I'm a completely new player... Or at least completely new to wanting to be a damn good player. I decided last winter to turn myself into an Open caliber pool player (not sure what you call that in pool - in my sport experience "Open" division caliber means being able to compete in a completely unprotected heads up division). I know this is the sort of thing that takes years. And I want to do it right.
So what I want to know now is where I should gravitate. What system is the closest to my system of aiming, in order to get the advice that I will be the most comfortable with. I'm a proponent of the idea that as long as you have proper form and technique, then the key beyond the basics is to get to something that is the most comfortable for you and your eye.
Here's my system:
I stand over my shot for a moment and I identify the half-ball hit, where the object and the cue ball will go. From there I get down over the shot at the half ball hit, and rotate accordingly to make the shot thinner or thicker, to get the angle I need (when I say rotate - I mean using the cue ball as the pivot point for rotation of my body/stick orientation). Once done I pick the english I want to put on the shot to get my leave for the next shot, and further tweek my orientation to account for that and send the ball into the pocket.
Which aiming system is closest to this style of play? Which guru would be the best to gravitate toward? I'm sorry if this seems like a painfully obvious answer - I see all of these things popping up CTE, Ghost, Perfect Aim, etc and I've got no idea which I should be looking at (if any of those three).
So what I want to know now is where I should gravitate. What system is the closest to my system of aiming, in order to get the advice that I will be the most comfortable with. I'm a proponent of the idea that as long as you have proper form and technique, then the key beyond the basics is to get to something that is the most comfortable for you and your eye.
Here's my system:
I stand over my shot for a moment and I identify the half-ball hit, where the object and the cue ball will go. From there I get down over the shot at the half ball hit, and rotate accordingly to make the shot thinner or thicker, to get the angle I need (when I say rotate - I mean using the cue ball as the pivot point for rotation of my body/stick orientation). Once done I pick the english I want to put on the shot to get my leave for the next shot, and further tweek my orientation to account for that and send the ball into the pocket.
Which aiming system is closest to this style of play? Which guru would be the best to gravitate toward? I'm sorry if this seems like a painfully obvious answer - I see all of these things popping up CTE, Ghost, Perfect Aim, etc and I've got no idea which I should be looking at (if any of those three).