Cowboy Jimmy Moore's style (slip-stroke)
I watched a great match between Cowboy Jimmy Moore and Wimpy Luther Lassiter that was on Classic ESPN the other day. It was very obvious to me how Jimmy was making balls. He cues on the edge of the cue ball and then on the last stroke moves to the center of the ball. For those of you who dont know, he was using an aiming system called Center to Edge. I know that Efren, Bustamante and other top players use it, but Jimmy really makes it obvious. Jimmys high run is 236 and finished second in the world championships multiple times. He ran 100 balls a day after his 80th birthday! Unfortunately this great champion died a while ago. I've been using CTE for a few years now, and it allowed me to greatly improve my game. If anyone out there has seemed to plateau, look for that match, DVR it, watch Jimmy and go to the pool hall and practice. Its great that these past champions can still teach us after they have gone! Thanks for the lesson Jimmy!!
Shark75:
Some good observations, and yes, Cowboy Jimmy Moore definitely has an obvious pivot when he finally delivers the cue. His is a style worth studying if you're a CTE / pivot-based aiming student, precisely because his pivot is so glaringly obvious.
Another thing to study his style for, is that grand example of slip stroke -- Cowboy Jimmy Moore had the longest slip stroke of anyone I'd ever seen. We're talking slip-to-butt stroke. It's very pretty.
But one correction on your post, though. While Bustamante is a well-known pivot aimer (it's patently obvious), Efren is NOT. Efren is a dyed-in-the-wool "feel" player; probably a mixture of ghostball, cp-to-cp, fractional eclipsing, etc. I recall seeing a video interview a long time ago (it was translated / voiced-over in english from his native Tagalog, when the interviewer asks him how he aims and he answered with "feel"), and then I met him a couple years ago. I asked him, and he acknowledged that he just "sees" and "feels" the shot.
Just FYI,
-Sean