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we have a way to label each shot so you know the alignment, the speed, and CB Target

Mikjary said:
TOI makes those long straight backs make left and right turns into the corner pockets!

Best,
Mike
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Yes, the greatest bankers in the world all know how to create a "pocket zone," and bend them into the pocket. When I used to watch "Bugs" in Detroit at THE RACK it was amazing to see how accurate he was, not only in making the bank shots, it was his cue ball control that impressed me the most. I remember watching his eyes and they were glued to a specific part of the cue ball and he didn't seem to care much about the object ball.....I had no idea what he did, just that it worked REALLY WELL.

Bugs would get in "Banking Zones" where he would make Grady Matthews (who I saw him play on several occasion for BIG money) throw up his hands in frustration. No matter where he put "Bugs" the table would be the same when he returned - a ball in Bug's hole and the cue ball behind another ball (usually frozen).

This seemed like some kind of "magic" to me and I didn't see it again until I played Vernon Elliot in Indianapolis. We played "Two Shot Push Out" which requires you to play a LOT of banks, and Vernon could REALLY bank. He would do the same thing, bank at the shot and if he missed I was always snookered behind another ball. This is why TWO SHOT rules are so much better than ONE FOUL (imo), the "Two Way Shot"....where you shoot an offensive shot, and at the same time play safe if you miss......with a shot on your next ball if you make the BANK.....this is an amazing art form that you don't see as much now that "One Foul" is the game of choice.

The next time I saw this was playing Tony Fargo on the 5/10 in Dallas. His banking ability was amazing and I noticed something familiar about his banking.....he also seemed to aim at the cue ball, not the object ball. We played one pocket for over 12 hours and I managed to win over $7,000. however he out banked me by a wide margin. It was a classic "Bank Expert Against Shot Maker," and it was my "lucky day" (as Efren would say;))

After the match was over my friend Roger Griffis came over to me and said "CJ, Tony will show us his Bank System for $700," ...I was unprepared for this, however, it got my full attention. "Do you think he'll show us what he really does, and if so, do you think we can do it?" Roger said "man, he's a good guy, he just wants to make some money back so he can go play someone in Houston, I'll vouch for him and I'll go in halves with you if you want."

I agreed and we both paid him $350. and he proceeded to show us his system for banking. It opened my eyes to some things that I had never noticed on a pool table before, how the cue ball connects to the diamonds. I caught on to his system and incorporated my own style and before long I used it to win $30,000 of Amarillo Slim playing one pocket giving him 14/5 in Baton Rouge Louisiana at Fly Boy's hang out where the everyone was gambling "sky high".

My TOI Banking System is a fusion between TOI, what I saw Bugs do in Detroit, Vernon Elliot do in Indianapolis and Tony Fargo do on that 5/10 in Dallas. I call it the Touch of Inside Pivot System (TIPS), and after producing the TOI video last month I discovered the missing link to teach this system and now I'm ready to release it to the "Pool World".

The filming will be finished up this weekend and the post production will start immediately. We will put together a demonstration video to give a preview of this system and we have a way to label each shot so you know the alignment, the speed, and the cue ball target on each and every Bank.

This will enable anyone, with some systematic practice (there's a drill I will share that will speed up this process considerably) to bank like you've never banked before. The beauty of this system is not only the accuracy of the banks, it's also the cue ball control generated by blending the SPEED - SHOT ANGLE - and CUE BALL TARGET into one. 'The Game is the Teacher'
 
CJ Wiley said:
Yes, the greatest bankers in the world all know how to create a "pocket zone," and bend them into the pocket. When I used to watch "Bugs" in Detroit at THE RACK it was amazing to see how accurate he was, not only in making the bank shots, it was his cue ball control that impressed me the most. I remember watching his eyes and they were glued to a specific part of the cue ball and he didn't seem to care much about the object ball.....I had no idea what he did, just that it worked REALLY WELL.

Bugs would get in "Banking Zones" where he would make Grady Matthews (who I saw him play on several occasion for BIG money) throw up his hands in frustration. No matter where he put "Bugs" the table would be the same when he returned - a ball in Bug's hole and the cue ball behind another ball (usually frozen).

