Shane: "Every shot is different -- every spin, every aim. I do not have the same aiming system for every shot."
You just read, watch, and interpret what you want so you can twist it to your argument. Every aim might be different if he's spinning the ball but he also said he uses small amounts of spin when he does. He does have the same aiming process for every shot. It's either the inside of the tip/shaft...the center of the tip/shaft...or the outside of the tip/shaft. It's HIS system that he developed.
Archer: uses HAMB, "I've hit a million balls, so..."
So, so what? What point are you trying to make other than insinuate he doesn't use an aiming system when he does. He also said when the pressure is on and the nerves are up in a big match, and "I AIN'T LYIN" (his words) he specifically focuses on his contact points. Another twist on your part.
Archer says that Moore loves CTE Pro1 and the most important thing is that CTE has caused his confidence to be high.
Of course his confidence is high because he's making more balls with regularity because of CTE.
Well then we're on two different universes.
First thing you may have ever said that's true for both of us.
Technically, yes, EVERYTHING is an aiming system, including HAMB.
Technically, EVERYTHING is an aiming system but NOT HAMB.
Hitting a million balls still ingrained the visualization of either the system of contact points on both the OB and CB, fractions, or overlaps so that the picture of what a player is doing and needs to do comes to him in a millisecond or two but it still involves what got him there. Yes, it seems like feel because of no conscious thought for alignment, but it certainly IS THERE.
But that's not what we're talking about. I know you are aware of the Billiards Digest article on aiming from years back where they asked a lot of pros (who were not selling anything) how they aimed. The vast majority of them said they just knew where to hit it after playing so long (HAMB). Efren did say something about aiming in some way similar to CTE. There was a lot of discussion on this in this forum.
Another skewed statement to support your bogus claim. Most of them DID say what they used. Some didn't want to be involved. See above for HAMB. You also have to get it through your skull that this is a POOL FORUM where most members will never have the time or opportunity to HAMB. They/we'll NEVER be pros or have the inclination to do what they did to get there.
If you think about it, it is kind of silly to think that pro players need some 1,2,3 sequence of steps to tell them where to aim the cue ball. Maybe on some difficult situations they have a trick here or there, but for the most part they just know. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that things like what Shane does are an afterthought. Meaning, when he gets down on the shot he already knows what it looks like then the shot is on. Whatever he does with his ferrule is an afterthought. Kind of like he is putting the left edge of the ferrule on the shot line that he already knows is correct. He is NOT FINDING the correct aim line by using the ferrule and some part of the object ball. Maybe it is part of his pre-shot routine, rather than necessary for finding the aim line.
You saying something totally contradictory to what SHANE says.
He's never stated that. Do you have an in with him also that we don't know about. If I saw Shane some time in the near future and asked him is he knows DAN WHITE, what would he say?
I think aiming systems are good for speeding up the end goal, which ironically is to not need to use the aiming system at all. You just see the cue ball, the object ball and the pocket and your subconscious makes aiming automatic.