Seeing the contact point on the object ball.

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i bet every one of the top players just use the red line when they shoot.

Nobody'd admit to it. How many red lines can you sell anyway?

 

[bbb]

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.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.

thanks for the replies

 

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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.

Seen the training ball; I'd like to hear Rempe's _sincere_ take on aiming.

 

[Paul_#_]

Hello, for those of you who use contact point aiming systems, where you first find the contact point on the object ball
by drawing a line from the pocket through the object ball, here is my question.
Let's say you have a long shot , and the object ball is a solid color. You step away from the object ball, after finding the contact point, and head
back to the cue ball which is say - 4 diamonds away. How do you keep track of that contact point on the object ball with your eyes? Thank you.

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The answer to OP's question is that you can keep track of the object-ball contact point from four diamonds away by using your eyes provided you get an object ball with 110 multi-colored, multi-shaped spots.

Using this ball, it is also not necessary to move or adjust the ball after its been hit and stops to find a mark at a new contact point. Find the new contact point and there will be another spot there that can be easily seen from even six feet away.