My opinion that the cue is not for aiming but moving the CB around is based from my expernces from hours upon hours upon hours at the table shooting all kind of shots from all kinds of positions.
Therefore I think it’s useless for anyone learning the game to try to do so. As others, have ideas on how to help people learn, so do I, but mine are based on my beliefs and ideas from long hours at the table.
Of course,I’ll get shit for it cause my concepts don’t fit in in with the traditional concepts of playing pool. But so what........to get to the next level requires making pool yours and not someone’s else’s.
None.
I’ve learned, from hours upon hours upon hours at the table to see shots. To see where balls are going.
There are no shortcuts to playing high level pool......it takes hours upon hours upon hours of table time regardless of ones methodology used to play pool. But it helps to use a methodology that suits you and not try to use one that doesn’t fit you.
Meaning just because someone implies you can aim with a cue stick doesn’t mean all must aim with a cue stick.
Duckie you're rambling and not remaining consistent.
In one area you say "But so what........to get to the next level requires making pool yours and not someone’s else’s"
So what if an individual decides to take his/her game to a higher level and accomplishes that by aiming with the pool stick and making the game "theirs" that way...which
you say cannot be done, your words: "Like, the word aiming is used a lot when there is no way to aim the cue stick to anything nor a way to aim balls."
SVB says he uses the edge of the ferrule for aiming purposes...is he crazy?
Buddy Hall said he used the "split the difference method" by splitting the difference on the object ball and pivoting into center ball....is he crazy?
Willie Mosconi, in one of his books, had someone write: "all shots can be figured mathmatically so let's leave nothing to chance" (and then had diagrams of fractional hits)....were they crazy?
Lassiter had a line drawn on his ferrule and he used that to aim to the various fractional points..was he crazy?
Brian Crist has written a book called "Poolology" with various methods of aiming at fractional spots using some basic math and many people say it works very well for them...is he crazy?
CJ Wiley has a method of aiming called "Touch of Inside"....many players swear by it. Are they all crazy??
And finally, we have the Stan Shuffett method of CTE which, to my knowledge, is catching on right and left with real hitters.....are they crazy too?
And then finally you say, your words:
"But it helps to use a methodology that suits you and not try to use one that doesn’t fit you"
That final statement, which I have put in blue letters, is all that any CTE user has ever stated (I cannot speak for the other methods because the one that works (CTE) is good enough for me).
If anybody wants to just use your method of "seeing the balls" that is perfectly okay with any CTE user that I know. Do not buy into any other method, do not buy any CTE materials, accept none of it as methods that suit you. Very simple to do.
My beef with some people in this forum is the constant trashing of Stan Shuffett and his refined method of aiming as some kind of swindle, snake oil, horsedung, and bullfeathers. Those (many who profess to be just so open minded and interested in calm civil debate) have done this for years and years and years.)
When all they had to do was just live and let live....and go their merry way.
