Brain try this. 5balls touching within a 15 perception line them up and sticker them.then sticker the cb ob two diamonds away from pocket. Clear your mind of all math and just focus on the process. Feet placement! Get your visuals at ball address it will be crystal clear! Cue ball should be 2 to 3 diamonds from ob! Stick with the half table shots. This is very important. Dont want to bite off more than you can chew at this point. Two lines show ccb... instead of manual pivot let your eyes rotate from the very top of ccb... like find your ccb on top dead center... all while standing up and back foot on cte line. From here step in with your left foot while your eyes rotate leftward AROUND top dead center of cue ball for a right cut at the every ball location the needs a left sweep. Dont over think it. Let your eyes rotate around top dead center so your left foot follows/flows into place. It should feel very natural stepping in... your going to get to a point the leftward rotation will not work shot needs to be thinned...so rotate from top dead ccb to right the with your feet. You will feel your rotations around ccb with your feet. When done correctly it will feel very natural. Your eyes lead and your body/feet follows. Repeat the process. It might take an hour. It wont even feel like a pivot! Question are you picking up ccb from the face of cb or very top? Try this for me. Just line the very first shot of the 5 to the point on the pocket so its a slight cut to the right. Shoot this shot over and over. Step into the shot with your left foot in such a way it allows you to rotate around top dead center cue ball to the left ever so slightly thats the pivot! Forget the math! Your eyes will guide your body.. just try this out! Even if your bridge might feel funny just stroke the shot learn from the shot. Adjust the way your feet come into the shot rather than your bridge. For me i found at times i would manual pivot and i would over rotate while stepping straight into the shot naturally another words it was hard for me to walk striaght in to ccb and then pivot to shot line ccb. If you know Cte then you should understand what i just described all of it. You will notice that there is very little pivot its a very natural flow to ccb the shot line. If you can do this you've just performed a version of the Pro 1 sweep. Stan might explain it different im sure he will. My journey of cte has taught me some things that might help others out until the book and video comes out. This is all im going to offer the steps above. They are mine refined to me and my style to get me on the shot line. They might differ from your Journey of cte. Stan has set a really good base line up for cte. You gotta do the work and learn from each and every shot. Very important stick to half table shots... if your visuals are not right you will never ever get it! If you over rotate you will never get it... if you cant focus on ccb you will never get. All these steps can be done by anyone who truly tries. As you progress then and only then you really understand what's going on at the table and how these perceptions lock you into the pocket. We all step into shots differently well for me ive used stans approach as a baseline. I line my eyes and back foot then I step into the shot rotating around Center cue ball. This is my assumption of what's to come. Stan's going to lay out a foundation which he already has. it's going to be more refined in his book. He's going to help you get on the shot line and you're going to have to listen to your body /eyes to do it. Until then try some of the things ive learned it just might help you until the book comes out. I've learned all this from Stan DVDs and all his YouTube videos you can too! Just pay attention!
I'm not interested in the sweeps, as they seem to be more feel/experienced based than manual pivots. I mean, I can just look at a shot and know where to aim, so I'm not sure if my "sweeps" are really nothing but my natural feel method kicking in and taking over. I understand the idea that the center of the CB is the intersecting point between the initial CCB as viewed from the perception and the final CCB following the pivot. I'm also aware that that is more complicated because it requires much more player judgement.
After watching one of Stan's latest vids ("Three-Quarter Fractional Alignment Contrast to the CTE 15") I noticed something different, unlike any other video instruction I've seen for a 15 Perception. Instead of ETC and CTE lines, he gets his perception with ETC and center CB to "one tick past this left quarter line" on the OB. This changes things. So I'll have to redo a few of my sketches for the 15.
My biggest question is, with a slightly different perception now (using a tighter 15 than before), how was the 15 so accurate before this change? Or is this change only for certain shots?