A Finer Point of Gearing

A Finer Point of Gearing

It’s likely that if you’re into CTE you know that gearing is engaged by seeing the inside half of the cue ball against the outer half of the object ball. Thus, the rotational ticks of the two spheres are put into a gearing motion.

Even if you’re a die-hard practitioner, you likely have not internalized the following finer point about how to really see a sight line.

First of all, you must not see the sight line as if to make a straight line connection. (Keep in mind, you must be in parallax to sight properly.)

To sight properly for seeing a perfect perception you must see the apex center of the cue ball to gear that center tick into its connection with the object ball sight point tick. The gearing direction of the cue ball is automatically set by the aiming edge half of the cue ball.

To see a perfect perception, a rotational CCB sighting tick is geared into place to mate with a specific rotational OB sight point tick. Seeing a geared relation for the two ticks that make up a sight line is not the same as seeing a straight line connection.

Always try to gear into the OB sight point tick from the “natural occurring” inside gearing direction—that’s what is correct.