How important are aiming methods really?
- Thread starter JLW
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Anybody have Hal Mix's tangent line aiming system's written article anywhere?
I think that was the nuts.
I think that was the nuts.
Do you mean the one in his book "Pocket Billiard Secrets" that uses the closest point to the object ball on the cue ball and the farthest point from the pocket on the object ball? I think Hal also published that in the "Cue Sports Journal" which was a local pool newspaper.JoeyInCali said:
I don't know if that was it.Bob Jewett said:
I did read it on a local nothern pacific area billiard paper.
It was simply aiming the cueball to the tangent line.
drivermaker said:
I've been used to it. Been on FIDO and BBS groups since '91, the internet and r.s.b since '95 or so shortly after it's founding, and on other pool forums, and here under different computers, different usernames, etc. So don't let the low post count fool you, I remember many good threads with Bob B, Bob J, Ron S, Fred A, and even Jim Meador, RIP. And then there were other threads dominated by social retards like MM, recommending getting in folks faces for billiard etiquette transgressions, and the need for looser places like a.s.p and the woofs.
I have been in, instigated, settled, and seen, but now tend to ignore flame wars and try and stick to mild fun and the subject matter for the most part, and can take profitable 4 month vacations from the pool chat world when other more rewarding fancies strike.
Been hazed, never fazed. Next.
Bob Jewett said:
Thank you Bob, in that case I am pretty sure to have read it already, though I will check, and it is probably recycled into Sheri Stauch and Bob Kanov's book, "Pool Player's Edge" which in some ways I prefer as more balanced and measured overall than Capelle's daily word processor gurgitations, though all can be useful.
FWIW, I practiced a bit with Joe T's aiming system numbering from dead-on center 0 to outer edge of ball as a 10, finding the "number" for both cue and object ball contact points, and find it helpful in the routine, just before getting down on the shot. I take away the impression of a 7 or 8, call it as I see it, and in a "speed pool" session of finding rhythm, it worked pretty smoothly, I was noticably faster finding the aim point and though no Luc Salvas or Earl Strickland, I was already focusing on the aim point of the OB before I got around the table in line with the shot. Works for me as one more interesting way to "release" what I already "know" as muscle memory. See you next month in BD!
drivermaker
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Kevin said:
Good...then anything on here should be like childs play to you. Should I call you some names and tell you where to go just so you feel more at home?
