Cueing system?

[PhilosopherKing]

I often hear people quoting Mark Wilson as saying something like: If there's a secret to this game, it's hitting the cue ball exactly where you intend to.

With that in mind, I've been playing around with a system for precisely delivering the tip. I don't recall ever seeing or hearing about it, probably because it's either assumed to be commonsense or without any merit.

Anyway, it's not complicated, and I admit that proportions may be off:

Imagine the face of the tip as the face the cueball, and aim to deliver the point on the tip that is equal-and-opposite the intended contact-point on the cue ball to the intended contact-point on the cue ball.

For example, if you want to hit one-tip above center on the ball, imaging the tip as the face of a cueball, you aim to deliver the point one-tip bellow center on the tip to the point one-tip above center on the cueball.

Thoughts? Refinements?

 

[Patrick Johnson]

I often hear people quoting Mark Wilson as saying something like: If there's a secret to this game, it's hitting the cue ball exactly where you intend to.

With that in mind, I've been playing around with a system for precisely delivering the tip. I don't recall ever seeing or hearing about it, probably because it's either assumed to be commonsense or without any merit.

Anyway, it's not complicated, and I admit that proportions may be off:

Imagine the face of the tip as the face the cueball, and aim to deliver the point on the tip that is equal-and-opposite the intended contact-point on the cue ball to the intended contact-point on the cue ball.

For example, if you want to hit one-tip above center on the ball, imaging the tip as the face of a cueball, you aim deliver the point one-tip bellow center on the tip to the point one-tip above center on the cueball.

Thoughts? Refinements?

That's correct in principle.

Another way is to offset the center of your tip 1/3 more from CB center than the CB point you're trying to hit - for instance:
- to hit 3/16" from centerball (1/3 of maximum spin) offset the center of your tip 1/4" from centerball
- to hit 3/8" from centerball (2/3 of maximum spin) offset the center of your tip 1/2" from centerball
- to hit 9/16" from centerball (maximum spin) offset the center of your tip 3/4" from centerball

This works because the tip's curvature (radius) is about 1/3 that of the ball.

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