My only deep apology is to Royce... He was a better man than me and I miss his guidance... I will apologize to the rest of AZ for the drama as I should have waited until I could post something of substance instead of calling names but Dave did post his link on my site and has been doing so on my sales threads for awhile on FB... He is spreading myth... That's 1 thing I won't do... If I say something will break... That it's a knockoff or that they are breaking Federal Trade Laws, when I say those things..... I have no problem standing behind them... Royce taught me no BS... As long as it's not BS... I have no problem standing behind what I say..... and we do still make our products out of my home.. about 1000 ft is now Outsville... We live in the other 1400 for now... But Back to the inconvenient truths....
Some Inconvenient truths..... Dispelled by a different kind of PHD and Genius......
Many of you have likely seen this on you tube... http://billiards.colostate.edu/threads/chalk.html..... After 6 years studying, making and pretty much breathing and eating chalk... There are some truths that won't match up with a bad set of tests and an amateur stroke.....
1) Chalk doesn't either miss cue or create good contact..... Use your ears the next time you don't get the results you expected... Good contact has a warm wave form when you look at the sound wave.. A miss cue will have a higher sound and it has a narrower wave form... A slip depending on when it occurs will be in between as will be the amount of english you get....
2) Premium Chalk does not have a different misscue limit than standard chalk... That would be akin to saying bald tires get the same traction as drag slicks maybe in a pinto but not on anything else... Premium chalks have graded abrasives and they are higher in quality and are in abundance... Abrasives are what makes chalk work...
3) As long as you chalk each shot it doesn't matter what chalk you use... Yeah no.... Better chalk will change your game it you give it a month for your subconscious to relearn the new limits and you can trust those limits on each shot using several premiums as they are more consistent and homogeneous thruout the cube/piece
So on to the PHD and Genius... I wanted to build a robot before I got into this and then I went to the Expo.... Not sure who all saw this but Mark Rosner and a few others saw it so this is not fiction....
I apologize for not allowing Corey to make this post but he is likely somewhere trying to win a tournament.. using his PHD or Pool Hall Degree.....
Corey Deuel was at the Expo and decided to see for himself if there really was a difference between Master and Kamui... His idea on how to test this and eliminate bias and stroke flaws was once again pure genius.... And all it took was the chalk, his cue and a simple notebook...
What Corey did was to use the notebook to establish the height of his stroke... He then took turns with the different chalks and started turning pages to lower his cue as he went on shooting draw shots....
Once he established a misscue limit for the master he continued to turn pages and go lower and lower with the Kamui.... Now I have to point out that the master had a fluctuating limit since it does not use a graded abrasive... What you thought was the limit for one shot was not the limit the next time....
I have not done the test with the different chalks because of time but this is something ANY of you can try... I can't say Great White will beat Kamui or that we will lose to them either but I can say that anyone who says there is no difference in the different chalks is completely wrong and you can prove it to yourself.... Best part is that this is what matters... Noone shoots 20 shots between chalking unless they are playing for fun.....
Some Inconvenient truths..... Dispelled by a different kind of PHD and Genius......
Many of you have likely seen this on you tube... http://billiards.colostate.edu/threads/chalk.html..... After 6 years studying, making and pretty much breathing and eating chalk... There are some truths that won't match up with a bad set of tests and an amateur stroke.....
1) Chalk doesn't either miss cue or create good contact..... Use your ears the next time you don't get the results you expected... Good contact has a warm wave form when you look at the sound wave.. A miss cue will have a higher sound and it has a narrower wave form... A slip depending on when it occurs will be in between as will be the amount of english you get....
2) Premium Chalk does not have a different misscue limit than standard chalk... That would be akin to saying bald tires get the same traction as drag slicks maybe in a pinto but not on anything else... Premium chalks have graded abrasives and they are higher in quality and are in abundance... Abrasives are what makes chalk work...
3) As long as you chalk each shot it doesn't matter what chalk you use... Yeah no.... Better chalk will change your game it you give it a month for your subconscious to relearn the new limits and you can trust those limits on each shot using several premiums as they are more consistent and homogeneous thruout the cube/piece
So on to the PHD and Genius... I wanted to build a robot before I got into this and then I went to the Expo.... Not sure who all saw this but Mark Rosner and a few others saw it so this is not fiction....
I apologize for not allowing Corey to make this post but he is likely somewhere trying to win a tournament.. using his PHD or Pool Hall Degree.....
Corey Deuel was at the Expo and decided to see for himself if there really was a difference between Master and Kamui... His idea on how to test this and eliminate bias and stroke flaws was once again pure genius.... And all it took was the chalk, his cue and a simple notebook...
What Corey did was to use the notebook to establish the height of his stroke... He then took turns with the different chalks and started turning pages to lower his cue as he went on shooting draw shots....
Once he established a misscue limit for the master he continued to turn pages and go lower and lower with the Kamui.... Now I have to point out that the master had a fluctuating limit since it does not use a graded abrasive... What you thought was the limit for one shot was not the limit the next time....
I have not done the test with the different chalks because of time but this is something ANY of you can try... I can't say Great White will beat Kamui or that we will lose to them either but I can say that anyone who says there is no difference in the different chalks is completely wrong and you can prove it to yourself.... Best part is that this is what matters... Noone shoots 20 shots between chalking unless they are playing for fun.....