Aramith Genuine Training by The Numbers Learning/Aiming Pool/Billiards Ball Set

This well-designed product demystifies aiming. Practicing with this product improved my accuracy significantly. Love it!

While I haven't purchased this from Amazon, I've owned the Aiming Workout by Joe Tucker that these balls are used for for many years. I wanted to address some of the comments/questions in other reviews. This ball set is based on Joe Tucker's Aiming Workout. Some have asked for videos -- if you go to joetucker dot net (obviously type that as a URL address) you can purchase several of Joe's training DVD's and workbooks, including his Aiming Workout which includes 2 DVD's and a workbook describing this aiming method, where he demonstrates using this Aramith ball set. The balls are not absolutely required, however, and the workbook contains a template to cut out numbered disks that can represent the balls for visualization purposes. However having the balls allows you to set them up and shoot them directly without having to replace discs with regular balls. So it's a convenience.Also someone mentioned this being based on the parallel aiming system, which is absolutely true and Joe acknowledges this. However these tools (whether balls or discs) provide a visualization tool that's easier for many beginners and even intermediate players to grasp than a nebulous and error-prone physical shift of a parallel line between balls. So it's just an improvement on that system that some will find value-add.As with all aiming systems, the concept is to get a player comfortable with recognizing the aiming points. Most importantly, without solid stroke fundamentals, NO aiming system will help you. You must be able to stroke straight and contact the cueball and object ball where you intend to. Otherwise you'll never consistently hit the contact point for any aiming system, and you'll get frustrated believing they don't "work." With time and enough pocketed balls, you won't consciously use a system. With practice you will lean to subconsciously aim correctly without thinking about ghost ball, contact points, centers and edges, etc.Nevertheless, as a lifelong student of the game, I've always been intrigued by the different "systems" available to players so have experimented with most all of them. Some people connect better with different systems, so having a variety is a good thing IMO. Just don't make the mistake of believing any aiming system will cure all your mistakes and make you a better shotmaker overnight. It still takes a lot of practice and solid fundamentals, no matter which method you use.

Pretty awesome aramith balls, marked well, dark ball is more purple than black, which is cool. The concept is quirky with glasses and near sighted ness but is improving my game nonetheless

I was practicing a LOT of break shots using these as the cue ball and the purple one developed a crack. I returned them with no problem. The seller did a fine job sending the items.

This is a productized version of the parallel aiming system. You don't need these balls to learn the system. I buy just about every pool product out there to see if it can give me something either for my game or colleagues. Most do not. This is no exception.

The instructions are poor, a video would be in place.

The method for aiming is a good one! The numbering, by necessity, has to be small…but OMG it’s difficult to see with 73 year old eyes! Still, training my brain to recognize the position of the numbers on the object ball and finding the corresponding number on the cue ball (when playing) takes repetition but an excellent training tool. Hat off to the inventor.

I wish there's a tutorial video for it so I can comprehend it very clearly. Does anyone find a tutorial video about it? Let me know!