CTE Stepping Cue Ball.

swest

goldmember
Silver Member
It's basic geometry. Think about it for another couple decades.

pj
chgo
I haven't been on the forums in a Loooong time. Glad to see that CTE still supplies fodder for discussion, and that you still provide measured doses of reality for those who will listen.
How's Stan doing? Book published? Documentary produced? Just curious.
Cheers!
- s.west

edit: Dang! I saw these recent posts (from April 2024) and just read your posting date as 2024, and not 2022... So, you (Patrick Johnson) may not still be around...
 
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JoeyInCali

Maker of Joey Bautista Cues
Silver Member
I haven't been on the forums in a Loooong time. Glad to see that CTE still supplies fodder for discussion, and that you still provide measured doses of reality for those who will listen.
How's Stan doing? Book published? Documentary produced? Just curious.
Cheers!
- s.west

edit: Dang! I saw these recent posts (from April 2024) and just read your posting date as 2024, and not 2022... So, you (Patrick Johnson) may still be around...
You can go to YT for the latest service packs..
You have to pivot your nose now .
 

Dan White

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
I haven't been on the forums in a Loooong time. Glad to see that CTE still supplies fodder for discussion, and that you still provide measured doses of reality for those who will listen.
How's Stan doing? Book published? Documentary produced? Just curious.
Cheers!
- s.west

edit: Dang! I saw these recent posts (from April 2024) and just read your posting date as 2024, and not 2022... So, you (Patrick Johnson) may still be around...
Two of the most vocal CTE proponents have been banned from the aiming forum so there's much less to see here now.
 

Jds.3211

Jds.3211
I'm still confused on the exact steps of stepping the cueball. I read morhts article but I would like further clarification.

A lot of my terminology might be a little outdated but once you lock in your visuals, what is the precise order of stepping the cueball?

Step 1. Lock in perception.
Step 2. Focus on Center Cueball?

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to:

Look at CB edge and then shift my attention back to new CCB and land

OR

Do I keep my eyes fixed on Edge of CB while landing into CCB.

OR

Do I physically move my body left or right to align myself straight on with the CB Edge, then move into CCB?

Am I picking up the new CCB with my vision focus, or does it appear in my peripherals as I focus on the CB Edge?
Gear the parallax line, then either shoot straight or rotate slightly to see the line straight from a 2nd perspective
 

Submerge

Member
In parallax, using both eyes look at the appropriate CB edge (there are 2, ya know....). 90 degrees from this edge is the location of the CB center to pocket the ball. It's really hard to just jump in at this point. There's a lot of background info to study. This just clarifies what "stepping" is.
 

snookered_again

Well-known member
90 degrees from center on a straight shot, but if you cut the ball into a pocket, then there is throw to compensate for either in aim or by using spin or gearing to try send the object ball to the pocket without spin.

that's where I think things get a lot more complicated. how hard you shoot affects the amount of throw and that's very complicated from a standpoint of computing by way math and vector diagrams.

in reality the player is often also using spin and speed variations to place his cue ball so the spin is being varied as well as the speed, so then the throw is not so simple.

throw top and bottom spin into the equation as well as sidespin and you have some very complex math indeed..

I think that's where these aiming conventions loose practicality and practice and experience need to come into play. the understanding of the basic physics is a part of it.

You don't have to know how a car works to drive one but if you wanted to become a racer, then understanding how a car works is helpful.
 
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