Beginner Aim Technique Pool Shot
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Finally, someone's got it. This is what you need to know in order to increase your hittin the ball in the pocket ability. thank you for your Ability to understand what beginners need.
You gotta practice to be able to see the ghost ball there. The math part of your brain picks it up, dont give up you'll keep sharpening that tool in your mind until it slices everytime
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Wow very nice shot sir
Like someone else said, it’s about practice because this is a relatively tough shot and easily missable. Once you start getting this shot more often you become better at it..
Another thing I like to do since I’m still not the best is hover my cue stick over the ball I want hit and point it at the pocket I want to hit it in, paying attention to spot on the ball that the cue stick is hovering over.
I always pictured a 'ghost ball' since I was a kid, but this just leveled up the picture. Can't wait to apply this
Nice
bro thx for this
Looks easier than done. 😂😂😂❤❤
No i tried it. Just line up cue ball and move the ball to about 15 degrees either direction. Then move again the same amount. Place your hand in a spot by the object ball and make a fist about the size of the ball. Your hand should be where if you placed the cue ball next to it that you could line up easily with the pocket you are aiming at. Then aim your cue in the middle of where your hand was and just put your stick over the center of the cue ball and the ghost ball. If it lines up with the edge of your object ball you are trying to pot then bingo. You found the half ball shot. Now focus only on the edge of the ball and shoot slow and straight at the edge. That is it. Keep in mind its not a shooting system but a starting point to find the angles you need. Once you get used to doing that you can add in some spin techniques to move the cue ball where you need it to be to avoid a scratch. Also look up the peace sign method to help with avoiding scratch king and to predict cue ball direction after the cut shot. Have fun and focus on progress and not success because its important to shoot correct more than to pocket every ball.
Little outside helps here too but don’t over cut it
Is it working in any angle?
OMG i think so far, i using this way
Because i very confused with ghost ball technique
wow
Pretty good explanation but then the cue moved of the point of the object ball that I thought he was aiming to hit when he shot it. Still I think I can work with that explanation to improve my shot
honestly it all comes back to game sense and experience
For most people, yes. But for some it doesn't come as easily as for you and me.
Looks like center to edge on this shot
What about throw?
Throw is a bit more advanced, this is just a primer for beginners
sir, if I can't imagine or see the ghost ball at all after hours of practice, is there something else i can do to fix that? or I just gotta freeze ghost ball more and more for months?
@@tiendoan6417 You just have a mental block. It does not take any practice to "see" the ghost ball. Look at the object ball that you CAN see. Imagine another ball the same size right next to it. Every human being can do this. There's nothing to it.
@@ShortstopOnPool thank you sir, I tried and I will continue to try again, but as soon as I start letting my imagination kick in, And walk toward my cueball, that imaginary ball starting to fade rather quick and because the ball is round not flat, I still couldnt get it to work, I know its a very beginner friendly method that why its bugging the hell out of me for failure to make it work. I love all the work and diagrams you put into your video that why I feel like Im doing it really wrong here , not your teaching.
@@tiendoan6417 Ok, that helps. No, you do not want to imagine the ghost ball while you are down on the shot. You "see" it while standing up over the balls and then only use it find the aiming point. Now you are done with ghost ball for that shot. Only remember where the aiming point as you walk to the cue ball and get down on the shot.
@@ShortstopOnPool ah i see, I just tried with my cue and look at where the tip of my cue point on the OB and shoot, voila! It went in, I just tried 3-4 shots and they all work, thank you!
Hopefully with enough practice i dont have to cheat by placing my pool cue on the table anymore and just align the shot with my eyes.
This is without using the freeze ball like you mention in this video, I use only the cue tip and go down like an inch.
Thanks a ton 🙏🏻!!!
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Bottom left
Does anybody just see the angle naturally ?
I didn’t at first I would line up directly with every pocket but now it’s second nature now subconscious I know where to hit and also speed and spin to get cue where I would like it to go is automatic
In time but not at first however it definitely gives you more confidence in taking these type of shots the shaft method is also good your comment is a month old so if you were practicing in that time i think you'd have this on look
Yes, I go onto the ball I want to make and imagine a straight shot into the pocket I’m aiming for then I get back on the cue ball look for the same angle again then I shoot
Good only in 45°
Does it work guys?
Yes
Yeah but these reverse cut shots are perfected by practice alone
Ghost ball is the easiest way to shoot for me. I just imagine it instead of placing a real ball down though
Yes and sometimes no.
Dont forget the cut induce throw.
In this case use a little bit right spin
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I struggle to find the aiming point on any shot. They're round. I don't like not being able to see beyond something because of that. If this is true, then why do professional players miss sometimes?
Because - given the pocket size, accuracy required given distance to pocket and desired action desired from the cue ball - the precision of cue tip to cue ball is often less than 0.5 mm. Pool at a high level is super-difficult because so much precision is required. So its actually amazing the best pros don't miss more often.
