aiming help
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Take some time and read through this article by Dr. Dave.
http://billiards.colostate.edu/threads/aiming.html
Try out a few methods and stick with one or maybe a combination of a few for different shots. There isn't one best aiming system out there. One will tell you what works best for him, and another person just around the corner will tell you something completely different. The best is you take time to learn and choose what works for you.
http://billiards.colostate.edu/threads/aiming.html
Try out a few methods and stick with one or maybe a combination of a few for different shots. There isn't one best aiming system out there. One will tell you what works best for him, and another person just around the corner will tell you something completely different. The best is you take time to learn and choose what works for you.
The best aiming system is the one that allows you to see where you need to aim to make the shot. For some, it is ghost ball, SAM, contact aiming, CTE, double distance, or whatever.
The one thing they all have in common is that they are all designed to help you find WHERE you need to aim. And they should all put the cue ball in the same spot.
If you could video tape down the cue stick toward the same shot, no matter which aiming system was being used, it would look exactly the same.
So the simple answer is, the best aiming system is the one that works best for YOU.
Steve
The one thing they all have in common is that they are all designed to help you find WHERE you need to aim. And they should all put the cue ball in the same spot.
If you could video tape down the cue stick toward the same shot, no matter which aiming system was being used, it would look exactly the same.
So the simple answer is, the best aiming system is the one that works best for YOU.
Steve
Not to speak for them, but many of the instructors who frequent this forum (that we are so fortunate to be able to ask these questions to, thanks guys!) have stated in the past that they teach many different aiming systems.
That tells me that most of these systems have something to offer, it depends on the individual. Which of course means that we, the user, have to try them and see for ourselves, not to make our decisions based on what others have to say.
Sure, recommendations are helpful. But you'll find just as many people that don't like a given system as those who do.
Good luck in your quest.
That tells me that most of these systems have something to offer, it depends on the individual. Which of course means that we, the user, have to try them and see for ourselves, not to make our decisions based on what others have to say.
Sure, recommendations are helpful. But you'll find just as many people that don't like a given system as those who do.
Good luck in your quest.
Spend a day with me. I can teach several different aiming systems. Hopefully a couple of them will make sense and we can expand the system. All of them are dependant upon your Alignment & Delivery Process.
I will be in Elkridge, Md. the entire last week of June. I will be willing to set aside a day for you.
My email address is: randyg@poolschool.com
Thanks
randyg
There are any number of aiming systems/methods out there. and all of them probably help somebody. Here is one that you may or may not have heard of, an oldie, but I think it's an interesting concept. I have heard it called "the bracket method". All you do, is set up a shot, any shot, straight in or reasonably makeable angle, and then try to miss it, but try missing an equal amount on each side of the pocket, and then by lessening amounts. I mean, if you can control where not to hit em, everything else has to be good, right? The thing I like about this is, even the misses are positive.
Interesting, although I'm not sure practicing missing shots is a good thing.
Why not practice making them in one side of the pocket or the other and see how much room there is to play with? You still learn where the "brackets" are, but you are practicing something with a positive outcome, and not a negative one.
Steve
Why not practice making them in one side of the pocket or the other and see how much room there is to play with? You still learn where the "brackets" are, but you are practicing something with a positive outcome, and not a negative one.
Steve
Well I concede that you know alot more about teaching than I, but I just thought it was an interesting concept, I mean, the point is to hit where you are aiming, and thats not always a pocket. The main emphasis I take from it, is the visual of what don't go, on each side of the pocket, then just shoot in between. I play alot of one pocket, and I can tell you the hardest shot sometimes for me is the little thin spin bank back across the end of the table, more than once I have fired it straight into my oponents hole. I mean, it's a perfectly good pocket over there, hard not to just shoot it in there.
I understand the concept, and I think learning the range is a good idea.
My point was rather than finding out the range by missing, find it by how far can you go and still make it.
We learn through repetition. It's best if we train ourselves to do the things we want to do, and not to do things we don't want to do.
It might be a small thing...but it's the little things that make the difference in many pool games.
Steve
My point was rather than finding out the range by missing, find it by how far can you go and still make it.
We learn through repetition. It's best if we train ourselves to do the things we want to do, and not to do things we don't want to do.
