SSP said:

I swore I would never use a CF cue, Hawaiian Eye and Becue's website helped me decide to try their cues, I now own their Break cue, Jump cue and you see the pictures of the custom work they did for me, I guess I like their cues.....

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I was in the same frame of mind. For the last 8 years I played with a steel jointed Tascarella and decided to try new technology. I bought a Mezz and used the Ignite shaft. However, when I investigated the Becue, I was very impressed with their technology, plus the best player in our league was using an all carbon fiber cue from Go Customs. Also, the members mentioned above had very interesting threads on the Becue. I pulled the trigger on a Becue a few months ago, and can tell you that there is really nothing that can compare to the hit of the all carbon fiber cues. I really like mine.

-dj

I like how in the other video you can click when the original is finished, he takes full responsibility for CYCLOP being garbage.
Anyone remember those balls spontaneously taking left turns and such?
And he learned from the owner of the Hyatt ball company, the company that made the original Centennials, the technology to make these.

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What form of payment do you offer?

its the money thing as in most professions or most interests. nowadays there is no money to be made at all until you are a touring pro. so why work to get good, especially if you know you wont or cant make it to that level.

in the past just being a good game maker made you decent money, or lots of it if you could find the action.

only a relatively few are "devoted" players for funzies. and nothing wrong with that as it is then a hobby.

IDK if this link will work, but it has the owner of Dyansphere and he gives a brief company history. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AbzaQaPxZ/?mibextid=LoFJqn

Note, it's a Taiwanese company, not Chinese. Taiwan owner, Chinese factory location.

maha said:

most all of the greats from the past and i suspect now as well had a dad that owned a pool room or had access to a table to play for free as much as they wanted with competition available.

mosconi and mizerack are two of the best examples.

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They also have to develop a love for the game and enjoy playing. Ever see Steve Mizerak's son play? He can't hardly make a ball, he doesn't care anything at all about it.
It's not that hard to play good pool it just takes some practice and some time put in and you can play fairly decent. But for a player with some talent to really become extremely good at the game requires a real commitment.

What would be the basis of that commitment in general? A guy sees all his friends going to college getting married getting good jobs starting businesses and he's spending 6 hours a day playing pool, for what? It makes very little sense.
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maha said:

most all of the greats from the past and i suspect now as well had a dad that owned a pool room or had access to a table to play for free as much as they wanted with competition available.

mosconi and mizerack are two of the best examples.

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Which is why the greats of the past just like now didn’t need to be great athletes like exceptional athletes in sports (and they weren’t). We aren’t losing great players to pro sports in any sense - pool isn’t all that accessible/available or even popular in terms of competing with real athletics and really isn’t something kids in general gravitate towards in the same way as sports.