I do my aiming while standing. I can visualize the contact point on the object ball and it’s corresponding point on the cueball. So as I walk around the table I can see those two points are initially miles apart and are converging. It’s something I see in my mind equally as I see it with my eyes. There’s an emotional feeling of satisfaction when they are lined up like something internal just went *ding*. As my head has that lined up my body can step into the shot, get down and maintain that alignment.
I can visualize the shot similar to Mosconi’s parallel lines approach. This is what it looks like in my mind when I’m standing.
And this is what it looks like when I’m down.
But that’s usually if I’m focusing extra hard. That can burn my brain out. So many times I’ll cut corners and visualize equal overlaps and it’ll look like this when I’m standing.
And like this when I’m down on the shot.
It has really helped me with thin cuts, thin cut crossover banks, and rail shots. I used to overcut those because I was thinking I needed to hit as thin as possible. But really even thin cuts have overlap to them and this has helped me to dial in aiming when the overlap is a lot or a tiny amount.
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