CTE Aiming

[Dan White]

They just got the unlucky trait of being tasty. Fried squirrel with biscuits and gravy is good eating. If I'm not hungry I just like to watch them.

Lol. OK

 

[Bob Jewett]

Or, there is this, which most retired American football players seem to have.

 

[Dan White]

Or, there is this, which most retired American football players seem to have.

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I think you can also contract CTE from the CTE aiming forum. Too much banging the head against a wall.

 

[Joshua70]

I tried to get in the game of CTE for a few years and it certainly works- in a selected range of shots oder speeds. But as said before- depending on where you come from and want to go to- it helps but is not the final solution as some think. hard and soft balls come out thicker and you have to compensate. You also have to compensate Throw and swerve. At the end you have so many exceptions to compensate, that you tend to loose focus on the straight forwarded stroke an other stuff you do in pre-shot-routine.
But- if you use CTE consequently, you ´ll get a feel for angles and the aiming points. You then have to work on getting it naturally. The question in the end is, what gets you forward faster. Learning and using a system or hitting many balls to teach youor brain the natural feel for it. Same stuff with changing material.

 

[Patrick Johnson]

...if you use CTE consequently, you ´ll get a feel for angles and the aiming points.

Same with any aiming system - different tools to get to the same place.

pj <- choose a simpler one
chgo

 

[SSP]

I tried to get in the game of CTE for a few years and it certainly works- in a selected range of shots oder speeds. But as said before- depending on where you come from and want to go to- it helps but is not the final solution as some think. hard and soft balls come out thicker and you have to compensate. You also have to compensate Throw and swerve. At the end you have so many exceptions to compensate, that you tend to loose focus on the straight forwarded stroke an other stuff you do in pre-shot-routine.
But- if you use CTE consequently, you ´ll get a feel for angles and the aiming points. You then have to work on getting it naturally. The question in the end is, what gets you forward faster. Learning and using a system or hitting many balls to teach youor brain the natural feel for it. Same stuff with changing material.

I like Allison Fisher's aiming method, she says she really doesn't have one, she just always tries to hit the back of the object ball, I assume she means if you aimed your cue at the back of the object ball straight into the pocket, that's exactly what I do as well, the trick is to make sure the proper part of the cue ball hits that target, that depends on the angle the cue ball will make contact with that point, as the angle increases in the shot the further from center is where point of contact is, so you don't have to think about 1/4 or 1/2 ball hit, there is really only a tiny target for you to pocket the ball dead center if your stroke is straight, my instructor pointed out to me that pool is the only sport in the world where you have to make 2 reasonably perfect balls go in a straight line