The template is a double check. I told you that ghost ball was good for some things.
lmao, shouldn’t need it if CTE is so grand.
Lou Figueroa
The template is a double check. I told you that ghost ball was good for some things.
I think there is a misnomer going on here. None of these pro's use objective reference points in order to aim in the same way CTE claims to. In my case I line up center to center and that helps me see how big of a cut angle I have. I don't really need to do it and I don't do it on all shots. It's just a habit but is probably something that helps me see the angle so I keep doing it. It probably takes 0.5 seconds. When I see center to center I am standing up and as I get down on the shot I am moving into the correct position so that when it "looks right" I stop moving. Ultimately I am in shooting position lined up correctly and it "looks" right. In CTE there is no "looks right." You are only finding the initial objective reference points and then theoretically get down on the shot and hit it without concern for where the pocket is and if the shot "looks right." The "looks right" part is what every pro on that list does and is what CTE says you don't need. In other words, the "looks right" is the important point of what the pro's are doing and they are thinking if it looks right throughout their PSR. The PSR itself is not finding the shot line. I'd say it is more of a habit or ritual to keep things consistent. None of those things find the shot line for the player. He already knows the shot line and when he is on it before pulling the trigger.That aiming can use clearly identified objective references and that some professional players use clearly identified objective references when they aim.
Double check what ?The template is a double check. I told you that ghost ball was good for some things.
Sigh. Joey, please stop. Regardless of what aiming method is used the line must resolve to ghost ball. So knowing this one can use a ghost ball template to check the visuals and see if it resolves to ghost ball lined up to the intended target. One can also work backwards from ghost ball to pick up the proper visuals. The ghost ball template is ignored when the CTE method is used and is only useful to double check the shot line arrived at to see if it is correct. It was used in exactly this way in the video you showed. That was by the way one of the better CTE videos I did and it's silly of you to make some wild accusation that I wasn't using CTE and was intentionally deceiving others.Double check what ?
Ghost ball is good for double checking your edge is lined up to A?
no, they use OBJECTIVE parts of the balls as guides. No misnomer. And you're wrong about looks right in CTE. You would know this if you bothered to actually study CTE.I think there is a misnomer going on here. None of these pro's use objective reference points in order to aim in the same way CTE claims to. In my case I line up center to center and that helps me see how big of a cut angle I have. I don't really need to do it and I don't do it on all shots. It's just a habit but is probably something that helps me see the angle so I keep doing it. It probably takes 0.5 seconds. When I see center to center I am standing up and as I get down on the shot I am moving into the correct position so that when it "looks right" I stop moving. Ultimately I am in shooting position lined up correctly and it "looks" right. In CTE there is no "looks right." You are only finding the initial objective reference points and then theoretically get down on the shot and hit it without concern for where the pocket is and if the shot "looks right." The "looks right" part is what every pro on that list does and is what CTE says you don't need. In other words, the "looks right" is the important point of what the pro's are doing and they are thinking if it looks right throughout their PSR. The PSR itself is not finding the shot line. I'd say it is more of a habit or ritual to keep things consistent. None of those things find the shot line for the player. He already knows the shot line and when he is on it before pulling the trigger.
Sigh. Joey, please stop. Regardless of what aiming method is used the line must resolve to ghost ball. So knowing this one can use a ghost ball template to check the visuals and see if it resolves to ghost ball lined up to the intended target. One can also work backwards from ghost ball to pick up the proper visuals. The ghost ball template is ignored when the CTE method is used and is only useful to double check the shot line arrived at to see if it is correct. It was used in exactly this way in the video you showed. That was by the way one of the better CTE videos I did and it's silly of you to make some wild accusation that I wasn't using CTE and was intentionally deceiving others.
Also, just an FYI, calling me "fatso" is interesting because you were essentially insulting my body size from a few years ago.
I would suggest you embody this attitude when trying to body-shame others.
I call that BS.Sigh. Joey, please stop. Regardless of what aiming method is used the line must resolve to ghost ball. So knowing this one can use a ghost ball template to check the visuals and see if it resolves to ghost ball lined up to the intended target. One can also work backwards from ghost ball to pick up the proper visuals. The ghost ball template is ignored when the CTE method is used and is only useful to double check the shot line arrived at to see if it is correct. It was used in exactly this way in the video you showed. That was by the way one of the better CTE videos I did and it's silly of you to make some wild accusation that I wasn't using CTE and was intentionally deceiving others.
Also, just an FYI, calling me "fatso" is interesting because you were essentially insulting my body size from a few years ago.
I would suggest you embody this attitude when trying to body-shame others.
Thanks for the tip. That simple setup is less than a degree off a perfect 30° cut - moving the OB just one ball's width (2 1/4") farther away makes it exact.
Here's one I've posted before showing a simple setup for a half ball spot shot. The exact 30° cut from there hits the left side of the pocket, allowing for some throw.
