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Eric Bradshaw stated:

So on Sunday I took a rather healthy lesson from my friend and coach Eric Naretto regarding all my leftover questions for center to edge. I finished Stan’s masterpiece of literature and I can say without a shadow of doubt after my start of the CTE journey late last year this system is like no other it has revitalized my game beyond what I ever could imagined. I’m been playing as much as I can lately and I’m working even more to build my visual intelligence, but knowing the right way to aim has done nothing but increased my confidence to egotistical heights. I’ve already received compliments and I can’t wait to see where this takes me, the more I employ it.
Stan Shuffett... the pool community will forever be in your debt for your hard work and effort in proper aiming and making your work and even yourself so accessible to the curious minds. The game is officially broken. For those that don’t fully understand Center to Edge or it’s body I HIGHLY encourage you to visit Stan or Eric and take a lesson. Thank you for reading till the end. I hope to see more positive feedback and growth for this strong community in the future.
-Eric B
 
Regarding Disguised Pivoting
The Boss himself had this to say)(y)

For Disguised Pivoting users: When moving into full stance it can be a great practice to place your bridge V to the outside or to the inside of the sight line.
Your purpose is to assure that your bridge V is placed away from center so that your cue can come in from the side for its turn to the NISL.
The goal for this action is to facilitate an alignment to the center cue ball shot line that must be based on the outermost edge of the cue ball for the appropriate side. Purposeful bridge V work as described above is a deadly maneuver that pros do not want you to know about.
Hal Houle told Johnny Archer about placing the cue to either side of center and then turning it to the shot line. Hal didn’t go into much detail, but he insisted that JA knew about this tactic and exactly why professionals do it.
I had to omit a great section about this topic from my book because I couldn’t make contact with JA to obtain permission. I struck out after 6 weeks of effort to make a connection with JA and was forced to pull that very interesting section.
I have several unpublished chapters that one day will be passed along to someone.
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Low500 said:
Regarding Disguised Pivoting
The Boss himself had this to say)(y)

For Disguised Pivoting users: When moving into full stance it can be a great practice to place your bridge V to the outside or to the inside of the sight line.
Your purpose is to assure that your bridge V is placed away from center so that your cue can come in from the side for its turn to the NISL.
The goal for this action is to facilitate an alignment to the center cue ball shot line that must be based on the outermost edge of the cue ball for the appropriate side. Purposeful bridge V work as described above is a deadly maneuver that pros do not want you to know about.
Hal Houle told Johnny Archer about placing the cue to either side of center and then turning it to the shot line. Hal didn’t go into much detail, but he insisted that JA knew about this tactic and exactly why professionals do it.
I had to omit a great section about this topic from my book because I couldn’t make contact with JA to obtain permission. I struck out after 6 weeks of effort to make a connection with JA and was forced to pull that very interesting section.
I have several unpublished chapters that one day will be passed along to someone.
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I'd call this fine tuning. It affords a low resolution move to make a very fine adjustment. The one issue for us mortals is having thusly adjusted the cue line, you will learn nothing about the actual aim you're on. Same thing with the old stand up stroke. It works like magic until it doesn't. I've addressed this particular problem with more/better eye training.
 
straightline said:
I'd call this fine tuning. It affords a low resolution move to make a very fine adjustment. The one issue for us mortals is having thusly adjusted the cue line, you will learn nothing about the actual aim you're on. Same thing with the old stand up stroke. It works like magic until it doesn't. I've addressed this particular problem with more/better eye training.
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ANSWER: Stan is teaching CTE the way HE has determined it to be the best over the last 15 years BASED on eye training for sighting the CB/OB orientation. It's done the CTE way, not your way. His thousands of hours at the table with experimentation in every possible cut angle and distance to perfect the accuracy of it could never be duplicated by anyone.
(and since perhaps you haven't been paying any attention to the back-and-forth between certain persons and myself, let me state right now for you).......I AM ONLY A STUDENT OF CTE. I am not qualified to instruct or teach. In fact, I don't play very good at all but I'm working to try and do something about that. I'm working with a "Guesswork Reduction Method of Aiming" called CTE and it suits me just fine. Furthermore, the knowledge is factually transferable if the teacher knows what they're doing and is certified by Stan Shuffett. If not certified, then "let the buyer beware".
Now, having laid out that preamble, let us proceed:

