If Geno is also teaching CTE, you will have to ask him about it. I do not know.
CTE Testimonials
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I suggest you contact Bob directly for prices. I do not know.
Is the eye position that Gene put you on to the same one that Stan does?
You will have to ask Geno about that.
Bob is a very respectable instructor if you would do any research which makes this post of yours nothing more then you acting like an ass hole But what else is new in Az land
Well that's interesting... I thought Gene was teaching his own "Perfect Aim" system. He touched on it when I had a skype call with him some time last year. Maybe he rebranded CTE for his own use..?
Gene's methods for finding and correcting dominate eye issues is on point. He identified my own problem and taught me how to correct it. I don't follow his advice though. The necessary slight head tilt took me out of my comfortable mechanics, and didn't provide any tangible gains. It is nice to know why when I'm cutting to the left it seems to be done more by feel then HAMB.
Gene is perfect aim only. Nothing to do with CTE. I might add Gene is a great guy. I’ve met him personally on two occasions. He also shoots a mean game of pool. Also someone just stole his cues. I think they have a line on who it was though
Yes, I should have added my exposure to Gene via Skype was extremely positive. Great guy, very forth coming and a pleasure to speak with.
I didn't catch the comments about his equipment disappearing. I hope for a speedy recovery
There are those who have learned from geno and Stan and endorse both. The two schools of thought about the importance of the eyes leading and the body following are not incompatible at all.
Sight-Right is a method taught in England of finding one's dominant eye and there is a whole program built around it with top pros on board.
Nailed it... Well at least nailed how my game works without compensating for a dominate eye.
You shouldn't even need to get remotely close to HAMB to compensate for dominate eye imo. Bad mechanics will haunt you for life
Yes, bad mechanics are insidious! They have you thinking that everything is just great when in reality it is not.
Well, I guess you would need to do the research to find out the answer to that. I don't know what a noser is, never heard that term before. On a straight in shot like on almost all shots there is a set of lines that can be adopted to make the object ball with a center ball hit. In order to find out which methods consistently result in the pool cue center line being on which of the lines inside the margin or error I would think one would need to design an experiment of some complexity to gather accurate data.
OR, one can do as Bruce Lee directed, try everything and keep what works.
Academically, the testing would be pretty cool if it resulted in a lot of data and hopefully some new insights. When the Jacksonville Experiment was done and Bob Jewett (or someone) revealed that all miscues are fouls which are too fast for the human eye to catch I was impressed. I like that sort of stuff.
From a practical standpoint is it more important to know how an engine works before driving a car or is is more important to be able to drive the car properly? If one needs milk for the kids and Bill says take my car should I study the engine schematics or should I go ahead and use the car and learn the particular placement of the relevant buttons and switches?
If Gene teaches something that results in the student being lined up correctly on the shot line as consistently and comfortably as the student wishes to be then exactly where the eyes are in space time relative to the pool cue and the cue ball is not in way material to where that same student's eyes are if said student uses CTE and gets lined up comfortably and consistently on the shot line as satisfactorily as they are happy with.
The wonderful thing about aiming systems and people who really focus on the dominant eye is that aiming is given much more attention. As a student of aiming systems in a semi-scholarly way for the past 20 years and a sort of a collector of old instruction books I can say that aiming was barely covered in most of the older books I have read. And that led to my belief that aiming was a byproduct of trial and error practice hitting shots. I, like many players still think, thought that ghost ball was a beginner's guide to aiming but was just intended to give a mental imagination trick to aid in aiming until one developed muscle memory and feel. I never thought that aiming could be much more focused and precise and objective. Hal Houle taught me that I wrong. Stan Shuffet and several others took it upon themselves to go deeper with Hal and from those interactions have come several aiming methods based in whole or in part on Hal's systems. And we have others, poolology, split the difference, 90/90, the SEE System, as well as a bunch of hybrids people have sort of made up that are based in some way on some of the previously mentioned systems. Lots of choices for those interested in focusing on the aiming part of the shot process. I know good players who learned from Stan and Gene and they use the lessons from both, I imagine that they can better explain to you how each of those instructors helped them specifically but I would guess it boils down to keep what works.
CTE Testimonials just keep coming in....
"It took me a few hours to understand what was meant by the inside and outside sweeps. I watched Bob Nunley do those and then it "clicked" for me.
After watching the Filipino pros over and over, it's very obvious that many bring the cue in from the side instead of down from the center of the nose like most Americans and Brits. The Bustamante method in the book "Center Pocket Music" proves it.
This CTE system of lining up shots has really helped my game. I will be forever grateful for the discovery."
Bob Roselli - testimonial
"It took me a few hours to understand what was meant by the inside and outside sweeps. I watched Bob Nunley do those and then it "clicked" for me.
After watching the Filipino pros over and over, it's very obvious that many bring the cue in from the side instead of down from the center of the nose like most Americans and Brits. The Bustamante method in the book "Center Pocket Music" proves it.
This CTE system of lining up shots has really helped my game. I will be forever grateful for the discovery."
Bob Roselli - testimonial
CTE Testimonials just keep being posted
(this one is directly from me, Low500, in reply to the testimonial from W.T. Halliday)
"I also discovered that I could really enjoy using the 15 inside and the 30 outside interchangeably.
It really helped me on some of those long, long, shots. I heartily recommend it to every player.
The book Center Pocket Music really got me going in the right direction too like it did for you!"
Sincerely,
Pete Lowenstein (testimonial)
(this one is directly from me, Low500, in reply to the testimonial from W.T. Halliday)
"I also discovered that I could really enjoy using the 15 inside and the 30 outside interchangeably.
