Let's make one thing clear CJ. Yes, I have "attacked" you. But ONLY in self defense AFTER you attacked me first. The fact that you take as an "attack" any disagreement with what you say is on you and you only. In EACH case of the above named people, you attacked and made slurs about us when we offered help or clarification on what you were trying to say. Many on here have seen it, and also, many on here feel you are a pro and should be free to post whatever you want with no one else saying a word about it unless it's positive.
Stan Shuffet, Max Eberle, John Brumback, Joe Tucker, yourself...(sorry to any I left out), you are all pros that post on here about instruction. John came on here with total humility and asked the instructors about a certain shot that he was going to have in his new DVD because he wanted to make sure that what he was saying was correct. You don't see the others getting attacked with the exception of Lou and Pat on Stan about CTE. So, it's not about "keeping pros away". Pros are more than welcome here, just don't expect to get idolized by everyone on here just because you are a pro. You get on here and your ego is so big you expect whatever you say to be taken as gospel when some of it just plain isn't correct. And, as soon as someone else points out that it is incorrect, you start insulting them and mocking them and making up nonsense about them. You did it to me, and to Scott also.
You see, for you it's an ego thing. For the rest of us, it's not. Sure, others have knocked Pat and me for ego, but they couldn't be farther from the truth on that. If it was ego, I wouldn't have erased over 9,000 posts from here. If it was ego, Pat wouldn't be so stubborn about what is reality. ONE thing Pat was wrong on is how CTE works. He never could get his head around it, but I do give him credit for standing his ground on his beliefs. The rest, he is seldom wrong on.
We both have one interest in mind, to actually help others play better. We make sure that whenever we give what is just our opinion, to make it clear it is just that. Most of what we post is just plain facts that can't be altered. We both believe that if you take and learn the facts of pool, what does what and why it does that, that one can then take from that and build themselves a real good game. And in a lot less time than just by feel. When you know what does what, your game doesn't drop much from not playing for a while. When you go just by feel, you can lose your game forever taking a break.
No pro is going to make anyone a champion on this forum. It's just not going to happen. One can know everything there is to know about pool, which happens to be quite a bit, and still not be a champion because knowing the actual physics of what happens and why is only the first step. With that knowledge, one knows how to make the ob and the cb do what they want it to do. But, as we all know, it takes many hours on the table to develop the touch to do it correctly. We all have heard of players that were better than world championship caliber on the practice table, but couldn't cut the mustard in competition. That is the part that actually makes a champion or not, the mental part. As you have stated, your killer instinct. Without that, one is stuck as a shortstop or low level pro.
Your TOI is a prime example of what I am talking about. For YOU, it has worked, and worked great. YOU found something that you think you do, and made the game simpler for YOU. However, what you fail to realize, is that what you think you are doing, and what you are actually doing is two different things. For YOU, that doesn't matter. It works, and works great. The problem arises when you start telling others about it. Whether in the true interest of wanting to help them or not. It's a problem because it doesn't fit reality of what happens on a pool table. It doesn't because you aren't doing what you think you are doing. So, when others try it, they start having problems with it. They have problems, because it just plain can't work the way you describe it. There are underlying principles that help them for a while, and some have actually said it helps them. However, in their descriptions of it, it's not what you say to do. They are helped not from a placebo effect, but because they started doing something they should have been doing all along, and that is staying closer to center cb.
You say you are good friends with Randy, if you think I am attacking here, you couldn't be more wrong. Go ask Randy what he really thinks about what you have posted about it. I don't believe there is an instructor on here that doesn't realize what you are actually doing, and why it has helped you, and at the same time, why it will hurt most on here. Most of your biggest fans on here have said that they had to give up on it because they couldn't get it to work the way you said it does. They can't get it to work as described, because it doesn't work as you described it.
It's not an attack saying you don't actually do what you think you are doing, 99% of people are the same way. You find what works for you, and odds are it's not really what you think it is. That's exactly why so many have trouble with drawing a ball, they simply aren't hitting the cb where they think they are. Scott asked you to have Randy film you and show you what you are actually looking at, your ego right away took it as an attack, when there was none. You want to help people play better, GREAT! Then don't go telling things that can't possibly be true, but tell them the truth about what actually happens. If you don't know what the truth is about how things actually work on a table, then stick with what you do know about, the mental aspect... which is the only thing that separates shortstops from the pros, and the pros from the elite pros.
You know as well as anybody, that there isn't a thing you can do on a table that a low level pro or shortstop can't also do except consistency. And that comes from the mind and solid fundamentals.
Now, this was all said soley in the context of a converstion. If you want to take it as another "attack", which it is not, that's on you, and anyone else that feels that it is another nube attacking a pro again. If that's really how any of you feel, well, there's not much I can do about that except to say "look at yourself, on why you feel the way you do".
