Magictrat007
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Shoot the shots you have problems with for about 20 minutes a day every day for a couple months and they won’t be problems anymore. Best advice I ever got
Best Advice Ever For Straight-In Shots?
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This is my favorite AIMING method and I use it on every straight in shot. Set up the shot as you diagramed. Aim to shoot it straight in the same way you usually aim. Now while down on the shot, shift your aim to a couple inches to the right of the pocket. Now shift your aim to the left of the pocket.. Keep staying down on the shot and repeat this process of shifting back and forth until it feels like you are centered on the shot. Shoot it in.
As part of my PSR, when i have completed aiming, I take 2 practice strokes while looking only at the cue stick to make sure it is going straight. Then on my final stroke I look only at the spot on the object ball, slowly draw back, pause for 1/2 second, and now accelerate straight. Good luck.
As part of my PSR, when i have completed aiming, I take 2 practice strokes while looking only at the cue stick to make sure it is going straight. Then on my final stroke I look only at the spot on the object ball, slowly draw back, pause for 1/2 second, and now accelerate straight. Good luck.
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Always walk up to the cueing your going to address to whitey.
I have thought its similar also to how you want iron sights spaced fair apart to ensure better alignment (as opposed having iron sights spaced an inch apart for example).
Crude enough for pool:
Upper right is object ball aimed to go. If you walk up and shoot this center to center; obviously wrong.
Make sure cue ball line and object ball line are congruent.
Upper right is object ball aimed to go. If you walk up and shoot this center to center; obviously wrong.
Make sure cue ball line and object ball line are congruent.
Evelyn Wanderone said pretty much the same thing when we talked after fatty died. He'd practice shots to get em right.
InsertCleverNameHere
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Whatever works I guess but no way this is going to work for many people.
I miss both to the left and then to the right. On a fairly consistent basis.
But I obviously think I am doing the same thing every time. Addressing the ball the same way. Aiming the same way. Firing the same way. But sometimes I miss left and sometimes I miss right.
See my other thread I just posted. I am pretty bad anymore.
r/DCP
Copied from another one of my posts
I think this sums it up beautifully (copied from this thread https://forums.azbilliards.com/thre...hot-making-advice-needed.572178/#post-8038606):
www.pooldawg.com
Same concept when you jack the cue up, your aiming and alignment point changes. One thing that helps me is try rotating your bridge hand at the wrist left or right (I usually go left as a right handed shooter, more than you think) when you are not feeling you are shooting strait shots correctly or your cue ball contact point is off when it meets the object ball or rail.
I think this sums it up beautifully (copied from this thread https://forums.azbilliards.com/thre...hot-making-advice-needed.572178/#post-8038606):
How to Shoot Straighter: Correcting the Vertical Axis Perception Error
Long, straight shots with “a lot of green” are some of the most intimidating shots in pool. You would think that since the shot is straight in, it should be easy, right...
www.pooldawg.com
Same concept when you jack the cue up, your aiming and alignment point changes. One thing that helps me is try rotating your bridge hand at the wrist left or right (I usually go left as a right handed shooter, more than you think) when you are not feeling you are shooting strait shots correctly or your cue ball contact point is off when it meets the object ball or rail.
You need a good instructor.
Hands on.
Your cue action/results have a tell.... to help, I'd need to see you play.
I'll be in NV in May, and IA in April.
I'd think in your area Indiana, there should be a few good ones.
Best guess, your not swinging straight thru your chosen cue ball contact point.
We've all done that, especially with an obj. ball Close the hole.
On the last/finish swing you go slightly outward, creates a steering type cueing, and a bad habit.
bm
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oh my gosh, really?
This is how it works: miss straight in, stroke not straight.
Stroke straight, ball go straight. Stroke crooked, ball go crooked, Grasshopper.
Lou Figueroa
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He has taken many lessons from some of the best instructors
What do you suggest?
I am pretty sure scott lee for one
He used to come into ask the Instructer forum all the time asking basic questions
That was many years ago. I would think by now a protégé would have these things masteted
I don’t remember everything, but I remember the general gist that the vibe never seemed to be great between him the posters and the instructors
I could be miss remembering
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Copied from another one of my posts
I think this sums it up beautifully (copied from this thread https://forums.azbilliards.com/thre...hot-making-advice-needed.572178/#post-8038606):
How to Shoot Straighter: Correcting the Vertical Axis Perception Error
Long, straight shots with “a lot of green” are some of the most intimidating shots in pool. You would think that since the shot is straight in, it should be easy, right...
Same concept when you jack the cue up, your aiming and alignment point changes. One thing that helps me is try rotating your bridge hand at the wrist left or right (I usually go left as a right handed shooter, more than you think) when you are not feeling you are shooting strait shots correctly or your cue ball contact point is off when it meets the object ball or rail.
From that article:
Max SIT goes up the greater the cut angle, so a cut angle of 0 (straight in) may have the LEAST throw effect on the object ball. Reference:
SIT and cut angle
I've read some of Dr. Daves stuff on Spin Induced Throw (SIT), and I've watched the video where he shows that paradoxically maximum SIT occurs with only 50% of maximum side spin--for straight in shots. You might think maximum throw would occur with maximum side spin, but that is not the case...
forums.azbilliards.com
I wonder: will a small amount of sidespin cause more throw on a straight in shot or a 1/2 ball hit (30 degrees)?
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No one is good at long straight in shots. Even pros. If there was a "trick" we'd all make them easily.
Distance is the killer to every shot in pool.
Distance is the killer to every shot in pool.