Shinobi,
That's an interesting comment, Stan seems to have a lot of support what bothered you about CTE?
Fair question.
I've written about it in more detail in other threads. The gist of it is, that part of the steps of CTE still involve feel+experience. ie: When you step into the shot, the line you step in comes from experience. When you decide to shoot a shot, with experience you decide whether that shot requires a pivot from L-R or R-L, etc.
What some people against CTE say is, it's still adding some feel and adjustments when you tweak your sight line, bridge hand, pivot.
If there is going to be that much feel+experience built into the shooting, I don't see the point of complicating things. Truthfully, I don't find aiming to be the difficult part. When I miss balls it tends to be because I needed to use a lot of juice on the ball, and misjudged the squirt/throw.
In any case, I specifically quoted the parts of the DVD where Stan references feel and experience, in another thread. His replies are just about spot on to what Lou implied. I didn't give it a chance. I have a closed mind. I don't get it, etc.
I won't say CTE works or doesn't work. To me it just seems like an oddly and unnecessarily complicated way of attempting to aim. If it works for someone, it's no skin off my back, but I'd never recommend it to anyone personally.
As an aside to that, none of the best players I play with use CTE. None of the snooker players use CTE, and for them aiming precision is far more critical, obviously. When I work on my stroke more, my play improves because I'm able to more consistently hit the ball where I intend to. I never feel that the aim point is the difficult part of the equation, and I highly doubt that anyone who practices sound mechanics and fundamentals for any length of time will either.
