Seeing the contact point on the object ball.

[bbb]

My question is once you are confident of OB contact point, do you shoot the CB with center ball aiming the cue tip directly at the contact point or aim the edge/contact point on the CB at the contact point? Elementary or intuitive I'm sure to good players.

this post says nothing about you are missing balls now that you made routinely in the past and you want to know why
if you really want to know why you miss now i would say this
in the past you knew where to aim to make the ball AND you could get the cueball to hit that target(not by aiming directly at the contact point except for straight in shots)
i like show beginners if i took a silver dollar and had a portion of it stick out past the rail nose and asked them to hit the part sticking out
they realize quickly if the cue ball is coming at it at an angle they will hit the rail first if they aim directly at the part sticking out
they then start to understand you have to get the curvature of the cue ball to hit the target not the "front "of the cue ball'
now that you had to read all of that
the fact that you could make balls means you figured it out by a process that worked for you
so thats not the problem
you are older
when is the last time you had your vision checked.....maybe you need glasses or a change in your prescription if you already wear glasses
maybe you have a slight tremor now
there are lots of reasons why you have lost your accuracy
maybe have an instructor watch you now and find out what an educated eye sees
i would advise going back to drills on fundamentals to improve your accuracy
you already know how to make the ball
hope this helps
respectfully.....
bbb

 

[Mensabum]

How come you don't know how to aim?

I've been pitching contact point to contact point since I came on here. Send me a pm about your cpg, please.
I haven't had a chance to read about it check it out. Hoping you can give me the crib notes version.
I've been using the same system since I started playing and it's served me very well, but I'm always open to new things when it comes to this game.

 

[Mensabum]

Can't be having them sudden stops.

Hard on the neck for sho.

 

[heater451]

Minor issue, but I did not say that, Doug did.

Edited name in my post. I changed the post reference # too, but didn't know Doug's member ID. I deleted that, and it removed the link.

What's odd, unless it was quoting you quoting Doug, is that the link would not return to the post which I guess would have been yours. I had used the "Post reply" button, so don't know exactly how your name got pulled in.

 

[Patrick Johnson]

Cue ball center towards the contact point hits the object ball twice as full as needed. I hope this is obvious to all.

If that doesn’t compute for you, try thinking of it as “half as thin as needed”.

pj <- like “double the offset” aiming
chgo

 

[sparkle84]

Physics, shmysics.

Ya just gotta learn from empirical observation. Not the why something occurs, only that it occurs.

Perhaps the why might allow someone with a science background to learn more quickly. Perhaps not.

(This coming from a math degreed college grad.)

I don't call this stuff physics or geometry. I call it "the way the balls work".
I remember when you 1st became active here and were struggling and asking a lot of questions. Now 5-6 years later, through help from here and from figuring things out yourself on the table, you're starting ( I think) to grasp the way the balls work.

My contention is that the "why" is extremely important. Back then, if you had someone who could explain the theory (why) the balls react as they do, you'd have reached your present level of play 3 or 4 years ago. I realize a lot of your time was spent trying to straighten out your mechanics. That was necessary but you'd have had a lot more time available for that if you knew how the balls worked right from the start.

Two things are needed to play good pool. Good mechanics ( which allow development of a good stroke) and knowing what the hell you're doing on the table. I'm simplifying things here but knowing how things work takes one of those two requirements out of the equation.

Really sad thing is that it's not rocket science. The concepts are fairly simple and anyone of reasonable intelligence can pick it up very quickly provided they can find someone to explain it in an understandable way.

 

[bbb]

I don't call this stuff physics or geometry. I call it "the way the balls work".
I remember when you 1st became active here and were struggling and asking a lot of questions. Now 5-6 years later, through help from here and from figuring things out yourself on the table, you're starting ( I think) to grasp the way the balls work.

My contention is that the "why" is extremely important. Back then, if you had someone who could explain the theory (why) the balls react as they do, you'd have reached your present level of play 3 or 4 years ago. I realize a lot of your time was spent trying to straighten out your mechanics. That was necessary but you'd have had a lot more time available for that if you knew how the balls worked right from the start.

Two things are needed to play good pool. Good mechanics ( which allow development of a good stroke) and knowing what the hell you're doing on the table. I'm simplifying things here but knowing how things work takes one of those two requirements out of the equation.

Really sad thing is that it's not rocket science. The concepts are fairly simple and anyone of reasonable intelligence can pick it up very quickly provided they can find someone to explain it in an understandable way.

@sparkle84
great post
hope all is well with you
bbb

 

[straightline]

I don't call this stuff physics or geometry. I call it "the way the balls work".
I remember when you 1st became active here and were struggling and asking a lot of questions. Now 5-6 years later, through help from here and from figuring things out yourself on the table, you're starting ( I think) to grasp the way the balls work.

My contention is that the "why" is extremely important. Back then, if you had someone who could explain the theory (why) the balls react as they do, you'd have reached your present level of play 3 or 4 years ago. I realize a lot of your time was spent trying to straighten out your mechanics. That was necessary but you'd have had a lot more time available for that if you knew how the balls worked right from the start.

Two things are needed to play good pool. Good mechanics ( which allow development of a good stroke) and knowing what the hell you're doing on the table. I'm simplifying things here but knowing how things work takes one of those two requirements out of the equation.

Really sad thing is that it's not rocket science. The concepts are fairly simple and anyone of reasonable intelligence can pick it up very quickly provided they can find someone to explain it in an understandable way.

I was just watching the Filler UKO highlights and it occurs to me, if you know where it's going, it'll always do that.