CTE when done correctly..........

I don't think I've ever seen a player NOT sweep their cue into the shot. It's a natural movement because the cue is held to the side of your body.

When you watch Shaw, or ANY player, including Tyler Styer and Stan himself, when they are down on the cb their eyes are darting back and forth between the cb and the ob. This is how we ensure that our stroke is lined up straight through the cb to where the cb needs, which is done from the "noser" perspective.

I do believe Tyler and Stan and other Pro1 players are getting the line by use of an offset perception, but once they are down on the line they are more than likely matching up to the obvious view of where the cb is being sent via the direction of their stroke, and they match up to it based on what they are seeing. If ccb is the final target, then why are these great CTE players looking back and forth down the shot line? Lol

I don't expect you to answer this because I'm sure you have no clue, and because your best response is going to be that Pavlov pup bit.

Great.
Shaw does CTE without knowing it.
Pure gold.
Comedy.

Shaw started his game in snooker.
Where they are trained to find the aiming/stroking line then commit to it.
He's the poster boy for anti-fancy pivoting aiming systems.

Know the line and shoot through that line.

Jayson Shaw uses CTE.

First of all, Jayson started out in UK pool games, like Blackball. For your information, the cueball is actually smaller in this game, and CTE is completely useless. Claiming him as a poster boy for anything CTE is weapons grade baloney.

He plays like most snooker and blackball professionals. He plants his back foot and after that his backhand position is allready set, and he doesn't have to worry about "going straight down. What he does is that he holds his cue in front of him in with distance between his front and back arm and twists into the shot line. As he goes down, the front arm extends, giving the impression of the cue being pulled back, until it has the final and correct distance to the cueball and bridge length. This has absolutely nothing to do with any pivot system and everything to do with practising stance and fundamentals. This "torquing" into the stance is a staple of snooker teaching and is also taught to blackball players. It accomplishes two things: First it takes care of the arms position before the player goes down (ensuring the correct distances and relationships, grip etc), leaving the player to focus only on getting his head/elbow/shoulder on the precisely determined (when standing up), straight shot line. Secondly the actual torquing (when used with a straight back leg, which Jayson doesn't do) makes the stance a lot more solid. Also it maintains contact with the cue at all times in a natural way.

You could alternatively figure out the correct distance between the back and front hand while standing up, twist at the waist/hip and then go straight down. I did that for a little while, as an experiment. It's slower, less natural and more fatiguing, but it does allow you to maintain the visual of the straight line more easily. Overall it's not worth it, I think, especially for a quick thinker like Jayson. I think it is also bad for the back, long term.

Low500 said:

Ignorance abounds.
When one has been correctly coached and informed about CTE aiming, they find out quickly what a sweep actually means. It is a brilliant discovery.
The sweep is not about the cue sweeping...it is about THE EYES sweeping. CTE ProOne is visual. One's vision sweeps, NOT THE CUE.
And how THAT functions and integrates into successful play will not be revealed until Stan decides the un-informed need to know about it. (which personally suits me just fine, seeing at how so many ignorant people have ridiculed his genius)

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OK. Let's see YOU demo it.
Oh wait, you can't.

Straightpool_99 said:

Jayson Shaw uses CTE.

First of all, Jayson started out in UK pool games, like Blackball. For your information, the cueball is actually smaller in this game, and CTE is completely useless. Claiming him as a poster boy for anything CTE is weapons grade baloney.

He plays like most snooker and blackball professionals. He plants his back foot and after that his backhand position is allready set, and he doesn't have to worry about "going straight down. What he does is that he holds his cue in front of him in with distance between his front and back arm and twists into the shot line. As he goes down, the front arm extends, giving the impression of the cue being pulled back, until it has the final and correct distance to the cueball and bridge length. This has absolutely nothing to do with any pivot system and everything to do with practising stance and fundamentals. This "torquing" into the stance is a staple of snooker teaching and is also taught to blackball players. It accomplishes two things: First it takes care of the arms position before the player goes down (ensuring the correct distances and relationships, grip etc), leaving the player to focus only on getting his head/elbow/shoulder on the precisely determined (when standing up), straight shot line. Secondly the actual torquing (when used with a straight back leg, which Jayson doesn't do) makes the stance a lot more solid. Also it maintains contact with the cue at all times in a natural way.

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You could alternatively figure out the correct distance between the back and front hand while standing up, twist at the waist/hip and then go straight down. I did that for a little while, as an experiment. It's slower, less natural and more fatiguing, but it does allow you to maintain the visual of the straight line more easily. Overall it's not worth it, I think, especially for a quick thinker like Jayson. I think it is also bad for the back, long term.

