Why was the "HAMB aiming" thread taken down?

[TheThaiger]

Actually some of both.

Let me put it this way. Reading and associated activities like watching great players and using instructional materials are a way to be exposed to new techniques. Time on the table allows you to practice and learn these for incorporation in your game.

Sometimes new things work out, sometimes they don't it depends on the person.

Fair enough, but a beginner can read every book ever written on the game and will still play the same as someone who is illiterate.

I like layered tips. I like LD shafts. I'll even give Kamui chalk a try. My case has all sorts of expensive gadgets and gizmos that traditionalists say I don't need. I do, however, think improvement can only come through playing and working it out for yourself.

 

[gromulan]

Tell me, how many snookers pros do you know? How many do you hang around with? How often do you play them?

Some have discovered Twitter recently but the majority don't even use the internet, let alone intimately know the conclusions of years academic research on how two balls interact upon contact. They're too busy playing.

You should bear in mind snooker cues deflect very little and most pros will have started on tiny tables with tiny balls, which don't deflect at all. I have never heard ANYONE I play with mention deflection. I have never heard it on tv commentary. Hardly anyone over here plays American pool, with big balls and high deflecting shafts. Those that do play professionally play with Predators - and I mean ALL of them. I still get top, top players looking at me like I'm a loon when i try to explain deflection to them - they simply don't believe it. I didn't until a mate bought a high deflecting custom, and saw it for myself.

Given a) deflection is an irrelevance in snooker and UK 8 ball, and b) American pool players all play with LD shafts, deflection is a big fat non issue in this country.

Well you need to get out a little more. Not only do snooker pros totally understand the idea of deflection (though they may have a different term for it) the experienced ones will also understand that not only do you have to allow for it when using side, you also have to compensate for it differently when shooting against the 'nap' as opposed to shooting with it. In fact the nap can have such an effect that, if you shoot against the nap on a heavier snooker cloth, and play a gentle masse, or what they call a 'swerve' shot, you can actually make the cue ball do a slight 'S' pattern. Very cool.

 

[C.Milian]

Fair enough, but a beginner can read every book ever written on the game and will still play the same as someone who is illiterate.

I like layered tips. I like LD shafts. I'll even give Kamui chalk a try. My case has all sorts of expensive gadgets and gizmos that traditionalists say I don't need. I do, however, think improvement can only come through playing and working it out for yourself.

I think language is the expression of logic. It is very hard for an imbecile to read a thesis written by a Doctor and make much of it. If a qualified (subjective) instructor trains two, the most literate student will dissect and process the information better.

I agree that there is more information readily available that isn't based on logic, mainly because them peeps dunno what it is. How you know what it do, if you dunno what it is?

But...some people have been taught what it is without done doing it. They ok. I'm not sure they done but he know a little bit of the finished thingy. Somewhere in between we may have to test him for the truth. I'm a cow...they will eat us..I'm tellin ya. Moo. More grass and nose rings please.

Sorry it's my birthday and I'm celebrating....with you guys. :wub: j/k

 

[Mt. Cheverest]

...Some have discovered Twitter recently but the majority don't even use the internet...

Unless they are living in third-world countries, most probably use the Internet in some way, shape, or form.