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Aiming book by Richard Eshelman -- The Deadly Aiming System
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Prolly goes on to obfuscate the process causing death.
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possibly a version of equal/opposite. never heard of the book, the author or the "deadly" aiming system.Looks like "contact point geometry" to me. Lol.
Yep, but with less numbers maybe.
I'm sure there's a world beater out there somewhere who'll vouch for this elaborate aiming method. Though I seriously doubt it.
Mika Immonen teaches a version of equal opposite in his DVDs. Here is a thread about it many years ago.
A simple aiming system
I just thought I'd throw this out there for good conversation. I did not make it up, it's been around since the beginning of time. Does anyone make practical use of this at the table? The premise: find the contact point on OB through center of pocket on back of ball. Find contact point on CB...
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this is on page 3 of the link
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A simple aiming system
I just thought I'd throw this out there for good conversation. I did not make it up, it's been around since the beginning of time. Does anyone make practical use of this at the table? The premise: find the contact point on OB through center of pocket on back of ball. Find contact point on CB...
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The system mohrt posted is as john wrote already known gor a long time. Just with other names. Back of ball, aiming by numbers etc.
I used this and 2 other system for more than 25 years. And there are still situations where i have the simple knowledge.
It s a great system to teach especially beginners the finer points.
Again : pool is all about getting the correct perceiption. But not every system works for each human. No matter if its caused by not understanding or what ever.
If we use the words "easy" or "simple" they re not always objective , hm
?I.careful by using words like easy and simple nowadays.
Sean can "see" the ghostball...me not.
I can connect " the lines" by using aiming by numbers" ...other cannot.
Cte/pro one .... same aspects.
Why just dont enjoy so many ways to do something ;-)
Yeah, I've seen it. Lol. Very impractical from behind the cb, in my opinion.
Besides that, the diagram Mohrt posted in that old thread is wrong. The contact point on the cb is found by using a parallel line, parallel to the ob line to the pocket. Then imagine a line connecting the cp's, then shift (parallel) to ccb. Yeah....pretty easy. It's easy to draw on paper, but sure not easy to visualize in reality.
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That diagram is FOS as pointed out elsewhere in the thread.
Once you get the preshot particulars down, there's nothing impractical about it. It's designed to be configured FROM THE CUE BALL. You do need to develop an eye for the orientation of the contact point/line as it won't always be practical to eyeball it from the shooting position.
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Yep. The ob contact point (if you can keep it in focus from behind the cb), should be matched up to the cb contact point (if you can visualize a perfect parallel line that matches the ob-to-pocket line, then keep that cb contact point in focus (which is on the unseen side of the cb...
), and then estimate a perfect parallel shift to ccb, you should be right on the money to pocket the ball. Yep....pretty easy and practical. Or the player can just look at the ob and estimate where the cb needs to be in order to pocket the ball, either by imagining a ghostball or estimating a fractional overlap. After a while, it becomes easy to recognize, and it doesn't involve estimating multiple points and parallel lines.
The system that Mohrt diagramed I call the "nearest to farthest". It uses two points: the point on the cue ball that is nearest to the pocket and the point on the object ball that is the farthest from the pocket. The system is to send the first point at the second point, which is to say that your cue stick should be parallel to a line joining those two points (but centered on the cue ball, of course).
The "nearest to farthest" is a totally bogus system that is obviously broken for all cut shots. It is guaranteed to hit the object ball too full. This is really easy to see.
Here is the thread I started about it:
Nearest to farthest -- how bad is it?
Here is an aiming system. Like all aiming systems, it is not perfect. My question is: How bad is it? In particular what is the worst error you will have on common shots? What situations really cause it to break down? The system is this: There is a spot on the object ball that is the farthest...
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Yep. The ob contact point (if you can keep it in focus from behind the cb), should be matched up to the cb contact point (if you can visualize a perfect parallel line that matches the ob-to-pocket line, then keep that cb contact point in focus (which is on the unseen side of the cb...
Or the player can just look at the ob and estimate where the cb needs to be in order to pocket the ball, either by imagining a ghostball or estimating a fractional overlap. After a while, it becomes easy to recognize, and it doesn't involve estimating multiple points and parallel lines.
I use the stick to establish the parallel. If you lay the stick across the points, you can easily roll the stick over the half inch +- to center ball. Voila, parallel. Not only that, the tip of your stick should be crossing the shot line right at the ghost ball base. Not even GBall does that. It's not vital to making the shots but in close where it's easy to do accurately, knowing the ghost point is a pretty cool reference.
I find that on pool pockets even estimating the shot line isn't a recipe for missing. I often use my hands and fingers directly in the field of vision to establish tangents and ball sections. At a foot in front of my face, the movements are a few inches at most and given competent stroking, very reliable.
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Let's be honest, the simplest one is to get good a seeing the aiming line and commit to it .
Body, visual and stroke .
Body, visual and stroke .
I bet that works good too. Way to go
This is also known as DAS, not to be confusiscated with DAM:
Dr. Dave's Aiming Method (DAM) Aiming System - Dr. Dave Pool Info
Answers to frequently-asked questions about Dr. Dave's Aiming Method (DAM) aiming system.
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Who are you and what have you done with Low?I bet that works good too. Way to go
Technique is the shit man. In those Olympic poser sports, the look is everything. The scale even goes to flawless.
Pool, you just gotta hit a ball good but the same prep needs to be there.