The Simplest Aiming Systems to Visualize and Use

If I consistently make more balls doing it, as well as having an easy time seeing it as laid out with fewer misses than what I used to use (contact points), and I now choose to play that way instead of contact points, fractions, the arrow, overlaps, shot picture, lights...how am I wrong? It's MY game and after 30 years I'm 100% certain I know it better than anyone else.
If you found a way to play that you believe works best then fine. My interest has always been in the "why" and in that subject you are not entitled to your own facts, unless you can back them up, of course.
 
If you found a way to play that you believe works best then fine. My interest has always been in the "why" and in that subject you are not entitled to your own facts, unless you can back them up, of course.
ROTFLMAO! The "why" is your problem, not mine or the now 2,000+ pool players who are logged in to discuss it in an orderly and gentlemanly fashion that bought the book in the last year and are happily involved. It just keeps growing.

If I'm not entitled to my own facts and results, who is? They're mine and belong to me. I prove what needs to be proven on the pool table, that's how I back them up. I don't know the "why" or "how" a mega ton jet plane does what it does, nor give a rat's ass. If it gets me from point "A" to point "B" it's all that matters.

There's a new book out called "Center Pocket Music". Buy it or borrow it. ALL of the facts are in it. The "why", well that's up to you to figure out on your own with ALL of your own experiments ON THE TABLE WITH BALLS. You might get it to work, and you might not. I doubt you will. But even IF you did, after all these years you would NEVER admit it! NEVER!

And for those of us who do play pool with it, we don't care what you come up with or decide.
 
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If I'm not entitled to my own facts and results, who is? They're mine and belong to me. I prove what needs to be proven on the pool table, that's how I back them up. I don't know the "why" or "how" a mega ton jet plane does what it does, nor give a rat's ass. If it gets me from point "A" to point "B" it's all that matters.
With this logic you just proved the jelly bean method to be 100% truth. If your logic can't separate your aiming system from obvious parody then you might be standing on very shaky ground. Maybe not, I've seen "natural" players who out shoot everyone in league and they don't even know about the concept of throw. They adjust for it naturally but if you asked them what throw was, they would say "no, you don't throw the ball, you hit it with your stick!" :) Maybe there is no debate/discussion, if it works for the user, it works.
 
ROTFLMAO! The "why" is your problem, not mine or the now 2,000+ pool players who are logged in to discuss it in an orderly and gentlemanly fashion that bought the book in the last year and are happily involved. It just keeps growing.
How many posts per week does that group average?
If I'm not entitled to my own facts and results, who is?
Not sure you understand what I mean by that. You can't make up your own reasons for why something works and then present them as factual when you don't really know.
 
How many posts per week does that group average?
I don't know.
Not sure you understand what I mean by that. You can't make up your own reasons for why something works and then present them as factual when you don't really know.
My own reason is an extremely high percentage of balls go into the pockets selected. When they don't it's because of user error. Could be stroke or carelessness in the alignment.

I know why it works which is the same way every other aiming system works. They link up the CB with the OB to get them going in an accurate direction necessary to be pocketed into a specific pocket. There is far less visual static to play eye tricks with the player compared to other visual methods.

Dan, get a life. You've gone down the exact same road as PJ except for less years doing it. However, a decade and a half is
a pretty long time which is quite obsessive.

Center Pocket Music is the book. Buy it or borrow it. Everything is in there.

Me/you...nice exchange of ideas about a laser but all of this is OVER. You're on EL BLOCKO.
 
I don't know.
Not even a ballpark idea?
My own reason is an extremely high percentage of balls go into the pockets selected. When they don't it's because of user error. Could be stroke or carelessness in the alignment.

I know why it works which is the same way every other aiming system works. They link up the CB with the OB to get them going in an accurate direction necessary to be pocketed into a specific pocket. There is far less visual static to play eye tricks with the player compared to other visual methods.

Dan, get a life. You've gone down the exact same road as PJ except for less years doing it. However, a decade and a half is
a pretty long time which is quite obsessive.

Center Pocket Music is the book. Buy it or borrow it. Everything is in there.

Me/you...nice exchange of ideas about a laser but all of this is OVER. You're on EL BLOCKO.
Lol if you say so. I said let's agree to disagree but you just couldn't stop.

If you want to talk about lasers or anything else I'm all ears.
 
How many posts per week does that group average?
Looks like about 16/week this past month.

For comparison, this thread (just the thread, not the forum) has gotten more than 100 posts in the past four days - about 1 post per hour (more than 10 times the CTE forum's rate).

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Looks like about 16/week this past month.

For comparison, this thread (just the thread, not the forum) has gotten more than 100 posts in the past four days - about 1 post per hour (more than 10 times the CTE forum's rate).

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chgo

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Lmao. This thread has nothing relevant. Everything thing in the group is educational learning material. In fact just last week the group had a video instructional from a multi time multi state champion. Anyone posting in this thread have those kinds of credentials?
 
Lmao. This thread has nothing relevant. Everything thing in the group is educational learning material. In fact just last week the group had a video instructional from a multi time multi state champion. Anyone posting in this thread have those kinds of credentials?
The idea stands on it's own or it doesn't. Appealing to authority is a classic logical fallacy in the red herring class. Do yourself and others a favor and become educated on the matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies.

If you can post your thoughts and avoid such fallacies they will be much more convincing.
 
The idea stands on it's own or it doesn't. Appealing to authority is a classic logical fallacy in the red herring class. Do yourself and others a favor and become educated on the matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies.

If you can post your thoughts and avoid such fallacies they will be much more convincing.
My thoughts lol. I’d rather learn from a multi state multiple time champion who is an expert on the subject then the basement pool playing self named pool playing experts who post on here without any credible credentials at all.
Oh and CTE stands very tall on its own if anyone would like to put in the time to totally learn it. If not, no big deal.
 
My thoughts lol. I’d rather learn from a multi state multiple time champion who is an expert on the subject then the basement pool playing self named pool playing experts who post on here without any credible credentials at all.
Oh and CTE stands very tall on its own if anyone would like to put in the time to totally learn it. If not, no big deal.
Did I say anything about CTE? No need to defend it from attack when I've not attacked it. I'll say it again for the kids in the back of the class. CTE is an aiming and pool playing system that can be used to great result, as with most other aiming systems. Just gotta put the time in and it will work as well as any other aiming system.
 
Did I say anything about CTE? No need to defend it from attack when I've not attacked it. I'll say it again for the kids in the back of the class. CTE is an aiming and pool playing system that can be used to great result, as with most other aiming systems. Just gotta put the time in and it will work as well as any other aiming system.
You asked me to post my thoughts. What were you expecting?
 
You asked me to post my thoughts. What were you expecting?
I guess too much. I like to give a guy the benefit of the doubt.
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I didn't expect you to change the subject mid discussion. Must have hit a nerve somehow.
 
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