your aim is your mind

av84fun said:
IMHO, everyone who pockets balls with a high degree of skill uses an "aiming system" of some sort whether they realize it or not.

If that were not true, then after getting down over the shot, the player could close his eyes before the final stroke. Top players can do that when they are messing around but none do it in actual play.

That is because they are AIMING AT SOMETHING and the SOMETHING they are aiming at has been derived from some systematic approach.

But the mind can process that kind of thing with blazing speed to the point that it FEELS like FEEL but really isn't.

To those who think they aim by "feel" I ask..."What is it that you are aiming at just before your final stroke...and why?"

I ALWAYS get an answer other than "I don't aim at anything." (at least from everyone except those who are not interested in discussing how they aim and there are PLENTY of those people).

Regards,
Jim
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I agree with that.

I wasn't saying I don't USE an aiming sysytem, I just don't overly concentrate on any particular aiming system when I'm "in the zone".

Your brain is calculating your aim almost unconsciously at that point I guess is what I was trying to say.
 
pletho said:
What he is saying is exactly what he is saying....No more and no less....Do not try and read between the lines......

When you feel confident the shot will be made shoot it, UNTIL THEN do not!

Your mind is always believing something, it is either believing you will make it or you will not make it, when you are believing you will make it, shoot the shot.

When you are believing you will not make it WAIT adjust, change whatever needed until you BELIEVE you WILL make it, no doubt whatsoever.
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I'm glad someone gets it!
 
This helps me. I like to play a video in my head of the shot, complete with the stroke, cue ball making contact with object ball and the OB going in. I do this when I get down on the shot and again when I am about to pull the trigger. I put myself into the video. When I match up to the vid I take the shot. It help with my confidence in the stroke
 
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