Visual Sweeps Support Video

Thanks Stan, great video!

Your visuals with the enlarged cue ball and fixed cue ball line were excellent. I'm hoping some of these expanded types of visuals and discussions are in the next DVD, I think it will be an immense help not only to current but especially for future students. It often helps to try and explain things in different ways, or try to attack it with several different approaches, really hammers the point home.

Thanks again for your continued efforts with the system!
Scott
 
scottjen26 said:
Thanks Stan, great video!

Your visuals with the enlarged cue ball and fixed cue ball line were excellent. I'm hoping some of these expanded types of visuals and discussions are in the next DVD, I think it will be an immense help not only to current but especially for future students. It often helps to try and explain things in different ways, or try to attack it with several different approaches, really hammers the point home.

Thanks again for your continued efforts with the system!
Scott
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Thanks, Scott!

That cue ball had a role in DVD2 as well as 3 OBs of the same size. I wouldn't say that they had stellar type performances but I got the best that I could out of the foursome.

Appreciate your comments!

Stan Shuffett
 
Stan,

any rough estimate date you can give us on the release? and if there is waiting list put me on it i want a dvd out of the first shipment!
 
ln817 said:
Stan,

any rough estimate date you can give us on the release? and if there is waiting list put me on it i want a dvd out of the first shipment!
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Phase 1 editing is nearing an end. Connie has typed out 29 pages of my notes thus far today for my individual chapters. She will finish that task today. I hope to send those notes and menu charts in this coming week and then my film editor will act on my suggestions for change and then I will get a rough 1st DVD. It is still too early to make a guess but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Dang, I started my initial notes last May.

Stan Shuffett
 
mohrt said:
Thanks Stan. From the first DVD I always thought this was the center-to-edge line and not center of fixed cueball. Therefore I never really paid attention to the V in my bridge, as I could never make sense of it. This clears things up immensely. Defining "fixed cueball" should also clear things up for the newcomers.
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Just to be clear. When have your visuals and for instance it is right sweep, you would find CCB look right to 1/2 tip of center and use that as your guide for the V in your bridge?
 
Counterspell said:
Just to be clear. When have your visuals and for instance it is right sweep, you would find CCB look right to 1/2 tip of center and use that as your guide for the V in your bridge?
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I don't think you actually look at 1/2 tip spot on the CB, but rather CCB, and when you sweep into CCB your bridge "V" should be slightly left (or right) of the fixed cueball line. So the bridge "V" is a test that you did the sweep correctly.
 
stan shuffett said:
Once a visual is seen:
For example:
CCB TO ROBE
LCBE TO OBA

Those perceptions give you a fixed cue ball. Of importance, your visuals are obtained from being directly behind either line.
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Thanks again, Stan. Can you go into more detail on how "those perceptions give you a fixed cue ball"? When you say "your visuals are obtained from being directly behind either line," it's confusing to me, because those two lines are different and usually not parallel even, and I don't know how to choose which line.

CTE is all about objective reference points, but this method of looking at those two lines (CTE and CBE>A/B/C), which may be either diverging, converging, or nearly parallel lines, then "obtaining" a visual line is a little hand-wavy and non-objective to me. Is it mostly a sense of assuming those two lines are parallel, and fixing the cue ball like you're looking down the middle of a railroad track formed by those two lines? Or is one of the two lines more important than the other?
 
DeadStick said:
Thanks again, Stan. Can you go into more detail on how "those perceptions give you a fixed cue ball"? When you say "your visuals are obtained from being directly behind either line," it's confusing to me, because those two lines are different and usually not parallel even, and I don't know how to choose which line.

CTE is all about objective reference points, but this method of looking at those two lines (CTE and CBE>A/B/C), which may be either diverging, converging, or nearly parallel lines, then "obtaining" a visual line is a little hand-wavy and non-objective to me. Is it mostly a sense of assuming those two lines are parallel, and fixing the cue ball like you're looking down the middle of a railroad track formed by those two lines? Or is one of the two lines more important than the other?
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Thanks, you caught an error. I need to go back and edit my post.

The visuals are NOT acquired from directly behind either of the lines for 2 line visuals.

It is indeed a different way of using your eyes during ball address. You have 2 lines of vision and quite frequently one eye is picking up the correct perception for both lines.

At first be very careful with your visuals and you can notice if they're a little off. It helps to use an OB that is marked at the quarters. Each quarter is 9/16" in width. An OB can be modified in 9/16" section to provide visual accuracy.

