Very Best Pool Video Instruction: Free or Paid?

I travel overseas and develop slogans for many of the top sporting goods manufacturers. I have my own private jet and in my contracts I actually have pool lessons written in as part of the contract (as a bonus) if the company meets their goal. I have literally been to every top instructor in the United States. I have seen Jerry, Stan, Tor, Mark, Dave etc. They are all EXCELLENT. Here is what I will tell you. Hands down, Anthony Beeler is the best and Joe Tucker is a close second. If you put these two people together, you might conquer the world. That is only my opinion but I have only went to see one instructor two times and it was Beeler.
I've had multiple lessons in person from Stan and Joe Tucker and I couldn't agree more. Superstars of superstars when it comes to teaching, especially in their specialty but also everything in pool. Unfortunately, Stan gets brutalized unfairly by a small pack of members on this forum that have no clue and want to be "big man on campus" and have free reign to do it.
Tor has some of the BEST videos out there that I've seen and can be purchased through ZERO-X. (google it)
Pattern Play for position (controlling the CB) on CD is a 3 disc/5hour gem for any and all players and will improve a player immensely.
I've seen Anthony Beeler's background on the PBIA website of members. His playing history is impressive. He's been in the trenches, on the front line, in a lot of battles. Click below: (your background and what you do is quite impressive also)
(suddenly, I think I need my own private jet):cool:

 
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Geno at perfectaimbilliards goes into this. I think he is still doing in person and skype lessons. The secret he shares is really good for eliminating or minimizing visual distortions and optical illusions.

Stan Shuffette does address this in his book when he talks about "ticks" on the ball. It's not as easy to understand and I think unless I was already familiar with Gene's work I may have not understood it. Stan does a good job explaining it, but it's one of those things that make much more sense when talking to a person so you can ask the right questions to understand it. I'd imagine it's much easier to understand in an in person lesson or conversation.

Your eyes can definitely be used as an instrument. You can change eye dominance, focus, etc. You can readily find centers between objects and such. I'm an inspector IRL and I've got really good at eyeballing parts being parallel to our inspection carts. I'm using visual tricks and can often get an 8' part within 1 or 2mm of square before fine tuning. In reality 1-2mm is square enough since we use cad and programs often, but I like to nitpick.

I know that some of our older inspectors could be deadly accurate with a normal scale(ruler). Like they could get within .05mm by eyeballing it. It was interesting seeing them saying a number with a scale and then seeing them check it with a more accurate mic and the numbers lining up very closely.
Fantastic. Another member agreeing and confirming with firsthand experience and knowledge of using vision as an instrument or device.
I have begun to work on the Ultimate SEEING video outline and text before filming.
It is currently and is going to be a lot of work.
 
I travel overseas and develop slogans for many of the top sporting goods manufacturers. I have my own private jet and in my contracts I actually have pool lessons written in as part of the contract (as a bonus) if the company meets their goal. I have literally been to every top instructor in the United States. I have seen Jerry, Stan, Tor, Mark, Dave etc. They are all EXCELLENT. Here is what I will tell you. Hands down, Anthony Beeler is the best and Joe Tucker is a close second. If you put these two people together, you might conquer the world. That is only my opinion but I have only went to see one instructor two times and it was Beeler.
I'll try to check them out and see what I discover.
 
I travel overseas and develop slogans for many of the top sporting goods manufacturers. I have my own private jet and in my contracts I actually have pool lessons written in as part of the contract (as a bonus) if the company meets their goal. I have literally been to every top instructor in the United States. I have seen Jerry, Stan, Tor, Mark, Dave etc. They are all EXCELLENT. Here is what I will tell you. Hands down, Anthony Beeler is the best and Joe Tucker is a close second. If you put these two people together, you might conquer the world. That is only my opinion but I have only went to see one instructor two times and it was Beeler.
Beeler teaches 5 and 6 year olds. That is why he is so good at breaking things down in a pool instructional video. For those young ones, things must be broken down so they understand.
 
Geno at perfectaimbilliards goes into this. I think he is still doing in person and skype lessons. The secret he shares is really good for eliminating or minimizing visual distortions and optical illusions.

Stan Shuffette does address this in his book when he talks about "ticks" on the ball. It's not as easy to understand and I think unless I was already familiar with Gene's work I may have not understood it. Stan does a good job explaining it, but it's one of those things that make much more sense when talking to a person so you can ask the right questions to understand it. I'd imagine it's much easier to understand in an in person lesson or conversation.

Your eyes can definitely be used as an instrument. You can change eye dominance, focus, etc. You can readily find centers between objects and such. I'm an inspector IRL and I've got really good at eyeballing parts being parallel to our inspection carts. I'm using visual tricks and can often get an 8' part within 1 or 2mm of square before fine tuning. In reality 1-2mm is square enough since we use cad and programs often, but I like to nitpick.

I know that some of our older inspectors could be deadly accurate with a normal scale(ruler). Like they could get within .05mm by eyeballing it. It was interesting seeing them saying a number with a scale and then seeing them check it with a more accurate mic and the numbers lining up very closely.
What does IRL designate?
What is an inspector IRL?
On the Internet it says it is slang for In Real Life.
Thanks.
 
I can provide enthusiastic student references, but a more effective approach might be to offer a free one-hour session. Everyone is welcome.
 
I think I mentioned in another thread. It refers to using your vision as an instrument or device.
But I have not explained any other details.

"We’ll find out soon when he releases his for sale video. It’ll be a bargain at just a hair more than Tor Lowry’s stuff."
I really don't know what I'll be doing regarding Ultimate Seeing.
But I would think that at most it would take up only about 5 - 10 minutes of a single Tor video.
Or even a 3 minute read.

But here is what I recommend right now. I was thinking about starting a new thread but here is appropriate.
I recommend studying YouTube videos of top players. Watch what they do. It can be difficult to see exactly.
I recommend watching Buddy Hall and Carlo Biado and Kim Davenport. Why? Because I can see much of what they are doing.
Forget Efren. His technique is so subtle as to be invisible. Same with Earl, Shane, Busty, etc.

Here is another tidbit. We've all heard about hand and eye coordination.
But not much if anything about fine motor skills (movements using small muscles in the hands and wrists)
and I would add arms, as well.
This comes down to your nervous system.
I would bet that most if not all of these top players have natural superior fine motor skills.
So most of us are destined to struggle and work harder.

Excellent pool requires exquisitely fine body control. I remember watching Cole. Sometimes it seemed like his body was like one of those Halloween skeleton costumes. Consistently manipulated like a marionette. Precise. It struck me sometimes as being a little bizarre. But the results, his personality, image, body language, etc. never failed to enthrall. And just 18 - 19 years old. He was already worldly well beyond his years. He was a well seasoned road player even then. (Cole was born on November 20, 1950.)

Few things are more satisfying than watching a predator get ate. (these are my words.)

If you want to hear a couple of stories about Cole listen to this podcast starting at about 57:00 - 1:00:30

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Good points. I have a chapter in one of my pool books about learning from effective player models—something the greats tend to do in all sports.
 
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