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maha · Sep 17, 2026

a little trick i use to eliminate those chips, is to not hit the table with the butt of your cue. try it for awhile and see if it helps.

maha · Sep 17, 2026

it may work as a training device. but what ever a person chooses really needs to be justified by someone with expertise.

winging it using trick equipment isnt usually helpful. but if it works for a person than it works.

nothing improves your stroke like lining up with something straight and stroking enough times to make it perfect.

maha · Sep 17, 2026

they allow gambling in casinos and some sports and horse betting. where they crack down isn't so much on personal betting but on organized betting operations.

but still being a communist country you are at their mercy when doing anything. the communist party still runs things under the guise of calling it a socialist party.

Icon of Sin · Sep 17, 2026

jtompilot said:
You’re at Top Hat, Dominick Noe is the man.

Yeah, he's a close friend.

jax_joe · Sep 17, 2026

JCIN said:
Its been a long time since I've stopped by but I hope everyone is doing well. I received notice that Vimeo is discontinuing its Video On Demand service in November and all access to anything anyone has bought will go away. This is not my choice it is something the hosting platform has decided to do despite me paying yearly to maintain the service.

I have set all of the PPV videos to be able to be downloaded by anyone who has bought them. Just wanted to give people a heads up that if you have ever bought any videos and would like to keep them you should go download them before November 21.

Going forward I don't know what I will do with the videos that were on Vimeo. All of them have music that would get nuked by Youtube so not sure thats an option. If there is an option on Vimeo to just make them all public I'll probably do that but I have not gotten that far yet.

I'll check back on this thread over the next few days if anyone has any questions but the above is pretty much all the info I have from Vimeo. I can't answer any support questions on downloading or anything regarding the platform that has to go to Vimeo customer service.

Thanks to everyone who was around back in the TAR days. We had some good times.

Justin Collett

Thanks for the heads up. I redownloaded the Schmidt v Harriman I lost on a drive that went bad recently.

So it looks like you have removed the purchase option? https://vimeo.com/tarondemand

Paul Bell · Sep 17, 2026

Its the Indian and not the arrow but what if the shaft is ten ounces instead of most shafts' four ounces and the butt is ten ounces versus most butts' 16 ounces? Finally a cue that is different from other cues --- a Black Blade cue.

Black Blade cues started as Liquid Weight cues which had another different idea. A better cue uses ball bearings in a viscous liquid to make it act like a dead blow hammer. Not for sale now.

Some have thought the present version, Black Blade cues, are okay. I suspect it is something that would work only for a new player. If you can't go to a trade show to try one of their cues, Black Blade will let you return a cue for the cost of shipping, handling, sales tax, and possible restocking fee. Maybe a $100 cost to try it out and return it?

SOME HAVE LIKED IT:

Pierre Shakes said:
I bought one at a BCA trade show in the '90s sometime. It could make a ball, but no English. Never did find a shot where it was superior to a real cue.

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EL'nino said:
I seem to remember Efren talking about his $10 cue he loved because the shaft was so dense & heavy.

AND

zencues.com said:
have been adding lead weight to the joint end of my playing shafts for more than 20 years.

It works.

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Cicerone88 said:
Forward weighted cues are good for touch and spinning the ball at low speed. This helps with finesse shots, allowing for better cue ball control in tight spaces. Good for games like one pocket or straight pool.

Cicerone88 said:
Cicerone88 said:

At soft speeds, having a forward weighted cue with a heavier shaft and soft tip feels like it sticks to the ball a little longer (even if its a fraction of a second) and helps push it through the cueball. If I have a really touchy shot and im tinkering my way through a rack, having a cue with more weight at the front gives better feedback and control than say a LD shaft with low front end mass and a harder tip where it feels like the ball bounces off the tip. Like all cues your mileage may vary, but for those reasons that can be a potential advantage for some.

Pagulayan has a forward weighted cue he uses for one pocket for the same reasons.

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Forward weighted cues are good for touch and spinning the ball at low speed. This helps with finesse shots, allowing for better cue ball control in tight spaces. Good for games like one pocket or straight pool.

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hang-the-9 said:
I used the first version of the liquid weight cue, it had a very interesting but not what I would call a bad hit. Actually enjoyed playing with it but decided not to buy one even though it was not expensive at all.

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muskyed · Sep 17, 2026

JasonATX said:
I watched the Neagley series on Amazon yesterday and a version of this ad played throughout it. It did not have the pool table in that version. I had to watch several times to be sure.

Yup, I saw a version on TV and no pool table scene was in it

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