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Several times a year I dye my hair and my family gets to vote on the color.Hey, John, it also looks like your hair color is kinda weird in that video, kinda reddish — what’s up with that?
Lou Figueroa
You can claim what you want to. The fact is on the shot you are speaking of that the most accurate of the attempts was when I had the GB template and I shot the cueball to the center of the GB. However, as I have stated hundreds of times, when the physical template is not there then NOTHING is there to orient from except the object ball working backwards. So without the template the task of laying the cue down on the actual GB shot line is way harder.I call that BS.
Once you place a template down there, you can pretend any system is being used but your tip is conveniently easily pointed to the center of the template which is the aiming line .
And on that shot , you are never going to convince me you would be more accurate with your objective system that requires all that plus a half tip pivot than just committing to the aiming line/center of the gb and setup for it . Then go down straight on that line .
I suggest you quit mudslinging if you don't want mud going your way too.
You've called me worse adjectives and nouns.
Huh?You can claim what you want to. The fact is on the shot you are speaking of that the most accurate of the attempts was when I had the GB template and I shot the cueball to the center of the GB. However, as I have stated hundreds of times, when the physical template is not there then NOTHING is there to orient from except the object ball working backwards. So without the template the task of laying the cue down on the actual GB shot line is way harder.
A semi-straight shot? How straight? 5 degrees, 7.6? 9? 3?Huh?
It's a semi straight in shot . Are you gonna aim the center of the cue ball to the center of the OB ? No. Why not ?
Because you know it's not a straight in shot . Are you going to aim at the contact point ? No, because you know it would be short . Whalah , aim a little outside of the contact point .
Heck, double the distance would be easier than that all that edge to this then to A then go down half a tip off center then pivot to center .
Oh please, you're not the poster boy for honesty and morals . Let's not even dig your past . Lord.
How would you know what's easier?Heck, double the distance would be easier than that all that edge to this then to A then go down half a tip off center then pivot to center .
Part of a learning process. I don't need it, I can figure out out through trial and error. Using a template is simply one method to use during practice if wanted.lmao, shouldn’t need it if CTE is so grand.
Lou Figueroa
Used a commercialized duckie's patch.lmao, shouldn’t need it if CTE is so grand.
Lou Figueroa
You keep saying this. How do you know it is true, and please don't say "Because Stan said so"?The difference is that the CTE method gets you within a mm of the actual shot line so that "looks right" comes way way easier. More importantly you have objective reference visuals that you can use to very quickly see what looks wrong. Of course one is concerned about WHERE the pocket is but in CTE one does not have to use the pocket as part of the process.
My point is that the habit or ritual is not the important part of aiming. It is the recognition of when the shot is good that matters and that is only gained through experience. It's like the basketball player at the free throw line going through the same ritual before throwing the ball. Bounce the ball twice, bend knees a bit, bounce ball twice more, bend knees again then shoot. Tennis serve - flip racquet in hand a couple times. Plant feet, bounce ball 7 times, not 6, not 8, then begin serve. Pool, line up CTC or edge of shaft to whatever, find ABC and NISL, put tip on cloth as you get down etc etc and then get into shooting position. Whatever you did up to this point is a PSR and everybody should be on the same shot line at this point. Everybody who now looks at the object ball has to make a decision whether the shot looks right. This is the important part of the shooting process and my argument is that this is really the part where you aim and we all do it the same way, through experience.A habit or ritual that incorporates starting from the SAME objective reference, center to center, for the purpose of consistency IS by definition a form of objective aiming. Call it the CTC-Sweep method but if Tommy defines it and you say it's what you do as well then now you're a small group of CTC aimers
Because I mapped out out on a 9ft precise drawing on Corel draw. From the back of the cue ball the exit lines have less than 1mm with most being less than .5mm difference between the center to edge line and the actual ghost ball line. So if a person did nothing else other than to stand on the center to edge line they would actually be looking at the back of the cueball extremely close to the shot line.You keep saying this. How do you know it is true, and please don't say "Because Stan said so"?
My point is that the habit or ritual is not the important part of aiming. It is the recognition of when the shot is good that matters and that is only gained through experience. It's like the basketball player at the free throw line going through the same ritual before throwing the ball. Bounce the ball twice, bend knees a bit, bounce ball twice more, bend knees again then shoot. Tennis serve - flip racquet in hand a couple times. Plant feet, bounce ball 7 times, not 6, not 8, then begin serve. Pool, line up CTC or edge of shaft to whatever, find ABC and NISL, put tip on cloth as you get down etc etc and then get into shooting position. Whatever you did up to this point is a PSR and everybody should be on the same shot line at this point. Everybody who now looks at the object ball has to make a decision whether the shot looks right. This is the important part of the shooting process and my argument is that this is really the part where you aim and we all do it the same way, through experience.