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Dear Pool Table Enthusiast . . .For your enjoyment we have compiled articles that we hope you will enjoy reading, such as: How to play pool Master Your Break Shot, For Fun and Fitness Pool is Everybodys Game, and Investing in a Billiard Cue. Here is one of the articles in full, I am sure you will find it useful. Author: Reg Hardy The idea of a Billiards Nirvana, or the perfect aiming system is almost as extinct as the Dodo bird and thats a good thing. This article is excerpted from Billiards Basic Blueprint, an e-Book I authored to provide casual billiards players with a thorough grounding in this game. There is no practical aiming system that will take you to the top other than feel. Systems slow you down. They take you out of rhythm and this can cause more problems than just missing the shot. It is just as important to know where the cue ball goes after impact. You must have a second shot you can make. Aiming systems are used as a crutch to help newer players learn where to aim on the OB, eventually developing feel. They can, however, hurt a player more than they help. Watch billiards on TV. You will see that no top player uses an aiming system, they use feel. Years of experience do the aiming for them. The best aiming system: LEARN TO SHOOT STRAIGHT. Shooting a straight on shot is the same as shooting a cut shot. Shoot
The straight shot is your most important tool. You will rely on it over and over. It is what it takes to get a center ball hit on the cue ball. And that is what gets you to the impact point on a cut shot. Once you can consistently hit a straight, you will find aiming is suddenly easier. Feeling is not Guessing Feeling only develops after consistent practice. It comes from shooting shots over and over again to provide you with an instinctive pattern and stroke. I have been guilty of guessing for months and telling myself it was feeling. But even a good guess will not offset months of practice. IMPORTANT! Set up a practice schedule to can maintain. It is nice to say Ill practice two hours a day, but if you cant keep that schedule, even if you settle on 10 hours a week, make it something that fits your schedule. Five hours a week is a lot better than shunting your practice aside. We dothis by letting things get in the way, like a good nights sleep, a special program on television, even too long writing and doing computer work. Set a specific time for your appointment with the table and keep it. Make it a part of your daily schedule like brushing your teeth. It is that important to the future of your game. Take the guessing out of your game, start developing feel. A Mantra to Repeat While addressing the ball, separate your warm-up into three parts. 1. Survey the table and decide what you are going to do and get yourself into position. 2. Begin to address the ball by thinking aim, aim, aim. Really think about your aim. Then pause and start the next phase stroke, stroke--actually change from thinking about your aim to thinking about your stroke. 3. Follow through as you strike the ball. Separating thoughts of aiming from those related to your stroke will make your stroke smoother and more direct without last second adjustments. Of course the followthrough is the key to all shots. Doing this little chant--aim, aim, aim, and stroke, Stroke, stroke as you prepare will make you focus on each aspect before striking the ball. Half a ball better than none The half ball follow angle is one of the most important tools for position play. Any time you have a close to half ball cut shot and the cue ball is rolling smoothly on the cloth when it hits the object ball, the angle at which the cue ball is deflected is very nearly constant. Knowing that single angle takes a lot of the guesswork out of such shots. Learn this angle through practice. Physics too late at trigger time Physics and systems may be useful for understanding and planning shots, but when it comes time to pull the trigger, trust your instincts. During practice, a careful, analytical approach will help you sort out what does and doesn't work for you, once you're in a match, the intense analysis must be put aside. Feel the shot and then make it happen. Nix the Grazing Whenplaying a combination shot on a hanger, and that hanger is any ball but the nine-ball, try to keep the first object ball from grazing the rail on the way in. it greatly increases your chances of leaving the first shot in front of the same pocket, and enhances cue ball control. For more help on aiming refer to Aiming Secrets of The Pros (Addendum III to Billiards Basics Blueprint). About the author: Reg Hardy, The Monks Apprentice, writes mostly on billiards topics, primarily for http://www.billiardscrossing.comWhere Good Players Get Better .. His Billiards Crossing website features over 160 billiards resources. A 7-day Trial Membership is $4.95. Click Here ==> to set up a trial
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