Stan Shuffett
 
DTL said:
Not sure if you've seen DVD1, but in it Stan describes a CB with 360 small "ticks" (tiny dots) around the equator of the ball. You don't need any lines to get a "fixed" CB. Just stand still in front of any lone CB anywhere on the table and stare at it.......from there you have a fixed CB (like looking at a 2D picture on a piece of paper). At the extreme edges are 2 of those dots.....lets call them dot #1 and dot # 180. Now, if you tilt your head or move your body ever so slightly to the right your fixed edges change.........like looking around the edge of the CB. When doing so you're now seeing dots #2 and #181 at the extreme edges, go a tiny bit further right and you'll see dots #3 and #182, etc, etc. From our starting point above move your head or body to the left and you'll see dots #360 and #179. Hope this part makes sense.

When getting your visuals, just stand in what I call the "optimal position" that allows you to see best both the CTEL and Aim Line at the same time (you don't necessarily have to be directly behind one or the other or either for that matter). It is from this position where you look down at the CB, with head and body still, and see a fixed CB.......one that is a 1/2 tip sweep or pivot away for center ball pocketing for that shot. It is this fixed CB that Stan had a piece of tape straight through the core of today in his youtube demo video. And it is that line that the V part of your bridge falls down just left or right of the line with a proper Pro One sweep.

Note: Aim Line = CB edge to A B C or 1/8.

Stan, let us know if this is bad info.
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Tap. Tap, Tap....that's a terrific explanation!

Thank you very much, DTL.

Stan Shuffett
 
DTL said:
When getting your visuals, just stand in what I call the "optimal position" that allows you to see best both the CTEL and Aim Line at the same time (you don't necessarily have to be directly behind one or the other or either for that matter). It is from this position where you look down at the CB, with head and body still, and see a fixed CB.......one that is a 1/2 tip sweep or pivot away for center ball pocketing for that shot. It is this fixed CB that Stan had a piece of tape straight through the core of today in his youtube demo video. And it is that line that the V part of your bridge falls down just left or right of the line with a proper Pro One sweep.

Note: Aim Line = CB edge to A B C or 1/8.

Stan, let us know if this is bad info.
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This is my understanding as well.
- Left sweep puts you left of the fixed cue ball center.
- Right sweep puts you right of the fixed cue ball center.

So for a left cut...
- Right sweep (outside) thins the cut/increases the cut angle?
- Left sweep (inside) thickens the cut?

For a right cut...
- Right sweep (inside) thickens the cut?
- Left sweep (outside) thins the cut/increases the cut angle?

Is this correct?
 
JMW said:
This is my understanding as well.
- Left sweep puts you left of the fixed cue ball center.
- Right sweep puts you right of the fixed cue ball center.

So for a left cut...
- Right sweep (outside) thins the cut/increases the cut angle?
- Left sweep (inside) thickens the cut?

For a right cut...
- Right sweep (inside) thickens the cut?
- Left sweep (outside) thins the cut/increases the cut angle?

Is this correct?
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A right or left sweep can thicken the cut.

A left or right sweep can thin the cut.

Outside sweeps thicken.
Inside sweeps thin.

Stan Shuffett
 
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Thanks guys. I am not at my table.

- Left sweep puts you left of the fixed cue ball center.
- Right sweep puts you right of the fixed cue ball center.

So for a left cut...
- Right sweep (outside) thickens the cut
- Left sweep (inside) thins the cut

For a right cut...
- Right sweep (inside) thins the cut
- Left sweep (outside) thickens the cut

Correct now?
 
JMW said:
Thanks guys. I am not at my table.

- Left sweep puts you left of the fixed cue ball center.
- Right sweep puts you right of the fixed cue ball center.

So for a left cut...
- Right sweep (outside) thickens the cut
- Left sweep (inside) thins the cut

For a right cut...
- Right sweep (inside) thins the cut
- Left sweep (outside) thickens the cut

Correct now?
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There ya go! :)

Stan Shuffett
 
Thanks again guys! Heres how I am going to remember it. Regardless of the cut direction, if I want to thin the cut, I need to execute the sweep that puts me inside. Inside and thin both have in in them.
 
JMW said:
Thanks again guys! Heres how I am going to remember it. Regardless of the cut direction, if I want to thin the cut, I need to execute the sweep that puts me inside. Inside and thin both have in in them.
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"Thin is in" is the phrase I first learned about for thinning a shot.

Stan Shuffett
 
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