Thread Title: 23 Years Are The Same Every Day On Pool Forums With CTE
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If you, as a pool enthusiast and player are interested in improving your game by becoming proficient with CTE (Center To Edge) Aiming, it won't be here.
23 years ago Hal Houle threw out a claim and teaser on an early internet group called Rec.Sport.Billiards (RSB) describing how only 3 lines were required to make nearly all cut shots on a 2:1 pool table with angles from 0 to about 90 degrees. The following was passed on to me by someone who was there in the loop and a close friend of Hal.
It didn't take many minutes at all for it to be posted that Mr. Patrick Johnson, with all of his infinite wisdom of 5 years steady experience since getting involved in pool, to come crashing down with one of the most scathing, uninformed posts ever made about how absurd Hal's claims were. Up until the time at around 45 years of age, Pat banged balls here and there recreationally like many of us but became the resident expert over 5 years who a number of other neophyte pool players came to feel was gospel. He is a bright individual with a strong command of the English language who specifically linked science, math and geometry to pool and they thought it was the way the game was played and to be learned. NO PRO PLAYER EVER PLAYED THAT WAY AND COULD CARE LESS ABOUT MATH AND SCIENCE.
Immediately thereafter, another member by the name of Lou Figueroa took a blood brother oath with Pat and also became one of the biggest critics and dissenters of Hal and CTE. It remained that way until about 2005 or 2006 when AZB was still in it's infancy that they all moved here because RSB was getting trashed and driven into the ground and oblivion by someone called Fast Larry.
Those who become devotees of CTE and about 20+ other aiming systems created by Hal like "Shiskebab" also switched to AZB for some semblance of sanity away from RSB and Fast Larry.
However, nothing changed with the CTE controversy between the players touting it and the naysayers creating more of a name for themselves and getting attention by attempting to bury it with the math, geometry, physics, 2D drawings etc. as their "proof" of it being impossible and a waste of time.
Some years went by with the same broken record over and over and over again with the same cast of characters as well as new ones on both sides. One thing to be known is there was always more getting involved with CTE and wanting to learn than those attempting to destroy it and save the world from a fate just under cancer and death.
And then enter a serious and accomplished pool player who won a pro tournament among top pros and a certified long time instructor of all facets of the game by the name of... STAN SHUFFETT.
That's when Pat Johnson, Lou Figueroa, Dan White, Joey Bautista, and the usual 4 or 5 hack pool players who come and go to be replaced by 4 or 5 new hack players every few years to be a part of the CTE "knocker" crowd went totally bonkers and insane wasting every single day of 12 years or so posting regurgitated garbage about CTE itself, Stan Shuffett, and any and all users of the system.
TOO BAD LOU-SERS!! Only a few months ago you claimed the book would NEVER be written - IT IS!
You said the Truth Series Video would never be done before the book came out because the book would never come out - IT IS!
Players from all over the country and world are excited and wanting it in a place where you LOU-SERS can't go because you are all BANNED from there UP FRONT! If you do attempt it and sneak in, it'll be BYE-BYE!
Keep wasting your lives and time here where you belong with the same old stuff.
