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.
What would you have to criticize anyway? You can't possibly know whether anyone testifying that they are experiencing more success with a method is actually having more success so all you could ever do is n negatively address their testimonial in what would amount to calling them either delusional or deliberately deceptive.
That's why this thread isn't the forum for airing the same "criticism" that has been leveled thousands of times in hundreds of other threads. Every bit of that criticism has been answered in detail thousands of times.
At this point it should be more than clear that CTE works well for many people. The entire point of any aiming method is to help players improve their ability to aim and subsequently to help improve their shotmaking.
That's it. So any knock that you have is really because you don't want to see any positive testimonials for a system that you personally have a grudge against due to how you have been interacted with by those who teach and use CTE. It's not because you are against aiming systems in general as any "criticisms" of other methods which you might hold have never been published with anything close to the criticisms of CTE that make up the bulk of your conversation on aiming methods. The same goes for the other prolific CTE critics.
So in this thread the only thing you can offer is more criticism but you miss the point that it is about those who have chosen to learn CTE and are having a satisfactory experience by having improved their ball pocketing skills along. That improvement has led to more significant wins for them. Winning more has made them happier when they play pool.
And it is my opinion that happier players play more and spend when they play so that is good for the health of the industry.
Nothing bad ever happens to any person who learns CTE aiming. Hell even with me losing a couple high stakes matches that came about as a result of CTE arguments wasn't a bad thing for me. It would have been much better if I had won but without CTE I would have never had the confidence to try. That much I know for sure.
I don't think I would be as good as I am without CTE or some other equally objective method of aiming. Aiming methods aren't what holds me back for sure. They are what has kept me interested in playing pool for sure.
Pool is a hobby for 99% of people who play it. Selfishly I sell equipment to those who take that hobby seriously. So for me anything that helps people to enjoy playing and gets them to the table increases my opportunity to sell them a cue case. Selling more cue cases allows me to spend more supporting the sport. It's a virtuous circle.
Does that mean I am promoting snake oil to sell cases? Not at all. I am promoting a method that I genuinely feel is very helpful to greatly increase any player's aiming precision. It's just a bonus that learning to aim precisely and gaining the ability to make difficult shots much more consistently has the effect of inspiring more play.
Imagine that, the better people get at something then more they want to do it. Who can claim to want to see our sport succeed that would want to knock that?
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