Cte finally explained?

The problem here is when you say cte finally explained when it was not explained at all. Just a short talk on using one point of aim on a system that uses more than 1 to arrive at THE solution for that specific OB position to CB position to pocket location. If you want to sling bead counters then sling bead counters... cte, excuse me, pro one cte, and aiming in general have nothing to do with your product. Hits is what you want imo, and cte is just the right Trojan horse to drop some cliff notes to get a player to click. in pro one you don't stand behind any line other than to just recognize where it's at in relation to the proper perception you choose in a visual manner, not a physical position.

Do you want 60% accuracy or 100%? The way you explain it will not work 100 percent of the time because you're only getting some of the steps, getting lucky essentially...

Now, that being said my gf checked out of the pro one dvd about 30 seconds into the free support video online... these videos this man posted got her at the table knocking balls around. Once she learned from me that what she saw was not all." that's the tip of the iceberg on what pro one can do to your game with an open mind baby." What did she do 15 minutes later? She asked me where my dvd was. Problem is not everyone is going to have that other dude telling them to look deeper and it gets better. Let's face it, cte pro one is the bible for pivot aiming, your video is the picture story bible you give to kids to understand the stories.

-HWC
 
halfwaycrook said:
The problem here is when you say cte finally explained when it was not explained at all. Just a short talk on using one point of aim on a system that uses more than 1 to arrive at THE solution for that specific OB position to CB position to pocket location. If you want to sling bead counters then sling bead counters... cte, excuse me, pro one cte, and aiming in general have nothing to do with your product. Hits is what you want imo, and cte is just the right Trojan horse to drop some cliff notes to get a player to click. in pro one you don't stand behind any line other than to just recognize where it's at in relation to the proper perception you choose in a visual manner, not a physical position.

Do you want 60% accuracy or 100%? The way you explain it will not work 100 percent of the time because you're only getting some of the steps, getting lucky essentially...

Now, that being said my gf checked out of the pro one dvd about 30 seconds into the free support video online... these videos this man posted got her at the table knocking balls around. Once she learned from me that what she saw was not all." that's the tip of the iceberg on what pro one can do to your game with an open mind baby." What did she do 15 minutes later? She asked me where my dvd was. Problem is not everyone is going to have that other dude telling them to look deeper and it gets better. Let's face it, cte pro one is the bible for pivot aiming, your video is the picture story bible you give to kids to understand the stories.

-HWC
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What ever..:p
 
I've spent months and countless hours trying to get CTE from Stan's videos, took a couple lessons from a "certified CTE" teacher. Zip, Nada. I watch Blitzfaces's video and in 17 minutes I get it and am making balls with ease. Why torch the guy, he explained the previously unexplainable :-). Stan takes his version from Hal, Blitzface takes his version from Stan and others. So what?
 
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lakeman77 said:
I've spent months and countless hours trying to get CTE from Stan's videos, took a couple lessons from a "certified CTE" teacher. Zip, Nada. I watch Blitzfaces's video and in 17 minutes I get it and am making balls with ease. Why touch the guy, he explained the previously unexplainable :-). Stan takes his version from Hal, Blitzface takes his version from Stan and others. So what?
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Mind posting a link to "Blitzface"? I can't find anything with google.

IMHO CTE has a lot. Almost too much. Sure you can parse out a few really good tips/tricks but I honestly think you would have to study it until you basically had a doctorate for the material to be able to fully use it. At that point it would be hard to tell if you were at lost cost fallacy and just wanted to believe so as to have not wasted years.

I bought his book. I watched his videos. I picked out about half a dozen things from the book that was good info worth the price. The rest... not so much, but it's verbose if you like that kind of thing. I picked out things that were useful and left the rest. The rest may have been useful and I was just too dumb to get it, but who knows.

Note: I'm not trying to knock it, it works for some but it's just not something I could do much good with. The few nuggets were nice though.
 
Blitzface said:
Dear John,
I have seen multiple video's on CTE on YouTube and learned from Stan, from you and many others. I am addressing my take on CTE and but my aiming style works for me and I have had many viewers who felt they didn't understand CTE and do now. My intention is not to take anything away from Stan and often mentioned him and have let viewer's who are thinking of pursuing CTE ....... should check his website. Appreciate your input and will follow you up on YouTube as always.
Regards,
Howard
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Howard Berger - AZ handle Blitzface. His videos are on YouTube under Howard Berger. They are short, well thought out, easy to follow. Watch the more recent ones from the last couple months. Good Luck and have fun with it.
 
boogieman said:
Mind posting a link to "Blitzface"? I can't find anything with google.

