John,
You and Sean are both right about how this shot requires confidence and trusting the line.
One of the many things that CTE Pro One has taught me is to see shots differently. When using CTE and pivoting, often times it looks like on shots like the one you illustrated, that you are overcutting the ball when in fact you are cutting it perfectly.
This is where some of the euphoria of CTE aiming comes from. The ball often splits the pocket cleaner than at any other time and cleaner than using any other aiming system or lack of official system.
With this particular shot, using other types of aiming, you often "see" the shot differently and often cut the shot less than is needed.
This is one of the incredible things about aiming with CTE. Sometimes you see the shot so differently and when your aiming turns out spot on, you get excited about making a shot so cleanly, you can barely stand it.
I genuinely like the fact that learning CTE has allowed me to "see" some shots better. I guess in the past, I have had limited abilitity to see how cleanly some shots can be hit because of some inate visualization imperfection. I still don't split the pocket on every shot no matter what aiming system I am using or not but at least CTE has given me a different perspective to visualize shots.
In complete fairness, I can't say that this is always the case. Sometimes when I have used CTE aiming I miss simple, very simple shots and it perplexes me severely.
JoeyA
