drivermaker
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The Geometric aiming thread brought a lot of responses and views. For the people that say they use "NO AIMING SYSTEM", or, "DEVELOP THEIR OWN AIMING SYSTEM" over time and throw out the beginner stuff, I say hogwash.
The "Develop their own aiming system" theory kinda falls apart when you start extrapolating the shear number of players out there. In other words, if we take 200 players here on AZ, each of us would have developed our own method of aiming over time. Well, 200 ways don't exist. What's even worse is, if there are 20 million people playing this game throughout the world, that means there are 20 MILLION different ways of aiming and setting up to a shot.
There aren't 20 million different ways to aim the CB to OB and line it up to the pocket.
And if all 20 million players use "No Aiming System", that means that NOBODY knows where the hell they're aiming or shooting to.
Stretching it somewhat, I'd say there might be about 6 ways of aiming that most players use and truth of the matter is there's probably 3 that are the dominant ones. Anything that we come up with individually is just an offshoot of those few, so it becomes ours. There aren't 20 million creative geniuses out there to come up with something totally new and different.
What's really amazing is, that anybody that has their "OWN" aiming method can't even describe it and put it into words or writing. How can that be?
Before I get into Cosmic Aiming, let's look at "traditional aiming". Place an OB anywhere on the table. Now walk behind it and line yourself up to a pocket. Draw an imaginary line from the dead center of the pocket through the dead center of the ball and where it exits is what is usually known as the "contact point". This becomes the primary focus of setting up, aligning yourself, and trying to get the CB to strike.
Now, take 2 steps in either direction and again look at the ball and find the dead center of it from this new position that you just moved your body into. What you'll see if you draw a line straight through it is that it's now going into a cushion far from the pocket. Uner Hal's method of aiming, THIS NEW CENTER, regardless of your position on the table, is where your primary focus is and you work around THAT. NOT THE OLD CENTER CONTACT POINT FROM POCKET THROUGH BALL. It's the CENTER from where your CB and OB are in alignment. At other times you're working off of edges. He calls it rotating/revolving centers, and it's easy to see because anytime you move in one direction or another just slightly, the center of the OB changes.
That's all I have to say about it. It's 3-dimensional in nature, if you want to call it cosmic, heresy, malarkey, bullcrap, or whatever, it's only because you don't know it, don't understand it, and don't know how to execute it.
That having been said, can anyone give me a clear cut articulated explanation of how THEY do it? If you want Hal's, talk to the man himself.
'Nuff said.
The "Develop their own aiming system" theory kinda falls apart when you start extrapolating the shear number of players out there. In other words, if we take 200 players here on AZ, each of us would have developed our own method of aiming over time. Well, 200 ways don't exist. What's even worse is, if there are 20 million people playing this game throughout the world, that means there are 20 MILLION different ways of aiming and setting up to a shot.
There aren't 20 million different ways to aim the CB to OB and line it up to the pocket.
And if all 20 million players use "No Aiming System", that means that NOBODY knows where the hell they're aiming or shooting to.
Stretching it somewhat, I'd say there might be about 6 ways of aiming that most players use and truth of the matter is there's probably 3 that are the dominant ones. Anything that we come up with individually is just an offshoot of those few, so it becomes ours. There aren't 20 million creative geniuses out there to come up with something totally new and different.
What's really amazing is, that anybody that has their "OWN" aiming method can't even describe it and put it into words or writing. How can that be?
Before I get into Cosmic Aiming, let's look at "traditional aiming". Place an OB anywhere on the table. Now walk behind it and line yourself up to a pocket. Draw an imaginary line from the dead center of the pocket through the dead center of the ball and where it exits is what is usually known as the "contact point". This becomes the primary focus of setting up, aligning yourself, and trying to get the CB to strike.
Now, take 2 steps in either direction and again look at the ball and find the dead center of it from this new position that you just moved your body into. What you'll see if you draw a line straight through it is that it's now going into a cushion far from the pocket. Uner Hal's method of aiming, THIS NEW CENTER, regardless of your position on the table, is where your primary focus is and you work around THAT. NOT THE OLD CENTER CONTACT POINT FROM POCKET THROUGH BALL. It's the CENTER from where your CB and OB are in alignment. At other times you're working off of edges. He calls it rotating/revolving centers, and it's easy to see because anytime you move in one direction or another just slightly, the center of the OB changes.
That's all I have to say about it. It's 3-dimensional in nature, if you want to call it cosmic, heresy, malarkey, bullcrap, or whatever, it's only because you don't know it, don't understand it, and don't know how to execute it.
That having been said, can anyone give me a clear cut articulated explanation of how THEY do it? If you want Hal's, talk to the man himself.
'Nuff said.
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I assume what is going on is that my memory remembers making shots and missing shots by shooting in various directions, and through time this has developed.