I think what you figured out for yourself isn't all the things you should know, see and DO to get it to work, especially from individual youtubes.
CTE really does work as described and I don't think you should pursue why it helps but to actually get it to work and help, however you might not care enough now.
Apparently I, Stan, and others who defend and praise the system know something more than you do in the instructions as well as execution. I can assure you none of us are stupid enough to praise something that really has no merits.
I don't think you did yourself too many favors by going into your Pat Johnson and Lou Figueroa anti-CTE act either when you made the comments about Stan that you did. Now that I know a little bit about how your funny bone works you could have made a lot more progress going into the ADC impression than the gruesome twosome above.
You did a video attempting the five shots but in that video you should have done a very comprehensive step by step of what you were actually seeing, how you moved into the shot alignment and what was being lined up to where, whether you were attempting manual CTE or PRO 1, and then pulled the trigger to strike the balls.
As I've stated, videos can reveal or prove EVERYTHING if done properly. Your precise explanations and MISSED shots would have provided what was needed for correction.
It would be like if you were a pilot flying a plane and radioed your coordinates or flight path to a tower and were then told you were going off course but to make an adjustment to the new coordinates. Problem easily solved.
(I'm getting sucked back into posting and I don't want to)
There's nothing wrong with posting if it is productive, IMO. The things I said about Stan may be over the top but I thought at least some people would understand that I was just using a rhetorical device. The point I was making is that if CTE really worked, then he might want to find a different way of describing how to make it work. For many people over many years, it just doesn't make sense. Why not find a way to reach these people and their wallets? I have since said that by all accounts Stan is an excellent teacher and communicator. It's just that when it comes to CTE things seem to fall apart. The first thing I said months ago here is that if I really need to buy the DVD to understand it then I'll stop asking questions and maybe I'll get it. That's not the reply I got.
I might yet make a video trying to demonstrate CTE. Also, I'd like to see a CTE user make the 5 shots with a camera above and behind the shooter with the camera moved directly behind the shot line for each shot. It might reveal some things, too.