The thread in the ask the instructor section was frustration over the bashing that I had taken for months about what I teach.
I think all the instructor are trying to help players and they are. They are all people persons and enjoy helping. That's why they teach.
I just couldn't understand why some of them would try to keep players from even looking at something that they know nothing about.
I still stand by my statement that nobody teaches Perfect aim. I'm talking about the meat of it. Sure, there are bits and pieces of other things in my lesson that other teachers teach but the meat of Perfect Aim stands by itself.
I hope I can run into you someday and really help you understand the whole thing.
The players that have learned this know the value and there is no way that anyone can change their minds. They know what it has done for their games.
And many of them, if someone wanted to go back through the old thread, were pretty negative about what I taught until they really understood it.
Poor Shankster doesn't understand it and I feel helpless to help him. He wants to tell me how it is when his questions has nothing to do with it at all.
Someday we will meet and I would like to work with you. After we get done I'm sure you'ld understand. You sound like a pretty sharp guy.
And it sounds like you play pretty good also. We might even be able to hit some balls around together.
Until then I'll keep on teaching and helping players everywhere.
Have a great day geno.........
Geno, this is rediculous. Don't feel sorry for me because poor shankster doesn't understand Perfect Aim I said long ago I believe I understand it as well as you. The fact is, perfect aim is simple to comprehend if one doesn't attempt to learn it from you. Perfect aim is simply fractional ball aiming with the cue centered beneath the eyes. You were successful in not publicly admitting that for a year, but I believe most objective readers are now seeing through your insincere words. I believe you will be dethroned by the end of this post.
First let me say that I've got no problem with the method you call perfect aim. It just bugs me that you continue to imply it's something different than it is. The fact is, I center the cue beneath my eyes. I don't fractional ball aim like your DVD teaches; I just see the shot rather than a ball fraction - I don't know how else to explain it. I'll be the first to admit, though, that I believe consistent, proper eye position is critical to consistent shot making.
Now let me prove again that perfect aim is fractional ball aiming with the cue centered beneath the eyes. First, let's recall that your DVD repeatedly emphasizes that there is a single, perfect eye location, which is the same for all of us, where we see the shot accurately. That's what Kranicki says - actually he says there are two eye positions where we can see the shot accurately. One is with the cue centered beneath the eyes (like your DVD teaches), and the other is with the cue beneath an eye. All intermediate eye positions require compensation in the aim, such as not sighting thru the center of the tip. I've got no problem with this aspect of perfect aim, either. I realize that most other instructors disagree with you here, however. Randy etal, for example, espouse the concept of a vision center, unique to an individual, which can be located anywhere - and which is that eye position from which an individual can accurately perceive a straight line projecting from the cue (my words). I am uncertain about the vision center concept. The point of this paragraph is to affirm that you teach that there is a single perfect location for all of us.
Next, your DVD informs us that our eyes take turns being dominant. When we cut left our left eye is dominant and we want it located such that it sights along the left edge of the cueball and sees that cueball edge fractionally overlapping the object ball. Similarly, for right cuts, the right eye is dominant and sights along the right edge of the cueball and sees the proper object ball overlap for the shot. Later in the DVD you re-emphasize this using your Walmart laser device. You place it on the table and project a laser line along the left edge of the cueball onto the object ball and show us what our left eye will see for 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 ball overlaps. Then you do the same thing at the other end of the table showing us what the right eye will see when it sights along the right edge of the cueball for the same fractional ball overlaps.
I've got no problem with this part of your teaching, either, though I think alot of us cannot bend low enough to project the cue ball edge onto the object ball. I also think you use the word "dominant" in an unusual fashion here, but you get the point across.
The above, I believe, is a fair synopsis of the aiming system presented in your DVD. I've avoided your instructions about how we should get our left eye in position to sight along the left edge of the cueball and, similarly, your instructions regarding the right eye, because I believe that is what confuses people.
Now that we agree on the mechanics of perfect aim, and understand that it is a fractional ball aiming system, let me prove that it is also a cue centered system.
We all have about the same eyespan, and it is nearly equal to the cue ball diameter, which is 2 1/4 inch. I use the word eyespan in reference to the distance between our pupils, or the little holes we see through. My eyespan is 2 3/8 inches. I measured a number of people's eyespans previously, and discovered they generally range from 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 inches. Certainly there are some very narrow and some very wide faces that are exceptions to this, but 2 3/8 is probably close to average.
I invite everyone reading this including you, Geno, to stand in front of a mirror and hold a cue ball between your eyes. You will discover that your eyes are very nearly aligned with the cueball edges. Now remember, that Geno's aiming system requires us to sight along the left edge of the cue ball with the left eye for left cuts, and along the right side of the cue ball with the right eye for right cuts. Voila! If we simply center the cueball between our eyes, each eye is naturally aligned with a cue ball edge (within 1/8 inch if your eyespan is 2 1/2 inch). This is irrefutable,
This means that if we center the cue ball beneath our eyes our eyes are in that "perfect" spot Geno preaches about, within 1/8 inch. (Centering the cueball beneath our eyes is the same as saying center the cue beneath our eyes since this aiming systems contemplates center ball hits,) Geno, I have asked you to affirm that probably 20 times, over the past year, in this forum, and you have repeatedly avoided the question - till two days ago Two days ago you answered ("Geno, if I center the cue beneath my eyes, are they then within 1/8 inch of that perfect spot you continually refer to?) with "The answer is a flat NO!" which everyone now realizes is erroneous. You knew that, Geno, but apparently thought you could get away with one more misrepresentation. It is clear to me you didn't want everyone to figure this out, and lied. Truly, it would be very difficult to sell DVD's for $70 if people understood you're only teaching fractional ball aiming with the cue centered.
Now that you've finally exposed yourself, I feel a little sorry for you. I believe there is a lot of good in you, and you just got carried away as a result of the easy riches that came to you by accident. I truly I believe your DVD was so bad that nobody could even understand it; but, because you were a notoriously good shooter everyone kept digging for the magic they believed must be hidden in there somewhere - and you played it like a pro. Easily $200,000, I figure.
I think you really ought to get a membership with AZB, and, no, you really don't need to find a backer to play Bartrum for $5,000 - what a joke.
One final comment for everyone still confused by perfect aim. I suggest you ignore what Geno says about eye dominance and about moving your head inches left or right till you "lose the shot", then moving it back till it looks right (my words). If you simply drop onto the shot with the cue centered beneath your eyes, your eyes will be within 1/8 inch of that perfect spot Geno preaches about. Understand that the cue ball is about 25 to 30 inches from your eyes (depending on your arm and bridge lengths). When your eyes are that far from the cue ball, how much difference in your sight picture do you think a 1/16 or 1/8 inch head movement is going to make? Not much!. Hell, some of us shake that much. Geno often alludes to head movements in the order of an inch. Look at the explanation he gave to Mojoe in this thread - it is unnecessarily confusing (intentionally?). If Geno really wanted to help Mojoe all he had to say was to look down at the cue and verify that your eyes are centered above it.
It takes practice to consistently drop into a cue-centered eye position. Kranicki suggests placing a mirror on the table and looking back at yourself to ascertain your eye position relative to the cue.
Finally, I'm not angry with Geno for making money - it's how he went about it.