TWO AIMING SECRETS THE PROS DON'T WANT YOU KNOW!

So what do all these shocks have in common? Think about that and we'll address it in this lesson. Hi, I'm master instructor Anthony Boehler and in this week's video we'll address the topic by pointing out

secrets

that professionals don't

know

. I

want

you to

know

more specifically, we're also going to address why

aiming

systems just don't work sometimes, so let's go to the table and find out why about 20 years ago I was playing in shannon dalton's all-star pool tournament in somerset kentucky and I got to the event early and watched Charlie Bryant play against Shannon Dalton in a pocket and after they finished their match, I noticed Charlie Bryant set up a shot like this and he would shoot it over and over again and maybe you.

If you've made this shot, maybe you've shot it a few times and maybe gotten different results, so, for example, you can come down and shoot at a softer speed and you'll know that the ball hit the rail here. Hit the same shot again and this time you can hit it with a little more speed and the ball comes down a little more and then you can set the shot again in the exact same spot and hit it with even harder speed. and divide the pocket. There have been several occasions over the years where I have seen players set up the same shot over and over again to hit the ball in the same spot, but sometimes they succeeded and sometimes they didn't, while I was shooting.

On that shot, you may have noticed that the harder you hit it, the more you cut the ball, the slower you hit the shots, the more the friction-induced launch takes over, so the finer you have to cut a ball, not You necessarily

want

to shoot that soft shot and if you have to shoot it soft then you're going to have to make an adjustment because friction induced launch is real and friction induced launch affects your aim so

aiming

for secret number one is a repeatable shot. a repeatable speed gets repeatable aiming results. That said, about 75 of all shots that professional pool players take fall in the same speed range and the reason they all fall in the same speed range is because professional players understand what I just said.

I showed you that the slower you hit the balls, the more the friction-induced launch takes over and causes the impact to disconnect. If you need to hit a very fine slice shot then you're going to need to hit that ball with some speed but for 75 of the shots you're going to hit you're going to want to hit it with a good average speed and what professional players do is they don't control their cue ball. with speed, they control their cue ball with tip position, so you may be asking yourself the question. At what speed do professional players shoot 75 percent of their shots, and to put it simply, if the cue ball is on the line here, does the cue ball go all the way back and then back to where it started?

That is what professional players would consider to be the optimal speed to shoot most of their shots. Now they can shoot a little harder but they will generally never shoot softer, so let's see what it looks like again. The optimal speed is throughout the table. all the way back and then back to where you started from and at least you want to get back to where you started from. Okay, I would say go back to where you started and even go all the way to the end. to the side pocket, but 75 of the shots you make should be made at this speed and that is what will give you the best results because, as I said before, a constant hit at a constant speed will give consistent aiming results and no matter what system you use, if it puts you on the correct shooting line and you shoot that shot with the wrong velocity, chances are that shot won't come out, so as a player you would be placing the cue ball in this position here. sending it all the way up the table all the way down and trying to get it as close as possible to the point where I started.

I'm going to refer to this as optimal stroke speed, so practice this over and over again. It's over and it will make your aim much more reliable as you shoot. The next secret I want you to think about is that an aiming system is only as good as the angle of the shot, the speed of the shot, and the spin of the cue. ball and what we are going to do next is analyze each of these different factors in depth and show how they can affect your aim. The first thing I want you to consider when you are going to pocket a ball is the angle of the shot and it is important to keep in mind that we have talked about friction induced launch and how speed affects it, but another thing that you really need to consider is the fact that Half ball shots tend to launch more than any other. another angle of cut, so if you're up here and you have about half a ball hit here, if you hit that half ball lightly, then look what happens, I'm going to undercut that shot so those hits tend to be affected by friction. induced launch more than any other slice angle so that's another secret so keep in mind another thing is if you have a half ball shot you don't really want to baby it you know you better hit it with all your length. table speed that we referred to above and that will give you more reliable results, so angle and speed are contributing factors to a player's goal.