This seemed like some kind of "magic" to me and I didn't see it again until I played Vernon Elliot in Indianapolis. We played "Two Shot Push Out" which requires you to play a LOT of banks, and Vernon could REALLY bank. He would do the same thing, bank at the shot and if he missed I was always snookered behind another ball. This is why TWO SHOT rules are so much better than ONE FOUL (imo), the "Two Way Shot"....where you shoot an offensive shot, and at the same time play safe if you miss......with a shot on your next ball if you make the BANK.....this is an amazing art form that you don't see as much now that "One Foul" is the game of choice.

The next time I saw this was playing Tony Fargo on the 5/10 in Dallas. His banking ability was amazing and I noticed something familiar about his banking.....he also seemed to aim at the cue ball, not the object ball. We played one pocket for over 12 hours and I managed to win over $7,000. however he out banked me by a wide margin. It was a classic "Bank Expert Against Shot Maker," and it was my "lucky day" (as Efren would say;))

After the match was over my friend Roger Griffis came over to me and said "CJ, Tony will show us his Bank System for $700," ...I was unprepared for this, however, it got my full attention. "Do you think he'll show us what he really does, and if so, do you think we can do it?" Roger said "man, he's a good guy, he just wants to make some money back so he can go play someone in Houston, I'll vouch for him and I'll go in halves with you if you want."

I agreed and we both paid him $350. and he proceeded to show us his system for banking. It opened my eyes to some things that I had never noticed on a pool table before, how the cue ball connects to the diamonds. I caught on to his system and incorporated my own style and before long I used it to win $30,000 of Amarillo Slim playing one pocket giving him 14/5 in Baton Rouge Louisiana at Fly Boy's hang out where the everyone was gambling "sky high".

My TOI Banking System is a fusion between TOI, what I saw Bugs do in Detroit, Vernon Elliot do in Indianapolis and Tony Fargo do on that 5/10 in Dallas. I call it the Touch of Inside Pivot System (TIPS), and after producing the TOI video last month I discovered the missing link to teach this system and now I'm ready to release it to the "Pool World".

The filming will be finished up this weekend and the post production will start immediately. We will put together a demonstration video to give a preview of this system and we have a way to label each shot so you know the alignment, the speed, and the cue ball target on each and every Bank.

This will enable anyone, with some systematic practice (there's a drill I will share that will speed up this process considerably) to bank like you've never banked before. The beauty of this system is not only the accuracy of the banks, it's also the cue ball control generated by blending the SPEED - SHOT ANGLE - and CUE BALL TARGET into one. 'The Game is the Teacher'
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Way to go, Mr. CJ,
I like this already. I thank you for your sharing this and all the other things you share with us.
Beating Vernon was a task in itself. TOI Lock fits you to a tee!
Mr. CJ is the teacher, along with the game.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
The TIPS banking video sounds like a must have for the serious pool playing enthusiast. Flyboy...a name from the past...

Best,
Mike
 
That's 70% of the game that's no longer being played, which has diluted the overall

Mikjary said:
The TIPS banking video sounds like a must have for the serious pool playing enthusiast. Flyboy...a name from the past...

Best,
Mike
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I have enough information on doing a "kicking" segment as well. I still want to see the "Two Shot Push Out" rules implemented again to bring back the "Two Way Shots". Kicking is skillful, no doubt, however, with the new jump cues it's beginning to be a lost art as well. I would say the game consists of about 30% of the shots it did when we played "Push Out" and there were no jump cues.

That's 70% of the game that's no longer being played, which has diluted the overall experience, and it's no exaggeration. It's worse than taking the 4th down and half time show out of football. :groucho:
 
CJ Wiley said:
I have enough information on doing a "kicking" segment as well. I still want to see the "Two Shot Push Out" rules implemented again to bring back the "Two Way Shots". Kicking is skillful, no doubt, however, with the new jump cues it's beginning to be a lost art as well. I would say the game consists of about 30% of the shots it did when we played "Push Out" and there were no jump cues.

