I think this one trick makes Poolology worth the $10, easy.
In perusing the internet on the topic of spot shots (in which the cue ball is in the kitchen and the ob is on the foot spot) I find a hodge podge of methods to make the spot shot easier. Most of them center around putting the cue ball in the correct spot for a half ball hit.
In one video a guy recommends to put the cue ball on the head string one diamond out from the side rail. He makes a few shots to demonstrate. This is a great example of how the brain corrects for error and fools us into thinking we are doing something we are not. This guy should be undercutting every shot but he isn't. He's subconsciously aiming thinner than 1/2 ball and doesn't know it.
In a couple other video and print sources I find the recommendation to line the cue ball up with the edge of the corner pocket. How big are your pockets? I've tried this and found it to be imprecise.
Another method recommends to put the cue ball one diamond out from the side rail minus something like 3 inches. This might be fine, but is a little imprecise as well.
A last video said that no objective way of finding the exact half ball hit position exists with fractional aimng. This is wrong.
With Brian's Poolology, the half ball hit is determined with precision by drawing a line between the center of the cue ball and the center of the object ball and into the foot rail. You have a specific rail position to align to, and from there you only need to hit a half ball. I find it much easier to aim through the ob to a rail position than I do to aim from the cue ball back and beneath where I am shooting, like aligning to a corner pocket. It's just easier to aim outwards and away.
One thing you may find is that your ability to actually hit the half ball is better for left cuts than it is for right, or vice versa. This provides another good use of Poolology. We know that if the ob is in dead center table and the cue ball is on the head spot, this is a half ball hit to the corner pockets. I highly recommend that you set this shot up and hit a just a few shots every couple of days. To my surprise, I found that my cuts to the right did not go in every day. I have a bias that creeps into my alignment that only seems to affect right cuts. I consider this just another tool to test out my stroke.
That about covers what I had to say. Happy shootin'!
(No, I'm not affiliated with Poolology!)
In perusing the internet on the topic of spot shots (in which the cue ball is in the kitchen and the ob is on the foot spot) I find a hodge podge of methods to make the spot shot easier. Most of them center around putting the cue ball in the correct spot for a half ball hit.
In one video a guy recommends to put the cue ball on the head string one diamond out from the side rail. He makes a few shots to demonstrate. This is a great example of how the brain corrects for error and fools us into thinking we are doing something we are not. This guy should be undercutting every shot but he isn't. He's subconsciously aiming thinner than 1/2 ball and doesn't know it.
In a couple other video and print sources I find the recommendation to line the cue ball up with the edge of the corner pocket. How big are your pockets? I've tried this and found it to be imprecise.
Another method recommends to put the cue ball one diamond out from the side rail minus something like 3 inches. This might be fine, but is a little imprecise as well.
A last video said that no objective way of finding the exact half ball hit position exists with fractional aimng. This is wrong.
With Brian's Poolology, the half ball hit is determined with precision by drawing a line between the center of the cue ball and the center of the object ball and into the foot rail. You have a specific rail position to align to, and from there you only need to hit a half ball. I find it much easier to aim through the ob to a rail position than I do to aim from the cue ball back and beneath where I am shooting, like aligning to a corner pocket. It's just easier to aim outwards and away.
One thing you may find is that your ability to actually hit the half ball is better for left cuts than it is for right, or vice versa. This provides another good use of Poolology. We know that if the ob is in dead center table and the cue ball is on the head spot, this is a half ball hit to the corner pockets. I highly recommend that you set this shot up and hit a just a few shots every couple of days. To my surprise, I found that my cuts to the right did not go in every day. I have a bias that creeps into my alignment that only seems to affect right cuts. I consider this just another tool to test out my stroke.
That about covers what I had to say. Happy shootin'!
(No, I'm not affiliated with Poolology!)