This "there's nothing remotely like Perfect Aim" stuff's gotta stop
Hi there Roger,
I showed this to Jerry when I was playing in the US OPEN. He really liked what he saw. This is absolutely not the same thing or Jerry would have said so. In fact as I was showing him this he called Corey Deuel over and wanted me to show him right away. Corey's match was up so he had to go but Jerry was impressed with what he saw.
I have alot of respect for Jerry. One of the top if not the top pool teacher in the country. I got my first and only pool lesson from this wizard.
Great Guy also.
Please have the facts right before you assume and put it on the internet. Do some research.
I'm sure if I showed Perfect Aim to Buddy he would say the same thing.
When the new Perfect Aim Complete video comes out and you get a chance to see it you will know then that it is not the same as what you think.
Once the new video is done everyone will know that Perfect Aim is totally uique from anything out there. It's tough to learn sometimes but simple to understand once you grasp the simple concept.
Perfect Aim Complete will take care of this. But I will still offer free phone help to anyone that has any trouble understanding or learning Perfect Aim.
I'm just trying to give a wonderful gift to pool. It's called Perfect Aim.
Geno:
Where do I begin? First, it's not my business to get between you and Roger (and frankly, whatever differences you and Roger have, are between you two).
But one thing that really stuck in my craw, are the statements in your post I bolded above.
Now I'm not sure if Roger has reviewed your material or not. Again, that's between you and he. But one thing that *is* abundantly clear, is that you yourself did not do your own research, before making your grandiose claims. I definitely recall past "Perfect Aim" threads where it was brought to your attention that your material is *at least* passingly familiar to the material that Richard Kranicki wrote in his great work, "Answer to a Pool Player's Prayers" written over a decade ago. ("Decade ago," by the way, is the publish/release date of Richard Kranicki's material. Richard actually worked with Willie Mosconi on this material while he was still alive [there's a forward in the book dedicated to the memory of Willie, as well as his wife Flora, with pictures]. So the material actually pre-dates Willie Mosconi's passing in 1993.)
I know you've been posting about Perfect Aim for, what now, almost two years? (Correct me if I'm wrong.) And it came out pretty early on that your material at least "passively resembled" the material covered in Richard Kranicki's book.
For someone to make the suggestion to do research before posting, you've got some cajones, my friend. If *I* came out with a product, and someone informed me that it resembled another product that was already long out on the market, I'd
sure as heck go investigate that other product PERSONALLY (key operative word) to make sure I wasn't copying or plagiarizing. I would've purchased a copy of Richard Kranicki's work myself and studied it.
And, although not having a product out on the market like you, I did. Three years ago, in fact, I purchased a copy of Richard Kranicki's work, and found it "eye opening" (forgive the pun). I also purchased your Perfect Aim DVD when it first came out (first edition). I still have both. I'm at break at work now, therefore I don't have access to my library at home at the moment. But if I were, I'd have attached to this post a photo of my copy of "Answer to a Pool Player's Prayers" next to my copy of your original edition of "Perfect Aim", and my personalized Delta-13 rack in the picture as well, as proof the photo really did come from me, that I really do own both works.
Having reviewed BOTH works, I can say that you DO NOT cover any new ground that is not covered by Richard Kranicki's decade-plus-old work, the latter of which actually covers more ground than what was covered in your original "Perfect Aim" DVD. I won't mention what I mean by "more ground," because it's not my job to spoon-feed -- this is YOUR job to make sure you're not copying, plagiarizing, or else putting a new wrapper on old material without attribution to the original author's work.
Relying on "a friend of a friend" scenario (e.g. your conversation with / presentation to Jerry Briesath) to tell you that your material "may" be similar to someone else's is not how it's done in copyright land. It is YOUR responsibility, not Jerry's or anyone else you show it to, to make sure it really is unique, that you're not just putting a new wrapper on old material without giving credit to the original author.
Normally I would've left this thread alone, relative to your Perfect Aim product. As a proprietor of a commercial product, you have the right to hawk your wares. I find it unfortunate that this whole Perfect Aim / head-eye-alignment issue even exists in pool, when it's a non-issue in other pocket-based cue sports (e.g. snooker, Russian Pyramid, etc.) because of the no-brainer focus on the required fundamentals for those more-precise pocket-based cue sports. However, you found an opportunity, and you're capitalizing on it. Good for you -- I do wish you luck.
But when you made the very bold, bordering-on-obscene-because-of-the-particular-circumstances suggestion for someone else to do his/her research, when you obviously haven't done your own by your own admittance (i.e. you haven't personally reviewed the "similar" work), I just *had* to pipe up. I'm not protecting Roger here; that's his business and he seems to me to be quite capable of holding his own. However, I am calling you out on your position of "doing research." You obviously haven't done yours, Gene, but instead you're hiding behind the "friend of a friend told me it was unique" facade. You need to do
your research, Gene. It's called due diligence. And, although I'm personally not a copyright lawyer, I am a published author and I do know something about this area -- it's actually the law. Go pick yourself up a copy of Richard Kranicki's "Answer to a Pool Player's Prayers." I think you might be in for a bit of a shock.
Respectfully,
-Sean
P.S.: before you go into spiel of how I need to "get the upgrade" for my original copy of Perfect Aim, I need to warn you not to go there. I'm in Information Technologies, and I see this tact used by vendors all the time -- of getting on the "upgrade treadmill" because of how "awesome" the new edition is, when it's really a revenue stream. Don't go there. "Homey don't play that."
Hurry up with that DVD Stan! Folks is trippin...
