Seeing the contact point on the object ball.

Well I see 4 pages but only read 1. The gold nugget I got from a top Portland player, he called "The Big Eye". First.....Imagine the shot.
When what I saw down on the shot matched the image, fire at will. 🤷‍♂️ Imagine success while imaging kind fits the power of positive thinking. But I never read that book. 🤷‍♂️
 
gregcantrall said:
Well I see 4 pages but only read 1. The gold nugget I got from a top Portland player, he called "The Big Eye". First.....Imagine the shot.
When what I saw down on the shot matched the image, fire at will. 🤷‍♂️ Imagine success while imaging kind fits the power of positive thinking. But I never read that book. 🤷‍♂️
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That's how it starts. All good until you start to notice the fail points. Incidentally, the devil cornered success so you got that to deal with as well...:ROFLMAO:
 
straightline said:
That's how it starts. All good until you start to notice the fail points. Incidentally, the devil cornered success so you got that to deal with as well...:ROFLMAO:
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My fear of consequences far outweighed the lust for rewards. 🤷‍♂️ Motivation can move a mountain. Make run Fast too. 😉
 
bbb said:
I can’t find any of that
I’m asking you to teach me how you see things
If you want to do it in a private message, that’s OK
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I see things pretty much as diagrammed except in 3D. The shooting part is down the stick centered but that's separate and too much text anyway. I use aerial marks (like DD's peace sign and other gestures) which allow me to do the visualization for many shots from behind the cue ball. For instance you can nail the tangent line using the edge of your hand right in front of your face. you can move it around to check all kinds of stuff no foul.
In short, I've done a lot to calibrate my PSR to the geometry. Generally I consider the stick itself a component of the shot and getting "chambered and locked in" is very high priority.
 
Ghost ball trick: It's the exact size as the object ball and always frozen to it. You can train your eyes by freezing the CB to another ball and walking around it till you memorize the look or you can no longer miss.

Also this might work:
A right triangle half the height of the object ball.
Ghost Triangle.jpg



Here's an interesting artifact of Jimmy Reid's Equal Angle Opposites:

Jimmy Reid EAO SL.jpg


The Yellow line shows the intended object ball line.
The Red line is contact line. You can use your stick on close shots to get the hang of it.
The Black line is the shot line running parallel to the Red contact line.
Notice, the Black shot line intersects the Yellow shot line at the base of the mythical Ghost Ball.
The blue line is just the line of centers.
The half ball hit is incidental. Could be any pool shot angle; different angles and parallelogram but the connection points would be the same.
 
maha said:
just use the red line and be done with it. its as accurate as any and more so, as using the ghost ball works for a beginner but you also have to estimate its size when mentally placing it there so that adds in mistakes.
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The red line is essentially Reid's method. Jim Rempe is in print saying Jimmy Reid went 20 hours without missing anything. I'd settle for that as a pool game. lol
 
straightline said:
Ghost ball trick: It's the exact size as the object ball and always frozen to it. You can train your eyes by freezing the CB to another ball and walking around it till you memorize the look or you can no longer miss.

Also this might work:
A right triangle half the height of the object ball.View attachment 900128


Here's an interesting artifact of Jimmy Reid's Equal Angle Opposites:

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The Yellow line shows the intended object ball line.
The Red line is contact line. You can use your stick on close shots to get the hang of it.
The Black line is the shot line running parallel to the Red contact line.
Notice, the Black shot line intersects the Yellow shot line at the base of the mythical Ghost Ball.
The blue line is just the line of centers.
The half ball hit is incidental. Could be any pool shot angle; different angles and parallelogram but the connection points would be the same.
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Best one I've seen yet.
Wish I could draw like that. I still do balloon people and stick people.😉
 
rempe and reid both played about the same speed. id say rempe was more consistent. jimmy never talked about any of the stuff he professed later on in life. at least as far as ive seen or heard.
 
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