It might be a small thing...but it's the little things that make the difference in many pool games.
Steve
good point,,,,,,
Give me a call
Hi there,
This is what I do. Teach aiming.
In 20 minutes on the phone I will teach you more than you might learn in your lifetime about aiming.
Give me a call and I will get you on the right track.
After learning what I teach you can then work on your body and stroke getting the correct info from the eys and the brain to execute the shots correctly.
What I teach is how to get the eyes in this most Perfect position so you can naturally visualize exactly how much of the object ball you want to hit.
Just give me a call. 715-563-8712 after 8:00 any night,
Looking forward to working with you. Geno..............
Hi there,
This is what I do. Teach aiming.
In 20 minutes on the phone I will teach you more than you might learn in your lifetime about aiming.
Give me a call and I will get you on the right track.
After learning what I teach you can then work on your body and stroke getting the correct info from the eys and the brain to execute the shots correctly.
What I teach is how to get the eyes in this most Perfect position so you can naturally visualize exactly how much of the object ball you want to hit.
Just give me a call. 715-563-8712 after 8:00 any night,
Looking forward to working with you. Geno..............
There are a host of great systems out there. The only problem I've ever seen with "most" of the systems is that they require too much conscious thought to accomplish... this will wear you down over the course of a long match or a night of pool.
Years ago, I wrote something that, after you choose a method of ball pocketing that works well for you, might help you eliminate most of the conscious thought. It certainly helped me and a many others that have tried it.
It's really nothing new... no rocket science, no special potion, no pixie dust to buy and sprinkle on your cue... just common sense. I'm not selling anything, just offering this to anyone who wants to see it.
I tried to paste it to this board, but it is way too long for the 13K character limit. If you're interested (if anyone is interested) just send me a PM with your email address and I'll send it to you.
Keep in mind that no system that ANYONE can teach you will work well without good fundamentals... stroke, stroke, stroke! To me, that's what it's all about. Once you have conquered the fundamentals, or the foundation of the game, then a good system will give you a shorter road to good shot making.
I'm probably going to start another fight! :wink: I use a system to pocket balls. The one I've settled on after trying all others is Stan Shuffett's ProOne. I know ProOne is a touchy subject on this board, so I'm not trying to sell anyone on it or push it, just saying that it works well for me. I LOVE it, it makes it EASY for me to see the shots, esp the tough thin shots, and I just nailed second this past weekend in what is probably the biggest, most prestigious tournament in Arkansas using it.
Did I "burn it in" with the method I outlined in the article that I wrote? Absolutely!
Stroke straight, finish well...
Bob
Years ago, I wrote something that, after you choose a method of ball pocketing that works well for you, might help you eliminate most of the conscious thought. It certainly helped me and a many others that have tried it.
It's really nothing new... no rocket science, no special potion, no pixie dust to buy and sprinkle on your cue... just common sense. I'm not selling anything, just offering this to anyone who wants to see it.
I tried to paste it to this board, but it is way too long for the 13K character limit. If you're interested (if anyone is interested) just send me a PM with your email address and I'll send it to you.
Keep in mind that no system that ANYONE can teach you will work well without good fundamentals... stroke, stroke, stroke! To me, that's what it's all about. Once you have conquered the fundamentals, or the foundation of the game, then a good system will give you a shorter road to good shot making.
I'm probably going to start another fight! :wink: I use a system to pocket balls. The one I've settled on after trying all others is Stan Shuffett's ProOne. I know ProOne is a touchy subject on this board, so I'm not trying to sell anyone on it or push it, just saying that it works well for me. I LOVE it, it makes it EASY for me to see the shots, esp the tough thin shots, and I just nailed second this past weekend in what is probably the biggest, most prestigious tournament in Arkansas using it.
Did I "burn it in" with the method I outlined in the article that I wrote? Absolutely!
Stroke straight, finish well...
Bob
Bob, check your PM's, please. I live about 45 min. from you.
Thanks.
Thanks.
You re a lucky guy ...."Pops" in your neighbourhood-catch and arrest him for one day
lg from overseas,
Ingo
Dr Dave's articles and videos on collision and spin induced throw are amazing. I learned more in a few nights of reading than I could've discovered on my own in a lifetime. Let's face it-along with learning how to aim, you'll need to know where to aim.