Every once in a while you come across a piece of information that makes an immediate impact on your pool game. This goes for any level of experience. I have played in leagues for over 15 years and only recently did I come to realize the importance of this 45-degree rule (from dr dave VEPS):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OD5TsWrByI
I have always practiced center-table paths by brute force: setup a shot, see how close you can get, repeat. No one has ever shown me different, until I saw this. I also never really realized the importance of this path.
Knowing that a roughly 45 degree path into the end rail would result in a path through the center of the table would have *severely* cut down on my practice time!
This information is crucial for many reasons:
*) Center table is commonly a good place to go... you have many more options on balls and pockets. If in doubt, go there.
*) Your chances of scratching are severely diminished using this path.
*) Once you know how to accurately get to center table, you can control shots that need to go left or right of that path.
The 45-degree rule gives you a starting point for all shape shots that use two or more rails to get up table, instead of just guessing or trying to envision the geometry to get there. That is big!
So, what little tidbit of information helped your game? It could be recently or very long ago. I can think of quite a few, but I'll refrain, maybe post them in a reply here if no one else ends up mentioning them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OD5TsWrByI
I have always practiced center-table paths by brute force: setup a shot, see how close you can get, repeat. No one has ever shown me different, until I saw this. I also never really realized the importance of this path.
Knowing that a roughly 45 degree path into the end rail would result in a path through the center of the table would have *severely* cut down on my practice time!
This information is crucial for many reasons:
*) Center table is commonly a good place to go... you have many more options on balls and pockets. If in doubt, go there.
*) Your chances of scratching are severely diminished using this path.
*) Once you know how to accurately get to center table, you can control shots that need to go left or right of that path.
The 45-degree rule gives you a starting point for all shape shots that use two or more rails to get up table, instead of just guessing or trying to envision the geometry to get there. That is big!
So, what little tidbit of information helped your game? It could be recently or very long ago. I can think of quite a few, but I'll refrain, maybe post them in a reply here if no one else ends up mentioning them.
