete than estimating a specific point somewhere along the top edge/surface of the ball. Producing specific cb-ob overlaps simply involves aiming center cb at a specific point...

Slowing it down more....

Yep, but the cb happens to change to a more forward direction while the tip is on the ball, or looks to be touching the ball. That wouldn't be noticed so much in real time, but it shows up on slowmo video. I'd call it good in person if I watched someone play it, or if I played it. Thankfully...

This is the point of impact between the balls. The cb should follow the tangent, meaning it should go in the direction of the white arrow, which it first does, but then it changes to a more forward direction as soon as the ob moves out of the way. What happens is the cb doesn't have time to...