I made my own curtain video to prove that very point.
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That was Stan Shuffet's attempt to show that CTE is entirely "objective" with no "feel" needed - instead he showed he doesn't know how aiming works.
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BUT! He did it by making every single shot. Care to try that?
I can, and have,,,,,,,, I actually did it on a snooker table once with Centenial Balls in 3 3/8" pockets, missed 2 out of 10. Guess I wasn't feelin it huh?
Then why not duplicate them? I am very interested to see anyone else duplicating the extensive amount of curtain videos that have been made. So far I have seen people CLAIM that they are easy but haven't seen anyone actually prove it. One guy did like two shots and admitted it took him time to figure out the aim from two fixed positions.
And yours was wrong and didn't prove what you think it did. You haven't duplicated Stan's videos either.
Have you? What percentage of CTE users have? I mean, it's the system, right?
Right?
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His video proves he did, don't know the percentage of people who attempted it, probably quite a few that tried it without CTE and won't admit their failures. It really is the system. Have you tried it?
more than people who haven't. You can't do it. Neither can Dan.
The fact you think that gimmick test proves something about CTE says more than you realize about your understanding of aiming.
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That was me. I did three shots aligned with the diamonds and shot the length of the table as in Stan's video. It took literally one or two shots to zone in on each shot as I have never shot a ball blind like Stan has hundreds if not thousands of times. My video demonstrated that there is nothing necessarily amazing about shooting with a curtain. It does not prove that CTE doesn't work. It does prove that you need more than a curtain demonstration to prove that it does work.
In your last CTE demonstration you missed I think 12 out of 14 of the exact same shot and there was no curtain.
I think I found that there were only 6 differently aimed shots in Stan's curtain window. Some were to the left, some to the right, but only about 6 cut angles used in all 14 or 15 shots.
I made a video with a curtain and shot each one, maybe missed a couple...can't remember, don't think I ever posted it.
Stan has an impressive video of banks with a curtain. He doesn't mention that banks is his favorite game (a Kentucky staple) and was playing at a high level by the age of 16. 60 years of additional banks play and guess what? He's really good at banking, curtain or no curtain. Is CTE the reason he can do it or is it the decades of muscle memory?
As I think Ray Martin told Lou -- go ahead and shoot (after the lights went out), the pockets have been in the same place for over 100 years. lol
Stan was a very good player, pro level actually, but with a job, well before he started the CTE thing, as you well know. I don't think that means he can't teach a CTE method without resorting to prior knowledge.
Ask Brian (BC21) if he secretly resorts to feel aiming or ghost ball or whatever when he is teaching his Poolology aiming method.
Was he a banking champion before cte?
Who knows, does it matter?
Using a system such as his, and yours, actually, there really isn't that many cut angles to worry about. That said, I'd expect a very similar result from you shooting at pockets behind a curtain with your system. The thing is the guys who talk the effort down don't bother to show their efforts aiming at ghost balls and contact points. I guess they just aren't feeling it.
It doesn't?