Some people just can't tell the difference between an expert on ALL aiming sytems, and a salesman who is simply trying to SELL his method of aiming on DVD. Dave is not selling anything here!
So Dave Alciatore is an expert on all systems? And he is not selling anything here?
I think you missed the fact that Dave Alciatore has three major products that he sells. If you don't think that the majority of his efforts and contributions here are in service of selling people on his "expertise" by linking the information he has amassed in order to generate more sales of his books and dvds then you are fairly naive.
How can you be so two-faced? Just a few posts ago you apologized to Stan for slamming his product and calling it a waste of money and yet here you are again slamming him.
Stan has trained champions. Who have you trained? Who has Alciatore trained? Stan recent placed very high in the US Open. What is Alciatore's best results as a competitor? What is yours? Since you feel that you can tell who is an expert and who isn't you should be able to answer that.
David Alciatore has collected a great deal of pool information. He has produced a number of great videos that show clearly the physical reactions when the cue ball is struck and when balls collide and rebound off rails. These are amazing videos and a true boon to the world of pool and billiards. He knows quite a lot about the things he has filmed.
Together with Tom Ross and others Dave has brought us some fantastic material on how to play.
But on the subject of aiming systems he is very weak in his personal knowledge. This is due in my opinion to an incomplete study which is tainted by personal bias. That bias is also in my opinion due to distaste for some exuberant claims made by some who have excitedly shared their aiming system experiences. This led Dave to make a hateful and exaggerated mockery of those people. And he continues to mock them to this day even while claiming to be unbiased.
The man makes several claims on his Aiming System page that are flat out wrong and refuses to engage anyone who disagrees with him. He takes many statements out of context and muddles them together in such a way that a novice reader looking for information on aiming systems is going to be very confused. He then leads to the reader to his DAM paragragh which is a hateful mockery of those who advocate aiming systems. This mockery suggests to the reader that while aiming systems "might" have "some" benefits the student is better off to simply have "quiet eyes" and buy the materials Dave SELLS in order to improve as a player.
To my mind the intent is to make aiming systems a confusing mess rather than to objectively and without bias bring clarity to the subject. Thus the user with his brain sufficiently confused after reading Dave's aiming system page would naturally seek something "easier" to read and deal with.
And that is what?
Well perhaps these dear reader:
The Illustrated Principles of Pool and Billiards,
the DVD series: The Video Encyclopedia of Pool Shots (VEPS),
the DVD series: The Video Encyclopedia of Pool Practice (VEPP)
Which are helpfully linked to at the very top of the page here:
http://billiards.colostate.edu/threads/aiming.html#CTE_evaluation
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Collecting information does not make one an expert. Experience and study along with research and development makes one an expert.
Just because you have a library does not make you an expert on any of the subjects written about in the books you own. It doesn't even make you knowledgeable about those subjects if you didn't actually read the books or retain the information you read if you read them.
An expert is someone who knows the subject through and through. And when it comes to aiming systems Dr. Dave does not yet know them through and through.
If he did then there would already be a book and dvd on the market by him with a title something like this:
VEAS - Video Encyclopedia of Aiming Systems by David Alciatore, PhD.
