Ghost ball is as precise as any method.
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Only if you aim the Cue ball center at the Ghost ball center.
Side spin on the CB compromises aiming at the Ghost ball.
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Ghost ball is as precise as any method.
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Ghost ball is as precise as any method.
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You can't see the contact point or fractions either, not even center ball. They're all "seen" and aligned by learned judgment.Except you can't see the ghostball.
Side spin compromises all aiming.Side spin on the CB compromises aiming at the Ghost ball.
You can't see the contact point or fractions either, not even center ball. They're all "seen" and aligned by learned judgment.
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Side spin compromises all aiming.
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Except you can't see the ghostball.
You can't see the contact point or fractions either, not even center ball. They're all "seen" and aligned by learned judgment.
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You can't see the contact point or fractions either, not even center ball. They're all "seen" and aligned by learned judgment.
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I visualize the contact point on every shot - and I get better and better at it. But I also recognize that’s not the same as actually seeing it. Here’s a novel idea: give realizing that a try.Here's a novel idea.... Give it try.
Understanding the difference between seeing and visualizing doesn’t make me worry - it makes learning how to deal with reality quicker and easier.How about not worrying about seeing your OB contact point?
Sure - I do that using my learned judgment - so do you.How about finding your pocket angle in front of a OB in PSR?
Fractions aren’t my preferred visualization, but I recognize they’re just like contact points: visualized (estimated) reference points.How about aiming your CCB at the fraction line for the angle?
lolNo learned judgement required .........
... and balls don't have edges.
Scratching my head how the usual suspects turned this into a CTE bashing thread.
Isn't that the way things usually turn out around here?
I visualize the contact point on every shot - and I get better and better at it. But I also recognize that’s not the same as actually seeing it. Here’s a novel idea: give realizing that a try.
Understanding the difference between seeing and visualizing doesn’t make me worry - it makes learning how to deal with reality quicker and easier.
Sure - I do that using my learned judgment - so do you.
Fractions aren’t my preferred visualization, but I recognize they’re just like contact points: visualized (estimated) reference points.
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Learned judgment is required for all those visualizations - unless you can show me the visible marks on the OB. Getting good at visualizing invisible things doesn’t make them actually objectively visible, though I can see how it might seem that way.
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With fractions you have a direct point of view reference (from behind the cb) for aiming center cb, using the entire ob to visualize exactly where to send the cb. The contact point, and ghostball for that mattter, must first be visualized from behind the ob, looking toward the pocket. Then you have to stand behind the cb and accurately determine (from that pov) exactly where to send the cb in order to correspond to the contact point or ghostball that you visualized from behind the ob.
It isn't easy, which is why, traditionally, pool takes a while to learn. I believe fractional aiming (when you know which fractional aim point is needed without guessing or guesstimating) can provide a superior learning method, a fast track to automatically recognizing shots and knowing exactly where the cb needs to be.
This is only exactly right for one alignment: a 2/3 ball overlap (~20 degree cut). "Double the offset" is exactly right for every shot and would be just as easy.
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Assuming you estimate correctly where the fraction is, and how far from that you have to aim to hit the contact point.With fractions you have a direct point of view reference (from behind the cb) for aiming center cb, using the entire ob to visualize exactly where to send the cb.
I haven't done that in quite a while.The contact point, and ghostball for that mattter, must first be visualized from behind the ob, looking toward the pocket.
Yes, just like you have to accurately determine (estimate) from that POV exactly where to send the CB with fractions.Then you have to stand behind the cb and accurately determine (from that pov) exactly where to send the cb in order to correspond to the contact point or ghostball that you visualized from behind the ob.
I believe contact point aiming is a superior learning method, if only because you're focused on the actual target you're trying to hit - not an estimated fraction that's some estimated distance from it. Both rely on estimations, but one starts with the target - the other doesn't.I believe fractional aiming (when you know which fractional aim point is needed without guessing or guesstimating) can provide a superior learning method, a fast track to automatically recognizing shots and knowing exactly where the cb needs to be.
Tip offset from center CB....you'd have to explain what the off set was to me. I haven't been here in so long I forget what the off set is.
For the purpose of aiming they do.