Want to share my experiment..........
How much english do you use and does that amount have a correlation with whether you like Low Squirt shafts? Do Low Squirt shafts also help with draw/follow? Do you normally use english only on certain shots, no shots, to get in line only, or to stay in line? It seems to me that english is extremely useful in banks, kicks, and specialty shots (throw due to obstructing balls), but I generally use outside english on shots (position play notwithstanding) because it seems to me that 0.95 tips of english will play the same way as 1.05 tips of english, whereas 0.25 tips of left play way different than 0.25 tips of right. Opine with your thoughts and thought process.
I personally have little training in pool, most of my thought process is obtained from interpreting articles by Dr. Dave and Bob Jewett with my own experiences. Any misrepresentation or errors in statement are mine, not theirs.
Hope things are going well in the north country.
I wanted to share what I'm doing right now.
I tried a shaft about 5 months ago. I havn't been totally happy with some things that I just can't do with my LD shaft.
1. Soft spin on a 1/4 ball cut coming off the rail. Outside english on this shot way inconsistent. cb would flatten out allot for no reason.
2. Shooting at the OB on a shoft shot the CB would curve too much with the LD shaft. Hard to control and predict.
3. Putting inside English on a shot that I wanted to come 3 rails around the table was difficult with cb trying to go too straight.
His name is Mitchell thomas and he made me a laminated shaft. I liked the way it played and thought it was the same as the predator 314 but it was not. I was getting just a little bit of deflection. At first i thought this is no good. But then I started to realize that these things that I was having trouble with the other shaft were gone with this one.
By giving up just a little bit of deflection, not much, this shaft plays like it should or like the old maple shaft did for the most part.
I get that little touchy feely spin and the ball does not curve uncontrolably. I can I can curve around balls and not worry about it curving into the ball I'm going around.
I can shoot a long shot with left English and not worry if it is going to curve an inch or maybe 2 on the way down. Easy to predict.
My draw shots are also easy to predict the length better.
I get some deflection but the other simple thing that I can do well now more than make up for it.
This is still an experiment in the making but I am liking what I see.
I put this shaft on without hardly any practice and played very well in a whole tournament.
I'm starting to think that a happy median might be better than stiffer than a board. At least it is seeming this way.
Now I have to find out if this guy is making the shafts like this on purpose or it's an accident?
Can he make them to all play exactly like this or is it a one time fluke?
If he can consistently make these the same I think he really has something here.
Anyway. Just wanted to share this with you my friend.