An Aiming System in another Galaxy
This book deviates from much of the instructional information and methodology usually encountered in a pocket billiard instructional book. The author covers all of the usual areas of pool knowledge but displays a unique approach in his system of aiming. He supplies a billiard protractor template among with many other helpful templates essential for his system and generally useful regardless of individual approaches to the game. Basically, he utilizes a protractor?s degrees to establish the cut angle, which is calculated on a straight line drawn from the center of the cue ball through the center of the object ball. In more established language, a half-ball cut to the right is thirty degrees and also for the same cut to the left. But in Raftis?s language the same cut to the right is 150 degrees and to the left, two hundred and ten degrees. But a word of caution, all of this is based on his particular billiard protractor, which you will need to duplicate his angular system. I found that his system is a highly refined system of aiming based on the equal-opposite system as primarily employed by the legends of pocket billiards in the first half of the 20th century. It is still taught today by a few instructors like Jimmy Reid. The 24 cut shots that he provides are well illustrated on full-page diagrams, along with other charts and diagrams.
This is a book for billiard bibliophiles, but it also should appeal to those who wish to go where few billiard players have gone before.
