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How do you get a cut angle with no target? How did you manage to align yourself without a cut angle? By "cut angle" do you mean the angle at which the OB and CB separate after contact?

Why wouldn't I? You have no history of making false claims of which I'm aware. From your original post, you have a DVD showing yourself and others doing what you claim to have done. Note that neither in my response to your original post, nor here, have I said that I would (initially) believe...

Dave, you must know that to reverse engineer a process from its effects you must do three very fundamental things before you even start down that path: 1. Define clearly the effect you're interested in. 2. Assume, for the purpose of the analysis, that an effect exists. 3. Assume, for the...

I have the advantage of having a 9-foot table at home, so this may not be of use to you. I also don't get bored on a pool table. http://CueTable.com/P/?@4AGum2QNiT4UGum4UcAq2lNiT4lFoV2qQtF&ZZ@ Depending on how I'm feeling, I shoot this 50 times, or until I make it 50 times consecutively; at...

One of the difficulties in discussing CTE/Pro One is that people seem to be extremely reluctant to use the terms that Stan uses with the definitions he assigns to them. Or to pay much attention to what he actually says at all. Let's see... Does the Pro One swooping motion differ from that of...

Scott, I assume that was in response to my question to Patrick asking for a reference to the portion of the DVD that mentions an "air pivot". If that's the case, I apologize for misleading you. However, I did like the rest of your post and I'm quite glad you took the effort to contribute it...

That's our best hope. It's how table tennis got in.

There is the crux of the issue. Frankly, even if we developed a completely correct technical justification for Stan's CTE/ProOne system, I doubt that knowing it would help improve one's play, though knowing that a justification exists might increase some players' initial confidence in the...

I don't remember Stan mentioning AIR pivoting on the DVD. Do you remember roughly where he talks about it?

Of course, Patrick. I wouldn't be bothering with this discussion at all if that wasn't what I was attempting to do. It's precisely the apparent dichotomy between what users of the system report and what a simplistic geometric analysis indicates that interests me. As far as I'm concerned...

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Well, you've shown yourself in the past to be an intelligent and intellectually honest person, so I'd afford you the same consideration I feel is due to anyone else. You didn't mention anything about methodology. Absent a methodology, I'd probably just shrug, think "Well, too bad he didn't tell...

Yeah, they sure had no problem fixing mine once I noticed it. They were from the Billiard Factory in San Antonio; they've always been nice people to deal with. I felt kind of sorry for them - 100 mile round trip, kind of an embarrassing job, and I don't think they had a paying job out my way...

I stuck a couple of references in the 14.1 forum - saw a question there before I saw this one.

See The Straight Pool Bible by Cranfield and Laurence Moy. There's a small amount of personal information about him in the preface. A partial on-line copy is at Google Books. There's a lot of information in the book and I like it quite a lot. There's another book, "Essential Pool: A Complete...

See Dave Alciatore's article at http://billiards.colostate.edu/bd_articles/2008/aug08.pdf, the first figure at the top of the second page. Basically, a soft tip seems to generate a slightly larger amount of squirt.

Probably political as much as anything else. It'd be easy to dominate women's pool, given even modest resources, and especially if you started ten years ago or so. As with table tennis, there's no real money in it for private individuals in the rest of the world, it's a fairly cheap sport to...

Doesn't Sayginer have a shot similar to this on a billiard table? I wouldn't be surprised at him doing it, or a number of the other 3C guys. Or the guy who posts here sometimes (whose name I've suddenly lost) who makes the astounding masse shots. Looks to me like the heavy spin is continually...

In my opinion, the absolute reliance on that first sentence, and the concomitant denial of the validity of the second, is at the root of the acrimony surrounding this subject. Suppose I report results similar to those you posted and someone responds saying, "The actions you claim you took cannot...

The future of pool There has been discussion on this forum about the future of pool. When Jay Helfert hands out praise like this to a 17 year old Chinese woman, it goes toward confirming what I've thought for quite some time: As with table tennis, the future of pool lies in China and Southeast...