As both a pool and snooker player, I could not help but observe a notable difference in the way playing equipment has advanced in both cue sports. In pool you have magic chalks, LD shafts, gloves, phenolic tips, Cyclops pool balls etc. You compare all that to what we have in snooker, and it would seem like snooker is still in the doldrums in terms of equipment technology. The only notable snooker tech I know of is the Gravity cue and the SightRight cue. On an unrelated note, there also doesn't SEEM to be a market for snooker-centric cue cases and snooker cues with a thousand aesthetic designs, at least certainly not as colourful and varied as what I see in the pool world.
Why is this so? For a cue sport that requires a lot more precision, one would rationally come to a conclusion that snooker would likely need the above advancements more than pool. Or is it an American capitalism thing: if snooker was an American game and pool an English one would we be seeing the same above technologies in the former and none in the latter? Discuss.
Why is this so? For a cue sport that requires a lot more precision, one would rationally come to a conclusion that snooker would likely need the above advancements more than pool. Or is it an American capitalism thing: if snooker was an American game and pool an English one would we be seeing the same above technologies in the former and none in the latter? Discuss.
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