WTF is the fascination with pivoting to reach the line of aim? I've never understood this. As a newcomer to the game it will bring all kinds of bad habit your way. Steering the cue, throwing your vision centre off line... And not to mention you will never be able to aim on auto pilot. It seems it is just another step in people's journey to find the golden nugget in aiming, when there really isn't one.
Aiming comes as you naturally develop into a better player. I believe a person's ability to find the correct line of aim progresses quicker than their fundamentals do. So by the time the have sound fundamentals they can aim on auto pilot. This is how I learned. Introducing pivoting and all that BS IMO means a player's ability to aim gets held back and they reach a stage where their fundamentals take over their ability to aim accurately by visualising the balls colliding... Or finding the line of aim. Then they reach a dilemma. Do they just keep at it or do they go out, waste money on an aiming system and then fall back into their old habit of not really knowing how to aim any angled shot that comes their way... Far too many go the second route in pool. Unfortunate.
Aiming comes as you naturally develop into a better player. I believe a person's ability to find the correct line of aim progresses quicker than their fundamentals do. So by the time the have sound fundamentals they can aim on auto pilot. This is how I learned. Introducing pivoting and all that BS IMO means a player's ability to aim gets held back and they reach a stage where their fundamentals take over their ability to aim accurately by visualising the balls colliding... Or finding the line of aim. Then they reach a dilemma. Do they just keep at it or do they go out, waste money on an aiming system and then fall back into their old habit of not really knowing how to aim any angled shot that comes their way... Far too many go the second route in pool. Unfortunate.