Stan has been his own worst enemy. There have been many aiming systems discussed on AZ and none have drawn the reaction that CTE has. Stan bears a great deal of the responsibility for this. Example: Stan makes instructional videos on the A,B,C's of using CTE, but he also makes other videos purporting to prove one or more claims he has made when promoting his product. "100% objective, throw doesn't matter, mystery that wasn't supposed to be" are a few examples. The problem is that Stan is not a scientist or engineer trained in designing experiments, which is what those particular videos really are, so very often the video actually proves the opposite of what he is trying to demonstrate. When things like that are pointed out to him, the insults and general craziiness start.
WHOA-WHOA- WHOA there Dan White.
The worst enemies of CTE are YOU, PJ, LOU, and other hangers-on who bought into your negative drivel since the beginning of time and it didn't start with Stan.
It all started with HAL HOULE on RSB and flowed over to the users of CTE on that forum with the bashing primarily by PJ and LOU.
When AZB was created, not much happened for the first few years until Fast Larry destroyed RSB and everyone started flowing over to the new forum. AZ took off and RSB died.
It didn't end the bashing because the CTE users, Hal (for a very short time because of illness), and the original KNOCKERS still battled it out here.
Stan didn't start getting intrigued with CTE until a few years down the road. When Stan began talking with Hal over the phone and trying it out on the table for himself, he was captivated like all of us about how it could work the way it does without using all of the other contact points and alignments.
Stan, as a certified BCA instructor for many years and excellent player, wanted to delve further into the "why's and how's" of the system and just took the ball and ran with it.
And YOU are going to criticize him for doing THAT? It was as much a learning experience for HIM as it was for all pool players because he went far beyond the way Hal did it. Hal tried to keep it as simple as possible while at the same time NOT revealing all the intricacies and secrets that made the system tick. He didn't even tell Stan and when he knew Stan was the real deal with CTE he couldn't because of the Alzheimer's taking over badly.
Again, for the 1000th time, I'm not criticizing CTE Pro1. I am saying that the claims made about the product are not supportable and should not be used to promote it.