Hello. I was a math major in college. I will try to explain. When shooting any ball to a pocket, draw an imaginary line from the center of the pocket you want the object ball to go in, back through the center of the object ball to the side AWAY from the intended pocket. That exact POINT on the object ball is where the CUEBALL needs to MAKE CONTACT with the object ball. In math, this is called the TANGENT. Search the web for a definition and diagram of a "tangent line" to better understand. The tangent point can be identified with a line that is PERPENDICULAR to the line aiming at the center of the pocket and THROUGH the object ball. It will look like a T. The point where the two lines in the T intersect IS the tangent point.
In this particular shot in this clip, it only works to "aim" at the EDGE of the object ball because of this PARTICULAR angle on the shot. If the angle is ANY other angle than this particular angle, your "aiming" point would not be perfectly at the EDGE of the ball. This is why the "ghostball" method works for any shot. The ghostball method will work nearly every time IF the object ball can be potted using a cueball SPEED that is AT or under a certain threshold, AND is shot so that when it makes contact with the object ball it will apply NO ENGLISH, spin, "throw", etc. If the cueball is shot using a speed that is FASTER than this threshold and/or it applies ANY english, spin, throw, etc. to the object ball, the ghostball LINE to the pocket will SHIFT, resulting in a miss. There are several "thresholds" in pool that can not be passed AND still pot the intended object ball. One of them is "cutting" a ball that has an inside angle LESS THAN 90 degrees and does not use anything else, like a rail, a carom, a combo, etc. in the shot. Also worth noting is that as the inside angle of a cut shot decreases, the speed required to "push" the ball exactly to the center of the intended pocket will INCREASE. This is nearly a proportional inverse relationship (physics 101).
"Pros" miss shots all the time. There is A LOT more to potting balls than just a simple "aiming" point. Humans are NOT machines and our "stroke" (and other skills like speed, English, throw, cut, spin, etc.) will not be the EXACTLY the SAME every shot. Pros ARE pros because they are extremely CONSISTENT when using ALL the skills, abilities, aiming, use of english. SPEED, etc. producing a very PRECISE shot. They also are playing a shot for a 'LEAVE" position AFTER potting a ball. The leave position is where they want the CUEBALL to be for the next PLANNED shot. The single MOST IMPORTANT "skill/factor" in pool is the mastering of SPEED. If one is not MASTERED with the skill of speed, then the leave position desired will not be exact. This effect will be/may be compounded after each successive shot and often leads to getting "out of position". When one is out of position, it makes the next shot very difficult to make, to leave a good shot on the next ball, to even SEE any of the possible object balls, etc. This is why 9ball required a LOT more mastery in all the skills to "run" a rack. In 8ball, if a player ends up out of shape on the next PLANNED ball, MANY other object balls which can be played instead. The fewer balls a player has left in 8ball will INCREASE the demand for higher skill/s to continue making balls, before shooting at the 8. It is VERY helpful to watch videos of professionals playing in a TOURNAMENT that has COMMENTATORS. These commentators are/were, very often, professional players and they discuss/announce EACH SHOT and try to explain what the pro player is doing, trying to do, intending to do, and the skills required, and/or the difficultly level of each shot depending on many of the skills/factors, etc. This commentary will give most players a lot, if not ALL of the information about the factors applied on each shot.
I hope this information helps. I suggest looking up videos on using the ghostball technique, especially ones that use a FLAT 2D diagram. Ones that explain the ghostball method by filming actual shots can lead to confusion due to shadows, lighting, proportional distortion, etc.
@@liberty9348thanks for all that. I understand the basic principles of tangent that the ghost ball technique uses. I'm a beginner. What should I learn next after the ghost ball technique? What's my next lesson in "learning to play pool"?
@@devanjanchakravarty5543 Well, there are tons of skills/techniques to learn. I will say that the most important skill in pool is SPEED. I've spoken with many pros and they told me all basically the same thing about speed. That is, learn to shoot at higher speeds AND pick a very short RANGE of speed to always shoot with for "most" shots. This will increase your accuracy, ball making, and ball control. They also all said, "if you are shooting every shot in a range from 1-100 for the speed... that is a ridiculous number of shots at EACH speed that you have to master. I choose a speed that's approximately 65-70 on a 1-100 scale, for most shots. Hope the info helps =]
@@liberty9348 okay thanks
No point because the ghost ball isnt there in a game
The ghost ball is NEVER there - its a ghost! Thats the whole point - learning to visualize it so you can "see" it during a game.
@@ShortstopOnPool its very hard to visualise though and of course you can miscalculate.
I dont see how its any better than you aiming normally
@@jamesallen8917 Oh. And what exactly is "normally"?
@@ShortstopOnPool just looking between the white and the object ball or pocket depending on preference, the ghost ball isnt there and you could imagine it in the wrong place so i just feel it complicates matters
@@jamesallen8917 different players see it differently. Stick to what works for you.
Nice advice
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