Master the art of aiming and never miss another ball.
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According to scientific research involving complicated skill/talent development, about 10,000 hours of quality practice is needed to master physical skills, to ingrain the process into our mind so that we perform via the implicit system of brain function, like riding a bike or walking down the street -- we don't think about it, we just do it.
But even at this level of physical and mental skill, psychology comes into play and can potentially make us feel like complete beginners. It's no different than walking down the sidewalk with a million thoughts running through your mind, your job and your wife and your kids and that damn car battery that just died and sent you off on two feet. All of this sits on your shoulders as you walk. It taps at your head with each step, then you walk right out into the street and nearly get hit by a bus. What happened? You know how to walk and you know how stop walking. You mastered all that years ago. Have you suddenly lost it? No. Your brain was on cruise control, walking controlled with the brain's implicit system. Yet your explicit system, your conscious thoughts, caused a glitch in the overall process. You are still a master at walking, but the performance of this task can easily be influenced by uncontrolled emotions and the physiological state of mind. Walking is probably not a good example because it's not considered a complicated skill, but once learned it does operate from the same implicit brain system as more complicated skills.
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But what if I were interested in your posts? Should I still ignore them? That’d be too bad because I couldn’t learn from them.
Good wishes to you and have a successful journey in your pool aiming.
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You make it sound like you are part of a cult.
Poolology and CTE are different ways of arriving at the same point.
One way may work better for some players than the other. I don't understand all of this my way is superior to yours. Do whatever works for you and care less about what the other guy is or isn't using. Most good players can't even tell you how they aim because they don't think about it.
Your post has way too much common sense.....:wink:
Let's say you know two routes on a highway to get to a certain place. One is filled with ditches, shaky old fashioned bridges, and poor directions. The other route has a nice smooth paved highway, well marked, and is easy to drive on. You can even walk on it if you choose to do so. Take your choice. I will take the latter...if that means I am a 'cult member', I like it. (remember, nobody is forcing you to join).
Have a good day.
This your opinion. Have you ever thought that for some people CTE is the poorly described highway and other aiming systems are the smooth highway?
Let me ask you a question and I will be done with this thread. You decide to shoot a shot opposite handed. If you miss, do you blame your aim or stroke?
Great point! Stroke is muy importante!!!
As far as low's two routes analogy, if one is straight and smooth and simple, and the other is winding and full of various intersections with no signs leading the way, maybe the straight ahead road is the the best option. Of course, if you have the road builder riding shotgun with you through the winding road, you might find it easier to navigate. But he can't ride with everybody, so most are left on their own, taking wrong turns for years before they finally understand how to get where they're trying to go.
Answer to your question: I would blame both of them, aim and stroke.
I will say it again....nobody is forcing anybody to participate in CTE. You can do as you please and nobody will bother you about it. The democrats haven't come up with a law yet to force you to participate in it, thank goodness. If you're happy and satisfied with what you're doing about shooting pool, then by golly keep doing it.
My chosen delight is to inform as many people as I can that there is a better, stone cold accurate way to aim those pool shots. And it doesn't involve a bunch of math, fractions, or other superstitious mumbo jumbo. A thing it has in common with ALL aiming methods is you must have a good stroke. If you don't have a good stroke, you will have troubles..nobody has ever said anything different.
Stan Shuffett, my CTE Pro One coach, places great emphasis on a good clean stroke. (of course the skeptics never mention that about him. What they do is refer to him as a crackpot, snake oil salesman, and other terms of ridicule).
Good wishes to you in whatever you choose to do. I hope the 'highway' you select is a smooth efficient one, no matter which one it happens to be.
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Shotguns are illegal while riding in cars in your state.
Guns are dangerous and have nothing to do with shooting pool
An example to prove the point of this thread:
While practicing before the tournament I put several 2 and 3 packs on an old buddy of mine. We played for about an hour and I never missed an open shot. Granted, these are Diamond bar boxes, not 9ft tables.
Anyway, when the tournament started I was lucky enough to draw the last position (5th) on my table. So I waited 4 games before playing. The guy broke dry and left no good shot to get from the 1 to the 2, so I played a safe, locked him up on the backside of a ball and sent the 1 up table toward the 2. I got a ball in hand and ran out. I broke and ran the next rack then broke and scratched. My opponent popped the 1-9 combo. I never got another open shot throughout the tournament!!
I waited for my turn. There was another really good player on the table (Justin Lazzaro). He was in 4th position. He got on a roll. I racked and he broke and ran out. I waited for my next turn.
Long story short...Lazzaro ended up giving me my last 4 loses. In this format you get 5 loses and you're out. He broke and ran 3 of my 4 games against him. The other loss was him running down to get out of line on the 8, so he safed me. The 8 was a few inches off the end rail at the opposite end of the table, cb about 10" behind the 9ball and a couple of inches off the end rail. I wanted to kick 2 rails, long rail to end rail behind the 8, sending the 8 toward the side pocket and sticking the cb. I figured if the 8 didn't drop it would go to the end rail, maybe even behind the 9. The 8 hit danced around the points on the side pocket and then bounced over toward the other side pocket and left the him out. 5 loses, no missed shots, a perfect loser. Lol
While practicing before the tournament I put several 2 and 3 packs on an old buddy of mine. We played for about an hour and I never missed an open shot. Granted, these are Diamond bar boxes, not 9ft tables.
Anyway, when the tournament started I was lucky enough to draw the last position (5th) on my table. So I waited 4 games before playing. The guy broke dry and left no good shot to get from the 1 to the 2, so I played a safe, locked him up on the backside of a ball and sent the 1 up table toward the 2. I got a ball in hand and ran out. I broke and ran the next rack then broke and scratched. My opponent popped the 1-9 combo. I never got another open shot throughout the tournament!!
I waited for my turn. There was another really good player on the table (Justin Lazzaro). He was in 4th position. He got on a roll. I racked and he broke and ran out. I waited for my next turn.
Long story short...Lazzaro ended up giving me my last 4 loses. In this format you get 5 loses and you're out. He broke and ran 3 of my 4 games against him. The other loss was him running down to get out of line on the 8, so he safed me. The 8 was a few inches off the end rail at the opposite end of the table, cb about 10" behind the 9ball and a couple of inches off the end rail. I wanted to kick 2 rails, long rail to end rail behind the 8, sending the 8 toward the side pocket and sticking the cb. I figured if the 8 didn't drop it would go to the end rail, maybe even behind the 9. The 8 hit danced around the points on the side pocket and then bounced over toward the other side pocket and left the him out. 5 loses, no missed shots, a perfect loser. Lol
To quote a friend of yours around this place (Patrick Johnson): That explains why you're so miserable.
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The difference is....I'm not miserable. :grin-square:
You may not be miserable either, just come off that way with your negativity on anything other than CTE and Stan Shuffett.
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Your signature line reads....
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."......Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein never said that. :shrug:
Where do you guys come up with this stuff....
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