Maybe you just need to adjust your audio.
I am not trying to berate you. I am happy to converse. Happy to answer questions posed congenially.
I will reset my judgement of your purpose here and we can start over between us.
I posted several videos of various people running out.
When someone is using pro one or disguised(air pivoting) then to the spectator it would look pretty much like any other player. In fact I have said on occasion that the way a proficient cte user goes into the shot is similar to the way a lot of pros go into a shot. My thought was that maybe the cte steps sort of force a player into a sighting rhythm that places them into a similar offset position which results in a head/body motion that is very close to how pros move.
Someday when I have the time and inclination I might do some video analysis where I find players taking similar shots in ways that I can superimpose them to see if my thoughts on this have any merit.
The CTE steps can be done all in standing position in a matter of seconds and the player drops in on the shot line with no funky movements.
Think about this, what are you actually looking at when you aim? Like from the moment you are coming to the table and behind the cue ball? No one knows what is going on in your mind. They see you thinking and then they see you out your cue down to shoot.
You could have recited a poem, repeated a mantra, looked at the spot on the wall that you know it's a dead bank to the corner....
Unless you're doing clear manual pivoting no one would know you are using cte or any other system. I mean you could do the tip in the approximate gb center position and walk into the cue and that would be clear but almost nobody does that because it's tiring and people think that after a while they just see it anyway imo.
So really the concern about cte changing your psr isn't as big a deal as you might think it is.
I would give you the name of a pro whom I am positive would change any and all misgivings you have about cte but he has asked me not to as he is not at all into having these discussions online. He has a pretty good number of students and all questions and concerns are worked out on the table to the student's satisfaction.
Were I to spend a month under this pro I would look like a completely different player. Back in November I asked him to help me with my form because I was in constant pain when I played. He immediately got me ergonomically set and as a result I was nailing shots on a big table with tight pockets from a position of comfort rather than tension.
However without spending the time to really form a new habit and having spent little time playing since last November I tend to slip into the old form at times. Not nearly as bad but still not right.
Here is what cte means to me. I could aim for that pro and he knows that I can aim accurately using cute and he could shoot from the lines I give him and his pocketing percentage would be way higher than mine.
Conversely if I shot the lines he gave them my pocketing percentage would likely be somewhat higher than when I do it all myself but likely not much higher because I have execution issues due to a variety of factors. No one who doesn't have the same physical issues as me will truly understand how it feels when you're down on a shot and you are fighting muscle spasms, twitches, and knife/needle-like stabbing pain.
So I will never ever be a good enough player to be a perfect demonstration player. Beyond the physical issues it is not my goal to "prove" cte based on my play. And the reason for this is because those truly interested in learning it are not using me as a single source for cute information. If there is someone out there who is then I would say to them that they should look to those who are much more proficient.
My goal has always been to discuss objective and alternative aiming systems for their value. I tried to do this with civility and exuberance and in the first hour of doing it I was insulted and degraded and called a religious cult member, told I was hypnotized, deluded, bamboozled, and essentially that the results I experienced on the table were not true and could not be true. So being called a deluded lying cult member on day one kind of set the tone for me with certain people.
Conversely with you tube and forums where the prolific knockers are not present I have had hundreds of conversations, dozens of video chats where I helped or got help with various aiming system questions and had dozens of in-person sessions where I helped or got help.
So yeah, I am pretty freaking sensitive to the tone and it's not just a matter of me needing to adjust the soundboard but I will concede that I can certainly take some comments in a way that they weren't intended.
That said I will choose to believe that you are sincere and I will tell you that you are unlikely to learn anything useful about cte from this corrupted forum.
Mohrt is the only one left willing to try and instruct and I admire his demeanor and perseverance. My goal here is pretty much just to confront the knockers because whenever I try to just discuss cte inevitably one or more of them has to start with the snide comments and insults.
Ultimately I would like to see there be a cte forum where knockers are told to stay away or be banned. Ava there could be a forum for each aiming system that contains the most up to date information where the readers don't have to wade through a sea of shit to find the gold nuggets.
I don't understand why this can't be had.
And if knockers want to knock then they can create a post and state their objections and have those objections countered if possible.
That way the objections are all there for forum readers and civility is harshly enforced so that the readers are not subjected to flame wars and the aforementioned river of shit while looking for useful information.
