APA Skill Level 2 Lesson: "Aiming is not your problem..."

The title of this video reflects a fundamental fact about aiming in pool as expressed by Mark Wilson who told a group of pool players at the Derby City Classic "Aiming is not your problem.". It is almost never the problem. If you ask a player at any skill level to hit the object ball directly into the pocket they will do so with no problem. Even an APA (American Poolplayers Association) skill level 2 knows exactly where to aim on the object ball, so aiming is not the problem.
The problem is how to stroke the cue ball in such a way that it hits the aiming point of the object ball to the pocket, commonly known as the contact point of the object ball, with the cue ball. That is a process of alignment, visualization, and stroke, and it is these things that easily fall apart even when the best players are shooting.
So for example, if you set up a straight in shot on a 9 ft. table with the object ball in the center of the table and the cue ball about 3.5 feet back from it, even a Fargorate 600 or higher player will not make it every time. And a lower skill player will miss it most of the time. And yet, they know exactly where to aim. Aiming is a whipping boy for a poor stroke. There are massive amounts of information devoted to aiming and for the vast majority of them, it is a completely wasted effort because they are not missing because of poor aiming, the are missing because the are not stroking the ball correctly.
Here, PBIA/ACS instructor Jim Brauker from Jim's Place Billiards and Bar goes over the process of visualizing the shot with Stephanie Myers, using knowledge of the contact point and feel to make the shot, and tweaks her fundamentals to improve her stroke.

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Jim Place... U should teach beginners how to place their cue tip on the table one inch from the object ball aimed at the middle of the pocket then turn their butt of their cue over the cue ball while looking down the shaft so they know exactly where to hit the ball.

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