A Few CTE Questions

I watched the first half of the truth videos when they first came out. I've since seen some of the rest here and there. It is basically a reworking of a system you guys said was the holy grail of pool for a decade.
Yeh, that's right...YOU WATCHED. That's like somebody watching videos on how to play golf and expecting it to carry over by osmosis. You NEVER DID!
 
And there's more to a game regardless of what an amateur uses, or pro, when Earl Strickland is involved.
That having been said, I'm glad you brought up Earl Strickland. A young AMATEUR player who uses CTE PRO1
stomped Earl into the ground on a 10 foot table. Coincidentally, he just happens to be the SON of the CTE PRO1 creator.

By your logic since you are a CTE expert then you should be able to beat Earl, too, right? I mean, CTE is clearly the reason he won.
 
Nothing other than physics, geometry and common sense.

Well now that's interesting. Can you expand on what you mean by the bold?
Ah, I could indeed. See the thing is the system isn't automatic. It's a guide to get you to a point that you start to see things in a certain way and become more aware of how you use what you see. I worked very hard for that part in bold to finally become apparent to me. You have not earned that knowledge and I will not give it to anyone like you.
 
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I have 46 years of experience to back up my claims. What do you have?
Simple... I have you on the hook making claims you can't back up. Let's make it simple. Make one single CTE shot in cad and I'll be satisfied. I understand the limitations of CAD. Will it be perfect? Probably not, but I'd like to see what an expert with 46 years of experience can do. Did you start using CAD on an IBM 5100? What computer did you use? Was it magnetic tape? Was it 3D or a 2D program?

Now CNC controllers and CAD software are two different things, are you sure you've been doing CAD since 1975? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt but I'd be interested in your history in CAD. There wasn't much available in the mid 70s so I'm guessing you'd remember the software you used.

I started playing with autocad 2000 when I was in high school. College for drafting/virtual reality technology. Pro-E, some Inventor, various programs that were open source type stuff and gaming stuff since. I'm not an expert but I am a pool player. My BS meter is going off the charts with your claims. You are probably telling the truth, but it would be so easy to fake that I'll have to believe what you say. A simple single CTE shot diagrammed in a CAD software of your choice would shut me up easily. I don't really care if an anonymous internet user can do what he says but I'd like to see it.

CTE does work. I'm not saying anything contrary to that. What I'm saying is that I personally don't know of any way you could diagram it in CAD. I'd genuinely like to see what you can come up with. I get there is limitations on displaying a 3D visual system like CTE on CAD, but it would be neat to see. Saying you can do it then "nope I don't want to" is leaving us hungry.
 
CTE does work. I'm not saying anything contrary to that. What I'm saying is that I personally don't know of any way you could diagram it in CAD. I'd genuinely like to see what you can come up with. I get there is limitations on displaying a 3D visual system like CTE on CAD, but it would be neat to see. Saying you can do it then "nope I don't want to" is leaving us hungry.
Well, not all of us. Whatever he comes up with will not be the proof he claimed to have.
 
By your logic since you are a CTE expert then you should be able to beat Earl, too, right? I mean, CTE is clearly the reason he won.
You're the one who brought up CTE with Cookie against Earl. Well here's CTE against Earl used by an AMATEUR PLAYER.
By your logic since you are a CTE expert then you should be able to beat Earl, too, right? I mean, CTE is clearly the reason he won.
Landon was a YOUNG AMATEUR player against a TOP WORLD CLASS PRO, Earl Strickland. You're the one who brought Earl's name into it. Landon USES CTE PRO1. Landon WON 15-4 while using it.

Is the real reason why Earl lost because he was CONSTIPATED for 3 days and it made it tough to walk around the table?
 
You're the one who brought up CTE with Cookie against Earl. Well here's CTE against Earl used by an AMATEUR PLAYER.

Landon was a YOUNG AMATEUR player against a TOP WORLD CLASS PRO, Earl Strickland. You're the one who brought Earl's name into it. Landon USES CTE PRO1. Landon WON 15-4 while using it.

Is the real reason why Earl lost because he was CONSTIPATED for 3 days and it made it tough to walk around the table?
Spider, what does Landon have to do with this? You are the CTE expert, you don't miss any shots, why can't you beat Earl?
 
