After rereading Colin's thread on revolutionary new aiming system I decided to post this info.....
In case it's showing up wrong the green line is going straight through the CB....
Ok here's the only true way of finding exact contact points.....and IMO the best way to find the aimline besides IJ...
This is not a system this is physical fact. This can be used in many different ways to find the exact aimline for ANY shot. Johnny archer uses this principle for his aiming....
I discovered this while I was still in cuba... I know I'm sure MANY people discovered it before me, but like I've said before everything that I know about pool with the exception of some of the fundamentals and BHE I learned on my own....I've read no books and watched no videos, so sue me if I'm raining on someone else's discovery because I don't know....
The five ball represents the ghost ball......
A line drawn through the OB ffrom center pocket will give you the first CP on the back of the OB. Most every body knows that.... What most people don't know is that a parallel line drawn through the CB will give you the exact CP on the front of the CB.....
The blue line represents the CP to CP line....... A parallel line to that line drawn through the center of the CB will give you the exact aimline for ANY angle.....
The only question is how you come to find that line.. Remember that if you have the true cp to cp line all you need to do is aim parallel to that line through center ball and you WILL have the correct aimline....
So if you pick a point two inches in front of the CB that is on a path parallel to the CP to CP line you never have to look at the OB again PERIOD. You just have to stroke straight through the CB on THAT line...
Now for finding that line there are so many ways to find that line it's ridiculous.... You can use IJ, or use Archer's method of standing back three feet and looking at the parallel lines and using IJ from there.... You can use the tangent line and then pull the tangent line back till it meets the CB and that's your CP on the CB.... The choices are endless; however, No matter WHAT aiming method you use.... It is some variance of this because this is the underlying mechanism of the CP's.....
Hell you can use a method as convaluted as one I was recently trying out, although it's a little too taxing for long term use.... and that's drawing three lines out from the pocket through the OB while standing directly behind the OB. One through the middle of the ball and one on either side of the ball, then drawing three lines parallel to that one in through the CB(same deal one on either side and one through the center)... then draw a tangent behind the OB, and a tangent in front of the CB and then cross cut the rectangle to find the CP to CP line and then parallel shift to find the aimline.....
It works extremely well for short term or on really difficult shots, but it wears you out.....
One thing to consider is this. I've found that the majority of mistakes that are made are made because of a conflict.... A conflict between what we feel is going to happen and what we knwo or rather think is going to happen. We look at a shot and we think that it's going to do a certain thing based on our knowledge of the game, but unfortunately for most of us, our knowledge of the game is extremely limited. So what ends up happening is when we use our knowledge or our "systems" if you prefer to line up a shot they are often conflicting to what we feel will happen based on experience or vice versa....so we end up either not trusting our system or not trusting our IJ and pull our wrist or adjust our aim and we MISS.....
I think that the best way to deal with this is to bring our level of knowledge up to being on par with or atleast close to our level of experience or feel. then we can trust our IJ and realize our full potential....
Understanding the concept illustrated here is a step in the right direction... Whether you use it to develop your own aiming system or to just aid your IJ is up to you..... but any expansion of your knowledge of the game can only help......
I was intending to keep this to myself and write a book on advanced pool concepts, but I decided against it so I can help out the pool community as best I can.....
In case it's showing up wrong the green line is going straight through the CB....
Ok here's the only true way of finding exact contact points.....and IMO the best way to find the aimline besides IJ...
This is not a system this is physical fact. This can be used in many different ways to find the exact aimline for ANY shot. Johnny archer uses this principle for his aiming....
I discovered this while I was still in cuba... I know I'm sure MANY people discovered it before me, but like I've said before everything that I know about pool with the exception of some of the fundamentals and BHE I learned on my own....I've read no books and watched no videos, so sue me if I'm raining on someone else's discovery because I don't know....
The five ball represents the ghost ball......
A line drawn through the OB ffrom center pocket will give you the first CP on the back of the OB. Most every body knows that.... What most people don't know is that a parallel line drawn through the CB will give you the exact CP on the front of the CB.....
The blue line represents the CP to CP line....... A parallel line to that line drawn through the center of the CB will give you the exact aimline for ANY angle.....
The only question is how you come to find that line.. Remember that if you have the true cp to cp line all you need to do is aim parallel to that line through center ball and you WILL have the correct aimline....
So if you pick a point two inches in front of the CB that is on a path parallel to the CP to CP line you never have to look at the OB again PERIOD. You just have to stroke straight through the CB on THAT line...
Now for finding that line there are so many ways to find that line it's ridiculous.... You can use IJ, or use Archer's method of standing back three feet and looking at the parallel lines and using IJ from there.... You can use the tangent line and then pull the tangent line back till it meets the CB and that's your CP on the CB.... The choices are endless; however, No matter WHAT aiming method you use.... It is some variance of this because this is the underlying mechanism of the CP's.....
Hell you can use a method as convaluted as one I was recently trying out, although it's a little too taxing for long term use.... and that's drawing three lines out from the pocket through the OB while standing directly behind the OB. One through the middle of the ball and one on either side of the ball, then drawing three lines parallel to that one in through the CB(same deal one on either side and one through the center)... then draw a tangent behind the OB, and a tangent in front of the CB and then cross cut the rectangle to find the CP to CP line and then parallel shift to find the aimline.....
It works extremely well for short term or on really difficult shots, but it wears you out.....
One thing to consider is this. I've found that the majority of mistakes that are made are made because of a conflict.... A conflict between what we feel is going to happen and what we knwo or rather think is going to happen. We look at a shot and we think that it's going to do a certain thing based on our knowledge of the game, but unfortunately for most of us, our knowledge of the game is extremely limited. So what ends up happening is when we use our knowledge or our "systems" if you prefer to line up a shot they are often conflicting to what we feel will happen based on experience or vice versa....so we end up either not trusting our system or not trusting our IJ and pull our wrist or adjust our aim and we MISS.....
I think that the best way to deal with this is to bring our level of knowledge up to being on par with or atleast close to our level of experience or feel. then we can trust our IJ and realize our full potential....
Understanding the concept illustrated here is a step in the right direction... Whether you use it to develop your own aiming system or to just aid your IJ is up to you..... but any expansion of your knowledge of the game can only help......
I was intending to keep this to myself and write a book on advanced pool concepts, but I decided against it so I can help out the pool community as best I can.....
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