I would like to take this opportunity to introduce my recently developed aiming system. The reason I came up with this new, and some say controversial, system is to provide a safe and efficient means by which the novice pool player can increase their ball pocketing percentage as quickly as possible.
I call it the 'Intermedie-Petey' aiming system. It's named after one of three brothers who were childhood friends of mine and is also descriptive of how the system is used. There was 'Big Petey', 'Little Petey', and the one my system is named after, the one in the middle.
To use this system correctly, one must rearrange their thinking in a way that allows the oblect ball to be looked at as an intermediary. For intance; if you were to set up a straight-in shot on the table and were to draw an imaginary line from the cue ball, through the object ball, and into the back of the pocket, then just as you struck the cue ball your assistant took the object ball off the table you would see the cue ball fall into the pocket and realize, had the object ball been in place, it would have been the one to fall into the hole. Therefore, think of the object ball as an intermediate target. Mentally place it on the correct line to the target (be it rail or pocket) and let it get get in the way of the cue ball.
What about cut shots, you may ask. No problem. Stand behind the object ball, see the target line, then simply choose the correct tangent line off the target line and make the shot with a precise stroke.
Well, what about spin (english)? Again, no problem. Simply add or subtract the correct amount needed from the no spin tangent line and fire away. Today's low deflection shafts make this job even easier.
So there you have it. A simplified approach to pocketing balls.
And, remember. Practice, practice, practice.
I call it the 'Intermedie-Petey' aiming system. It's named after one of three brothers who were childhood friends of mine and is also descriptive of how the system is used. There was 'Big Petey', 'Little Petey', and the one my system is named after, the one in the middle.
To use this system correctly, one must rearrange their thinking in a way that allows the oblect ball to be looked at as an intermediary. For intance; if you were to set up a straight-in shot on the table and were to draw an imaginary line from the cue ball, through the object ball, and into the back of the pocket, then just as you struck the cue ball your assistant took the object ball off the table you would see the cue ball fall into the pocket and realize, had the object ball been in place, it would have been the one to fall into the hole. Therefore, think of the object ball as an intermediate target. Mentally place it on the correct line to the target (be it rail or pocket) and let it get get in the way of the cue ball.
What about cut shots, you may ask. No problem. Stand behind the object ball, see the target line, then simply choose the correct tangent line off the target line and make the shot with a precise stroke.
Well, what about spin (english)? Again, no problem. Simply add or subtract the correct amount needed from the no spin tangent line and fire away. Today's low deflection shafts make this job even easier.
So there you have it. A simplified approach to pocketing balls.
And, remember. Practice, practice, practice.
