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JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES MORE ABOUT JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES
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"Sighting"
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Sighting a stroke is not easily done in the
proper way. There is plenty of room for
error, and the most common fault in sighting
the object-ball is to start the cue moving
while attempting to gauge how the object ball must be hit. This is asking your eyes
to do two things at one and the same time.
The moving cue-tip must distract the eye from
the object-ball, and I strongly advise you to
be on your guard against this handicap to
good play.
When your cue-tip is stationary, it may or may not afford excellent guide to your actual point of aim. For instance, if I were aiming to play a plain half-ball stroke, my cue-tip, then identical in direction with the line of the stroke, would point straight through the centre of my ball to the point marked by a cross on the left-hand ball shown in Fig. 80. But if I were playing a half-ball with strong "check" side, my cue-line would be directed towards the cross shown on the centre ball in the diagram. This is because, although the ball-to-ball contact is the same as in the first case, the side I am using compels me to move my cue over to the right. The same general reason would compel me to move my cue so far to the left, if I were using "running" side, that its line would then be clear away from the object-ball, as shown near the right-hand ball in my diagram, where the dotted line terminating in a cross indicates the cue-line in this instance.
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