Your on the right track boogieman....
Here's my thoughts. His system works, but it's probably the same thing that you already have going on if you get down into stance and are "auto-magically™" lined up with the shot. When you're in dead stroke this happens without thought.
Remember when we were beginners and tried the whole ghost ball thing and it sort of worked, then we saw the system fell apart in certain situations? Well, if you stick with pool and learn about approaching the shot, you kind of end up with the same system that Gene sells. Would it be super helpful as a beginner or novice player? Yeah, could have saved months/years of trial and error, depending on how serious you were at the game. CJ has some of his instructional videos on youtube where he goes into aim and stance, and as far as I can tell, this is a similar aim thing that Gene teaches.
If you can already get down into the shot, close your eyes and make the ball, there's nothing to see here. As a beginner or someone with no understanding of dominate eye, aiming things, etc, this would be very helpful and a worthwhile thing to learn about. If you already have this, not so much. Sure he claims to show this system to pros and good players and they are impressed. Well, it's possible they haven't really thought about what they are doing and are impressed. He probably does explain it very well, and it's a subject not everyone thinks about. Ever read a more advanced pool book, like Banking With the Beard, came upon a specific section and though to yourself, I was already doing that, but had no idea that's what was going on or why a certain spin was working for you? It's a similar thing. You've already learned a tidbit of knowledge but didn't fully understand why it worked? Ever hit a super thin cut with outside and understood you had to adjust or you'd overcut it? Books/websites/teachers explain why this is, but it doesn't mean you can't already adapt to and understand it works, even though you can't explain why it's the case.
All systems by themselves break down, but if you're in the correct line and have aimed correctly, that's the best base you can have, though it's no magic bullet, you'll still have to get you knocks at the table and put the practice in to learn how to coax the ball in and negate things like collision induced throw, applied English, etc.
One of my nephew's friends (mine too now) asked me about how to aim last night. He's played at our table for a few months on weekends. He's got natural ability but I figured I'd let him get some balls knocked around before trying to "train." No use adding a ton of confusing stuff until your subconscious has a little background data to pull from. I briefly explained ghost ball, but I told him that's kind of the way beginners do it, or fall back on when you're utterly confused about an odd shot. I asked what his dominate eye was, he's into sports and shooting so he already knows, but we even did the little triangle finger test thing. Talked to him about the stick residing under his dominate eye no matter what his personal stance was to be comfortable and not wobbly feeling. I showed him while standing up and analyzing the table how to aim and look at the ball. You naturally fall into position if your eyes are right, and the stick ends up under your dominate eye. He's a beginner but a smart guy and a natural athlete so it clicked almost immediately with him. I told him about how you could feel the shot and if anything felt off, to get up, get a look on the ball, chalk again if you need to clear your head, and get back into position. He damn near immediately started improving. Even had him do a few short shots with his eyes closed. So if this is similar to the perfect aim system, the system does work. It's difficult to put this into words so people can understand, but luckily athletic people with hand eye coordination catch on rather quickly. I also explained that once you are in the proper line and saw the shot correctly while up, and also in your stance it's kind of like shooting an arrow or throwing a baseball, you pick the spot and throw/release the arrow and it hits. It's all about aiming correctly (picking the small target) and trusting your body/stroke to deliver. Smooth consistent stroke, get the mechanical issues fixed and as long as you can aim, it drops.
If I'm way off base by what this system is, please correct my ignorance, but I don't see it being any different, especially once the "automatic" mode thing was talked about.
You are about where I was when I first started learning how these eyes work. Unfortunately I had no one to tell me there was something to this.
I knew a little back then but thought I knew allot.
1995 was when I first started working on this. I would just help some players that I ran into. Some it helped and some it didn't.
The reason it didn't help for some is they just were not coordinated to naturally get there with limited information. I didn't have the whole story yet.
1999 I quit playing pool. Heart was too bad but didn't know it. Just didn't have enough energy.
2008 I started playing again and couldn't play at all. Then I thought about what I was teaching to to players back in the 90's and applied it. I won a couple of tournaments in a row almost immediately. .
2009 I went on the road to teach this. Made a video to give to the player so they would remember what they learned. Not forget like I did.
After doing about 2,000 lessons on the road, 10,000 plus mini lessons for free, I got rear ended in Peoria, Ill. Drunk drivers that took off.
Went back to Wis. 8 months later and finally had c5.c6. c7 fused in my neck. Right knee replaced, heart surgery and lung surgery.
During this downtime between surgeries I continued to do lessons and learn more about how these eyes worked.
Sometimes I feel like the only Dr that can do a heart surgery.
I'm not saying that I know everything that there is to know about this dominant eye business but I know enough to help every player that I have ever worked with in the last 3 years for sure.
And I do know enough to know that nobody else has ever figured this out.
And for such a small price. $150 for a skype lesson I can teach any player what took me 20 plus years to learn.
Learning this whole story is priceless. Just ask one of the players that has learned this?
A do 3 per week in person at $300 and before everyone of these lessons I usually have to do a mini lesson to help them understand how much they need to learn this. Then they set up the full lesson right away. I do these on Tue wed and thur and booked up a week ahead of time. That's all I can do right now with my health issues.
I really need to do these mini lessons on skype to show players how much this is effecting their games and they don't even know it.
I think that is the answer here.
So the answer is right Boogieman, you do understand some of it and you helped someone understand it a little bit. And you can see how much it helps. It's the whole thing.
I'd like you to be my first mini lesson on skype to show and explain why you need to do this.
I hope you accept the offer. It might be the answer to helping more players on skype.
715-563-8712 give me a call.....
