Side of the cueball aiming ?

[JoeyInCali]

Or lining up for that matter.

Any merit to using the outside edge of the cueball to line up and aim in all shots?
Imagine a vertical line on that edge and line up all shots according to that vertical line ?
I believe the late Robert McCollough of Colliding Spheres taught and advocated it.

 

[EasyEJL]

It does work well for some shots (often called train track aiming) but doesn't work for everything. Seems best for shots when the object ball is 6 inches to 3-4 from cue ball and around a 1/8 to 3/8 or 5/8 to 7/8 of ball cut. Too close to straight and it doesn't work, too thin a cut it doesn't seem to either

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[GaryB]

Hal Houle while living in Orange County, Calif had business cards promoting his teachings with the business name of Colliding Spheres. At the time he was teaching edge to various fractions as an aiming system.

 

[LAMas]

Ignoring parallax,
If you aim the edge of the CB at the same edge of the OB, you get the straight in shot.

If you aim the edge of the CB at the center of the OB, you get 30 degrees.

If you aim the edge of the CB at the opposite edge of the OB, you get 90 degrees.



You can aim the edge of the CB at the fractions for other cut angles as well. If you have a good memory, you can see all of the cut angles are available by aiming the edge of the CB from the same edge on the OB to the opposite edge on the OB,,,,from 0 degrees (straight in) to 90 degrees.

 

[LAMas]

Another appliction of aiming with the edge of the CB involves the contact point on the OB.

Look at the distance from the contact point on the OB to the edge on that side to the edge of the OB (A). Double that distance toward the center of the OB and aim the edge of the CB at that point (A+A).

 

[EddieBme]

Aiming

Another appliction of aiming with the edge of the CB involves the contact point on the OB.

Look at the distance from the contact point on the OB to the edge on that side to the edge of the OB (A). Double that distance toward the center of the OB and aim the edge of the CB at that point (A+A).

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Is this the system that SVB uses?

 

[LAMas]

Is this the system that SVB uses?

SVB demonstrated (TAR) on a thin cut shot down along the rail, saying that he used the side of the CB to aim and the shot was close but missed...rattled in the tight pocket. He didn't expand to demonstrate more or different cut angles and where he was going to aim the edge of the CB.


Why feed the fish?.:smile:

I just figured that he was on to something and studied the validity of that one shot if applied to other cut angles.

 

[cookie man]

Or lining up for that matter.

Any merit to using the outside edge of the cueball to line up and aim in all shots?
Imagine a vertical line on that edge and line up all shots according to that vertical line ?
I believe the late Robert McCollough of Colliding Spheres taught and advocated it.

Lots of merit to using the outside edge or the inside edge of cb for aiming. Did you ever experiment with doing it?

 

[cookie man]

By the way, I didn’t search for this, it came up at the bottom of my phone while I was commenting on the other post.

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Everyone use some system to aim, figure out kicks, and banks, etc.

Think it come down to what works for you that each person uses.

No system is perfect, if it was top Pro Player's would never miss.

 

[SpiderWebComm]

Lots of merit to using the outside edge or the inside edge of cb for aiming. Did you ever experiment with doing it?

He installs tips on cues for those that do play and is a chauffeur to some of the better players when they come to town.
Nobody here has ever seen him play. There are real players and "pretend" players. Guess which one fits?