For those of you interested in CTE this is a simple CTE based system I learned from a PBIA instructor (and that I only sometimes use for bank shots, and never for normal shots).
To use this system you need to be able to make contact with an object ball where you want, it will not tell you how to aim to make contact where you want, it will only tell you where you need to make contact to sink the ball. Of course for some shots and speeds you need to compensate for throw and the system does nothing to help with this.
All shots are not possible with the system. You have two possible shots you attain can at a time. Most of the time one of the shots is a bank shot (lining center of CB with inside edge of OB) and the other is to the closest pocket (lining up center of CB with outside edge of OB). When the object ball gets close to a rail and the angle gets acute it seems to only work for bank shots.
These results are expected and Hal Houle wrote in his original post on his CTE system only that a ball 'finds a pocket', not that it will find the pocket that you want. I think Stan Shuffets CTE system allows one to be more specific which pocket they want, but am not sure and of course Stans system is about 100x's more complex and requires a ton of memorization, this system does not.
The beauty of this system is that it doesn't require any pivoting, nor any real memorization. The downside as previously explained is that it will only get you to the pockets that edges of the object ball 'magically' line up with.
When using it to aim bank shots you need to already be proficient with which spins are required for certain angles of bank shots because if the angle needs spin and you don't apply it then it will bank short (most of the time).
The picture below is for the outside edge of an object ball (normally a shot directly into a pocket), you just reverse the edge of the object ball you line up for to get the other possibly shot (normally a bank shot).
To use this system you need to be able to make contact with an object ball where you want, it will not tell you how to aim to make contact where you want, it will only tell you where you need to make contact to sink the ball. Of course for some shots and speeds you need to compensate for throw and the system does nothing to help with this.
All shots are not possible with the system. You have two possible shots you attain can at a time. Most of the time one of the shots is a bank shot (lining center of CB with inside edge of OB) and the other is to the closest pocket (lining up center of CB with outside edge of OB). When the object ball gets close to a rail and the angle gets acute it seems to only work for bank shots.
These results are expected and Hal Houle wrote in his original post on his CTE system only that a ball 'finds a pocket', not that it will find the pocket that you want. I think Stan Shuffets CTE system allows one to be more specific which pocket they want, but am not sure and of course Stans system is about 100x's more complex and requires a ton of memorization, this system does not.
The beauty of this system is that it doesn't require any pivoting, nor any real memorization. The downside as previously explained is that it will only get you to the pockets that edges of the object ball 'magically' line up with.
When using it to aim bank shots you need to already be proficient with which spins are required for certain angles of bank shots because if the angle needs spin and you don't apply it then it will bank short (most of the time).
The picture below is for the outside edge of an object ball (normally a shot directly into a pocket), you just reverse the edge of the object ball you line up for to get the other possibly shot (normally a bank shot).
