But i've won thousand's of dollars using CTE so i can buy the whole cow and pay a chef to cook it for me.
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lol. But you should give yourself more credit.
Well i give myself credit for totally redoing the way I used to aim so as to make myself a better player. I used to be like everyone else, just winging it, going on past experience of 30 years of playing at a decent level. Then i took a chance and learned all about pivot aiming which led to CTE. Now I use the advanced level of CTE in which we don't pivot anymore. My game has never been better. So I do credit myself for changing the way I aim.
And that's the key to improvement with anything -- realizing you might need to change something or learn something more, then actually doing it.
Most people just talk about wanting to improve at a skill, or talk about wanting to learn a new skill, like playing a guitar or a piano or whatever. But only a few actually invest the time or effort to do anything about it.
My point is that CTE had less to do with it than your determination to get better, IMO. CTE instructs that once you have "stepped" the cue ball you can forget about the object ball as you have already found the shot line. It makes sense, then, that if I have that shot line I might not want to look at anything else as not to deviate from that line. Instead, you say you look at the ob last because it's just "the right way to play." Stan looks back and forth from the cb to ob twice after supposedly finding the NISL as well. Now you just said that you use CTE to find the "shot picture." The shot picture, as most of us use that term, involves the relationship among the cue shaft, cb, ob and pocket as a whole. When that picture looks "right" we know we are on the shot line. If you are using this shot picture to confirm the shot line then why bother with all the gyrations required by CTE? Just put the cue down on the line and see if it looks good. If you are using CTE to magically find the shot line then why do you even look at the object ball and/or shot picture?
True. The effort is important. Let's just also be clear that what made you better isn't necessarily what you believe made you better. My jelly bean method works if you practice enough but it isn't the jelly beans it's the practice!
CTE has everything to do with my improvement. You make more balls you play better pool, pretty simple, and that is what CTE has done for me .
There are no gyrations and no magic with CTE except in the minds of people that never learned it and are on a mission to discredit it.
I look at the OB last because that is what I am comfortable in doing, don't try to make anything more out of it. My shot picture is the cue, OB, CB, pocket and the reference lines that CTE dictates. Eye patterns are also very important in playing pool.
Let's just say you have some weird opinions. Do dedicated drills make you better or are jelly beans the only way to improve?
Whatever floats your boat is fine by me. Just don't pass on unsubstantiated and fanciful claims to others.
Don't worry Boss Dan, all my claims will be fully substantiated and not to fancy, will yours?
