Sighting and walking into the shot, is how we sight where we are going to send the cue ball. The following procedure should be followed on every shot. If it is followed on every shot, we teach ourselves how to become much more accurate. After all, your brain wants to learn and the more information you feed your brain, you will allow it to learn much quicker from your mistakes or errors.

 

So, sighting the ball is only ever done in a standing position. This is because in a cueing position, it’s not possible to see the correct angles where to send the cue ball or object ball. To be honest, the best position would be a birds-eye view (from above), to accurately see the true lines, but that’s not possible as it would be impossible to control the cue ball. So the second best, would be to stand tall and proud. Understand that most of your work is done in this position as you are trying to be as accurate as possible. So, take your time.

 

The first sighting process would be to stand behind the object ball, creating the line to the desired pocket. Try to imagine a contact point. The contact point is opposite the pocket you wish to send the ball towards (please remember that the contact point is not the aiming point).

The second process would be to move behind the cue ball. At this point, it is important not to take your sight from the object ball and contact point. Again in the standing position, move to a position until you are satisfied that you would be sending the cue ball towards the object ball in a manner that it hits the object ball on the contact point. This takes practice to improve or master this process.

 

Once you are happy that you are in the correct position, the player then walks towards the cue ball moving down to the cueing position at the same time. Walking into the shot needs to only be one step from each leg. This gives you enough distance to move down into the cueing position comfortably. But please remember not to move off line, as it’s easy to step to one side of the desired line whilst completing this action. This takes time to learn and should be completed slowly until you are confident that you are completing this action correctly. Again, as your brain always wants to learn, you will teach yourself to stand the correct distance away from the cue ball, in order not to be to close or too far away.