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Hi there, pretty new player here. I've watched all the youtube videos I can find on aiming and cueing, still having lots of trouble.
I think my cueing is pretty ok most of the time, and I think I know when I screw up a shot due to cueing, but for me I'm having a lot of trouble aiming just about any shot you can think of. Even perfectly straight, short range shots - I can pot them, but I have to spend a decent amount of time aiming and lining up the shot, figuring out where to hit it and making sure my cue is lining up to do what I want it to. As for long shots, If I don't spend a good 20 seconds bent down over the table I feel like I'm just hitting and hoping for the best.
I've seen some videos that mention lining up your shot before you get down, which I try and do, but once I'm down there I not sure if it's normal to recheck your aim once more and spend a bit of time making sure everything is right. The thing is, the other players I play with (one who is similarly new and doing pretty much just as well as me) don't seem to spend more than 3 or 4 seconds once they are down on the table with the cue on the bridge.
Is this what I should be aiming for? I'm not exaggerating when I say I feel I need to spend about 20 seconds aiming. It feels like too much (not to mention it ends up hurting my shoulders). I wonder if it's something to do with how I am aiming? I basically try and line up the pocket to the object ball and choose a point I want the cue ball to contact, then try and figure out roughly where the cueball needs to be going for it to hit that point first. Then I get down into the shot and feel as if all of that has gone out of the window.
I appreciate there are probably 1000 things holding me back right now since I am new to the game, but just confirming that this is a bad habit might send me on the right direction to fixing some of those problems.
Thanks.
I think my cueing is pretty ok most of the time, and I think I know when I screw up a shot due to cueing, but for me I'm having a lot of trouble aiming just about any shot you can think of. Even perfectly straight, short range shots - I can pot them, but I have to spend a decent amount of time aiming and lining up the shot, figuring out where to hit it and making sure my cue is lining up to do what I want it to. As for long shots, If I don't spend a good 20 seconds bent down over the table I feel like I'm just hitting and hoping for the best.
I've seen some videos that mention lining up your shot before you get down, which I try and do, but once I'm down there I not sure if it's normal to recheck your aim once more and spend a bit of time making sure everything is right. The thing is, the other players I play with (one who is similarly new and doing pretty much just as well as me) don't seem to spend more than 3 or 4 seconds once they are down on the table with the cue on the bridge.
Is this what I should be aiming for? I'm not exaggerating when I say I feel I need to spend about 20 seconds aiming. It feels like too much (not to mention it ends up hurting my shoulders). I wonder if it's something to do with how I am aiming? I basically try and line up the pocket to the object ball and choose a point I want the cue ball to contact, then try and figure out roughly where the cueball needs to be going for it to hit that point first. Then I get down into the shot and feel as if all of that has gone out of the window.
I appreciate there are probably 1000 things holding me back right now since I am new to the game, but just confirming that this is a bad habit might send me on the right direction to fixing some of those problems.
Thanks.
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