When you miss a ball

[pletho]

I agree with what Geno said, I have seen some of the things he talks about and tried them, they work! Taking his advice and coupling it with just HITTING AS MANY BALLS as you can will take you to great heights shooting ability.

If it takes anyone who is at least a 5 and above in BCA ratings days or weeks to correct undercuts, or overcuts, then your doing something wrong.

The way to correct either issue, if you know what issue your having, is to cut less or more on the next shot. And to hit LOTS OF BALLS. There is no better way to correct your shot making than to just hit balls, then hit more balls, and hit more balls. Shoot sooooo many shots that it becomes automatic.

When I practice, one thing I do is to throw out all the balls on a diamond 9 footer, and just run them out, no specific order, BUT your goal is NEVER to miss a shot. So, you need to plan a little. I do this until I run 18 racks out.

It takes about 1 hour 15 minutes to do it, with no breaks. My main purpose in doing this is to loosen up..... and of course build some pre-tournament or action confidence on my shot making and run-out abilities.

It does take some effort and time, but 18 racks will go by fast, I just use the diamonds on the pool table as counters and move the coin around after each rack until the end.

I swear that this WILL improve your game and shot making, it will also help you develop a cadence, or rhythm UNLESS you take waaay to long to shoot. The idea is to just get up and shoot, to get to the point that your just seeing the shots, and not taking alot of time shooting them. You do not have to do it super fast, like speed pool, that would be bad, but just don't waste time, plan, then shoot until you see that you have to plan some more, but keep going and do your best to get a rhythm going.

Again, I swear that this will improve your game.

Now, if you are a 5 in BCA you might miss quite a few shots, but don't let that concern you, just let the balls stay where they land, and start shooting again.

 

[genomachino]

With a gun you can isolate either eye and shoot with that eye..

I have yet to see a some one shoot a gun with anything other than the eye on the same side of the trigger hand however that does not mean that's their dominate eye

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With a pool shot you need to have the dominant eye in the correct position or the shot looks bad.

You could put the non dominant eye in the dominant position but the shot would look terrible.

When you have the dominant eye in the most dominant position keeping the non dominant eye from being dominant at is is the same as having the eye in the right position with the gun.

The problem is nobody knows how to find this manually. They just seem to think they can just find it naturally.

Good luck with that?

Just think if you didn't know you had to put the sight in the sight, lining it up with that eye and the target.

Knowing how to do this with lining up a shot is just as huge. it's just not as obvious. Or I should say as obvious at all.

 

[taemin952]

Undercut

Undercut, especially for deep cuts that require paper thin cutting. I think has to do with my fear of not touching the ball at all lol. Unrelated but strange, but what really messes with me is the 9 ball. I mean, you play with all the solids and last ball gives me delusions or illusions because it's striped....go figure haha.

 

[naji]

Unless you are using an appropriate amount of outside english, a cut always produces some throw. It is significantly lower for a rolling cue ball than for a sliding cue ball but, for anything other than a shallow cut, could still certainly cause a miss on a longer shot if not taken into account.

Lots of discussion on throw topic; I agree on stun and slow hit, any other hit i used to think the same way you do, and my consistency suffered. Now i have more confidence to know when to allow for throw and when not for the same longer shots.

 

[naji]

Undercut, especially for deep cuts that require paper thin cutting. I think has to do with my fear of not touching the ball at all lol. Unrelated but strange, but what really messes with me is the 9 ball. I mean, you play with all the solids and last ball gives me delusions or illusions because it's striped....go figure haha.

I give you an advise. What you stated is dead wrong reason. Keep searching, or seek help, otherwise it will hunt you for the rest of your life.

 

[hang-the-9]

Undercut, especially for deep cuts that require paper thin cutting. I think has to do with my fear of not touching the ball at all lol. Unrelated but strange, but what really messes with me is the 9 ball. I mean, you play with all the solids and last ball gives me delusions or illusions because it's striped....go figure haha.

I have this same "fear" or missing the ball, even on those shots that are 1/16th of a ball hit, so not tooo thin. I know I tend to undercut them, probably with how I line up over the shot or my eyesight (I wear glasses), but often can't force my brain to adjust manually. I think at the last second when I try to adjust something tells me "you better aim a bit fuller or you're whiffing the ball" and more often than not, I miss by hitting too full. Or do something funny with my stoke and make the ball but loose the cueball shape.

 

[CreeDo]

Undercut, especially for deep cuts that require paper thin cutting. I think has to do with my fear of not touching the ball at all lol. Unrelated but strange, but what really messes with me is the 9 ball. I mean, you play with all the solids and last ball gives me delusions or illusions because it's striped....go figure haha.

I had the same issue on super thin cuts. For a while, I felt like I was hitting these better by using a little inside and trying to let the cue ball deflect into a thinner hit. Try it sometime, you might like it. You can aim to definitely hit the ball with no fear of whiffing, but still cut a little thinner than you aimed.

I recently switched back to top-center for these, because I didn't like the cue ball doing funky things afterwards, I felt like I didn't want to settle for just one type of english on this shot. But if you only need to make the ball it's worth a look.