Aiming technique questions

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lawful777

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I posted this on Ask the Instructor and got a few answers but wanted to open it up and get a few more. First off, this is not a post to discuss the validation of CTE or other aiming systems. That has been discussed enough on here already. My question is this, what is the special cue stick line up and pivot during your PSR for?

For years now, I have been aiming by feel and as a respectable B player, it has been ok for now. The other night a guy started showing me some aim points, mainly along the horizontal axis of the cue. The second to last position was on the edge, which accounted for appx 80% of my next several practice shots, using center ball. As he said, it did feel like something totally new. To actually focus the aim on that edge and not on a feel good spot. It sounded like something someone else was trying to show me a few months earlier, which I thought was similar to CTE. I think I am practicing this more.

When shooting, It seemed to work really well for me to line up the center of the cue ball with the edge of the object ball using my ferrule and then shooting it, using my normal PSR. I made several shots with little effort and not using the stick alignment/pivot. Please forgive me for not understanding, I am open to learning new things. I just want to keep my game as simple as possible. Thank you in advance for any thoughts....PM's greatly welcomed and appreciated!
 
Best thing's to do would either do a search for cte/or Ron v. or buy Stan's video. Alot of times the hardest part of cte / pro one is making sure you do the correct pivot. If you pivot wrong, you miss by quite a bit.
 
There is no such thing as a normal shot.

What is a abnormal shot?

However you aim, it must work for all shots,not just a percentage of shots.
 
duckie said:
There is no such thing as a normal shot.

What is a abnormal shot?

However you aim, it must work for all shots,not just a percentage of shots.
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Actually, I have found that it is best to use different aiming techniques based on the type of shot and having backup to double check always helps. I don't think there is a single easy to visualize approach to all shots.
 
Masayoshi said:
Actually, I have found that it is best to use different aiming techniques based on the type of shot and having backup to double check always helps. I don't think there is a single easy to visualize approach to all shots.
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I totally agree with you. I go through a list of aiming systems and use one right after another to double and triple check to see if the shot will go.
 
lawful777 said:
I posted this on Ask the Instructor and got a few answers but wanted to open it up and get a few more. First off, this is not a post to discuss the validation of CTE or other aiming systems. That has been discussed enough on here already. My question is this, what is the special cue stick line up and pivot during your PSR for?

For years now, I have been aiming by feel and as a respectable B player, it has been ok for now. The other night a guy started showing me some aim points, mainly along the horizontal axis of the cue. The second to last position was on the edge, which accounted for appx 80% of my next several practice shots, using center ball. As he said, it did feel like something totally new. To actually focus the aim on that edge and not on a feel good spot. It sounded like something someone else was trying to show me a few months earlier, which I thought was similar to CTE. I think I am practicing this more.

When shooting, It seemed to work really well for me to line up the center of the cue ball with the edge of the object ball using my ferrule and then shooting it, using my normal PSR. I made several shots with little effort and not using the stick alignment/pivot. Please forgive me for not understanding, I am open to learning new things. I just want to keep my game as simple as possible. Thank you in advance for any thoughts....PM's greatly welcomed and appreciated!
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When you see a post by Spiderwebcom(Dave) Look at the bottom of his post and there is a link to his page. He is more knowledgeable than most about the subject and has diagrams and explanations on the page.
 
Masayoshi said:
Actually, I have found that it is best to use different aiming techniques based on the type of shot and having backup to double check always helps. I don't think there is a single easy to visualize approach to all shots.
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I agree with al the above and a backup aiming tecnigue really helps on those shots that you get down on and it just don't feel right.
 
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