Spin is also a contributing factor and I have seen numerous accustats videos over the years where that billion cardona and Buddy Hall was commentating a game and I listened to it over and over again. Buddy Hall repeatedly said that on thin shots I hit him with a high cue ball and he said that he is better able to judge the thinness of the shot when the q-tip is on top of the cue ball, that tells me two things, the Friend number one probably aimed with the edge of his shaft, why else would you want the shaft on top of the cue ball to point towards that object ball? there you are using your shaft as a reference, but the second reason that friend wants his swab on top of the cue ball is when you take a shot and that shot is a sliding cue ball, then the friction induced pitch is a most frequent factor So two things to remember if you have a very fine slice shot, the friction induced launch is not your friend, even if you aim it correctly, if you hit it at a super slow speed and slide the cue ball up , induced by friction.

The shot will affect your ability to pocket balls and you may be lined up correctly, but you may miss the shot due to one of these factors, so every time you approach a fine shot, a high ball will give you a much better aiming line. As you go to pocket that ball, to reiterate the second secret of aiming is that aiming systems are only good based on the angle speed and spin of the shot you shoot and again, if you have a half ball, the shot will become one more shot The prevalent factor if you are hitting a shot with a slower pitch will become a more prevalent factor if you are hitting the ball under center or hitting it with the center cue ball and the cue ball slides to up toward the object ball and then throwing will become a more frequent factor, so these are all things you should consider when you are going to pocket a ball.

Another thing I want you to consider is the length of the stroke, as I said before running a repeatable stroke at a repeatable speed usually gives repeatable results, so if you are trying to achieve the same stroke speed over and over again, you're going to want to put a repeatable punch into the shots you shoot and therefore the best things we can do. That's what using a repeatable stroke length is for, so if I'm going to shoot this five ball, I'm going to take a couple practice shots and get to my set one, two, three. The length of my stroke is when I back up to the bottom. from my ferrule I'm going to put the same stroke length at the same stroke speed most of the time, so again what we're trying to achieve is we want to shoot about 75 of our shots with the same stroke length. and the same speed and we should get repeatable results from there so again this is what the practice shots look like one two three pull back to the bottom of the ferrule one two one two three four and you'll notice I shot that one I throw approximately one speed along the table and that is true and correct.

I want to shoot almost all of my shots at that speed across the table so I can get reliable results. The truth of the matter is that aiming systems are great for reference, but all these other factors play a role. a role, a repeatable shot made at a repeatable speed provides repeatable results for your aim, on the other hand, aiming systems are only as good as the angle of the shot, the speed of the shot and the spin of the shot, when you start to vary these elements, then your aiming system may be affected, it's not necessarily the fact that you've implemented the aiming system wrong, your aim could be on point, but one of these factors, one of these other factors, could be what's affecting their aim and I see students over and over again and they come to me and tell me this aiming system doesn't work well they have flaws in their swings they come straight through the ball maybe yes maybe they don't have a repeatable swing length they are throwing shots at a repeatable speed the shot that missed at a cutting angle, such as the half ball hit, which is more common in pitching, all of these factors play a role and you need to be aware of them when you are going to pocket balls and know, As a player, you have to do it.

Consider all these different things because hitting a shot that is too soft at the wrong angle will cause you to miss and if you want repeatable results then you have to follow repeatable procedures, repeatable speed, repeatable spin and with a repeatable shot you get repeatable results. Aiming systems are very memory oriented and therefore if I am using the edge of the axis system to pocket balls, then if I shoot all my shots at a particular speed, when I go to shoot a cut shot to the corner like the one I demonstrated before if you shoot it at a constant speed, I will automatically learn to adjust my aim to pocket that ball;

However, if you are using another system and you line up for that shot and it appears to be dead, but you hit it with the wrong speed and with the wrong speed. spin, then you may end up with a diamond short on the shot, scratching your head and wondering why you missed the shot, so all of these things play a role. I certainly hope this lesson has improved your pool game. Make sure to like and subscribe if you have. I haven't done it yet, and if you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the section below.

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