https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTUCzxsW9-c&t=579s
Well, i give up. There are no real answers when the leader decides to insulate himself from scrutiny, and the followers (see, I didn't say cult members) will support everything the leader says religiously.
I do have to note one remark Stan made. He says the brain is a computer figuring everything out through repetition. When you perfect aiming through ghost ball, apparently, it isn't good enough because you are still guessing. Actually, you aren't guessing at that point. Your computer brain is telling you when the shot looks right. That's not a guess. It is how virtually every professional player plays the game and is the reason they can't really tell you how they pocket balls. The only problem is nobody had to invent that.
It has become more and more clear to me, especially after this video, why CTE seems to work and why there are no rational explanations. I'd be pleasantly surprised if Stan's new book explains how his system is objective.
Is your aiming perfect through Ghost Ball?
How many pros do you ACTUALLY know Dan? I know dozens of them personally. Stan knows dozens of them personally. Contrary to whatever you think you know about how professional players think about the game I can tell you that the ones I know with whom I have had conversations about the game are fully able to articulate how they pocket balls, how they aim, why they aim the way they do and what they think about the various aiming methods. Professionals actually have thought about the mechanics of the game to a far higher degree than most of us have. Not only can they explain them they can execute what they know with a high degree of consistency.
I don't care what you THINK you can personally do. Just prove it by outshooting the best practitioners of the method you want to debunk. It's easy. Go head to head and make the shots they make in less tries. I can tell you that in my experience and in my opinion it will take either those who use other great systems or extremely good players to equal or exceed the shotmaking of any really good player who uses CTE.
Because at the end of the day the table doesn't lie.
And here is another test.
We could do this one remotely.
At one location the shots are chosen and Stan can call out the aiming perception (key). Then five CTE users can simultaneously try the shot and five GB/feel users can try the shot live and every one can see who is able to make the shot in less tries.
Because the FACT is that CTE is OBJECTIVE. So much so that any CTE user can tell any other CTE user the EXACT aiming "code" for ANY shot and that other CTE user will have a freaking amazingly great chance to pocket the ball or get extremely close.
So, it doesn't matter if you "believe" in CTE or not. It's not a matter of belief. It's a matter of USE. Those who use it know how powerful of a TOOL that it is.
And guess what....those us who USE CTE have a bunch of other tools at our disposal, INCLUDING Ghost Ball, which we use when it's the right tool for the shot.
And yes, some people have reached a point where they no longer need to deliberately use any particular tool to aim or measure up a shot. Others will never reach that point and manage to play great even when deliberately and consciously using mental methods to help them aim their shots. And many will shoot most shots without any deliberate measuring but will go back to the toolbox when they feel they need to.
Stan Shuffett happens to be the most studied practitioner of the CTE method of aiming. Not a priest or guru or cult leader but just a student of a method he learned and has since refined beyond the original introduction. The constant put downs by you and others are tiresome but not unexpected at this point. The thing is that just because you are skeptical of a method makes it no less valid. Which is to say again, if you can do what Stan does as good or better than him then prove it. Otherwise stop saying it's not valid if you can't disprove it. Not that you will but you should.
For the rest of us if we can't do what Stan does we have the sense to try and duplicate the method so as to judge the merit for ourselves. Most of us have found great benefit from the CTE method of aiming. And I personally have found great benefit from it and several others. I find the whole genre fascinating.
As an aside, the other day I was looking through old billiard patents and it's clear to me that Ghost Ball isn't quite as "easy" as some on here want to make it seem by virtue of the amount of patents for ghost ball aiming devices.
PERHAPS - just perhaps some people could figure out that maybe, just maybe, ghost ball, as easy as it is to diagram and as easy as it is to understand, is not really that easy to use in practice. And PERHAPS - maybe in a multiverse - there exists people who are open-minded enough to think that it's possible that other methods could be and have been discovered that work extremely well with no need to have dozens of devices to assist them in learning how to use them in practice.
. That was the real bet which weighed more on both of us than the cash.
Is this Guy a real pool instructor or just cte? Its hard to tell.