Patsy Cline - Crazy

[Mikjary]

Terry,

I've found learning to use the lights, shadows, edges, etc. improves your ability to align yourself correctly. After teaching your brain the correct angles for the shots, you start to naturally position yourself on the correct shot line.

Whether you realize it consciously or not, you are training your eyes to see the aiming line for future shots and developing a consistent alignment. After examining many aiming alignments, I figured out how my eyes like to look at a shot. I have a consistent starting visual alignment and drop down into the shot without aiming. I've learned to trust my alignment and pocket more balls. Teaching my brain the correct alignment with aiming systems was the key.

Experiment and take what you need from your research. I'm old school about pool, but not stuck in traditional training. All pro sports look for cutting edge mental and physical techniques to improve their participants. Follow their lead. GL.

Best,
Mike

 

[pdcue]

Placebo effects work if you believe. I do know a very good player who aims at the shadow the ball casts on the table.

Back in the day when lights hung from the ceiling and had a shade on them I used the lit spot as a aiming point.

That's why it's called the placebo effect - if it had no effect,
it would be called the no-effect.

Dale

 

[youngstownkid]

i had heard about this before but then I went on a trip a couple years ago with a guy who used this technique. It was like pulling teeth to get him to describe it to me. He wasn't able to describe it very well, but he said that he could shoot in the darkest of rooms if there was simple some form of light that would cause a reflection on the balls, such as a TV that is turned on.

I just couldn't understand the principle behind this, but if you're telling me that the reflection just gives you a refined center-of-the-ball aiming point that is just used to help with fractional aiming then i guess i could see that helping visualize something.

Not sure my cones are as good as my rods anymore, so i don't know that i'd be able to shoot lights out shooting the lights when the lights are out.

 

[Bambu]

Light reflection aiming has been around a long time. Most recently seen in Darren Appletons new SEE system. I checked it out, thinking I might be able to teach it to others. Too complicated for me, but others may benefit.

 

[Houstoer]

Did Patsy write this song just for me?

I believe I have read at somewhere, the possibility of using the reflection of the table lights on the balls to give you an aiming point.

I was practicing on a snooker table one night after a tourney. The guy who won the tourney was pretty much 3 sheets by then. He came over to the table and started giving me pointers. He did mention using the lights reflection. He is a god guy, he knows his game but sometimes has a hard time explaining what he wants to get across. It seemed the more I asked, the more frustrated he got.

Two weeks ago, another player showed me the reflection on the head ball on the rack. He said, imagine the light coming all the way down and you have center ball reference point. I started doing this and my break percentage has gone up considerably.

Last night I went to the hall to practice on a 9. I studied the reflections on the balls. Sometimes the light actually showed you where center ball is. Other times, I used the cusp of the arc and followed it down to where I perceived the correct spot to hit with the ghost ball.

I used a combination of light and ferrule aiming to do this. I did make some very nice shots.

Now, it could very well have been my imagination and all I was doing was
using the ghost and shot memory to make some of these.

Is there some merit to this type of aiming?

Oh nooooo, another aiming thread! Lets try and discuss this for at least a couple of minutes before we start a fight OK.

If I am crazy, just say, "Terry, yer crazy" and bury the thread.

Blue Hog; check this out. Written by Mr. Jewett.
http://www.sfbilliards.com/articles/2004-06.pdf

 

[SoniDJ]

I am a pretty solid player, I use the bottom of the ball where it touches the table as my center point reference and the edges. When you look down table at the object ball look at the contact point to the table. This is good particularly for long straight shots.