I would definitely avoid it on pots at your stage

Well said and solid advice 👍👍

Helping side is indeed the British name for gearing english.

Yeah, that's it. It send the object ball a little thinner. So counteracts the ghost ball position resulting in a thick pot. But as you say, it relies on someone having very good fundamentals and basics and being able to hit at the correct speed with just a tiny bit of outside English (or side).

I'm just getting down on the shot lazily because I'm making a video. Earlier on the green you will see I bend both legs. Just busy presenting and explaining.

No I don't.

No

Cheers! I think the other problem is you can't have too much knowledge about: cut induced throw, screw and stun causing the ball to throw thick, side causing the ball to throw thick or thin. It's just way too much for someone learning angles to process. Even though I know about all of these effects, I never once considered them while learning angles. By repetition of shots, your brain just learns what looks good depending on the type of shot you're playing. If you're trying to pot and factoring in whether you're playing top, or screw, or ghost ball aiming or using side, I think a player would just be completely confused. Think of it like reading a green in golf and playing a putt, the player has a look, reads the line, plays the shot with feel and the required power, and it hopefully goes in. It doesn't matter if Tiger Woods picks the perfect like for me to make the putt, I won't get it, because I can't feel the exact power required to make that putt work. His brain can subconsciously factor in 10 things and make the shot successful.

I think your advice to pick a line and stick with it to learn the angles is the very best advice you can give, but I personally got so frustrated using a lot of time pre-shot to visualise the white striking the exact point on the object ball that is in line with the line it takes to the pocket, just to find that I miss the shot. Coach talked about feel and touch, but I never understood it. I gave up. When I found out that there was throw on a ball, it revolutionised my thinking about which line to take and I started aiming thick or thin centre ball striking and getting a feel for how much there is. That works, but I didn’t like aiming thick or thin on almost every shot. When I started adding a touch of side to counter the throw, I went back to aiming ghost ball method, which is obviously a more logical and consistent aiming point on the object ball. Only after this did I start to get a really nice feel for how much side I should add to counter the throw, it also helped my white ball position.

Looks a grt discussion. But throw point was not understood fully. Can you explain what u exactly felt which revolutionised ur game?

@@123mailashish check out Dr Dave’s videos on spin induced throw, or coach Brando has a video where he shows quite clearly that aiming ghost ball on a 1/2 ball shot perfectly plain ball no side that you will miss it. If, like me, you have spent many hours aligning perfectly to a ghost ball, missing and building frustration, you will start to second and third guess your ability to aim. The problem is, that you are aiming in the wrong place to start with. Throw is only apparent when you know it’s there, and when you start to understand the principles of how it works, then you will start to gain confidence in your aiming again. For me, that’s what happened, and the magical feel that everyone talks about, only came when I started to feel how much throw would be happening on a shot, and account for it. Aiming ghost ball plain shot, never helped me feel anything but frustration.

@@123mailashish I would also add, that it is important to understand that you can either aim your way out of it (in other words aim slightly thin), or add counter outside spin, and aim for the perfect ghost ball spot. These days I do both, depending on what I want the white to do afterwards. There is a difference between adding just enough ‘helping’ side, which will help you keep a consistent aiming spot, and adding too much, which will throw the object ball thin. When you know that point, then you can judge where the object ball will go and how the white reacts better, and that is IMO the object of the game.

Bonjour!

@@BartonSnooker ... But on the other hand, this was the most useful and well built tutorial I encountered in my past 49 years. So thank you & congrats & like & subscribe.

Sorry Stephen.

Yep!

Thanks so much. Always trying to help

Yep!