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And people wonder why there are so many great players today.
Allison Fisher changed the game .

https://youtu.be/xvDjpO39B9I?t=120
Perfectly demonstrated there.

Straightpool_99 said:

Jayson Shaw uses CTE.

First of all, Jayson started out in UK pool games, like Blackball. For your information, the cueball is actually smaller in this game, and CTE is completely useless.

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This is a wrong statement. As long as the CB and OB are the same size, aiming is the same

BC21 said:

If ccb is the final target, then why are these great CTE players looking back and forth down the shot line? Lol

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First off because that is the best way to play pool, doesn't mean they aren't using CTE.
Second off they could be tweaking to perfect CCB using the objective reference lines.
Third, we could just sweep to CCB and focus entirely just on the CB and play pretty good like that. It's not preferable but we could.

Who said Shaw uses CTE, i can't find that post

cookie man said:

First off because that is the best way to play pool, doesn't mean they aren't using CTE.
Second off they could be tweaking to perfect CCB using the objective reference lines.
Third, we could just sweep to CCB and focus entirely just on the CB and play pretty good like that. It's not preferable but we could.

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Understandable. As I said, I believe good players that already have an excellent ability to recognize shot lines probably benefit from using CTE perceptions/visuals as part of their shot PSR. Then once they are down on the cb they inevitably use the shot recognition ability that they spent years developing.

BC21 said:

Understandable. As I said, I believe good players that already have an excellent ability to recognize shot lines probably use CTE perceptions/visuals as part of their shot PSR. Then once they are down on the cb they inevitably use the shot recognition ability that they spent years developing.

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Maybe, but i just roll with the visual CTE perceptions.

cookie man said:

Maybe, but i just roll with the visual CTE perceptions.

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... and then you pivot as much or little as needed to make the shot go, only you don't seem to understand that. Even Stan does it... on video. Just sayin'.

cookie man said:

Maybe, but i just roll with the visual CTE perceptions.

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And maybe, if these pro players hadn't spent thousands of hours developing the ability to just see the shots, and instead spent thousands of hours with Pro1 and the visuals, they'd just be rolling with the perceptions also.

But I find it hard to believe that years of experience, years of shot recognition programmed into the brain, can just take a back seat and lay dormant without participating in the aiming process. This goes for you, me, and anyone else that has a ton of experience shooting pool. Systems are great and useful, but especially for those who already have a good understanding of where the cb needs to be in order to pocket a ball.

Dan White said:

... and then you pivot as much or little as needed to make the shot go, only you don't seem to understand that. Even Stan does it... on video. Just sayin'.

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Why do you respond? You have proven time and again you have no clue about CTE.
Just start a thread about how you aim. That should be interesting.

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And maybe, if these pro players hadn't spent thousands of hours developing the ability to just see the shots, and instead spent thousands of hours with Pro1 and the visuals, they'd just be rolling with the perceptions also.

But I find it hard to believe that years of experience, years of shot recognition programmed into the brain, can just take a back seat and lay dormant without participating in the aiming process. This goes for you, me, and anyone else that has a ton of experience shooting pool. Systems are great and useful, but especially for those who already have a good understanding of where the cb needs to be in order to pocket a ball.

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You can find it hard to believe but i've been through the process. You must leave the old way behind to be successful with CTE.

BC21 said:

Systems are great and useful, but especially for those who already have a good understanding of where the cb needs to be in order to pocket a ball.

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Little confused here. Don't you argue that systems are for beginners

The only sweeping Shaw does is sweeping his opponents.
Gotta love the riding of Shaw's bandwagon after he won big last week.
Next, we're gonna hear Dennis or Shane using sweeps .

Low500 said:

Nobody has made the claim that Jayson Shaw uses CTE. That is a supposition made by those who "don't know that they don't know". (creating confusion and chaos)

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OK, so he doesn't use CTE but does use Pro1. Does that mean Stan didn't really invent anything since everybody good is already doing it?

As Stan Shuffett has said before, REAL CTE is a fooler in that one can actually think they're engaged in contact points, ghost ball, or even fractions. However, in reality their visual intelligence has overridden their conventional logic. Regardless of what they think, it is very easy to quietly migrate into an offset without even being aware of it.
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"Visual intelligence" is another term made up by Stan. Everybody else calls it playing by feel. Again, if everybody is already doing it, where's the innovation? All kidding aside, it would be nice for him to define his terminology in a way we can understand rather than simply coming up with these terms and leaving it for the viewer to figure out what is meant.