Seriously. I've taken to facing the cue ball and ball track squarely. It's far more reliable than looking at everything obliquely simply to accommodate your good eye. Or worse one eye has to keep an eye on the edge line while the other has to make sure the center line doesn't go anywhere. The shot doesn't care what you think you see. There are posture and stroke considerations too that need to be addressed when you change your default head alignment. These are just a couple of non negotiable items were I to consider delving into CTE.
What specifically are you having trouble with?
The center and the edge refers to the line extending through center of the CB and through the edge of the OB. On many common shots this is the sight line (SL) for the shot. Not all shots include this specific line, but that is what the name of the system is based on.
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oh I explained the right cuts but said left! I'll fix my post. good catch.
it is fixed. I should have just flipped the word "left" to "right", as that is the information I entered in the first place.
I did see a video awhile back where there were about 57000 lines drawn all over the table. This was some guy trying to explain CTE. I guess I'm just destined to remain in the dark. All the videos, especially Stan's, are very confusing and do a very poor job of explaining things.
Depends what the 100 means to you. Best I can figure, this guy Houle started wondering why he was so good at shot making and devised CTE to explain it. Basically they say you can derive anything on the table with a few simple references. Red Flag as far as I'm concerned. I don't think a super computer could backwards engineer anything on the table with those references. OTOH, if you are accomplished at pool, any geometric constant can be a good reference. They won't all be necessary or necessarily productive but they can help to anchor your eyeball imaging. The line from the center of the cue ball to either edge of the object ball for instance will always be there and can be at the very least, used to orient those two balls and even your required location. You still need a clear idea of what you are shooting and frankly I don't think CTE will aid in that type of discovery.
Center-to-edge is probably the most common "orientation" alignment. It's the most easily seen and arguably the most useful, being right in the middle of the range of cut angles. Aiming systems use it, and, as you say, it's also useful simply as a consistent starting alignment.
Come to think of it, going edge to edge twice you have an X that marks the mid point. Just the thing for that mid point roll contact finder.
PJ, I don't know if you follow CTE or anything, but honestly if I just see/feel where to hit the ball and it goes in, is there anything to gain from this? I mean, I don't need to know that water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen atoms to enjoy a cool drink on a hot summer day.
By "this", do you mean CTE the aiming system or using center-to-edge as a starting alignment for any kind of aiming? I don't use either one, but I can see the value of center-to-edge as a consistent starting alignment.
That's a common misunderstanding of ghostball - it should be visualized wherever it needs to be to account for spin/throw/etc.
True. To make the problem/distinction clearer in discussions, I think it is good to refer to "uncorrected ghostball" and "corrected ghostball". The uncorrected version is the ghostball without throw correction and is the easiest to teach to raw beginners. The corrected version takes into account the throw and adjusts the ghost ball position as needed. The former is no good for shots over a couple of feet long and the latter is perfect if you know exactly how much throw will occur. Of course there is still the issue of landing the cue ball on the corrected ghostball.