What beginner pool tip do you wish you learned sooner?

Fractional aiming has some good and interesting features to it but it is bad, foul, and pros don't use it. Use ghost-ball aiming. After beaucoup repetition, you will replace ghost ball with an intuitive aiming method. You then will speak about HAMB and its the Indian, not the arrow.
 
good ideas, fill a beginners head with all sorts of things to think about till they are exasperated and give up and go back to playing on the computer.
 
Tennesseejoe said:
Learning the 'tangent line'.
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Absolutely. This is something that can be visualized while watching pool, while reading pool books, and while laying awake at night.

I 100% disagree with not teaching sidespin. I learned about sidespin from the first book I bought about the days after getting a table when I was 13. I've used English extensively from that moment.

I think that serious beginning players need to spend a lot time just sitting the cueball around the table with all types of spin. Learn what the ball does before and after it hits the first rail.

It is obvious that beginners rarely understand treatment lines or spin. The evidence is all those players who can cut very well, but can't get leave.

Oh, is also teach them to avoid banks. So many players are so proud of their banking ability, but remain delusional about how often they actually make a bank and don't screw themselves for the next shot.
 
Locate a SPF instructor....start with mechanics & drills. Video record your sessions.
 
DeeDeeCues said:
Absolutely. This is something that can be visualized while watching pool, while reading pool books, and while laying awake at night.

I 100% disagree with not teaching sidespin. I learned about sidespin from the first book I bought about the days after getting a table when I was 13. I've used English extensively from that moment.

I think that serious beginning players need to spend a lot time just sitting the cueball around the table with all types of spin. Learn what the ball does before and after it hits the first rail.

It is obvious that beginners rarely understand treatment lines or spin. The evidence is all those players who can cut very well, but can't get leave.

Oh, is also teach them to avoid banks. So many players are so proud of their banking ability, but remain delusional about how often they actually make a bank and don't screw themselves for the next shot.
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I don't see why beginners should obsess over sidespin if they can't even reliably pot balls with center
 
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