IMHO CTE has a lot. Almost too much. Sure you can parse out a few really good tips/tricks but I honestly think you would have to study it until you basically had a doctorate for the material to be able to fully use it. At that point it would be hard to tell if you were at lost cost fallacy and just wanted to believe so as to have not wasted years.

I bought his book. I watched his videos. I picked out about half a dozen things from the book that was good info worth the price. The rest... not so much, but it's verbose if you like that kind of thing. I picked out things that were useful and left the rest. The rest may have been useful and I was just too dumb to get it, but who knows.

Note: I'm not trying to knock it, it works for some but it's just not something I could do much good with. The few nuggets were nice though.
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Howard Berger CTE video on YouTube

 
This picture sums up my vision of "normal" aiming systems vs "string theory" (CTE) aiming.
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I lost count....how many new string theory books have been published? Genius though to latch on to something that needs endless revisions to sell suckers new books......but to come out and say you invented it and are the only authorized snake oil salesman....that is laughable and probably has HH turning over in his grave as all if his sharing of (many) different methods of aiming were never "sold" to anyone. They were shared with anyone that would listen.....and were never once (through my personal conversations with him) told to be the holy grail of aiming......His words to me were.....if the method works...use it...if a different method works use that one....everyone sees different and will grasp a method that fits them.

Sure....string theory can be applied as a tool in specific shot situations....but not even close to the holy grail of aiming.

My link to the Ultimate Aiming System below sums up what I think of most of the elaborate aiming systems:p
 
Paul_#_ said:
Can you point us in the direction of them there nuggets of gold?
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I personally do not like using "pivot" methods any more than I have to....but here is an example of a specialty type shot that comes up and a "method" of CTE...(but not "Stan's" CTE) that can be applied......

I use this on really thin rail cut shots... say you are cutting the OB into the left corner pocket that is very near the end rail and is a super thin cut.

If you line up the (left) point on the cb where it first touches the cloth to the right point of the OB where it first touches the cloth....(these are two specific points that are easy to line up in a straight line.....place your cue on a straight line point to point and then (keeping your bridge hand solid) pivot to center CB you have "effectively" lined up edge to edge and will slice in the ball and people will think you are some kind of eagle eye....

The reality is that I am far from an eagle eye but am easily able to see and line up those two points...the pivot to center effectively removes the extra thickness of the cut and as long as I can stroke through center CB the shot cuts in....

Now mathematically I can't tell you this process is exactly correct edge to edge...so it may depend on your visual interpretation of where the ball touches the cloth and how much pivot to center......but the process is repetitive and once you have it down it becomes automatic.

Does not mean you are going to make every super thin shot you see because the thinner the shot is the more precise the hit needs to be to pocket the ball and my stroke is.....ahem.......not always straight......but I make more with this method than any other method (for this specific shot) so this is the "nugget" I use to make them.

A similar shot that really gets the OMG! who the "F" is this guy is when the ball is "frozen" to the end rail.....line up the same points (but don't pivot) just keeping the cue straight up from where the CB touches the cloth lined up straight to where the OB touches the cloth apply a touch of low (left)...speed is important but the resulting deflection/swerve barely rail first spin will send the OB down the rail in the pocket.....You will get asked to show how you made it.
 
Patrick Johnson said:
What does “where it first touches the cloth” mean? What are “right point” and “left point”?

pj
chgo
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Here is a diagram of what I using as reference when looking at "bottom of ball" I use those points as a vertical axis in aiming. The bottom of the ball gives me a repetitive (easy to see) reference for aiming. L=Left C=Center R=Right

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For this shot I used a visual of L point of CB to R point of OB.....keeping the cue straight on that vertical axis come up and apply a little low....the cue ball can be from almost straight on to off angle (I am not sure how many degrees and it still works)


I am not sure if there is any "math" behind this shot...but the method works and makes a preceptionally hard shot pretty simple
 
BRKNRUN said:
Here is a diagram of what I using as reference when looking at "bottom of ball" I use those points as a vertical axis in aiming. The bottom of the ball gives me a repetitive (easy to see) reference for aiming. L=Left C=Center R=Right

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For this shot I used a visual of L point of CB to R point of OB.....keeping the cue straight on that vertical axis come up and apply a little low....the cue ball can be from almost straight on to off angle (I am not sure how many degrees and it still works)


I am not sure if there is any "math" behind this shot...but the method works and makes a preceptionally hard shot pretty simple
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The "L" and "R" points change with different head heights.

pj
chgo
 
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