AIMING SEEING THE SHOT IN TWO PARTS

AIMING SEEING THE SHOT IN TWO PARTS
2-17-09, CR, Fast Larry Guninger, all rights reserved, 3 pages, published in numerous internet sites.
The beginner only can see the pot of the ball. All of his focus is just making the shot. He pays no attention at all where the cue ball is going, nor does he really have any control over it. His runs are limited to knocking off easy ducks and in 8 ball the run usually ends after 3 to 5 balls. These are APA 3’s and 4’s.
When he enters into the intermediate 2nd stage of play he now knows he must pot and play shape on the next ball. He is usually only thinking at best one ball ahead. He gets on the next ball a lot but usually fails to have the proper angle to get to the next ball after that. This is a lower level weak APA 5.
In the advanced stage, an APA 6, he is now planning 3 balls ahead and trying to play shape to go from ball to ball.
In the expert mode, an APA 7, he is planning to run out the entire rack, an 8 ball out if he broke and spread them properly.
How we play and how we plan our run outs goes through 4 stages of learning. The beginner would only confuse and frustrate himself planning ahead 8 balls. But I think when players are potting well and are in the 5 level they should then jump over one of these phases and begin thinking and planning like the expert does. The faster you learn how to do that, the faster your advancement becomes.
Your problem is: You spent years learning to put all of your emphasis on seeing and making the pot. That is what you have grooved and programmed. Only recently have you learned how to try and play shape. You potting skills are a lot better than your position skills. It is now time for you to see and realize both skills must be equal. You now only see one half of the shot, and you hope the CB, cue ball goes somewhere over there to give you another shot.
You must stop this mode of thinking now and see every shot in two parts. The pot, the shape. You must see them as one, feel them as one, visualize them as one…
You must plan the rack after the break. It’s a bad break, so you plan a 3 or 4 ball run to play and duck into a safe leaving no shot. You do not go too deep into the rack leaving balls to hide behind. Your cardinal rule now you have tattooed inside your eyelids is: If you can’t run 8, you never run 7. You pull up short and duck and hide.
If it’s a run out table then you go for it. Any good solid Apa 5 can run out a perfect open table now and then. The more you practice it, the better you get at it once you begin to succeed at it and your mind accepts it’s possible for you to do it.
You plan how you are going to run all 8 balls and pick the proper path to each one after the break. I spend a lot of time doing this. I do not rush into the rack without this careful study taking place.
Here is an example of a solid run out table. A pro will get out here 86 to 92% of the time. I choose stripes. The beginner always begins with the duck or easiest shot, the 11 ball. That thinking has to go. If you miss, let it be early when there are a lot of balls on the table to save you. I always look for a ball close to the 8 so I can pot it last and just stick and have a simple final shot on the 8. So I know first off the 11 will be my last stripe I will shoot. I want to go up table if I can and clean out all the balls there, then come back down table and finish off what is left. I am then no longer playing on a 4 x 9, I am playing on a 4x4’ table and all my shots are short. I stop running up and down the table and leaving long shots.
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The run, pot 10 in the corner, create an angle under the 12 to pot it in the other corner and using a draw stun slide the CB up table into a 3 ball choice of shots. No way can I go badly here. If I come up short I shoot the 13 in the side and if I blow that my bailout is the longer 15 in the down table left corner. If I get straight on the 9 which is my primary plan I shoot it, roll forward just a little to create an angle off of the 13, to create another wider angle on the 15 in the corner to then using some draw coming up and back across table to create a small angle on the 14 to get straight on the 11 where I stick stick, 11 pot black. If I run into the 7 coming across I will change the plan to 11-14-8 and out. I am constantly thinking and planning angle to angle. When I create these golden angles, it becomes easy to get on the next shot with little effort.

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Do not try and create perfect shape if it is not there. Learn how to do as little as possible with the CB as you can and let your angles do the work for you. Planning ahead means never scratching in the side pocket on this 3 ball out, or leaving a long stretch shot you can miss cue on or flub.
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I take out the scratch by going above the side pocket, and now leaving a longer shot, but one I do not have to stretch on and I can make a comfortable bridge and stroke. By coming up short of the long rail, I eliminate any chance of the side scratch and I also create a small angle off the 8 so I don’t leave the CB on the rail leaving a hard shot on the 9. I just bounce off the 8 and I am straight in on the 9. It’s all done by planning ahead to exact places you will leave your cue ball at.
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I want you to see each shot, as totally separate from the last one, or the next one. We now spend twice the time with our eyes on the OB object ball with tight focus on the aim point on the ball just before we shoot. I want you to double or triple the time you are spending in Port arms standing over the shot before you plant to shoot. I now want you to see both parts of the shot as one. I want you to pick an aim point on the OB, an exact aim point going into the pocket, and now the most important one of all, an exact spot, the size of a dime, where your CB stops creating the next angle to angle. You see the perfect pot, you see the perfect roll of the CB right on that exact dime spot, you now plant, and the shot should be off in 2 to 3 seconds. All of your aiming is now done standing upright, very little is now done, once you are on the cloth. When you complete both, perfect pot and shape, you do not run to the next shot, you walk the angles, seeing the next desired angle, and upright you repeat the same aim plan session, then plant in total focus and perform again perfectly. You keep doing that until you run out of balls to shoot.
In practice if you do not pot perfect, you keep shooting it until you do. If you pot and do not hit perfect shape, you keep shooting until you do both perfect. You now learn to practice perfect shots and that shot now has two equal parts to it.
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http://cuetable.com/P/index.html Note, you may have to download shockwave.
Wei table diagram. To open and see a shot when there is a line of Html code like this:
http://CueTable.com/P/?@1EAKq1PALH4QPBE2Rd...kALH4kQfn1uCtP@
Place your mouse on the line and hold down Ctrl button and shift on your left bottom of your key board and hit left click on your mouse fast twice, give it a few seconds to load and the shot and table diagram will appear. Depending on the speed and condition of your computer, this may take 20 seconds, so wait for it to come up.
To learn how to draw such shots takes some practice and the site will teach you now it works.
http://cuetable.com/mission.html
Begin by hitting the main on the left side which will show you examples of how it works. You can then open a table on the right side and begin to draw. If you have any problems in knowing how to export your shot to our site then email me at Flepool@bellsouth.net
When the table is first displayed all your controls will be on the bottom long rail. On the far left see an X and a ? Click the X, the rail fills up with options. I now drag and drop my Cb and Ob, then click and drag lines to display where they go. To the right of the ? I click the cue ball, then I drag the blue mark from the center and leave it on the ball where I want to show what English I am using. To the right of the side pocket I click the pool cue and it displays. To the right of this you see 3 little red boxes, go to the far one on the right, the 3rd one, and click it, then go to your post and the html code should then drop and display. To the right of this is a X, so if you mess up, you click the x and the table clears and you can start over. There are many more things you can do by studying the site but these are the main controls I use.
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Originally quoted by Sir Francis Bacon in Meditationes Sacrae (1597).

Seek out an advanced level teacher, who has this advanced knowledge. Never waste your time or money on beginner teachers. Become a student of the game.
The more knowledge a player possesses, the more power he acquires. The more shots he knows, the more chances he has to get out on you. The more he knows, the more confident he becomes. The more confident he becomes turns him into a champion and a winner.
A beginner in pool is like a golfer playing 18 holes with just one club. I can easily defeat Tiger Woods with my 14 clubs if I make him play with just 1 club. I have many options and shots, he only has a few. When I graduate a student, he has 30 clubs. His quiver is full of many arrows to shoot. There is no shot he does not know about and cannot produce.
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