Hitting the bottle kinda early today Dick

Where did I say practice is not important?
Action, nah, means nothing. What you don't get, and don't worry, other folks don't either, is folks don't want to become world class, or turn pro, etc. So, what is 'action" gonna do for them? Baseball players make $30M per year, and never been in a casino or bet on a game (except Pete Rose) and they did ok.
You can play Efren all you want, you aint ever gonna play his speed,so losing a TON of money to him is not gonna help you, is it?
SOme folks, and mostly league folks want to get better and they can't "sight" the shots as well as folks with some natural ability, and they just wanna stop missing shots. Why is it so bad to help them get better. And after a while, they will STOP using whatever system they were taught because now the brain has been trained.
I've said this before, but NOBODY will answer me. If CTE and some other systems are so bad, why are the folks who PAID money for this NEVER taken part in the argument here? Weird, huh ? Shouldn't they be here demanding refunds, calling for Stan's head, asking other instructors for their money back?
Surely, in a simple game of pool, there has to be more than one way to learn, teach, play, whatever. Reminds me of the folks that say you should only use maple shafts, no LD's allowed, blah, blah, blah. Man, i hope I never become one of those old guys that sits around saying how good things were in my day, and all the new stuff is crap.
Because I''m gonna be the guy in a 2030 Corvette SMOKING any corvette built prior to that year

Heck I'll bet a new Honda Civic SI will smoke a 1975 Corvette