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Parallel Aiming In Pool

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The Parallel Aim Stroke

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Set your cuestick through the center of the cue ball so that it is on a parallel line to the line connecting the parallel lines for their stroke (the green line as shown, parallel to the blue line of connection.

Note that although this has been called “the parallel aim method”, it is actually a plan to bring the edges of the balls together, and allows the actual object ball to be sighted upon, rather than some imagined ghost ball in space.

Most pros use some type of edge-to-edge method for ball impact visualization. They plan the aim line of the object ball then consider some edge or section from each ball they will connect together.

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