TheThaiger
Banned
Shhh, your going to upset the evangelists.
It's a bit late for that!
Shhh, your going to upset the evangelists.
It's a bit late for that!
Champ, in your opinion, which is more exact 1/2 ball or pro1 pivots ?
Why don't you leave this thread alone. It's not the same old people arguing and some good info is coming out. STOP ANTAGONIZING. GET A LIFE.
think about what you have posted and i mean really "think about it" why would Stan do what he did, he made the system more detailed and or exact, you still have not figured out how these system work... and im out before this gets all flamed up with cte experts who disagree with what i have said or will say about these systems.
Petey, what are you using for your refererence to see the correct line with the 1/2 ball ?
i had about an hour to try this system seriously tonight and the impression i came away with is this system needs more and more feel to work it once you start moving away form the thick cuts.
... CTE goes so far as to not care where the pocket is once you've determined if it is a thick, medium, or thin hit (EDIT: and whether you are cutting to the right or left). It seems to me that the shooter does NO aiming of the OB to pocket & only cares if the shots falls into one of three categories. This tells me there is a lot of manipulation going on to make it all appear to work.
Take this series of shot scenarios. How can you shoot "L1-1" the same as "L1-2" and the same as "L1-3" which you must if CTE only cares that they are "thick" hits. What am I missing here?!?! ...
Quite simply a pivot in CTE PRO ONE represents a slight rotation to center cue ball.
A pivot can start from a half tip, quarter ball, half ball or from 2 or 3 feet away.
What is critical is that there is a rotation to center cue ball.
In my Basic CTE I use a half tip offset and a fixed edges cue ball. A half ball offset will not give you the same results. 2 completely different offsets. A half ball offset with a fixed edges cue ball is not a good idea in CTE PRO ONE.
So how can a half tip and half ball offset be the same? They each take the tip to the exact verticle axis of the cue ball. Different offsets other than half tip can yeild inconsistencies.
The ultimate accuracies in CTE occur because....if one has the correct objective visuals, they're only a slight rotation away from center cue ball and the shot line. That slight rotation is represented in manual CTE as a half tip, the smallest object fixed pivot I could use.
On my DVD I do not think I used offset with my mention of half ball. When I said half ball, I meant only a turning of one's tip to center cue ball which is a half of the cue ball.
Stan Shuffett