So to me, saying that I'm seeing both at the same time means I'm not really on either one, but in between the two. It's two parallel lines so it seems to me I can't be on both at the same time, right?
The Simplest Aiming Systems to Visualize and Use
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I'll make one but it occurs to me seeing you do one might tell us more. I have no idea how you get from whatever you said to the idea that CTE is somehow finding the shot line for you.
Since I'm below average and you're slightly above average, you have the odds in your favor. No handicap needed. Lets play for a couple of thousand. You confirm that and I'll come to you. It'll take more than that to fly round trip, get a hotel/motel for one night and rent a car. Lets make it 5 grand.
Nice try at baiting me.
Back cuts are more difficult for many people and those are the first shots I tried with Poolology. I think I made 4 out of the first 5 back cuts I tried using it and not looking at anything but the calculated fraction. Didn't take months upon months until it magically clicked. lol
It is most deadly on determining 1/2 ball shots, because that's the foundation of the system. Anyway, what it has done for me is help me focus on a specific aiming reference instead of just half-assing an appropriate aim.
With enough table time, as you already know, many shots become recognizable. As soon as you look at the shot you know exactly how to shoot it. But not all shots are this easy to recognize, and sometimes your mind pulls from memory something that is close to what you're looking at but not dead nuts on. That's where a system comes in handy as a double-check. Is it smart to reference such a system on every shot? Of course. But that requires creating the habit of doing so.
It has nothing to do with LINES, parallel or otherwise. It has to do with the CB Edge at OB center and CB Center at OB Edge.
You need to see BOTH of those at the same time. If you don't, MOVE! Move your head, or body or both until you CAN see both simultaneously. Get on the table anytime with a CB and OB and look for the visuals I described. They're always there.
Move those two balls around to different spots and it's always there. Might not be the visual you NEED to make the shot, but it's a starting point for learning.
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And what are we going to learn from this?
Yea well i half ball pivoted balls in from everywhere while talking to Hal on the phone, you didn't even try it, yet here we are years and years later and you still know nothing about CTE. Yes you will disagree with this also but you also won't tell us anything that you might know, in your own words that is.
So do you focus on that aiming reference on every shot?
Why so worried about the shot line? "Just do it" Hell, i might even send you a Nike shirt if you give it an honest try.
Of course you made balls from everywhere. You did it by pivoting as needed to pocket the ball. I had the same question of Hal. He said don't worry about any of that just whack it. That told me I was probably correct.
So you skipped everything and right to backcuts lol. That's the proper way to learn a system
I can aim every shot the way spider recommends for the test AND I can pocket every ball, given enough practice. It's done by pivoting once you determine the shot line. I think that's what you do except you do a disguised pivot as you get down. I'll play along, though.
I didn't skip anything. Like you always say to me: you don't know what you are talking about.
Wrong again. I pivoted to center CB just like Hal told me and many others that he liked. Everyone's results say that you were wrong.
But reading between the lines of your posts it's clear that you didn't even try.
It's not what WE are going to learn from this, it's what YOU are going to learn from this!! What you will learn is a whole bunch of those balls lined up and shot at WILL GO INTO THE POCKET YOU AIMED AT BY DOING IT!
Why not just follow the exact instructions. Spidey said he didn't care if you made a ball or not. He wants to help you learn, is that your goal?
Now I do, after getting my ass handed to me by a player with a fargo score of 697 a few months ago. He uses fractional aiming as well, and after the match we talked about it. He said never assume you're lined up for the shot without focusing 100% on where you're aiming to send the cue ball.
It's easy to think you're lined up correctly without having to really pay attention to any specific aiming reference. Intuition feels great, but it's not always dead on. So yes, I have worked on developing the habit of always focusing on a particular aiming reference/point, which has led me to use Poolology more often.
NO PIVOTING! You're in first grade to begin with. Pivoting is NOT for you at this point! Like I said, I KNOW you're going to miss balls and WANT you to just to see what the balls do. You WOULDN'T miss once you got this down pat and then moved your visuals to a 15 or 45 instead of CENTER. First things first.
It's like learning the BOX STEP in a dance class when you really don't know how to dance. But you want to go straight to picking the woman over your head and doing spins with her. (pivoting). A lot is NOT going to go right!
