It is an opinion but I think it is on pretty solid ground. If anybody had a method that didn't require any kind of shot recognition and just a 1,2,3 follow the steps kind of thing it would have spread around the globe by word of mouth 20 years ago.
A Few CTE Questions
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Have you read the book you wrote the forward for? It's far more complicated than that.
You aren't following me. Let's just drop it.
Every post you make is more stupid than the last one. AMAZING!! Of course there's shot recognition to determine WHICH of the 1,2, 3 steps need to be applied to either A, B, or C.
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Were your Engineering books throughout college complicated in the beginning?
You first since you started in with this same repetitive harangue again.
You know what I mean. The only shot recognition required is knowing vaguely where the pocket is, not an understanding of when the cb/ob/pocket relationship looks like it is on. The curtain demonstrations were meant to show that.
I was trying to illustrate that a match against PJ will show nothing about how CTE works. You didn't follow the logic so there's not much more that I can say. You should learn that some things are better left unsaid.
So you post examples of other people seeing exactly what you were doing while saying you wouldn't be able to tell what Dave would be doing,lmao.
Have you read the book? You've never said once on here, that i recall, that you have the book.
I know, I know, another question that you will refuse to answer.
It's actually funny how much you project your own feelings onto me. You say that I twist words out of their intended meaning yet you are the one doing exactly that. Let me repeat it just for you, slowly.... Let's say Dave shoots every shot perfectly...OK?.... There's nothing to criticize or note about his shooting...OK?... This does not mean he is aiming objectively the way CTE instructions tell him to...OK?...We can't get inside his head to see whether he really is lining up his shot the same way for one A perception vs another A perception...REPEAT... We can't get inside his head to see whether he really is lining up his shot the same way for one A perception vs another A perception...OK?... Even if he IS lining up the same every time, we also can't tell if he is pivoting more or less as needed depending on where the pocket is...OK?...This would be an instance of relying more on past knowledge than CTE...OK? I could expand on this last point more but something tells me I've already lost you. Now read this 3 more times before replying.
Thanks.
Nope. Don't have it and so never read it. My facebook mole does all that for me.
No it wouldn't have. This forum wasn't even in existence 20 years ago. RSB, from what I saw before being completely eradicated, turned into total shit 3 or 4 years prior to that from Fast Larry. That's the ONLY place it was discussed and HAL was the only one with the information and only taught over the phone. The world didn't know about RSB nor did many in the US.
RSB was kind of like an underground website only a few pool nuts knew about. Definitely under 300. On any given day there might have been 50 people posting and participating, if that.
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You would know since you're the CHAMP who's been doing it for 25 years nonstop.
If I wasn't aiming according to CTE steps/instructions, what in the hell do you think I might be using? That's what CTE is all about.
Seeing A, B, C on the OB, AND Edge and center on CB. Who said there's a pivot required on each and every shot? Wait...YOU DID.
Now there IS a pivot required on every shot with Shishkabob. It's the ULTIMATE pivot system along with 90/90.
Let me ask you again: What is your purpose and reasons for being a total nut case in trying to bring CTE down each and every day? YOU CAN'T WIN! It exploded into main stream pool worldwide by way of the internet and especially the BOOK.
Every year, month, and day you get older with that few years left to live and you piss it away looking for ways to destroy a friggin' POOL AIMING SYSTEM!! What the F**K is wrong with you? AND PAT JOHNSON? I've been told he's 74 years old which means he started this when he was 49 years old!
Is this what your lives are about? Are you sick??
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Yeah, I gotta agree. My life has devolved. But I'm not even CLOSE to your seniority at the keyboard and pool forums.
YOU ARE THE GRAND CHAMPION ANTI CTE PSYCHO POSTER OF ALL TIME!
Forget forums. It would have gone viral in pool halls. Word of mouth about something that really works is the most powerful form of advertising.
Whoa, Nellie. Stop the presses. Are you telling me that basic manual pivoting CTE, which is the one I have used the most and is supposed to be dead nuts accurate does NOT require a pivot on every shot?
Well, since you phrase the question that way... I'm not trying to bring anything down. I post on this topic OCCASIONALLY when one of you guys acts up. I find it interesting. It's more a study of the psychology behind mass hypnosis then anything else. It's nothing personal.
Nope. Not every day, just for a couple of days back and forth with YOU SAME GUYS and then off air for much longer periods of time. Stan helped the discussion along by selling new products every few years. So it was never actually the same old thing all the time. CTE evolved from a manual pivot to looking for the NISL out of the corner of your eye. Certainly not a static topic.
I have a suggestion. If you don't like it then don't respond and it will stop. I got tired of your antics a couple of years ago and don't think I responded to anything from you for a long time. More recently I realize that you're actually an OK guy with a flamboyant vocabulary so I don't mind your input so much. Much nicer guy in pm, as I think we both are, lol. Having said that, it is clear you are never going to change you mind or be open to any possibilities other than it does exactly what you say it does. It took me a long time to realize that I had a cue alignment problem. For years prior to that I was convinced everything was just fine. Maybe something to consider. I mean, in your case, your shooting I guess is just fine. Your understanding of what you are doing may not be.
When I turn my head to step to center I go down from that position into shooting stance and my head is then in the right position over the cue looking at center ball.
Regarding shots that seem to be in-between......they aren't. Just that B-inside can be equal to A-outside for some shots.
Pivoting is not needed when you use the stepping method. You locate center cue ball by stepping and then go from standing to shooting position from there. The pivot is taken care of by the stepping.
Regarding table size.....the system works just the same on every table with a 2:1 ratio and on every 90 degree target. Which means that if you were playing on a table 3x as long as it is wide then every shot you take that goes directly to a pocket with a 90 degree corner will have a CTE solution. Most single rail banks would work IMO.
Welcome to the CTE users group. We like objective ball-to-ball aiming.
Why are you doing this? you are giving the assholes ammo when you know as well as anyone else that no amount of drawings will satisify them.More deflection. Name 3 CAD type software. If you can't, you're nothing but
Simple as that. End the discussion, you have the ball in your court. No holier than thou gaslighting. Just name 3. Google if you have to, but know in your own head that that's weaksauce.
EDIT: If @Renegade_56 really blocks me, I'm winning. That means 2 CTE acolytes have blocked me because the truth and actually showing they know the system as well as me is too tough.
I can give you the formula that governs GB and tell you with 100% certainty that no pool player living uses it. CTE could be modeled in 3d space and still the assholes on here would denigrate it.
Why do you care if one can model it using CAD or any other graphics program? Does that matter in the practical application AT ALL?