The Feel
Somewhat. I play purely by feel. I don't like the word feel as different people use it to refer to different things. I class it as experience and visual memory to know what will pot, and what won't pot. So for me, and I can only really speak for my self on this, I have tried almost every system out there just out of curiosity and feel had a say in every system I used. I've always reverted back to just picking my line of aim and putting my cue on the line. Experience trumps everything IMO.
Do you agree that feel is an essential part of all aiming, even with a system?
pj
chgo
Absolutely! I speak for myself and my System. Being able to control the feel was the primary reason I have written what I have.
I felt it was important that something be written down somewhere that represented the feel side of the story.
When I started working on anything that that had to do with pool I used to get a real kick out of asking people how they aim. Some of the answers you wouldn't believe and at least one fellow is still telling me after several years.
Its about this clear:
"You just take the stick and you hit the thing and you put the thing where the thing is supposed to go and that's about as plain as it gets."
Playing by feel should be a little easier to describe than the above explanation but anything other that what was said above.... is a system.
If your system is a way to learn all of the shots and hone your feel then it works for you because its very clear in this game. You cannot play it well unless you can also learn to spin the ball.
Without that piece feel is not had.
Up until now I would say that "hamb" has been completely true for feel players in fact it might even be more than a million balls.
The problem with hamb is that people lose patience with it and want to get down the road to skillful play sooner and that is understandable so any way they can figure out how to do it is a good thing.
That is the one thing that I want to be able to do. I want to get the player enjoying the game and I want to direct him on how to find "the feel" of the game because when you find it, all things become possible and your game can open up and you find the beauty inside it.
Pool is the greatest interactive game ever created in my opinion but there is some contention about how to make it easier to play and I really don't want to feed that contention and I will try not to but this subject is the very thing that I have sought to bring to light and I fully believe that I have and I will by the time all of its done.
As in all things something has a beginning and my first book is that beginning and a new perspective from which progress to feel is easier in my opinion. The next book is specific direction and expansion that focuses directly on the category of spin and feel.
Its original material and its copyrighted. It's free to purchase and to use but not to reproduce or use in any other way.
No mysteries exist in it and you wont have any problem understanding the concepts and the continuation of it as its written as I explain it from a behind the cue ball perspective.
The shot making is only one part.
The feel is quite another and that is where the true mysteries of the game are opened and the real game comes out and the depth of your feel and knowledge of the moves are the game and are the difference in truly good players and who is favored to win.
Well, that's just my opinion.