My question is "why did you switch to an aiming system"? What was wrong with yours and why go searching for another? I'm curious why anyone who has played for a while search for another like TOI or CTE? Did you meet with CJ to learn his system?
TOI isn't, what I would call, an aiming system. It is a "playing system" where you try to keep things "somewhat the same". You aim at a contact point on the cue ball with a cue to hit a contact point on an object ball. How simple is that? If you can't understand that, do some research or come to Hawaii and I'll explain it to you at the table. I'm not going to get into a lengthy debate or discussion about it here over a keyboard.
Who says I "switched" to anything? I grew up in a pool hall and played pool before CJ got out of kindergarten. The TOI style wasn't invented by CJ. I have always "aimed" the way I "aim", but I don't always hit the "inside" of the cue ball because sometimes that option won't work for what you are trying to do. Over the many years I've played, I have incorporated many different "styles" into the way I currently play. One thing that I think keeps me "most consistent" is staying within the TOI game. For you, maybe that isn't or won't be the case. For me, it is.
I talked to, met, and played with CJ long after I learned about TOI and when I learned to play that way it didn't have a name. The TOI name came about when CJ started promoting it and came out with his DVD.
Everybody wants something for free, but when it doesn't "immediately" register with them, they want their money back.
Most players don't have the patience to learn "their own" style of playing, whatever that is, much less something that is "foreign" to them. They are too busy trying to spin the ball, draw the cue ball six feet when they need to only move the cue ball six inches, etc., etc., etc.
To play pool well, you have to spend TIME at the table and some people more than others. While at the table, you need to do something "productive", like setting the same shot up, over and over and over, trying different things until you see what works best for YOU. Then stick with that option, but by then you will have already learned the other options as a backup.
I find it funny that I'm an old man, blind, and only play for a few hours once a week, yet I can hang with the big boys in the pool hall, who are much younger than me and who play way more frequently.
Why is that? I'd say it is because I use something that works and is much more consistent.
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