It really helped me on some of those long, long, shots. I heartily recommend it to every player.
The book Center Pocket Music really got me going in the right direction too like it did for you!"
Sincerely,
Pete Lowenstein (testimonial)
CTE Testimonials just keep being posted
"CTE Aiming has helped me rise from a medium level league player into a Class A tournament "in the money" finisher at my home pool room here in Alabama. Others are starting to catch on to it also (now I have to compete with them too..LOL). In addition to having a solid accurate way to aim the shots, CTE will automatically correct any stroke issues because the system can be unworkable if the cue ball isn't hit properly. I love CTE aiming. The free videos are great."
Jimmy Amsterdam - testimonial
"CTE Aiming has helped me rise from a medium level league player into a Class A tournament "in the money" finisher at my home pool room here in Alabama. Others are starting to catch on to it also (now I have to compete with them too..LOL). In addition to having a solid accurate way to aim the shots, CTE will automatically correct any stroke issues because the system can be unworkable if the cue ball isn't hit properly. I love CTE aiming. The free videos are great."
Jimmy Amsterdam - testimonial
It will only get better.CTE Testimonials just keep being posted
"CTE Aiming has helped me rise from a medium level league player into a Class A tournament "in the money" finisher at my home pool room here in Alabama. Others are starting to catch on to it also (now I have to compete with them too..LOL). In addition to having a solid accurate way to aim the shots, CTE will automatically correct any stroke issues because the system can be unworkable if the cue ball isn't hit properly. I love CTE aiming. The free videos are great."
Jimmy Amsterdam - testimonial
I'm assuming, as witnessed by your successes, you're in touch with the 'No Imagination Shot Line'. The more your eyes become programmed into the CTE way of aiming and the understanding of the collision of spheres on a 2x1 surface, the simpler it becomes too. CTE is very easy and not complicated whatsoever once the facts are solidified in your mind.
If you do not own the encyclopedia of professional pool shooting ("Center Pocket Music"), I strongly suggest it for you. It is an in depth study in printed form that you will never regret owning. Be aware that simpletons will find it "confusing".....simply ignore all that, keep it to yourself, and go your own way. The results are what matter over the long run.
Congratulations to you for rising above your circumstances.
Kindest Regards,
Peter Lowenstein - a CTE student
(Low 500)
I should not have to come into this thread every couple of days to delete posts that are not testimonials.
If you want to post about saving the billiard community by spending every last breath in your lungs bashing an aiming system, do it in a different thread. If you want to take a short vacation from the forums, keep posting things that aren't testimonials in this thread.
If you want to post about saving the billiard community by spending every last breath in your lungs bashing an aiming system, do it in a different thread. If you want to take a short vacation from the forums, keep posting things that aren't testimonials in this thread.
I think CTE discussion is more interesting that what color chalk do you use or which cue maker screwed somebody over this week, lol. I realized that this testimonials thread is like a pressure relief valve for CTE. If keeping this thread clean means there won't be censorship of legitimate points of view in other threads then I'm all for it! This will be my last post in this thread. Delete if you wish, please.
CTE Testimonials just keep being posted
As a "relentless work in progress" CTE Student, it pleases me to see the official Certified Instructors being proficient in all the modes within the system. Therefore they can teach and preach on everything and I can KNOW they're dead on the money. (half baked instructors not so much though).
Certified instructors teach us that Basic CTE is easily recognized by the manual pivoting with an emphasis on seeing the perfect sight line perception while in full stance before stepping the cue ball into the NISL (No Imagination Shot Line). When you spot a stranger opponent doing that, it's time to beware....this is an opponent who knows what he/she is doing.
That means it's time for us to "tighten up our scene". This opponent can be dangerous.
More testimonials to follow concerning CTE Pro One, Disguised Pivoting, and the elusive Bustamante Style half-ball pivoting.
Pete Lowenstein - testimonial
As a "relentless work in progress" CTE Student, it pleases me to see the official Certified Instructors being proficient in all the modes within the system. Therefore they can teach and preach on everything and I can KNOW they're dead on the money. (half baked instructors not so much though).
Certified instructors teach us that Basic CTE is easily recognized by the manual pivoting with an emphasis on seeing the perfect sight line perception while in full stance before stepping the cue ball into the NISL (No Imagination Shot Line). When you spot a stranger opponent doing that, it's time to beware....this is an opponent who knows what he/she is doing.
That means it's time for us to "tighten up our scene". This opponent can be dangerous.
More testimonials to follow concerning CTE Pro One, Disguised Pivoting, and the elusive Bustamante Style half-ball pivoting.
Pete Lowenstein - testimonial
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CTE Testimonials just keep being posted
My husband got that book Center Pocket Music about CET aiming and it has really helped his game. I play in a league at the same pool room and I'd like to learn it too.
I've studied some of that book, but I cannot make heads or tails out of it. That stuff is difficult and is way over my head. I KNOW it works because he is really better after using it for a while.
I am very frustrated with it and he doesn't have much patience with me and can't explain it. I really like the book and the concept, I just don't understand.
What do you suggest?? I've heard people arguing about it.
Susan Amsterdam - Alabama
My husband got that book Center Pocket Music about CET aiming and it has really helped his game. I play in a league at the same pool room and I'd like to learn it too.
I've studied some of that book, but I cannot make heads or tails out of it. That stuff is difficult and is way over my head. I KNOW it works because he is really better after using it for a while.
I am very frustrated with it and he doesn't have much patience with me and can't explain it. I really like the book and the concept, I just don't understand.
What do you suggest?? I've heard people arguing about it.
Susan Amsterdam - Alabama
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