Second best tip for aiming
- Thread starter duckie
- Start date
TheThaiger
Banned
Learning a system takes their mind off their poor stroke.
As someone new to pool, this forum seems like it's really gone downhill. This entire attitude is exactly why pool is dying. We all make fun of and put down each other, and probably all suck more at pool than we would care to admit. I come to this forum for help and to kill the hours before I get to play pool again.
"This" forum? Meaning the Aiming Conversation subforum? You might be right -- and that's because we have people like duckie, who fixate on a certain topic (like aiming), and won't let go. Duckie's like a pit bull with tetanus. He's lockjawed on aiming, and won't let go.
And he purports to be a big straight pool advocate. Yet, when was the last time he ever contributed to that forum? You won't, because he don't know diddly in that department (it's convenient for him to refer to 14.1 because he knows there are very few players of that game here on the Aiming Conversation subforum). But look at his posting resume here on AZB, and what do you find? A complete fixation with the Aiming Conversation subforum and the topic of aiming. For someone advocating people to "stop fixating on aiming systems," boy, he sure is fixated himself!
-Sean
Mr Duck
You need to know....ITS NEVER BEEN THE SYSTEM....Its always been the player.
It will never boil down to the system,its the dedication one puts into his way of learning.
It will always be. Your not real are you...probably a computer generated person.
A CTE user:.... It's a fact, CTE does work.
duckie:... Don't confuse me the with facts.
Obviously duckies mind's already made up of a hair brained idea,
to aim somewhere behind the OB, at some fly speck on the table.
.
duckie:... Don't confuse me the with facts.
Obviously duckies mind's already made up of a hair brained idea,
to aim somewhere behind the OB, at some fly speck on the table.
.
Last edited:
That's right. And the fact is, he's not even using his own sanctioned/advocated method of aiming correctly! Ghostball aiming is shooting *into* the space that would be occupied by the ghostball; not aiming at some arbitrary spot on the cloth. It's much easier to aim at a 2.25-inch target (and fill its volume), than to shoot at some spec on the cloth. But of course, duckie hasn't graduated past the initial stages of using the arrow, so I guess this is kind of expected from a "train the trainer who hasn't yet taken off his training wheels."
-Sean
Oh boy.
I wonder nobody argues about that with you.
Duckie, you should really give it a rest.
Last edited:
Oh boy.
I wonder nobody argues about that with you.
On here? (The Aiming Conversation subforum, that is?) Probably because most readers here use alternate aiming systems, and may've either 1.) never learned ghostball correctly, or 2.) did learn it correctly, but it just isn't the system for them. I wouldn't be surprised if duckie's not the only one who never learned ghostball correctly.
If you think about the term "ghostball" -- it means an apparition of an entire ball. Not a spot on the cloth. Sure, the training devices out there (like the arrow, and other ghostball trainers) will have a "shoot here" spot on them where the ghostball would contact the cloth. But that's not the be-all, end-all of that trainer. The *intent* is to get you to see the entire ghostball, so that your gaze graduates upwards from the cloth, and into the "meat" (volume) of the ghostball. Hence ghostball and not ghostspot. When you're dealing with the volume of a ball (and not its spot on the cloth), you have some checks and balances working for you, like fractional aiming in combination with the ghostball.
John himself proved the inaccuracy of trying to locate a spot on the cloth for aiming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-L4QMNiVxk
A small error here, at the cloth level, can cost you as much as half a ball of inaccuracy. Why would someone adopt such a method fraught with error? Answer: those who've never graduated past the "shoot here" spot on ghostball training devices.
Agreed -- especially about someone who'd proven he's not a high-level player with what he espouses here, as well as the "tells" in his YouTube videos.
-Sean
Last edited:
Oh boy.
I wonder nobody argues about that with you.
Joey -- Sean and I did discuss this back in May in a thread started by you: http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=363209. See posts 22, 25, 26, and 28.
TheThaiger
Banned
Which system? Its not about whether a system works, its more about whether a system is needed.