Stan, I think you have an issue with communicating your ideas. You've even asked me in the past to help convey certain ideas here on the forum. You are extremely pleasant to talk to on the phone, and I've been thankful for our conversations on both Pro One and other aspects of pool. Perhaps in person some of this might be conveyed in a thorough and non-confusing manner. Yet you chose to pick up on several things here that I didn't actually say or even imply:
- I specifically said in my posts that I was trying not to be critical, and I'm certainly not trying to "drag you down".
- I never said the system didn't work, nor did I change my mind on anything related to it. I'm not now, nor have I ever been, in any small group of "naysayers" - I'll leave that for the people whose names rhyme with "Roo"... If anything, I've helped you along the way by suspending my questions, confirming the system works even when I didn't fully understand the why, and helping dozens of people via email and phone to "get it"
- I said I appreciated your videos, and thought they were a great addition to DVD1 and the info you've shared here
That being said, I believe you are so close to the material that it's difficult for you to step out of your box and explain things in different ways. I also think you've been blasted and criticized so much here - mostly unfairly, but you've incited some of it by your vague and repetitive answers - that you, as you said, feel challenged and feel the the need to fight back. If you now turn that against me, you are wasting your time, because you have nothing to prove to me. I just simply want explanations to a question which you yourself raised in your recent video.
To reiterate - if you perform a CTE, ETA alignment and outside pivot on a straight in shot, the ball goes straight into the hole. So what about the system makes that same alignment and pivot go in a different direction and not go into the fake pocket? It has to have something to do with our perception of the table, pocket, etc. The answer to this would not only satisfy the "fake pocket" shot but also perhaps address how other shots on the table that are different can be made in the same pocket. Maybe the answer will be in the next DVD...
Again, I've just been trying to help you out here. Yes, I have questions. I've had the same questions with SEE, yet I've had them answered. As an example, if one of my students asks me why they are not drawing the ball, I can only tell them to accelerate more and hit lower so many times before I need to show them how, explain why, prove to them that they aren't hitting where they think, use 1, 2 or more analogies to get them to understand it, etc. I wouldn't be a very good teacher if I just kept saying the same thing over and over. I feel the same with this - either you know the answer and won't say, you know but don't know how to communicate it, or you don't know and it just works. I'm okay with any of those answers, just looking for one that makes sense.
I really, sincerely hope that between your support vids (which ARE a great addition) and the next DVD that everything will be more fully explained and that more and more people will pick up on this and use it to their advantage. I've offered to help, since I have a critical eye for these things and have done a lot of editing in the past. Since you declined, I hope that whatever editing process you are going through involves people other than yourself to give a different and fresh perspective on the material. It can be difficult to teach something that you are so passionate about, so close to, and such an expert in, I would think getting outside opinions would be critical to the process.
Wish you success with the next DVD!
Scott
