Aiming is one of the most discussed aspects of pool and yet is almost never a problem even for beginning player. I have asked many low handicap players, like sill level 2 and 3 players in the American Poolplayers Association (APA), to point to the spot that they need to aim at to make an object ball, and they invariably are able to do so. When a player misses a shot, it is almost always caused by some kind of stroke flaw. And the stroke flaw almost always arises from improper reshot and shot routines.
If I ask a very skilled player with a Fargorate in the high 600s to make a long, straight in shot on a nine foot table they can seldom make it every time they try. The target over the distance of 8 feet, when the cue ball is three feet away from the object ball, is so small they will invariably miss at least a few times out of ten tries. And it is not because they do not know how to aim. They know exactly how and where to aim. it is because of imperceptibly small variations in stroke mechanics.
The number one reason low handicap players miss shots that seem easy is because they do not hit the cue ball in the center. One of the hardest things to get a low handicap player, like a skill level 3 in the Equalizer handicap system of APA, to do, is to hit the center of the cue ball. They may make a couple of shots because they randomly hit the right spot on the cue ball, but then are surprised when they miss an easy shot because they hit the cue ball off center on the horizontal plane. When asked what happened they have no answer.
Hitting the cue ball off center to the left or right results in a number of things the low handicapped player is usually unaware of or unable to control. Off center hits cause deflection, or squirt on impact of the cue tip with the cue ball, as the ball travels with spin on it it starts to swerve along a curved path because of friction with the cloth. When the cue ball strikes the object ball, it throws the object ball forward and how far it throws depends on speed and whether the ball is rolling or sliding at contact. If it has spin this too throws the object ball off the path that would be predicted by the ghost ball.
Most instructors feel all this is too complicated for beginning players and instead just tell them to try to hit the cue ball in the center. In this video PBIA.ACS instructor Jim Brauker, teaches two students, one a beginning player and the other an intermediate player, describing the various factors that affect the shot line and object ball path. Since he is asking the beginning player to always hit the cue ball in the center, it makes sense to explain to them why this is a requirement. Understanding all the things that can go wrong from an off center hit helps the beginning student to understand why they are being told to only hit the center of the ball. In the case of the intermediate player, she is an APA 5, and to advance to an APA 6 it will be necessary for her to apply spin to the cue ball while pocketing balls and playing defensive shots, or safe shots.
It is necessary at every stage of development as a pool player to understand the complexity of how pool balls interact with each other, and in this video the argument is made that it is unwise and unhelpful to require students to always hit the center of the cue ball without explaining why it is important.
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