Capelle/Cueball In P&B Magazine

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DrCue'sProtege

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was down at the amish restaurant last night, usually go there on thursday nights, and take a pool magazine with me and read while i eat.

i noticed in Phil Capelle's column in this months Pool & Billiard Magazine that he is going through the shooting sequence. near the end of the firing sequence he says to basically focus on the cue ball last.

just wondering if anyone else caught that. the issue has been discussed on here before.

DCP
 
If you really want to find out for yourself, the answer to the 'What do you look at LAST?... cue ball or object ball" go watch a LIVE PRO event and make a study of how the PROS (highest skill level in our sport) do it. It is easy to tell most of the time, if their eyebrows go up they are looking at the OB, if they stay down, they are looking at the CB.

As long as I LOOK at both (back and forth), for me, it depends on the type of shot. I usually look at the cue ball last (this is the only place on the table I have any chance of hitting with my cue)

Trying it both ways during your practice sessions is your only true way of finding out how much better you can pot the balls.
 
That Amish restaurant is the total BOMB! My wife found it by accident, while she was shopping, and we had dinner there, after our lesson! The food is out of this world, and if you go home hungry, you were trying! :D As far as eye pattern goes...you HAVE the information, if you choose to believe it.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
 
Scott Lee said:
That Amish restaurant is the total BOMB! My wife found it by accident, while she was shopping, and we had dinner there, after our lesson! The food is out of this world, and if you go home hungry, you were trying! :D As far as eye pattern goes...you HAVE the information, if you choose to believe it.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
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which one? the one at Boggs Lake, north of Loogootee? or the one 7 miles down the road in Montgomery called The Gasthof? then there is Knepp's on Highway 50. and there is the Black Buggy in Washington.

actually there are a handful of Amish restaurants in this area.

DCP
 
DrCue'sProtege said:
... i noticed in Phil Capelle's column in this months Pool & Billiard Magazine that he is going through the shooting sequence. near the end of the firing sequence he says to basically focus on the cue ball last.
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Let me try to unhijack this thread from a discussion of restaurants few of us will ever see.

DCP, your problem is a typo. The typo is in both the column you read in P&B and in the book the column was extracted from which is "Capelle's Practicing Pool." The item you read is in a brief checklist that appears on page 46 of the book, and is repeated in the diagram on page 47.

That was a typo. What you need to do is go to page 58 where Phil goes on at length as follows:

The Long Last Look
During the preparatory phase of the shot cycle, your eyes will shift back and forth from the object ball to the cue ball and back as you take your warm up strokes. Once the final backstroke begins, your eyes should be locked on the object ball. This stare lasts all of the way to contact and possibly beyond. If you take a leisurely final stroke, especially at the point of transition, you will get a considerably longer look at the object ball. I'm only talking about fractions of a second, but these fractions loom large in the performance of any athletic activity involving this kind of precision. This will improve the coordination between your eye and your arm and hand.

The Cure[that the long last look provides]: Eliminates the mistake of having too little time to switch your gaze back to the object ball. The quick look keeps you from locking on the shot.​
The emphasis in the above is Phil's as the book is printed. I believe this makes it completely clear that the P&B excerpt is the result of a typpo. In addition, there are several other places in the book where he repeats the correct command to look at the object ball last.

From the time I read the column until I found the correct instructions in the book, I thought Phil had lost his mind. It turns out that his fingers just slipped.
 
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