Take whoever you want that is a Real CTE (whatever Real means from Stan's wording) Pro One player and get them off their table. Come hit on my 8 foot Olhausen, or any table that isn't there own. I will place the cue and object balls on the table, and give them six shots, one for each pocket and lets see how many pockets they can hit the object ball into. You only get one chance per pocket, and you have to call it, just like in a real game, where you only get one shot.
What percentage can you make?
Ok it isn't a big enough sample. Lets do it 100 times from different positions so you are not playing the same shot twice. What percentage do you make?
He/she should make them all since the are "Geometrically connected", but are they really? I would say not if you are applying english to make them. Would it be geometrically connected if I hit the cueball straight into a rail and it came off the rail to the left, because I use left hand spin? No. Geometrically connected would bring the ball right back to me in a straight line.
For all the people out there that say they use CTE on every shot, and CTE is suppose to bring you to center pocket how do you do make a shot when the pocket is blocked by another ball. I am talking when you need to come off the rail then carom off the blocking ball to pocket the ball? Surely you can't make the ball go to a spot on the rail because CTE takes everything to the pocket.
I will let Stan take that bet. With the caveat that you do the same shots on your table at the same time.
I will bet whatever you want that Stan's make percentage on the 100 shots is WAY higher than yours.
Furthermore I will bet that his miss window is way smaller than yours. In other words the shots that Stan misses will miss by far less margin than your missed shots.
Regarding your question about CTE and blocking balls. Simple, CTE isn't used for that shot. If there is a block to the pocket then obviously no method of aiming that would be used to make the object ball directly into a pocket can be used because the object ball cannot be made directly into a pocket. That is when you would choose another path such as a carom or a combination or a bank and use whatever method of aim you are able to use. Are you and Duckie the same person?
When someone says they use CTE on every shot they mean every shot to a pocket. No need to be super nitty here.
But for real you can get action betting against Stan on shot making. I challenged him for more than an hour setting up shots to see if he really could unlock the shots and he can. It's mind blowing when you see it in person and even more mind blowing when you learn how to do it. Luckily I had a witness with me, a very good player from Germany who saw it all, every minute.
We challenged Stan with just about every shot we could think of and I think that there was only one or two shots that didn't have a CTE aiming solution. What did Stan do for those shots? He worked out all the CTE aims that would get close and then added the necessary amount of speed and spin based on his experience and judgement to make the shot.
You all make think that this is all a big joke. It's not. If you hold a gun to my head and ask me to tell you anything differently I will not because it's 100% true. I spent four days at Stan's house and everything he has said on this forum about what CTE/ProOne does is 100% true. I would have no problem betting every penny I could put my hands on that Stan could demonstrate this to the satisfaction of an impartial jury.
I would allow you to pick out every claim about how the system works that you can prove came from Stan and he will demonstrate the physical proof on the table in front of a panel of judges. You cannot win.
When I was there I played devil's advocate and hammered Stan with every argument that has ever been presented here. I quoted Pat Johnson, I quoted Lou Figueroa, I quoted PoliteSniper, I quoted Dr. Dave....I was an asshole about it because I wanted to be able to defend this CTE/ProOne properly wherever I went. My thinking was that if Stan could not provide on-table proof of concept then I would not be pushing or defending CTE any longer.
You all think that some of us have no damn brain and can't think for ourselves. You think that we have swallowed some BS and are irrationally convinced that something works which in your opinion does not and cannot work. You think that none of us have thought deeper about and that we haven't considered your arguments. That's not only disrespectful it's irrational to think that. Why would you think that a diverse group of people who are only connected by their pool hobby would all suddenly go "nuts" over a damn aiming method to the point that they, being otherwise successful and rational people, would be so out of touch as to spend gobs of energy defending a method that has no merit.
Instead you should be thinking, well if all these people who are otherwise normal and successful in their lives are saying it's helping them then perhaps it's worth investigating and trying.
Anyway, any time you are ready to bet on a shot making contest with Stan count me in and please let me get in on the action. There are very few people on the planet that can really hang with Stan in this contest and it's certainly not average bangers on AZB who don't know or use Stan's methods.