How does Allison Fisher aim?

JB Cases said:
She explains the fraction ball covering method that is popular in snooker with a little Back of the Ball thrown in and falls back on good old Ghost Ball at the end to explain the concept to beginners.

Perfect for you Duckie. You should send her an "Arrow". :-)

The BAT is another of the plethora of GB devices out there. Very useful for beginners. More advanced players prefer to graduate from GB.
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Just remember: Those who can do 'do' and those who can't do teach. What a condescending post! I just couldn't believe my eyes. And don't try and put lipstick on this pig (your post).
 
whitewolf said:
Just remember: Those who can do 'do' and those who can't do teach. What a condescending post! I just couldn't believe my eyes. And don't try and put lipstick on this pig (your post).
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Um well I guess you missed the part about Allison teaching. In addition to private lessons she runs several clinics per year.



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PoolSharkAllen said:
Try sending a PM to "allie". Hopefully she'll reply back and you can tell us what you find out.
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"allie" is not Allison Fisher. It's Alice Rim, who is the house pro at Mr. Cues II in Atlanta. Alice also has great aiming skills and offers lessons that are probably much more economical than any you could get from Ms. Fisher.
 
She commented in the past that she aims through the object ball to a point on the rail.

Best,
Mike
 
Snooker instructional books have always used either fractional aiming (1/2 ball, 1/4 ball etc) or ghost ball, just like the english-billiards books that preceded them.

The reason is that these are the easiest ways for the author to explain where to aim any given shot. But it doesn't mean that the author actually uses either method when playing.
 
Siz said:
Snooker instructional books have always used either fractional aiming (1/2 ball, 1/4 ball etc) or ghost ball, just like the english-billiards books that preceded them.

The reason is that these are the easiest ways for the author to explain where to aim any given shot. But it doesn't mean that the author actually uses either method when playing.
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Quite - it's because they don't.

The very concept of aiming systems is preposterous. They are for beginners and/or those with no natural aptitude for the game.
 
TheThaiger said:
Quite - it's because they don't.

The very concept of aiming systems is preposterous. They are for beginners and/or those with no natural aptitude for the game.
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True dat! I'm reminded of snake oil, smoke and mirrors, and magic bullets. Aiming at the parking lot is fine if you hate money.
 
A note about Allison

Please excuse me for barging in when I don't have any of Allison Fisher's aiming tips but an interesting side story about her (she's my dear friend, I might add) is I was producing a documentary on the WPBA in Hawaii and Allison was playing Vivian Villareal (what a dynamo) in the finals. I was sitting next to her father when Allison cut a very thin match defining cut down the side rail. I said to Mr. Fisher "She plays so well under pressure." What a sweet man, he laughed and said "What pressure? When Allison was fifteen and sixteen, I used to take her to Northern Ireland where she played against guys with machine guns and camoflage faces. She's just playing girls."
Even Tiger Woods, in his best period, had a record that paled next to Ms. Fisher and nobody ever stood in the winner's circle with more grace.
Keep it nice. Alfie
 
Alf Taylor said:
Please excuse me for barging in when I don't have any of Allison Fisher's aiming tips but an interesting side story about her (she's my dear friend, I might add) is I was producing a documentary on the WPBA in Hawaii and Allison was playing Vivian Villareal (what a dynamo) in the finals. I was sitting next to her father when Allison cut a very thin match defining cut down the side rail. I said to Mr. Fisher "She plays so well under pressure." What a sweet man, he laughed and said "What pressure? When Allison was fifteen and sixteen, I used to take her to Northern Ireland where she played against guys with machine guns and camoflage faces. She's just playing girls."
Even Tiger Woods, in his best period, had a record that paled next to Ms. Fisher and nobody ever stood in the winner's circle with more grace.
Keep it nice. Alfie
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That's a good point about pressure. I firmly believe the more you are exposed to pressure at an early age, the less it will affect you in later life.

How do you get exposed to it at a younger age? Be good enough to be in the (non IRA) firing line in the first place. Talent. It's all about talent.

I differ from the other aiming skeptics in that I do think the mental part of the game is equally as important as the physical.
 
But the 'lesser player' who has more composure would probably say that the physical side if the game is much more important.

It really depends on what you see your problem areas to be (or to have been)
 
Allison still practices and uses her coach

When I went to England and Paris .(2 yrs ago) I stopped at a few of the Rileys(poolhalls). Allison was in 1 ,and was working on her 9 ball game,with a coach. John Paris cues were around. The halls were great with 6-12 ft Rileys in beautiful condition.and the other half of the room was pooltables. Parking was the biggest problem. I did buy a snooker cue there too. It good to see all Allisons practice is paying off in tournment wins, mark
 
Arm-Eye-Brain-Foot
That s usualy what you need to aim and to deliver :)
 
Allison knows

"It's all about confidence, isn't it, Alfie?" Allison Fisher
I think the reason she took a liking to me is her dog was named Alfie too.

The last time I saw Allison she told me "We must always be friends because we've been in the toilet together" Referring to when she and Gerda Hofstatter and I were in Hawaii, we jumped down into a big circle of rocks and each time the waves washed up from below it shot us up to the top. Fittingly, it was called the "toilet bowl'.

Allison has it all: Talent (as in oozing with it) style and grace, intellegence, she's a delight to look at and, as her opening line shows, a great sense of humor. As Hawaiian Brian would put it, "She's de whole package"..but , I'm sorry. I still don't know squat about how she aims..

Keep it nice. Alfie
 
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HollyWood said:
When I went to England and Paris .(2 yrs ago) I stopped at a few of the Rileys(poolhalls). Allison was in 1 ,and was working on her 9 ball game,with a coach. John Paris cues were around. The halls were great with 6-12 ft Rileys in beautiful condition.and the other half of the room was pooltables. Parking was the biggest problem. I did buy a snooker cue there too. It good to see all Allisons practice is paying off in tournment wins, mark
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Wow, that's a rarity. Rileys are notorious for being terrible - they spend literally zero on maintenance. Top brass just dumps a whole load of crap onto the managers and staff, who take no end of abuse despite it not being their fault. Quite how they justify $12/hr for tables with 4 year old, beer stained, cloths is beyond me.

They do nothing to support players - no comps, no leagues, nothing. They just go for the student and dating crowd, with nothing for real players. And they wonder why no one plays American pool in the UK. :(
 
It' the Alfer again

One thing I do know, or at least suspect, about Allison's deadly aiming is, with her Snooker background she is always shooting at the dead center of the pocket, as opposed to people (myself included) who are around pool all of the time tend to slide balls in touching the rail, if necessary because most balls will go in that way. Watch the next time you see her, what I'm talking about. That lady splits the wickett...

Just how good is Allison?
First year on the tour...fifteen tournaments, she won thirteen, placed second in two and won two out of the country. Tiger Woods, Martina Navratalova, Wayne Gretsky, Michael Jordon, Eli Manning, Hank Aaron eat your hearts out.
Can you tell I'm a fan?
Keep it nice. Alfie
 
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