That's 70% of the game that's no longer being played, which has diluted the overall experience, and it's no exaggeration. It's worse than taking the 4th down and half time show out of football. :groucho:
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Wow! I never thought of it like that! Taking the fourth down down and half time show out of football. That is a perfect example of taking Push Out, out of pool.
Many Regards,
Lock N Load.
 
One shot foul sped up the game and I had heard it was for TV--Funny , still don't see a lot of Pool on any of the channels--And when was the last spot shot you saw someone shooting in a game of 9 ball--back in the day we would practice a hundred or more a day--kicks were something you had to have under your belt--I got real good at Z style kicking down the table--once called a 5 rail Z kick and hit it perfect on the 1 in a game of rotation and then ran the rack out---one shot foul in my mind has fouled the game--Looks like I'm going to have to go off and purchase your DVD and see if this 60 old can learns some new tricks--and remember some old ones
 
One Foul is not interesting to talk about or describe

Chip Roberson said:
One shot foul sped up the game and I had heard it was for TV--Funny , still don't see a lot of Pool on any of the channels--And when was the last spot shot you saw someone shooting in a game of 9 ball--back in the day we would practice a hundred or more a day--kicks were something you had to have under your belt--I got real good at Z style kicking down the table--once called a 5 rail Z kick and hit it perfect on the 1 in a game of rotation and then ran the rack out---one shot foul in my mind has fouled the game--Looks like I'm going to have to go off and purchase your DVD and see if this 60 old can learns some new tricks--and remember some old ones
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Yes, when the game went to one foul it was entirely to equalize the field so they got more participants and speed up play. The TV part is made up, TV doesn't care what rules are used, they are only interested in ratings. The better the show, the more they like it, and roll out gives the commentators something interesting to talk about because there's much more strategy in the Game.

There's very little strategy in one foul, I would debate this with anyone, I'll take Roll Out, they can take One Foul and we can have a debate over which is more interesting to watch, commentate, and discuss for the viewers. This debate wouldn't last long, it would be blatantly unfair.

One Foul is not interesting to talk about or describe, the player is either trying to run out or playing safe, there's nothing in between. With Roll Out there's a LOT in between, because there's many choices that are made and decisions based on score, momentum and strengths/weaknesses of the competitors. 'The Game is the Teacher'
 
it's apparent that each shot is an angle formed by the contact of two spheres

Luther Blissett said:
Does the game? Does the game? Does the game?

Just curious...
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That's funny, Luther, one thing I've been ask about lately is how the Touch of Inside {TOI} System aligns to the geometry of the pool table.

The geometry of the pool table is commonly thought of in terms of a rectangle made up of two squares divided by diamonds that create a series of triangles that connect to the corners (pockets). There are other geometrical figures, however, the ones that connect the Game as a whole are the spheres of the 16 balls (4 squared).

The cue is a straight line and when it is connected to the center of the cue ball it creates a straight line, however, when it is moved parallel to one side (or the other) of the cue ball it starts to create a series of angles, the more you move to the Inside of the sphere (and strike the cue ball) the more angles are created. The connect to the diamonds, to the pockets and to each other. When we go into "the zone" these angles also connect to our own unconscious minds, and this is an experience like Déjà vu.

These angles align to the geometry of the table's angles to create every conceivable shot in the Game of Pool. This is how the Touch of Inside System works and it's even more obvious when you use this system to Bank every ball because then the angles are even more apparent. No longer are you trying to hit one "ball" into another "ball" {to hit a certain "contact point"} to try and make the "ball" in the pocket.

The Game becomes Creating Angles, and when you eliminate the pockets it's apparent that each shot is an angle formed by the contact of two spheres. Then the Game reveals it's true nature {when the player gets in "the zone"} that aligns somehow to our unconscious mind and geometrical figures have done this all the way back to the formation of the pyramids and certainly beyond.

I don't claim to know how these mysteries transpired, I'm just grateful to have been taught this incredible lesson by an instrument some consider just a game. For me pocket billiards is more than a "game"....yes indeed. 'The Game is the Teacher'
 
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