Your increased awareness of centerball has made you more aware of (and better at) exact tip placement for shots with and without spin?
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On shots that do not require side spin, I have pivoted to center and I pay more attention to where the center is, instead of "seeing" if my aim is correct. I trust that the pivot is going to bring me in line with the shot and bring the tip to the center of the cue ball. When I pivot, I look mostly at the cue ball, simply making sure I have the tip on the center of the cue ball.
On side spin shots, I either apply BHE (back hand English), don't pivot all the way to the center of the cue ball leaving enough spin to obtain the desired result or sometimes I simply use ProOne where I automatically set my hand and cue tip where I want to apply the English. I highly recommend people who decide to try CTE/Pro One to manually do the mechanical movements until they have a complete grasp of the system. This has worked well for me. It would have been far easier for me to move into the more fluid motion of ProOne but I may have missed something in the more mechanical motion of CTE/Pro One and I wanted to make absolutely certain that I was doing the steps correctly before going on to something far more fluid and "natural".
If I had gone quickly to the ProOne manner of playing you would never know that I was incorporating CTE/Pro One aiming. The movements in ProOne are subtle.
I think that the regular practice of using the mechanical movements helps me in many ways. I've heard from other users that they prefer the mechanical movements of CTE/ProOne (vs. fluid movements of Pro One) and I can understand their perspective.
I feel certain that I will move toward a more natural fluid motion of Pro One in the near future. I am actually concerned that I will lose the mechanical precision of CTE/ProOne by moving into Pro One entirely. Right now, I am happy to do the mechanical movements and occasionally fall into the more fluid movements every now and then.
Also, the mechanical movements give my mind something to occupy my time that kind of satisfies my impulses to do think about things outside of the game.
Look, I am still new at this and sometimes I don't know what I am thinking about or what I am doing at each specific stage of shooting unless I pay attention to that particular moment in time. For the most part, I can't even remember a shot in the last game, unless I missed it.
I am satisfied that CTE/Pro One is an ACCURATE method of aiming and shooting.
The things about CTE that I have seen in the past posted on web sites and internet forums is dissimilar from what I learned from Stan.
There is no subconscious adjustment that I make when using CTE/Pro One, EXCEPT the fine tuning that players like myself do when adjusting for throw, shape, etc.
I believe that Stan learned a LOT from Hal Houle but that he broke down CTE as taught by Hal Houle and discovered for himself the strengths and weaknesses of CTE and capitalized on the strengths and made adjustments for the shots that create problems for basic CTE/Pro One. The shots that require adjustments are few and far in between in my opinion.
The truth is that I kind of am holding back on going to Pro One. It's an individual thing I'm sure. Using Pro One is kind of like aiming ghostball, contact point to contact point or overlap aiming without really thinking about any of them. With all aiming systems, if you are making the ball and getting shape, you wind up at the same point but you already know that and most everyone else does too.
I believe that I could teach you CTE/Pro One quite easily. I know that you know certain things about CTE but you don't know CTE/Pro One at least from what I have read from your posts and neither does most of the other people who believe that CTE/ProOne is "silly" and the users are "delusional". Don't take this the wrong way, I'm not trying to get under any one's skin by referring to the problems of the past. I write the way I talk and the thoughts just flow. I don't write rough drafts for forums although I did once or twice and didn't like the way the word processor transribes the characters.
I genuinely believe that a lot of people will make a transition to Stan Shuffet's CTE/Pro One aiming system, especially if they take the time to learn it like I did and APPLY what you learned "religiously".
We'll just have to see if I am wrong or not. Advanced apologies to anyone who reads more into my posts than what I intended. These posts are simply MY experience and perspective.
I realize that my posts influence people and while I like Stan as a gentleman, family man and a teacher, if what he taught me didn't work well FOR ME, I wouldn't be posting it here on the forum.
I would have kept my mouth shut and just leave the talking to others who have discussed CTE in the past with both pros and cons if I hadn't learned what I learned from Stan.
I hope that others put for the effort to learn CTE/Pro One and that the video gets them over the hump but in my heart, I know that someone with my capabilities and understanding of aiming could learn CTE/Pro One quite easily. Applying and practicing what you learn is a different story.
I will go one step further and say that anyone can learn CTE/Pro One. I didn't learn it from a video. I learned it directly from Stan and I know I would have had some problems learning it from the video and may have gotten discouraged if I had just seen the video alone, because when you miss and you THINK you applied the correct principles, it takes someone who is experienced to go through the steps to "prove" that you took the correct steps. It's really not complicated like I may be making it out to be. When the video comes out there will be plenty of communication between users to iron out any wrinkles.
It's different but after you learn the vocabulary (which you already know) it's just a matter of learning the steps and implementing them and practicing it.
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