Ive been playing pool for a little over 20 years. I have only used the ghost-ball or point of contact method to aim..Ive really just aimed off of feel for as long as I care to remember rather than keying in on a exact point all the time. If this makes any sense to anyone but me.....
I started using CTE (Stan Shuffet) about 6 months ago or so.....At first it just was hard to get a feel for it as it goes against what I trained myself to do for many years. Dropping in on the line of the shot, approaching the shot on a direct line of cueball address. With CTE you want to come in from the side NOT on that direct line. If you do approach on that line its easy to miss once you pivot the cue.. I found that I prefer the CTE method over the Pro One method, I actually enjoy the pivot as it locks me in on the shot.
Once I really got the system, my jaw literally hit the floor. I just cant believe the accuracy as well as the shot making that's easy to accomplish with it. I found that for me before CTE I was playing on the extreme outside edges of the balls on all shots (cue ball and object ball)...I was blown away when I realized how thick you can hit shots and they go into the center of the pockets.....It has opened up a lot for me and my game.
Ive seen all the threads and pretty much steered clear of all of it BUT I will say this CTE and Pro One are the real deal. No matter what I think it would be so much extra work to play without a aiming system. If I would have known this 20 years ago....WOW
I started using CTE (Stan Shuffet) about 6 months ago or so.....At first it just was hard to get a feel for it as it goes against what I trained myself to do for many years. Dropping in on the line of the shot, approaching the shot on a direct line of cueball address. With CTE you want to come in from the side NOT on that direct line. If you do approach on that line its easy to miss once you pivot the cue.. I found that I prefer the CTE method over the Pro One method, I actually enjoy the pivot as it locks me in on the shot.
Once I really got the system, my jaw literally hit the floor. I just cant believe the accuracy as well as the shot making that's easy to accomplish with it. I found that for me before CTE I was playing on the extreme outside edges of the balls on all shots (cue ball and object ball)...I was blown away when I realized how thick you can hit shots and they go into the center of the pockets.....It has opened up a lot for me and my game.
Ive seen all the threads and pretty much steered clear of all of it BUT I will say this CTE and Pro One are the real deal. No matter what I think it would be so much extra work to play without a aiming system. If I would have known this 20 years ago....WOW