Aiming B.S.

[BC21]

I'm talking about how no one, as far as I know, has truly explained how to aim. Again, they show you the roadmap, so to speak, that you must go down, but they don't teach you how to make the trip. What must be done to know that you will execute the shot perfectly from the moment just before you execute the shot until you release the cue ball. These are all the things that must be done prior to make it happen. What are these things and how can you guarantee to make them happen? Since, as far as I know, no one has done this, I say that all these how-to aim claims are B.S. All of these things combined amount to aiming. If you can't run balls, of course you are not competent to run balls. But if you are perfectly healthy and you have no physical impediment and are of at least average intelligence, yet can't run balls, I'd say it is because you have not learned how to do it. And with all the videos and instructors available, I would have thought the information would be common knowledge. But I find this not to be the case. So where is the bottleneck? I'm saying it is B.S. that all of these resources must be not what they claim to be. Think about it. Why else are most pool players dissatisfied with their games.

Lol.... funny thread.

It's like saying no one really teaches how to juggle tennis balls or whatever - they just describe how to toss the balls, how to move the hands and arms, and then show how easy it is to do. But it's not easy, not without first spending countless hours practicing the toss and the rhythm of the movements, until it you just know it, feel it.

That's like aiming. For us that have played countless hours, or spent some quality time practicing aiming, alignment, stance, stroke, etc... aiming is as simple as just seeing and doing. It requires programming your mind to recognize shots and how to play them.

There is no magical secret any pro can give you to suddenly improve your aiming skills. They can only tell you how they do it, or how they think they do it. But the end result is simply experience and practice, and that's not something any player can give you. Aiming skills are developed, earned, more or less, on the table.