This just repeats the same old phrases: "the visuals" and "the pivot" do it.
You're not describing knowledge; you're describing confidence. I'm confident when I aim too.
It's an objective "place", but where are the objective instructions that tell us how to recognize it? That's what would define an objective system.
The "objective points" are guidelines, as you yourself say above. One doesn't "finetune by objective guidelines"; one fine tunes to get from objective guidelines to the final aim line.
Visual intelligence = "I know it when I see it" = aiming by feel. You haven't said anything that means anything different.
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Pat, I understand that you are desperately trying to save face here, and not admit that you have been wrong for years. It's not working to well for you.
In your first statement you say that it's the same old thing. Of course it is, do you want us to change the directions each time we say something about it? Your statement comes across as if it is a bad thing that we keep saying the same things. Quite the opposite is true. It shows that we all are on the same page and keep saying the same thing.
Then you state that it is not knowledge, but confidence. I disagree with your conclusion. What is confidence, but knowledge that one is doing something correctly? How can one know that one is doing something correctly without any knowledge of it?
While knowledge and confidence are not the same, they are closely related. But, where knowledge is facts, confidence can be falsely attained. One can have a false confidence that there "feel" put them on the correct shot line, where it really didn't because there were no guidelines to actually get them there.
The knowledge comes into play with having the visual intelligence to stand in the correct place to attain the visuals, then using the A,B, or C reference line in accord with the CTE line to obtain the visuals, then making the half tip pivot. VI+V+P=SL (visual intelligence plus visuals plus pivot equals shotline)
You then state that it is not objective, even though you are in an objective place, because the system does not tell you each step to get into that place. But yet, it does. Just not in the way you were expecting. The system does say you need visual intelligence. As Rick pointed out but didn't understand, that means spatial awareness. In this case, knowing where to stand to be on the rough shot line. So, it is objective. It's just that the system doesn't go through each and every step to learn how to obtain that spatial awareness. Nor should it. That would be a course on fundamentals, not aiming.
You then state that one doesn't fine tune by objective guidelines. In most all other systems, that would be a true statement. However, with this system, that is not a true statement. That is a big part of the problem with some trying to understand and use this system. They continually want to bring in other ways of obtaining the objective into the system which only corrupts the system and causes it to fail.
With CTE there is no finetuning by feel. One's finetuning is done by acquiring the proper objective visuals, and then completing the objective pivot. That is all. That procedure in and of itself will put on on the shot line finetuned to a slight overcut which CIT will change to a center pocket shot line.
As to your last part, no, visual intelligence does not mean aiming by feel. As stated earlier, your visual intelligence puts you into an objective place from where one then begins his aiming.
