BRIDGE LENGTH Effects and Considerations

Great decision. I've done likewise but taken it one step further with no forums. Just a group of my friends all bitching about the same things in unison and no discord.

Thank you. I appreciate the thought and comment.

LOL! Stay here as long as I have and eventually it might catch up to you, but more than likely not. I have a strong loyalty to my closest friends who are excellent instructors, players, and creators of a method to pocket pool balls with extremely high accuracy called CTE. The three letters by itself makes blood pressure rise and brains ready to explode for those who fall for the
negative crap about it.

From day 1 it was attacked and maligned back in the mid to late 90's by someone who still remains on pool forums today doing exactly the same thing with a group of followers. Why? Does it even make the slightest bit of sense?

What I do in my "real life" is think way outside the box to create, invent ways to make life more normal and easier for those
less fortunate and don't have the physical ability to do what we find natural and take for granted.

When I was first exposed to CTE by Hal Houle, this "outside the box" way of aligning two balls to make one go straight into a pocket over and over was right up my alley. No math, no geometry, no trig, no contact points, no imagination, no guesswork...just straight forward simple visuals between two balls and a pocket using the center and edge of the CB. Seriously, how complicated is that?

So, you tell me? You're making pool cues. Let's say you discovered a way or method of doing something in the construction
process of the butt or shaft that's quite unique and KNOW it to be beneficial to the feel or playability of the cue. You share your secret with some others, and they start telling you that it can't be done, shouldn't be done, you're a friggin' fu***** idiot...
how might you react?
(thanks for giving me the opportunity to vent and tell it like it is) Maybe someone will jump on it to start another flame war or ban.

I had several conversations with Hal. Funny thing, somebody had really annoyed him on here and for once he had lockjaw about CTE. Hal had traveled with Greenleaf, knew pretty much anybody that was anybody in the pool world from Greenleaf on, and had something bad to say about all of them! Not in a mean vicious way, more like over the fence gossip.

Hal could tell stories in a way that put you there. We talked almost three hours first time I called and over two hours a couple more times. The pool world lost a lot when it lost Hal and I'm not just talking about aiming systems. Hal must have known a dozen or more aiming systems and more pool history, from his own perspective, than most left around.

Hu
 
This is quite common in cue building. I have experimented with a lot of different stuff because I can afford to and like to. Some of the ideas are total bust and others IMO are better than "the way it's done". There is a group here on this forum of good ol' boys many of which have moved on who don't like new things and have no bones letting you know how stupid you are. Threading is the CTE of cue building.
I didn't know that went on. No place is safe.
 
I had several conversations with Hal. Funny thing, somebody had really annoyed him on here and for once he had lockjaw about CTE. Hal had traveled with Greenleaf, knew pretty much anybody that was anybody in the pool world from Greenleaf on, and had something bad to say about all of them! Not in a mean vicious way, more like over the fence gossip.

Hal could tell stories in a way that put you there. We talked almost three hours first time I called and over two hours a couple more times. The pool world lost a lot when it lost Hal and I'm not just talking about aiming systems. Hal must have known a dozen or more aiming systems and more pool history, from his own perspective, than most left around.

Hu
After what you just posted, I damn well know you spent a good bit of time with Hal on the phone because that's exactly the way it was with him if he liked someone. Hal would give the shirt off of his back and talk about pool and stories for hours as well as tell you exactly what to see and do at the table if you had one while talking. He taught some of the systems very well that way from the feedback he got while shooting and talking. And yes, he did know and teach over a dozen aiming systems.
I love hearing posts like this about Hal. A special man.
 
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