Practice Banks to Test and Help Your CTE/ProOne

nobcitypool

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
When I first started working on ProOne, I certainly thought Stan had lost his mind when he was teaching that it worked for banks. As I've gained more proficiency with Stan's system, I came back to banks and found out that Stan was perfectly sane but it was my poor execution of his system that was lost.

For those who want to test and fine tune their CTE/ProOne capabilities, I would highly recommending working on banks. The pocket is twice as big as the ball in most cases (sometimes bigger) and can be rather forgiving on some tables. So you may be having some reasonable success but not be quite dead on. If you're not pretty much dead on, I think it will be revealed in banks.

IMHO, the best way to start with banks and ProOne is to set up close to the natural angle with a slight cut. Use CCB on the vertical axis, a tip or so above center and around lag speed. I've found, at least on my own table, these shots will just go in center pocket time after time if it is done properly. IMHO, if you rattle the pocket or even get within 1/2" or so, you may have been on, or very close to on, and it could have been speed or the table. If you miss by half a diamond banking from long rail to long rail, you probably have some problems with your aiming. Let me add that I recommend putting the OB out from the rail close to center table for this practice. If you get the OB right near the rail, it doesn't take a whole lot to change the perception you need to make the shot.

The other thing this can help train is hitting CCB. You can be off a bit from CCB and still sink that cut shot but that same amount of spin can cause the bank shot to miss rather badly.

This also works with table length banks except it just requires even more precision. I put 8 balls spaced a ball or so apart across the table today (just past center table) and hit the first six in a row. Got on the 7th and for whatever weird reason couldn't get it to go for the longest time. Was missing it short, then missing it long. I think when I finally hit it, I simply missed it in between. LOL

Now once you start getting into sharper cuts and multiple rails, the challenge changes as speed and english have to be adjusted according to the shot. But I really think practicing these banks near the natural angle with a small cut as previously described can really help you test and fine tune your CTE/Pro One capabilities. I'd certainly be interested in hearing Gerry, mohrt and others opinions on this.
 
When I first started working on ProOne, I certainly thought Stan had lost his mind when he was teaching that it worked for banks. As I've gained more proficiency with Stan's system, I came back to banks and found out that Stan was perfectly sane but it was my poor execution of his system that was lost.

For those who want to test and fine tune their CTE/ProOne capabilities, I would highly recommending working on banks. The pocket is twice as big as the ball in most cases (sometimes bigger) and can be rather forgiving on some tables. So you may be having some reasonable success but not be quite dead on. If you're not pretty much dead on, I think it will be revealed in banks.

IMHO, the best way to start with banks and ProOne is to set up close to the natural angle with a slight cut. Use CCB on the vertical axis, a tip or so above center and around lag speed. I've found, at least on my own table, these shots will just go in center pocket time after time if it is done properly. IMHO, if you rattle the pocket or even get within 1/2" or so, you may have been on, or very close to on, and it could have been speed or the table. If you miss by half a diamond banking from long rail to long rail, you probably have some problems with your aiming. Let me add that I recommend putting the OB out from the rail close to center table for this practice. If you get the OB right near the rail, it doesn't take a whole lot to change the perception you need to make the shot.

The other thing this can help train is hitting CCB. You can be off a bit from CCB and still sink that cut shot but that same amount of spin can cause the bank shot to miss rather badly.

This also works with table length banks except it just requires even more precision. I put 8 balls spaced a ball or so apart across the table today (just past center table) and hit the first six in a row. Got on the 7th and for whatever weird reason couldn't get it to go for the longest time. Was missing it short, then missing it long. I think when I finally hit it, I simply missed it in between. LOL

Now once you start getting into sharper cuts and multiple rails, the challenge changes as speed and english have to be adjusted according to the shot. But I really think practicing these banks near the natural angle with a small cut as previously described can really help you test and fine tune your CTE/Pro One capabilities. I'd certainly be interested in hearing Gerry, mohrt and others opinions on this.

In my opinion a good advice- but i would recommend to practice this *next to the usual practice shots*.
Haven t myself much table-time in the last months- but if so i usually try *stubborn* to play around with Pro1. Some still haven t noticed this around me (funny ^^). Maybe 2-3 guys know this and already wondering a bit. Sometimes of course i doublecheck the way i learnt the stuff. But to me it s anyway about earning knowledge and having fun.

What is positive to *try banks* in my opinion is, that you learn to understand a bit more, how it works ( here DVD 2 from Stan helps a lot, too- even if it confused me at the beginning, it just took some time). Here you really *learn to see* that the system gets you to the pocket. furthermore you will understand, how cruicial the speed is-- it looks so easy when Stan Shuffett shows his videos where he s banking 3 or 4 way-shots....as it would be nothing :-) / here you can see what highskilled player Stan is. Noone should forget that^^
BUT you will also see, that it s super-important to develope an excellent technic! Without good fundamentals, without working hard on a *repeatable straight stroke* and the ability to hit Whitey center-cue-ball you will always have a hard time....with every system!
 
Back
Top