Dr. Dave,
Thanks for the diagrams and clarifications. I've visited your site and articles many times and they are among the finest and most comprehensive resources for all pool players.
I recommend your marvelous DVD series to others and watched the first DVD in the series a while back with a friend who came second in the U.S. Amateur that year. He was so pleased to see concepts he'd picked up on a subconscious basis clearly articulated in your work.
Yes, I'm thinking of adjusting for CIT using gearing outside english. Yes, 40% on a half-ball hit is not a lot of english. And certainly the half-ball hit is hit so often and with CIT it's a great opportunity to learn to adjust for CIT.
I have a personal preference that I teach, however, feeling more comfortable having students cutting balls to distant pockets without english.
For players up to strong intermediates in skill, I request that students limit english to a quarter- or half-tip here or there for cue ball shape and not to cinch object balls.
Some of my strong players already line up parallel to the geometric aim line to gear balls, as you can imagine. But the less-experienced have non-level cue sticks, poor shot speeds, and even unintended english on center ball aim from crooked strokes. Gearing balls in we also need to wade through swerve, squirt and having more SIT than they need to adjust for CIT...
I teach students to adjust for CIT using adjustments to the contact point to work on repeatable, straight strokes and basic cue ball shape before they go next level with gearing balls. So my stock answer is easy on the english unless the object ball is close to a pocket.
The old school "object ball not more than a diamond from the pocket" for adding english is a handy frame of reference as for cheating balls. I'll sit there and drill cheating balls from three diamonds away but that's like torture for my weaker students.
Thanks very much.
Thanks for the diagrams and clarifications. I've visited your site and articles many times and they are among the finest and most comprehensive resources for all pool players.
I recommend your marvelous DVD series to others and watched the first DVD in the series a while back with a friend who came second in the U.S. Amateur that year. He was so pleased to see concepts he'd picked up on a subconscious basis clearly articulated in your work.
Yes, I'm thinking of adjusting for CIT using gearing outside english. Yes, 40% on a half-ball hit is not a lot of english. And certainly the half-ball hit is hit so often and with CIT it's a great opportunity to learn to adjust for CIT.
I have a personal preference that I teach, however, feeling more comfortable having students cutting balls to distant pockets without english.
For players up to strong intermediates in skill, I request that students limit english to a quarter- or half-tip here or there for cue ball shape and not to cinch object balls.
Some of my strong players already line up parallel to the geometric aim line to gear balls, as you can imagine. But the less-experienced have non-level cue sticks, poor shot speeds, and even unintended english on center ball aim from crooked strokes. Gearing balls in we also need to wade through swerve, squirt and having more SIT than they need to adjust for CIT...
I teach students to adjust for CIT using adjustments to the contact point to work on repeatable, straight strokes and basic cue ball shape before they go next level with gearing balls. So my stock answer is easy on the english unless the object ball is close to a pocket.
The old school "object ball not more than a diamond from the pocket" for adding english is a handy frame of reference as for cheating balls. I'll sit there and drill cheating balls from three diamonds away but that's like torture for my weaker students.
Thanks very much.