CTE Trivia

I think he is talking about a shot like this one where ya try to make the green stripe ball in the corner.
 
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I think he is talking about a shot like this one where ya try to make the green stripe ball in the corner.

Hal once said that there are 2 shots that don't require a pivot. The straight in shot on the green stripe ball and CTE - 30 degree.
 
Randy,

Have you now moved Same Aim to two aim lines like Pro One or are you still just using one aim line before the pivot and basing the pivot direction on less than a 30 degree cut or more than a 30 degree cut?



I'm not totally familiar with Pro-One. But it is CTE just like SAME AIM.

In the beginning of Class I teach the 30 degree Swings BUT in the end there is only ONE SWING for all shots.

Have you taken a class with us??

randyg
 
I'm not totally familiar with Pro-One. But it is CTE just like SAME AIM.

In the beginning of Class I teach the 30 degree Swings BUT in the end there is only ONE SWING for all shots.

Have you taken a class with us??

randyg

Randy,

I have told you before that I am Frank Reid, a BCA and one of your SPF instructors. We met last fall in Charlotte and you showed us Same Aim and gave us several pages of instructions about Same Aim. At that point in time you were using one aim line, center cue ball to edge of object ball (CTE). Finally there was a Left Swing/Pivot or a Right Swing/Pivot based on SAM 1, 2, 3 versus SAM 4, 5, 6 cut as you moved to the center cue ball position. It sounds as if Same Aim has evolved since then as there is now only one swing. That's a good thing.

Pro One has two aim lines, center of cue ball to edge of object ball. Then it has a second aim line, edge of cue ball to one of only 3 possible points on the object ball, a major difference in the two CTE systems. Also, in Pro One the pivot is always the same. It is a half tip pivot to the center of the cue ball.

Now if your next evolutionary move for Same Aim is a second aim line from the edge of the cue ball to anywhere on the object ball, trust me on this, you are morphing Same Aim into exactly what Pro One is right now.
 
Randy,

I have told you before that I am Frank Reid, a BCA and one of your SPF instructors. We met last fall in Charlotte and you showed us Same Aim and gave us several pages of instructions about Same Aim. At that point in time you were using one aim line, center cue ball to edge of object ball (CTE). Finally there was a Left Swing/Pivot or a Right Swing/Pivot based on SAM 1, 2, 3 versus SAM 4, 5, 6 cut as you moved to the center cue ball position. It sounds as if Same Aim has evolved since then as there is now only one swing. That's a good thing.

Pro One has two aim lines, center of cue ball to edge of object ball. Then it has a second aim line, edge of cue ball to one of only 3 possible points on the object ball, a major difference in the two CTE systems. Also, in Pro One the pivot is always the same. It is a half tip pivot to the center of the cue ball.

Now if your next evolutionary move for Same Aim is a second aim line from the edge of the cue ball to anywhere on the object ball, trust me on this, you are morphing Same Aim into exactly what Pro One is right now.



Hi Frank, great to hear from you.

Yes, only one Swing.

There is probably a couple of different ways to teach CTE, SAME AIM is just one of them.
randyg
 
CTE is....

CTE is like Jesus.

Some people believe even though they don't know how it works.
Some people refuse to believe until they can see proof.

Maybe a better analogy is that CTE is like Scientology.
It was brought down to us by aliens thousands of years ago and populated the earth with few that understand it's power (is that why Tom was chosen for The Color of Money?!?!!?).

Hey maybe this would make an great CTE t-shirt campaign!! For the record I'm not for or against it... just think all this convo is wacky (mostly the nay-saying). Feel free to add other (questionable) humor...

First t-shirt idea
Jesus at a pool table...
Caption: What would CTE do?
Lol.
 
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I'm old enough, and was raised as a kid in a place that still used outdoor toilets.

For the youngsters on this forum, one of the joys of using one of those outhouses
on a hot, humid summer day, was having flies buzz around your ass... Not really dangerous or painful, but still irritating.

Some people on this forum make me remember those times.

.

Jim,
YOu aren't the only one who was raised in an environment like that. I spent several years growing up on a dairy farm. We had a two-seater and it was a ways away from the house.

It was a dairy farm and sometimes when I am reading some of the posts on the forum, I think of all the cow-s**t that piled up around the dairy barn. It had to be moved to other areas and often that job was given to little JoeyA. It wasn't a job that I relished but it paid $.25 for a wheel barrel full.

One day we should start a thread in NPR about what life was like when we were kids. I have lots of memories from those days and the kids today growing up would think they were just a lot of cow-s**t. :D

Still, AZB remains the number one billiard forum in the world. Ain't life grand!
 
I'm old enough, and was raised as a kid in a place that still used outdoor toilets.

For the youngsters on this forum, one of the joys of using one of those outhouses
on a hot, humid summer day, was having flies buzz around your ass... Not really dangerous or painful, but still irritating.

Some people on this forum make me remember those times.

.

That beats using the log lol
 
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