"An electrifying start",
Hard to Find the Center of the Cue Ball
- Thread starter ChrisinNC
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wasnt his mouth always open ???
But wait there's more!...
Speed.
Once across, twice, thrice, etc...
balancing a ball on a ball on a needle.
GhostBall?
I've aimed a couple lines because of the ghostball thing.
I had the same problem, used English on every shot, even when I thought I was shooting center ball, long story short, my vision center was off so I was never truly hitting center ball, after correcting that problem I forced myself to practice for 30 days in a row without using English, I should say sidespin, follow and draw are not really considered English, I was shocked at how much you can move the cueball without sidespin, it also showed me that I was using too much sidespin to often, If you are like I used to be, why use a little English when you can use maximum English? Knowing where the cueball goes with no English helps in knowing how much sidespin you need for better shape on the next shot and breaking clusters, using sidespin is an easy habit to get into so I will take a week of practice from time to time to go back to practice only using centerball, it's been great for my game.
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Spot to Spot with a gate is a great drill, my instructor introduced me to this drill, cue ball on the foot spot object ball on the head spot, the goal of the drill is to shoot the object ball with a stop shot and drive object ball to the rail and have it return back to the cueball on the head spot and drive the cueball back over the foot spot, it's truly humbling drill, he told me if can come close to driving the cueball back over the foot spot you are doing good, out of thousands of tries I have only completed the drill correctly once in my life.....
I could've written your post word for word...
I was looking for one of those. Where'd you get it?
It sure seems like a lot of posters would benefit from reading and embracing Hal Mix’s Pocket Billiards Secrets.
Just because you’ve done something all your life, or a very long time, doesn’t mean you couldn’t perform better.
The issue becomes change is difficult and often seemingly impossible, for older players. Habits get formed that
are really hard to change and impatience takes control. They tend to become frustrated and revert to old habits.
Now that’s perfectly fine and basically they’ve limited their opportunity to improve other than through repetition.
They’ll practice, employ drills, hit lots of balls & pocket most too. The value and importance of center ball gets lost.
English is not needed or necessary on every shot, especially cut shots, when angular cut shots are so simple & easy
to predict & control cue ball location. But as long you can run the pool table, then you don’t need to change a thing.
Just because you’ve done something all your life, or a very long time, doesn’t mean you couldn’t perform better.
The issue becomes change is difficult and often seemingly impossible, for older players. Habits get formed that
are really hard to change and impatience takes control. They tend to become frustrated and revert to old habits.
Now that’s perfectly fine and basically they’ve limited their opportunity to improve other than through repetition.
They’ll practice, employ drills, hit lots of balls & pocket most too. The value and importance of center ball gets lost.
English is not needed or necessary on every shot, especially cut shots, when angular cut shots are so simple & easy
to predict & control cue ball location. But as long you can run the pool table, then you don’t need to change a thing.
Sounds like an old italian player we knew.
Hey greg, please return my crystal ball!!
Idk how you got it out of here without me seeing.
Kinda agree. With all these books and no certified curriculum, people end up rote learning. Not even sure what that means.
After a lot of hard work put in, anytime I needed to I could focus on a dead straight stroke and deliver with zero side. Not as common as no thought at all but when I need to deliver perfectly straight I can. Let's me take advantage of the rare straight in shot that is near table length. I forget about the object ball, aim at the piece of pocket straight behind it. Anybody can hammer a cue ball straight into a pocket right? Exactly how I shoot these shots. Just aim to make the cue ball in the pocket, the object ball happens to be in the way.
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I do the same, each year I spend a week or two using nothing but the vertical axis of the CB. It’s not only surprising how much you can move the CB around without side but also how important it is not to get out of line as your options are limited. It’s also important to keep the balls clean as you can’t use any “halping” english to negate the cling
Back in the day when coke bottles were glass. A favorite drill was to lay the bottle on its side on the table and stroke through the mouth to touch the bottom without touching the sides of the mouth.
That made such a mess on the cloth when i tried it the houseman made me stop.
Damifiknow.
Play TOI style for a few hours or days without worrying about how much you may feel uncomfortable or miss.
After that, you won't worry as much about center ball and you may get a new perception of the game.
After that, you won't worry as much about center ball and you may get a new perception of the game.