Why won't it be proof, Dave? It won't be proof because Stan said for 10 years that CTE cannot be diagrammed.
I'm not comparing it to his statement. You're always claiming proof with explanations you think are solid as well as videos and they're so far off base it's ridiculous.
 
Reading the last couple of days of posts here reminds me of a saying: "You can't fix stupid." Others might call it a general lack of critical thinking but for this crowd I think the former is more clear.
 
On March 2 while working on Shishkabob, I gave you a specific video to watch regarding CTE that applies to CTE vs. CTE with pivot or just a 1/2 ball alignment.

This is what you posted back... "I watched those videos but I'm not really spending my time on Stan's latest since I don't have the book." THAT video answered many questions and claims you keep making. I don't even know if you watch it that it'll sink in.
Not much seems to or does.
What that means is I'm not learning a system with head turns and stepping and all that because why should I bother? Cookie didn't bother either as he uses an early version of CTE he is happy with. Basic CTE with manual pivoting is supposed to work just fine and is the method I have the most practice with so why learn the newest one?

The video didn't answer anything. It simply made claims. You don't know the difference. If you had a background in science you might get it.
 
What that means is I'm not learning a system with head turns and stepping and all that because why should I bother? Cookie didn't bother either as he uses an early version of CTE he is happy with. Basic CTE with manual pivoting is supposed to work just fine and is the method I have the most practice with so why learn the newest one?

The video didn't answer anything. It simply made claims. You don't know the difference. If you had a background in science you might get it.
NOPE!! It had NOTHING to do with head turns and stepping. But, like always, you know it all.

I don't know how you have all this experience with pivoting by way of original CTE but couldn't make a correct SIMPLE 1/2 tip to full tip PIVOT to save your ass and miss every shot on the table with Shish.
 
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No, Brian is 0-1 against cookie. Are you telling me if Earl Strickland came to town and beat you you'd say CTE is 0-1 against however he aims? There's more to the game than aiming, not to mention outside influences like jet lag or playing on your home table, etc.
Does Earl use poolology? Never heard that one before. Are you saying Brian had excuses because he never relayed them to me. We just got together hit some balls and had a good time. And yes I came out on the right end of the score. Can you actually get jet lag flying from West Virginia to Florida and have it last for a few days. I do believe he was here for a few days before we played. One other thing, it wasn’t my home table. I play out of Strokers and we played at family billiards, a place I seldom go to.

So what we have here from you is just some more bad guesses and assumptions.
 
On March 2 while working on Shishkabob, I gave you a specific video to watch regarding CTE that applies to CTE vs. CTE with pivot or just a 1/2 ball alignment.

This is what you posted back... "I watched those videos but I'm not really spending my time on Stan's latest since I don't have the book."

THAT video answered many questions and claims you keep making. I don't even know if you watch it that it'll sink in.
Not much seems to or does. It was also one of STAN'S LATEST that you stated above that haven't spent any time on.
Dan is to the point where he has way too much time invested in bad mouthing CTE that he will never never admit anything positive about it
 
What that means is I'm not learning a system with head turns and stepping and all that because why should I bother? Cookie didn't bother either as he uses an early version of CTE he is happy with. Basic CTE with manual pivoting is supposed to work just fine and is the method I have the most practice with so why learn the newest one?

The video didn't answer anything. It simply made claims. You don't know the difference. If you had a background in science you might get it.
You have no idea what I use but for your future reference I use the final version. In fact my visual intelligence is off the charts.

Just about every post you make has a wrong assumption on your part in it.
 
Does Earl use poolology? Never heard that one before. Are you saying Brian had excuses because he never relayed them to me. We just got together hit some balls and had a good time. And yes I came out on the right end of the score. Can you actually get jet lag flying from West Virginia to Florida and have it last for a few days. I do believe he was here for a few days before we played. One other thing, it wasn’t my home table. I play out of Strokers and we played at family billiards, a place I seldom go to.

So what we have here from you is just some more bad guesses and assumptions.
So you're saying Brian gave you his best game?
 
You have no idea what I use but for your future reference I use the final version. In fact my visual intelligence is off the charts.

Just about every post you make has a wrong assumption on your part in it.
Hey I'm just repeating things you've said in the past.
 
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