"Variation in Cue Line and Line of Aim"

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Articles:

COMMON FAULTS AND THEIR CURES

Stance and Weight Distribution

Sighting

Variation in Cue Line and Line of Aim

"Jumping at the Stroke"

Faulty Screw and Stab Shots

Incorrect Cue Delivery

Marking and Scoring

Thus, you see, the line of the cue varies widely in three strokes played to hit the object-ball in exactly the same place, and in only one of these strokes, the plain half-ball, does the line of the cue coincide with the line of aim. This element of variation is constantly at work in billiards, and ignoring it is one of the commonest of mistakes. Innumerable strokes are missed through attempting to get the cue too near to the line of aim when playing strokes demanding the use of side, and there is also a constant tendency to mix the line of aim with the line of the cue when sighting these strokes. These faults are not readily apparent to the absolute beginner, who finds the theory of them rather puzzling. But the player who makes his thirty or forty breaks fairly often, can see these faults if he takes the trouble to think of what must be happening when so many of his strokes go wrong, if played with pronounced side on the cue-ball. The remedy is very simple-it is just this-never forget that the line of aim is always through the centre of your ball to the point aimed at, and that it is quite unaffected by what the line of your cue may be when you are imparting side to your ball.

I find that the way to avoid faults in sighting is to begin by taking a rapid general survey, which decides where you want to hit your cue-ball to produce a given effect from the contact you estimate to be necessary with the object-ball. Then you align your cue on the spot where you desire to hit the cue-ball, keep your cue quite still, and fix your eye on the object-ball, as you actually make your stroke. This seems a lot to think about, and makes more show on paper than it does in actual play. In time, the whole thing becomes almost subconscious, but it is well worth analysis when faults have to be detected and checked.

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