This is an interesting theory, and has me wondering about why I could always get more spin on the cue ball without a miscue with my whippy 12mm Eckes shaft compared to everyone else back in the 70's & 80's.
I do realize that a 12mm tip is able to hit lower on the cue ball compared to a 13mm tip, but a tip that maintains it's position on a cue ball at impact is less likely to result in a miscue.
Flexibility is needed, along side low front end mass.
The problem with Meucci’s black dot shaft was that it was laminated and had to be held in a certain direction to get it to work, unlike the Predator pie construction that gave radial consistency
It depends on what you mean by top players. I have zero sympathy for the 650-750 players who bitch about capped tournaments and say things like “get better and practice” because lower players don’t want to play them even and then these same top players refuse to step up when open events come around and they are the ones who are underdogs.
What sucks is that there ARE a bunch of players 650-750 guys who do want to step up and play the pros. But without more of them willing to do so, the events can’t happen.
As a player in that 650-750 range. I was signed up and paid for entry to Mcdermott open. 7 hours away. I play as many of the bigger tournaments I can just to play better players. Def stinks.
I guess that one thing that WNT didn’t consider is American laziness…
The USA is big and most won’t travel too much and too often if they don’t think they can at least break even.
And not enough pro level players in any given state.
It’s easier to hustle nickel and dimes at the local bar of the local drunks
Thanks I didn't think I was crazy cuz I used to talk to Bob all the time. If I remember he had some kind of a thing set up using carbon paper that would show exactly where the ball hit and how much it deflected. They would walk around the show and get everybody's cues that would be willing to allow them to be tested and show that the meucci had less deflection.
If I remember right though Bob's theory was a little different. He had a long taper and he said that what it would do is it would flex in the center while keeping the tip more online.
This is an interesting theory, and has me wondering about why I could always get more spin on the cue ball without a miscue with my whippy 12mm Eckes shaft compared to everyone else back in the 70's & 80's.
I do realize that a 12mm tip is able to hit lower on the cue ball compared to a 13mm tip, but a tip that maintains it's position on a cue ball at impact is less likely to result in a miscue.
