The flex in the shaft and hardness of the tip effect how long the tip to ball contact lasts.
The soft rubber paddles replacing sand paper in table tennis is an interesting study. Marty Reisman had such crazy skills with the hard sandpaper that he did halftime shows with The Harlem Globe Trotters. The soft rubber paddles changed the game from precision to power.

Kenny proves once again that cheap is a relative term.

don't underestimate the predator fanboys and what they're willing to pay for stuff

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that's ass backwards

What's with the passive aggressiveness of the OP? Should've just told us the story and moved on but instead came off as a, "this is mine and you guys should be privileged I'm showing it off" attitude.

this just cracks me up

Frosty said:

But most of all quality of equipment, the best players in the world should play on the best equipment, Diamond tables, Aramith balls, Simonis cloth, not on equipment made by whomever writes MR a big check to get MR to use their equipment.

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most if not all of the MR events this year have been played on diamond tables. the predator events i believe are played on re-branded yalin tables.

BasementDweller said:

I don't really like 8 Ball, but maybe they could have added more variety to their calendar by adding the other disciplines,

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Maybe 3 ball for the folks with short attention spans. I never see it mentioned on here.

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Well late again and only part way but I recall when the pole vaulting equipment changed. The flex in the shaft is a huge factor. Cole's knowledge was freely dispensed as I drove him. He stated that 2 cues made by the same to the same specs would still feel totally different to him.
"I wouldn't be able to shoot with that cue now." Is what he said of the cue I bought from him. A Joss made to his specs kept on file as he often put the cue up as a last barrel.