If you feel the hand position or anything else should be done with other variations, write your own book or Ebook and put it on Amazon for sale. Right now you're posting here anonymously with no identification or clue if you're professionally qualified as a player or instructor.
Of course one doesn't have to be a professional, on any web forum, to give their opinion. That's well understood. But far too many want to dominate as the "experts" on all the facets of a particular subject with nothing else other than their own unprofessional opinions as if it's Gospel and written in stone as the best and only way.
What happens? Disagreements and flame wars erupt. The subject of CTE has been carried over from RSB ( a wretched disbanded pool discussion forum) by those members to AZB since the inception in 2003.

How about identifying your credentials...... your name, and experience as a player and/or professional instructor.?
Surely this isn't too much to ask of someone so opinionated and self praising. What you espouse may very well be better for other systems of aiming but NOT CTE....the one and only TRUE "Guesswork Reduction Method" for aiming a pool ball.
Thank you for visiting the John Barton CTE Testimonial thread here on the AZBiliiards site. Good wishes to you and your studies on this subject. (y)
Peter Lowenstein(Low500)
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And the good stuff just keeps on coming.
The BOSS of CTE says.........

CTE is everything but conventional.
The only time that both vision lines work together for a singular task is when they triangulate from a PX offset to see the tip aligned to center cue ball. This can happen only when one’s vision is turned away from the conventional center to be at PX.
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As a matter of fact, I've taken to practicing straight ins center to center or measured near center, to center. The best gauge for accuracy is to jaw the balls or at least rattle them.

Then I practice feathering balls. Literally edge to edge.

Nothing fancy just raw training.
 
straightline said:
As a matter of fact, I've taken to practicing straight ins center to center or measured near center, to center. The best gauge for accuracy is to jaw the balls or at least rattle them.

Then I practice feathering balls. Literally edge to edge.

Nothing fancy just raw training.
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Have you spent some training time looking at Stan Shuffett's Truth Series for CTE use on the YouTube?
Those videos are free and will get you steered into the right direction. Then you can make an informed decision on whether to buy his book or not, or to just forget the whole thing.
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I am scratching the surface right now, but I m seeing a new line. 30 degree to the right corner( cut to the right). I used to play inside and speed. I find now I don't need the power to make the same shot.? I be damned if I can tell what number tick I am on, But I feel a different visual at work.Ty Stan.(y)
 
Low500 said:
Have you spent some training time looking at Stan Shuffett's Truth Series for CTE use on the YouTube?
Those videos are free and will get you steered into the right direction. Then you can make an informed decision on whether to buy his book or not, or to just forget the whole thing.
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I watched the first handfull of the "Truth Series". Left me scratching my head honestly. I think I either paid too close attention and caught some oddities or I'm simply too rooted in my own analytical approach to aiming, to allow the 'free thinking' required for someone not to bother understanding but rather just do.

This thread provides evidence that many have had successful outcomes with CTE, and I wish them and any new subscribers to the method great success. That said, I will suggest they don't pose any inquiries here on AZB, but rather join the facebook group.
 
The_JV said:
I watched the first handfull of the "Truth Series". Left me scratching my head honestly. I think I either paid too close attention and caught some oddities or I'm simply too rooted in my own analytical approach to aiming, to allow the 'free thinking' required for someone not to bother understanding but rather just do.

This thread provides evidence that many have had successful outcomes with CTE, and I wish them and any new subscribers to the method great success. That said, I will suggest they don't pose any inquiries here on AZB, but rather join the facebook group.
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Don't worry most have learned that this forum isn't the place to discuss CTE without harassment.

There as 565737589373987439874 ways to aim in pool. If any human thinks that CTE is something harmful to the users the perhaps thsy should pursue one of those other ways or no way and just feel-aim. It is clear that anyone who wanted to ask a question about CTE here is going get a lot of answers from those who don't use it, don't know how to use it and are not interested in using it.
 
And the good stuff just keeps on coming.(y)
The BOSS of CTE says.........

