Fractional aim points and their cut angles

Mensabum said:
Hi folks!! I'm your instructor for today's lesson. Y'all did the calculus homework I sent ya right?? It's a pre req for rolling little balls around this table. See that picture on the wall?? That's not Mosconi. That's Euclid. Father of all the guys who slept thru math class.
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I've known a few CHAMPION speed players that having to spell 'dog' would have been a stretch but they played pool lightsOUT. This game is WAAAAAY simpler than a lot of techno-nerds want to accept. 99.99999999% of it is repetition and muscle-memory.
 
Mensabum said:
I hit a half dozen what I thot were solid shots that jawed last night on a new 4 1/2x 9 diamond w 4 1/4 inch holes. I bet your Digiball could tell me exactly why it happened!! Can't wait to find out.
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wiped your feet on the way in. Can't do that on a D'mond like you can on a GC.
 
Mensabum said:
I hit a half dozen what I thot were solid shots that jawed last night on a new 4 1/2x 9 diamond w 4 1/4 inch holes. I bet your Digiball could tell me exactly why it happened!! Can't wait to find out.
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It absolutely can help you determine what happened. If you find that you are moving your tip closer to center then you intend to then you could have a problem with mental contact point drift on the OB ball, which can happen from standing to bent over position. Or from pressure. This will cause thick hits and rattles in the pocket.

Don’t take it from me. There is a pass around happening with it right now. Feel free to ask these questions in that thread.

Here is another video I made debunking claims that you need a Porsche to cause an iPhone to stick to the seat, which is false. I use math to prove it…

 
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nataddrho said:
I hear you. But at least for me, it is very easy to turn all of that off. It is compartmentalized.

I play completely by pre-shot routine and feel. I'd say with billiards I play even more by feel than most players since I consider diamond systems a distraction. Maybe that is why I'm a little bit better at billiards than pool?

Everyone thinks that because I understand all of the math that I try use it while playing. It is the complete opposite; reactionary.
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What is your 3c average?
 
Texas3cushion said:
What is your 3c average?
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I thought I was around 0.3 but now I'm a bit better than I thought. I would say closer to 0.7. Here is a video of a 1.0 average, which happened to be part of a demo.

I know you are a detractor for the DigiBall, but it is useful for showing where I hit the ball. I am white. Also ignore the numbers. Some people like to see them, I personally only care about pictures, so just the cue ball and tip position. Again I don't have a single number in my head while I am playing.

By the way, the player with the yellow ball is a killer 1p player. I never beat him once.

 
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bbb said:
since this post got ignored
i will ask again
doesnt this answer the ops question?
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The OP answered his own question. He was using the calculator wrong. There are two common ways to measure angles and he was reading radians as if they were degrees. (one radian is roughly 57 degrees)
 
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Bob Jewett said:
The OP answered his own question. He was using the calculator wrong. There are two common ways to measure angles and he was reading radians as if they were degrees. (one radian is roughly 57 degrees)
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did dr dave's pic also answer the question?
 
Expand your mind is always good. So is winning at pool.

CPG is finite and continuously applicable over the entire range and as such can be diagrammed in MSPaint.

Lame plug for CPG.
 
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straightline said:
Expand your mind is always good. So is winning at pool.

CPG is finite and continuously applicable over the entire range and as such can be diagrammed in MSPaint.

Lame plug for CPG.
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Does CPG (contact point geometry, right?) include any method that focuses on the contact points, or one in particular?

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