Oikawa
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The method I use to aim almost all direct pots involves looking at the OB as a whole, focusing visually on the perceived OB/CB overlap, while sensing instinctually if the shot is too thin, too thick or neither. No conscious analysis or thought is necessary to find the correct shot line. It becomes an automatic process pretty fast.
The process is as follows:
While standing, stand roughly behind the correct line. Move the head very slightly towards the side where the shot becomes too thin, until the shot feels too thin with 100% certainty. Then do the same towards the other side, until the shot feels too thick with 100% certainty. After this, place the head anywhere between these two points, wherever it feels the best.
The better your sensing is, the smaller these margins of being 100% certain become.
The reason I believe this works well, is that if you have shot tens or hundreds of thousands of shots, your subconscious has not only developed a great sense of when the shot looks right, but also when it will be thin or thick. Observing this extra information gives the subconscious more to work with, and also perhaps lets you hone in to feel-based aiming with more ease, decreasing the risk of missing due to unwanted conscious effort that weakens the effectiveness of the subconscious.
All in all, someone might summarize this method as just aiming 100% with feel, which is true, and say it's not an aiming method because of that, but I find that the deliberate thin/thick dance before settling in to the shot line is a large enough difference from going straight to where it looks right, that it can be called an aiming method.
The process is as follows:
While standing, stand roughly behind the correct line. Move the head very slightly towards the side where the shot becomes too thin, until the shot feels too thin with 100% certainty. Then do the same towards the other side, until the shot feels too thick with 100% certainty. After this, place the head anywhere between these two points, wherever it feels the best.
The better your sensing is, the smaller these margins of being 100% certain become.
The reason I believe this works well, is that if you have shot tens or hundreds of thousands of shots, your subconscious has not only developed a great sense of when the shot looks right, but also when it will be thin or thick. Observing this extra information gives the subconscious more to work with, and also perhaps lets you hone in to feel-based aiming with more ease, decreasing the risk of missing due to unwanted conscious effort that weakens the effectiveness of the subconscious.
All in all, someone might summarize this method as just aiming 100% with feel, which is true, and say it's not an aiming method because of that, but I find that the deliberate thin/thick dance before settling in to the shot line is a large enough difference from going straight to where it looks right, that it can be called an aiming method.
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