thenaturalpoolplayer
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I don't use any aiming systems. I have been deconstructing my game, and found that as much as I thought I was landing on the english I needed...I am in fact kind of pivoting across the cueball. My body is aligned with the english I need, but I don't immediately point the cue at the english that I have lined up for, but I kind of pivot across the cueball after what seems to be finding the edge of both the cueball and object ball...during the eye pattern stage. Also, when I pivot, its not backhand english because my bridge hand does slide to line up the cue with my body. Once my cue moves to the English I aligned for I will feel balanced.
This pivot happens so quickly and so naturally, it can be so slight that to the naked eye you couldn't notice it, and I can barely feel it myself but it's there.
So maybe edging in whatever form is just the way our brains aim naturally because the edges are a finite reference point?
UPDATE:
After further testing I think I am just using the ghost ball method actually...that has become muscle memory.
This pivot happens so quickly and so naturally, it can be so slight that to the naked eye you couldn't notice it, and I can barely feel it myself but it's there.
So maybe edging in whatever form is just the way our brains aim naturally because the edges are a finite reference point?
UPDATE:
After further testing I think I am just using the ghost ball method actually...that has become muscle memory.
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