In the immortal words of Gary Coleman, "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?". Stan says it at 4:20 in this video. He says "2x1" maybe 20 times in this one video so it seems kind of important. I think he says "2x1" in probably every video he has ever made. Second place would have to be "over cut alignment."
I'm sure Stan has been taught a personal eye pattern. It's one of the things PBIA instructors teach. I look at the OB last because i believe that's how pool is supposed to be played. I have several practice routines with CTE that i don't look at the OB last. Another dead end for you.
So Stan can still see rails and then the experience of the different CTE visuals takes over. In your efforts to discredit CTE your mind just keeps wondering with no credible, proof backed thoughts.
How confusing is it. 3 of us have told you yes, you can use CTE to make balls in a pocket on a chopped off table. But CTE is not about that. CTE is about 6 known perceptions, 15-30-45, with an inside and outside sweep that lead to ALL SIX POCKETS. Breaking it down like you want to is not CTE in it's entirety.
And 15+30+45=90, therefore CTE works on a 2:1 table.
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I'm really sorry PJ that you've wasted over 20 years thinking CTE is a fractional system.
And? Since we don't play on tables with any other ratio this point is moot.
If you are trying to pocket a ball directly into a hole on an infinite plane and the pocket and both balls are in your view then there is a cte solution that can be used to find the shot line.
Possibly because the bridge is squishy and he wants to be set before shooting. I have missed easy shots despite being dead perfect on the shot line because I couldn't focus on the hit.
So if it's a fractional system as you claim it should be really easy for you to make balls with it. But you personally can't make balls with it by your own admission. Curious though, can you make balls on a cut off table ?
Now you're just making stuff up...
I get it PJ. Makes much more sense to spend 20plus years and 1000"s of posts against CTE instead of trying to learn it.
What's to learn? I've never tried a shot with CTE (likely never will), and as far as I can tell I understand it better than any of the CTE experts here. That's not bragging - it isn't much of a feat.
So Stan reinvents how to look at pool balls with CTE yet he still looks at the ob last because that is how he learned? Not a convincing explanation.
Again, not convincing in bold considering everything about CTE is different from traditional aiming, or that's what you guys keep saying. More importantly, what I'm getting at is why mohrt gets a different result than I do. One of those differences is that he is looking at ob last (best I can tell from his video but not actually sure) while I am looking at cb last. If you weren't so defensive all the time we would be able to consider whether that is important in explaining the difference.
I haven't discredited anything. In case you hadn't noticed I am using the occasion of monty's thread to ask detailed questions about CTE so that I am sure we are on the same page. mohrt seems interested to figure out the "why's" to the point that he is getting two lasers. Much of what is said about CTE is vague, like the 2x1 table thing, and I am trying to understand what is a real requirement in order for CTE to "work" and what is fluff. Your explanation above looks more like fluff or a guess. You are saying that if you can only see the rail under where you are shooting that gives you enough information for success?
What do you mean "and?" You claimed that nobody has ever said that 2x1 is a requirement for CTE to work and I showed you a clip where Stan says it won't work unless the table is 2x1. The point is not moot. Again, the 2x1 requirement is like the first commandment of CTE. If you want to understand how CTE works then knowing why a 2x1 table matters is important.
But do you really need to see where that corner is? cookie said you only have to see the rail underneath where you are shooting to make it work. At least that's what I think he said. I asked him again. This comes from Stan's video where everything is curtained off except the rail underneath him.
Maybe you could ask him if he looks at the ob last because he has a squishy bridge?