If you shoot straight and you know for a fact that you shoot straight but you still miss pocketing balls there is nothing wrong with your aim!!! You are just looking at the wrong thing. I was having this problem for a long time and it will shatter your self confidence. You keep on reading pool material, watching DVDs and going to tournaments to watch the great players play and sooner or later you put the pieces that you gathered together so far and add them to your game that is always under construction. I was recently at the GEM City Classics and while most everyone’s eyes were glued on Shane I was focused on "The Prince of Pool" Cory Deuel's Soft and Super Soft stroke as he played the very talented Hunter Lombardo. This was yet another piece that I have added to the construction. Now while looking for more videos of Corey on YouTube I stumble across this video of Shane vs. Thorsten (SBE) commentated by Jerry Briesath and someone else who's name I did not catch but I hope that it helps you as much as it has helped me. Now the whole match is really good but here is the part that got me up one more grade in pool school. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEnaa7GQL-g Go to 17:51 to 18:05 listen to what Jerry says and take it to the table to see it fly. “Don't touch the rail it is closet to and then you can shoot has hard as you want”. Now visualize this...you have an object ball that you are trying to pocket and play shape on the next ball and you may need to use a little pace to get you there or maybe you don't but look at the OB and see what rail it is close to and see what rail is further away then shoot toward the facing of the pocket of the rail that it is furthest away from. You give yourself 2 chances to make this ball (clean center pocket or hitting the face of the pocket that is on the rail which is further away). When I look at Larry Nevel who fires balls in at Mach 1 speed I often wondered what he saw that the rest of the world did not and I know that Jerry taught Larry for a little while and there is no doubt in my mind that he shared this information with his prize student. I hope this helps your game and good shooting to you.