When Landon was about 12 or so, Hal Houle informed me to not let Landon match-up with anyone that brings their cue in from the side.
That bit of info was one of Hal’s many CTE puzzle pieces that he purposefully scattered here and there.
This info applies directly to Disguised Pivoting and is a follow-up on yesterday’s DP post. To fully get this the player should be fluid with BASIC CTE.
To apply this “bringing the cue in from the side” the player must think in terms of employing a bypass.
The DP player should merely place the bridge V/cue well to the inside or to the outside of center. To execute this “side-in” move, you should BYPASS any conscious attention to the SL allowing your eyes to go the NISL as normal. Here’s the kicker! When the cue is brought in from the side, your vision will most assuredly pick up the outermost or innermost center of the cue ball based on the side that the cue is coming in from. BUTTER!
This is a fail proof method to align to the half-ball center with the utmost ease.
What I just revealed might be the biggest secret our game has ever known-how to align to the half-ball……and NOT to the full cue ball.
You may have to peel some layers of the onion back to experience what Hal knew to be a killer technique for getting the cash, but trust me on this one, You’re better off being the one bringing the cue in from the side versus a player doing the “side-in” move on you.
I’m doing my best to educate everyone on ALL of the important intricacies that surround what we know as Center to Edge Aiming.
I appreciate your support..
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Robert Carey
This is awesome information Stan. I was starting to do this shooting Disguised Pivoting, but really didn’t think about it or realize I was doing this. You just clarified a big step for me. It is remarkable what a sharpshooter we can become. This is butter!!!!!
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And the good stuff just keeps on coming.
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"Thanks for thinking of us left-handed players in your book. I really appreciate it!”—Allen S.(y)(y)
 
And the good stuff just keeps on coming. (y)(y)(y)
The BOSS of CTE says.........

Aiming Simplified:
Two Cue Ball Edges
Three Object Ball Aim Points. That's all there is to it, aiming wise...nothing more.
The only time that both vision lines work together for a singular task is when they triangulate from a PX offset to see the tip aligned to center cue ball. This can happen only when one’s vision is turned away from the conventional center to be at PX.

****Poster's Note: PX, in CTE language, means Parallax. (which relates to positioning one's head so that one can correctly perceive both the aim line and sight line despite the parallax phenomenon.) (y)
 
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Low500 said:
And the good stuff just keeps on coming. (y)(y)(y)
The BOSS of CTE says.........

Aiming Simplified:
Two Cue Ball Edges
Three Object Ball Aim Points.
That's all there is to it, aiming wise...nothing more.
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1. Cock your head toward the pocket,
2. Find aim line and sight line at the same time while your head is still cocked,
3. Get down on the shot and don't lose the two lines,
4. Don't forget to keep your head cocked at the same time,
5. Stare at the inside edge of the cb while at the same time imagining a new line through the cb. This is the shot line,
6. Keep your head cocked while putting your cue on this new line that you can only identify through your peripheral vision,
7. Now you can shoot without ever looking at the ob but most all cte users look at it anyway (including Stan) for some undisclosed reason.

See? Easy as pie!

Low500's post was not an endorsement -- it was instruction as was mine.
 
Testimonial from Peter Lowenstein (Low 500 on this AZB site)
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Low500 says......"Understanding the following can do wonders for a player's performance at the table. It's really helped me a whole lot. Thank You for your brilliant discoveries, Stan Shuffett. The pool world owes you tons of congratulations and thanks for putting this all together in an intelligent manner"
======> The only time that both vision lines work together for a singular task is when they triangulate from a PX offset to see the tip aligned to center cue ball. This can happen only when one’s vision is turned away from the conventional center to be at PX.
****Poster's Note: PX, in CTE language, means Parallax. (which relates to positioning one's head so that one can correctly perceive both the aim line and sight line despite the parallax phenomenon.) (y) (y) (y) (y)
 
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"So blessed to have Stan Shuffett in our sport. I was fortunate to be introduced to objective aiming by Hal Houle. Stan was also introduced to objective aiming by Hal but decided to explore Hal’s methods to a deeper level than any other person. As a result he has refined the Center-to-Edge method of aiming so that instructions and application are clear and precise. The benefit for me and so many other players is that aiming is now a directed activity instead of a guessing-game.”—John Barton
 
Aiming is easy!
For 200 years, it’s been aim with CCB.
Get away from center. Move to one of two edges for real aiming, if your desire is to be exact. - Dave Stem testimonial
 
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