Seeing thin cut when down on table

[thunder66]

I usually have difficulty seeing thin cuts when down on table, by thin cuts I mean angles that are thinner than 1/4 ball. I do know I'm suppose to see the line before getting down, however when I'm down on the table, it's difficult to see how much cover it is, especially if the red ball is further than half table, and cue ball seems much larger than red ball, also the cue is aiming at somewhere outside of the red, how would I be able to tell what cover it is?

Anyone can share some tip?

Thank you!

Thunder

[andy carson]

i tend to add a bit of side to help the ball towards the thinnest of cuts, but try not to play them as can often go wrong.....

[DeanH]

for thin cuts, I change from "BOB" to "Ghost Ball" visualisation

[vmax4steve]

Walk around and have a look at the pot from dead in front of the pocket, focus on the full ball contact point you can see from there. This puts it in your short term memory and you can go back to the cue ball and 'know' where it is without having to think about it.

[thunder66]

Steve,

thanks for the tip, I tried that, but kinda of hard to "know" where the cue ball needs to go. two questions,

1. When you walk over to look at the full ball, do you imagine the white is behind the object ball? so ghost ball?
2. when you walk back, do you keep your eyes on the imaginary cue ball while walking back? otherwise how would you know where it is?

It seems I have a hard time to see ghost ball all the time, it's like that part of my nerves is never enabled...
Thanks!

[Terry Davidson]

thunder:

If you imagine a ghost cueball in the plant (or more correctly the 'set') position so the combo is dead into the pocket then you can see where the contact point is. Now the trick is to drop the head straight down while keeping the nose pointed at that contact point while assuming the address position.

If you do this correctly you cannot fail to be on the correct sighting point and as long as you deliver the cue straight you should make the pot. The other problem is the margin for error is very small on most fine cuts, like when they're close to the cushion and a lot of players blame their sighting when in reality it's their cue delivery.

[jwinsor]

trust the force :snooker:

[Master Blaster]

I usually have difficulty seeing thin cuts when down on table, by thin cuts I mean angles that are thinner than 1/4 ball. I do know I'm suppose to see the line before getting down, however when I'm down on the table, it's difficult to see how much cover it is, especially if the red ball is further than half table, and cue ball seems much larger than red ball, also the cue is aiming at somewhere outside of the red, how would I be able to tell what cover it is?

Anyone can share some tip?

Thank you!

Thunder

Do you cue middle chin? If you cue to one side and use one eye, you should have no problem seeing the very thinnest cuts with your dominant eye. Trump can, Robbo can. Depends how good your eyesight is even if you cue with one eye.

[MikeTheBigMonster]

i've seen people cheating by putting their chalk mark on the centre of ghostball to set their contact point. haha