Yet another Pivot.....Point

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I posted this concept in the RonV thread ..but it was buried so quickly by the argument at hand that it was never really discussed..

I think there is some pretty compelling evidence that many good players use pivot systems effectively..and there are plenty of threads arguing the how's and why's of that. So let's not rehash that argument here.

For the purpose of this thread lets assume that these systems work exactly as described..

My quest as a pool player is to find the simplest most efficient way to win.. and that encompasses all aspects of the game from Aim and stroke all the way through shot selection and pattern play.

All traditional and some non tradition aiming systems require you to estimate 1 line .....if your estimation is off you miss.

The pivot proponents claim that the systems will cause you to miss less often..

But it requires you to estimate 2 lines ....your starting line and the line you pivot to ...so you immediately have twice the odds of missing the shot.

At this point in my pool life I have never once missed a shot because of an incorrect pivot.

So why would I want to introduce that risk to my game?

To my mind a pivot system adds yet another way to miss a shot.

All players should be striving to remove variables from their game not introducing new ones?

Any thoughts?
 
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How about aiming at the two contact points ( cb and ob's ) then pivoting to the center?
 
JoeyInCali said:
How about aiming at the two contact points ( cb and ob's ) then pivoting to the center?
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Because that will fail for most long shots? Of course I'm assuming that you pivot about your bridge hand, which method seems to be in question.

If the cue stick is along one line at the start (before the pivot) and another line at the end (after the pivot), then where, in your concept of a pivot point, is their intersection? (By my way of thinking, that intersection is the pivot point.)
 
Bob Jewett said:
Because that will fail for most long shots? Of course I'm assuming that you pivot about your bridge hand, which method seems to be in question.

If the cue stick is along one line at the start (before the pivot) and another line at the end (after the pivot), then where, in your concept of a pivot point, is their intersection? (By my way of thinking, that intersection is the pivot point.)
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Thnx Bob.
I'll stick to tangent line/ghost ball aiming then.
 
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