The beauty of this system is not only the accuracy of the banks, it's control
The greatest bankers in the world all know how to create a "pocket zone," and bend them into the pocket. When I used to watch "Bugs" in Detroit at THE RACK it was amazing to see how accurate he was, not only in making the bank shots, it was his cue ball control that impressed me the most. I remember watching his eyes and they were glued to a specific part of the cue ball and he didn't seem to care much about the object ball.....I had no idea what he did, just that it worked REALLY WELL.
Bugs would get in "Banking Zones" where he would make Grady Matthews (who I saw him play on several occasion for BIG money) throw up his hands in frustration. No matter where he put "Bugs" the table would be the same when he returned - a ball in Bug's hole and the cue ball behind another ball (usually frozen).
This seemed like some kind of "magic" to me and I didn't see it again until I played Vernon Elliot in Indianapolis. We played "Two Shot Push Out" which requires you to play a LOT of banks, and Vernon could REALLY bank. He would do the same thing, bank at the shot and if he missed I was always snookered behind another ball. This is why TWO SHOT rules are so much better than ONE FOUL (imo), the "Two Way Shot"....where you shoot an offensive shot, and at the same time play safe if you miss......with a shot on your next ball if you make the BANK.....this is an amazing art form that you don't see as much now that "One Foul" is the game of choice.
The next time I saw this was playing Tony Fargo on the 5/10 in Dallas. His banking ability was amazing and I noticed something familiar about his banking.....he also seemed to aim at the cue ball, not the object ball. We played one pocket for over 12 hours and I managed to win over $7,000. however he out banked me by a wide margin. It was a classic "Bank Expert Against Shot Maker," and it was my "lucky day" (as Efren would say)
After the match was over my friend Roger Griffis came over to me and said "CJ, Tony will show us his Bank System for $700," ...I was unprepared for this, however, it got my full attention. "Do you think he'll show us what he really does, and if so, do you think we can do it?" Roger said "man, he's a good guy, he just wants to make some money back so he can go play someone in Houston, I'll vouch for him and I'll go in halves with you if you want."
I agreed and we both paid him $350. and he proceeded to show us his system for banking. It opened my eyes to some things that I had never noticed on a pool table before, how the cue ball connects to the diamonds. I caught on to his system and incorporated my own style and before long I used it to win $30,000 of Amarillo Slim playing one pocket giving him 14/5 in Baton Rouge Louisiana at Fly Boy's hang out where the everyone was gambling "sky high".
My TOI Banking System is a fusion between TOI, what I saw Bugs do in Detroit, Vernon Elliot do in Indianapolis and Tony Fargo do on that 5/10 in Dallas. I call it the Touch of Inside Pivot System (TIPS), and after producing the TOI video last month I discovered the missing link to teach this system and now I'm ready to release it to the "Pool World".
The filming will be finished up this weekend and the post production will start immediately. We will put together a demonstration video to give a preview of this system and we have a way to label each shot so you know the alignment (to the object bal), the shot speed, and the cue ball target on each and every Bank. This gives the best way to duplicate what I'm doing.
This will enable anyone, with some systematic practice (there's a drill I will share that will speed up this process considerably) to bank like you've never banked before. The beauty of this system is not only the accuracy of the banks, it's also the cue ball control generated by blending the SPEED - SHOT ANGLE - and CUE BALL TARGET into one. 'The Game is the Teacher'
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