Do you use an aiming system or go by feel?

Do you use an aiming system or go by feel?

  • I always go by feel

    Votes: 153 53.5%
  • Usually by feel, with aiming systems for hard shots

    Votes: 68 23.8%
  • Usually with aiming systems, by feel for easy shots

    Votes: 24 8.4%
  • I always use aiming systems

    Votes: 26 9.1%
  • I just hit balls very hard and hope they sink

    Votes: 15 5.2%

  • Total voters
    286

SamLambert

Daydreaming about pool
Silver Member
I've been reading/watching a lot of information since I started playing pool. I watched videos, I bought DVDs, I read books and they almost always mention aiming systems.

I tried most of them, maybe I didn't spend enough time using them, but I can't seem to end up liking them more than going by feel. Going by feel seems to work just fine for me and I can only guess it will get even better with time, while I feel aiming systems are a bit unnatural and takes from your concentration.

What do you guys do? Aiming systems or feel? A bit of both?
 

Neil

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
I've been reading/watching a lot of information since I started playing pool. I watched videos, I bought DVDs, I read books and they almost always mention aiming systems.

I tried most of them, maybe I didn't spend enough time using them, but I can't seem to end up liking them more than going by feel. Going by feel seems to work just fine for me and I can only guess it will get even better with time, while I feel aiming systems are a bit unnatural and takes from your concentration.

What do you guys do? Aiming systems or feel? A bit of both?

I'd say you just outed yourself. No one that has only been playing for a couple of months would even ask such a thing the way you have.
 

Icon of Sin

I can't fold, I need gold. I re-up and reload...
Silver Member
I tried most of them, maybe I didn't spend enough time using them, but I can't seem to end up liking them more than going by feel.

Youve been playing since July. You havent spent enough time doing anything pool related.

I use feel. I know a couple aiming systems as a last resort type thing but hardly ever use them.
 

336Robin

Multiverse Operative
Silver Member
My aiming system teaches feel

I've been reading/watching a lot of information since I started playing pool. I watched videos, I bought DVDs, I read books and they almost always mention aiming systems.

I tried most of them, maybe I didn't spend enough time using them, but I can't seem to end up liking them more than going by feel. Going by feel seems to work just fine for me and I can only guess it will get even better with time, while I feel aiming systems are a bit unnatural and takes from your concentration.

What do you guys do? Aiming systems or feel? A bit of both?

I like your post. The word system doesn't accurately describe what my aiming system teaches because it teaches one how feel the shots. It like anything else takes some practice but I am continually amazed at how much the feel is a part of what I do. I saw something posted in the Aiming Section about an Aiming Metric and that's what I do. I provide a clue system that is the same on every shot creating and Aiming Metric by which you can visually measure every shot individually. When you look over a shot and apply the metric to it you are learning the shot as you perform it and this becomes a part of the shot routine.

As you repeat those steps on every shot on the table you learn exactly what to look for, you see it and apply the cue ball correctly to the situation and once this is accomplished you can learn to add spin to the shot as well.

An accurate description of the process helps all of that and the addition to the knowing of your stroke finishes the job in providing you the ability of your personal game.

The accuracy of the description ie System in my case does not take anything away from the visual perception of feel because that is exactly what it teaches by the utilization of visual information.

My system of feel connects you to your target in a way that is complete and wholesome and asks only that you practice your process for full knowing.

 

SamLambert

Daydreaming about pool
Silver Member
I like your post. The word system doesn't accurately describe what my aiming system teaches because it teaches one how feel the shots. It like anything else takes some practice but I am continually amazed at how much the feel is a part of what I do. I saw something posted in the Aiming Section about an Aiming Metric and that's what I do. I provide a clue system that is the same on every shot creating and Aiming Metric by which you can visually measure every shot individually. When you look over a shot and apply the metric to it you are learning the shot as you perform it and this becomes a part of the shot routine.

As you repeat those steps on every shot on the table you learn exactly what to look for, you see it and apply the cue ball correctly to the situation and once this is accomplished you can learn to add spin to the shot as well.

An accurate description of the process helps all of that and the addition to the knowing of your stroke finishes the job in providing you the ability of your personal game.

The accuracy of the description ie System in my case does not take anything away from the visual perception of feel because that is exactly what it teaches by the utilization of visual information.

My system of feel connects you to your target in a way that is complete and wholesome and asks only that you practice your process for full knowing.


Your book seemed interesting the way your described it to me a few days ago! Hope I receive it soon, gonna be a good read for sure.



I'd say you just outed yourself. No one that has only been playing for a couple of months would even ask such a thing the way you have.

Lol. Agree. I was suspicious myself on the last thread.

I'll take that as a compliment.
 
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Apocalypse2017

Welcome to the resistance
Silver Member
Did someone say aiming system?
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Ralph Kramden

BOOM!.. ZOOM!.. MOON!
Silver Member
I've been reading/watching a lot of information since I started playing pool. I watched videos, I bought DVDs, I read books and they almost always mention aiming systems.

I tried most of them, maybe I didn't spend enough time using them, but I can't seem to end up liking them more than going by feel. Going by feel seems to work just fine for me and I can only guess it will get even better with time, while I feel aiming systems are a bit unnatural and takes from your concentration.

What do you guys do? Aiming systems or feel? A bit of both?

Going by feel alone is OK.... but some aiming systems work.
I like a form of CTE that includes Center, 15 and 30 degrees.
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Colonel

Raised by Wolves in a Pool Hall
Silver Member
I don't aim, I don't "feel" whatever that means.

I see pictures, or videos if you will, of what I want to transpire. I think the appropriate term would be visualization.
 

michael4

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
I visualize where the ghost ball would be, and hit that spot.

(sometimes small adjustment for throw, etc)
 

Spimp13

O8 Specialist
Silver Member
"Feel" is an aiming system!

randyg

I agree Randy! I do this on most of my banks using the years of experience on knowing where I believe I need to aim to make them. I am feeling the angle, and it is definitely an aiming system.


Hope all is well.
Matt
 

billy

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
I don't aim, I don't "feel" whatever that means.

I see pictures, or videos if you will, of what I want to transpire. I think the appropriate term would be visualization.


Feel and visualization are one in the same in my poolplayin' book

I'd probably say I use the ghost ball theory if I had to define

Hope this helps ...
 

Apocalypse2017

Welcome to the resistance
Silver Member
Someone brought up in another thread that the Pinoy's look at the shadow of the cue in the CB.

This helped my accuracy tremendously! (probably after already hitting a million balls this is just improving my focus)

I subconsiously know where the pocket is already. This helps me really pick out the exact spot on the CB.
 
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