John,
The statement I placed in blue makes no sense to me.
Is it a typo?
If not, can you please elaborate as to what you mean & how so?
Best Wishes.
PS Where I was going is where I was & it's where the description & instruction sent me & that is as far as they have gone.
After that it's 'move until you see it, move until you see the proper perception for the shot'.
Can you please direct me to where there is any objective instructions or directions on how to get where one sees it? You do understand that there is only one place where one can see the two lines at the same time objectively & hence there are only 2 possible outcome angles, one each per pivot direction. So what is it that objective tells or guides one to a different position by objective means?
Ok, so if you use the cte line to position your body to the shot that line comes through the center of the CB and out the back facing the shooter. That's objective in that every shooter can find the CTEL and get on it.
If you then map the actual ghost ball line (the actual shot line) you will find that this line converges with the cte line in the center of the cb and then exists the back of the cb towards the shooter.
At the exit point the real shot line is literally less than .5mm away from the CTE line.
That's a fact regardless of what the cut angle is. I say less than because I don't have the measurements for all possible angles.
This video however demonstrates the point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nETWcUmJsgs
Now, beyond that, the difference in body placement for each perception is very slight. I will cover this in depth at some point on video. It is however consistent in that any CTE user will end up with their body and bridge in the same place if the instructions are understood and followed.
Yes, any given perception used on any given shot can only produce ONE outcome. But as demonstrated the SAME perception can work on many different shots because each shot is a single task unrelated to any other shot.
I know you are hung up on the five shots from one position video. It's funny but we both drew opposite conclusions from this. You drew the conclusion that there must be fudging happening and I drew the conclusion that CTE works for real based on those multi-shot videos. I know that you understand that Stan and Gerry are both calling out DIFFERENT perceptions/solutions for each shot.
Thus their body position IS different for each shot. The steps however remain the same, use the CTE line for initial orientation, choose a perception and a pivot, sweep in and go to center cue ball. The difference for each shot IS the perception used. It's not a guess or an estimation but instead a hard choice based on practiced division of the object ball into four pieces yielding three points to align/aim to, A, B, C.
The fact that the shooter doesn't know if the shot line he is led to is "right" should be a proof of some sort to the objectivity of the system.
(of course over time the more shots are taken the more that "shot pictures" are formed so you have a chicken/egg scenario where having landed on the correct shot line so often through CTE now the shooter has a just see it picture of the right shot line as well)
The difference is that there is no real trial and error. It's simply correct choice vs. incorrect choice. Because out of the four perceptions and tossing out the few shots where two perceptions are functionally the same, the shooter can literally eliminate at least two right away and is left with two to choose from. Choose wrong and you try again with the other one and it's right.
No, little thinner, little thicker, thinner, thinner......figuring out how to hit the shot. Simply choose a perception and shoot and be either right or wrong. If wrong use the other one and be right and then you literally own it from then on, assuming you can remember it.
BUT if you practice enough then you learn to recognize immediately which perception is the right one right away and thus can just move into the shot fluidly. That's when it becomes second nature and literally no one can tell what the shooter is doing to aim.
The move until you see it isn't subjective, it's literally MOVE until you can perceive the lines clearly. Those lines are connections that IF drawn are literally in the same place for everyone and this is exactly why it takes all the illusion out of aiming.
So the only subjectivity comes in the initial training phase where the shooter learns to see the lines where they are rather than to superimpose old aiming habits on top of CTE. That bias which precedes a paradigm shift can be very subjective. Once the shift to seeing what IS there properly happens though then it's pretty much all objective from there. There is no step beyond that where the shooter has to guess at anything when deciding where to put the cue down in preparation to shoot.
