I've read this thread although admittedly I scanned some of the posts and others I went back and reread a few times.
I found myself wondering what was the point here? What do some of you really want?
Perhaps the point here was that you didnt think that Dave and Bobs stuff was any different than anyone elses. If that be the case I would have to disagree with you.
Respectfully, Robin, you missed the point. The point was NOT whether Dave's/Bob's information was "any different" than any other aiming technique. Indeed, the plethora of aiming-related topics here runs the gamut. No, the issue is that any aiming-related topics get moved here, because the topic of aiming in general -- irrespective of whether it's banking, or traditional aiming, or any of the alternative aiming methods -- is a
lightning-rod topic. Remember, this subforum (Aiming Conversation) was created specifically for the purpose of moving this controversial subject away from the Main forum, because this topic -- no matter how innocent-looking -- has PROVEN over years of existence on this forum -- indeed far longer than you and I have been members here -- to be an airplane with one lead wing that dips and spirals into the ground.
I don't like it, and I'm sure I speak for a lot of folks (including Dr. Dave and yourself and many others). But I think the expression goes "ya do what ya gotta do" when it comes to making changes to forum design to accommodate the readership and prevent fights. The topic of Aiming is the "big kahuna" for AZB in this regard.
I dont think I have personally seen Dave's Aiming Method/System purported on any thread here except his DAM System which is supposedly all the general practices of things to do in order to play great pool which is a farciscal retort about aiming but perhaps true. Although I didnt see NV.1
And here's where you faux pas'ed. You're commenting on something you haven't even seen. Just to bring you up to date, Dr. Dave's "DAM" system is a comedy farce, based on aiming system proponents' past claims on these very boards as to the transformative powers of their system. Dr. Dave kept a log of these claims, and built a fictitious "DAM" system out of them.
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I will agree that it appears that he felt his situation and material were "different" and should be treated "differently." Perhaps they are but that isnt going to prevent the hairsplitting narratives that say....Poo on thee.....Poo on thee.....Poo on thee....but what a great job!
What a conundrum of opposites!
I didnt know this but it even seems like Dr. Dave is one of the very one's responsible for the Aiming Section.
I would dare say not as much as the heated arguments Ive seen from the CTE camp.
I could say more but what use is it?
Why can we all not unite ourselves in creating and enriching players instead of bickering over this piece of the pie or that?
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I'm not sure you've seen enough of the history of AZB (or even RSB before that) to know why things are the way they are here in this subforum. There's a long back-channel story here, Robin. Suffice to say that you're commenting on something without sufficient background.
Concerning the bolded above, you should try hanging around here to see the paradoxes that exist in the Aiming camp. And especially the in-fighting. Just stand back and watch. The in-fighting will surprise you, and give you an idea of why this Aiming Conversation subforum exists. And you should know that this in-fighting is but just a taste of the larger fighting that went on when aiming was allowed to be on the Main forum.
Again, I don't like it, you don't like, many-many-many people don't like it. But it happened for a reason. I think the time you spend creating posts like the above might be better spent researching why this happened.
Just my $0.02,
-Sean