Here are some of the most worth noting cue points that will help the beginners to get to the crux of aiming techniques. It is important to know on the very first instance that without practice, you cannot learn the aiming technique. Moreover, billiards rules clearly say that there are no simple aiming techniques.
I give you hints… Imagine a ghost ball or the contact point on OB as you move along the table or look down to your cue tip. It is not easy guys. If you miss a shot, you like others will never ever think of contact points or ghost balls. It is all brainwork, wherein; your brain conditions many situations and then after analysis and interpolation, reproduces or repeats the actions for new situations. Our brain builds the memory, only after repeatedly experiencing the situations of the successful shots played. Many missed shots played by the gamer create confusion in the brain’s memory unit, as the result, you slow down in the process of hitting a successful shot. Practice my hints and you will see that you have improved marvelously.
It is important that you master your basics on stance/grip/stroke, and do enough practice on CB straight with no or little English. Let’s talk of some geometry out here. If you shot OB straight, it will move straight. This is clear and as simple. Now, if you aim a half ball away from the OB and the CB will just touch and go pass the OB without affecting the OB. This is pretty clear to you. Now, you aim at the ball to the right of the circumference of OB (As you see it.), that OB will tend to travel in a direction that is 30 degrees away from aim line.
As the part of billiards rules, to understand things more clearly, you make an imaginary linear grid that lies in your view plane as seen by you. The origin point will be OB center, and you measure every tick to be 1/8th of the diameter of the ball. Going in this manner, you will be having four ticks off 30 degrees shot; another four ticks off 90 degrees (Ball will not move at this angle.). Listed below are the angles traversed for every tick: 1 -> 7.2; 2 -> 14.5; 3 -> 22; 4 -> 30; 5 -> 38.2; 6 -> 48.6; 7 -> 61; 8 -> 90;
It would be a good idea if you plot the angles and try visualizing them. It would be easy to memorize the billiards rules.
(Note: OB Contact point lies at the center of the section, between the aim and the OB midpoint, as viewed from your particular body posture.)
Now you make a cut shot. Also, mark the CB and OB positions clearly, so that it becomes easy for you to replay the shot. Ascertain the approximate angle required and the quantity of ticks too. Say for example you need 3 ticks - 22 degrees. You take the position and then aim the dead center. With 4 ticks you move out edge aim point and then with another 2 ticks you move back half. Shoot and see what is the result. If you have missed it slightly, never mind; correct the position slightly. This is what billiards rules say.
Once you repeatedly pot the ball, give 2-3 seconds time and subsequently see the pocket and rails nearby. It is good thing to repeat the entire process under different situations