New Aiming System Method (long)

[seymore15074]

Not a bad system. Just one little problem with it. Unfortunately you'd be committing a foul every time you set your cue down.

3.42 DEVICES
Players are not allowed to use a ball, the triangle or any other width-measuring device to see if the cue ball or an object ball would travel through a gap, etc. Only the cue stick may be used as an aid to judge gaps or as an aid to aligning a shot., so long as the cue is held by the hand. To do so otherwise is a foul and unsportsmanlike conduct. (Also see Rules 1.3, 1.4 and 2.15)

You can devise any system of measure that you like with one hand, then... You don't have to set your cue down for anything. Actually, why even use your hands to measure? Get a sharpie and mark a line on your shaft to measure that width or something.

 

[Bigjohn]

You can devise any system of measure that you like with one hand, then... You don't have to set your cue down for anything. Actually, why even use your hands to measure? Get a sharpie and mark a line on your shaft to measure that width or something.

If you never miss, you will be very lonely.......... no one will play with you

 

[Bob Jewett]

Hey pat there is no shot on a pool table that is 3/8 to the center of the pocket. ...

This may be true from the way you look at shots, but from geometry and physics, what you're saying is nonsense.

 

[Patrick Johnson]

Hey pat there is no shot on a pool table that is 3/8 to the center of the pocket.

I think there are an infinite number of them. And an infinite number of 2/3 and 3/5 and 4/7 and ... well, you get the idea (well, maybe not). Hal's (and others') "x angles" systems are for players who'd rather not think about that.

Been there; done that thread.

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[jondrums]

Thanks Paul for the rules clarification! I was curious about that. It sounds like one could figure out how to use this system without letting go of the cue.
Jon

 

[Patrick Johnson]

breakin8:
Hey pat there is no shot on a pool table that is 3/8 to the center of the pocket.

Me:
I think there are an infinite number of them.

Here's what I mean:

A 3/8-ball alignment is not an imaginary alignment - you can really aim the CB at the OB that way and get a cut angle that's not a 1/4-ball angle or a 1/2-ball angle, but in between those two.

Let's say you figured out exactly what angle that is and drew it on a piece of plywood, like this: _/ but bigger. Then you glued the OB to the plywood right at the "elbow" of that angle, and you glued the CB at the end of one of the "legs" of the angle. The end of the other "leg" is where the OB will go if you hit it for a 3/8-ball cut, right? Let's call that "leg" the "OB path line".

Now put the piece of plywood on your pool table and move it around until the OB path line points at the center of a pocket. There's a 3/8-ball hit that goes to the center of a pocket. Now move it around a little more until it points to the center of the same pocket, but from a different direction. There's another 3/8-ball hit that goes to the center of the same pocket. You can do this all day long with the same pocket and all day long with any other pocket too.

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