KO brothers tip review.

Watch his wrist.
Snap of his wrist and his speed of stroke, I was at SBE one year and they had a radar gun to test break speed, my friend hit 26mph, I tried several times and my best was 14mph, some people have more natural speed of stroke, just like some people can punch faster than others, I believe the formula is speed x mass = force, so I went from using an 18.5 oz cue to using a 22.5 oz cue, did it help? Like night and day, there was nothing I could do about my speed of stroke but adding the weight helped me move the cueball around the table, not just draw but follow as well, I use that little snap of the wrist on those shots too, that's what they mean by timing, you have to time the snap of the wrist a split second before contact with the cueball, that little snap speeds up your speed of stroke, when done properly the cueball seems to stop for half a second and then rocket backwards, that has been my experience, your experience may differ.....

I've been absolutely enjoying my Jacoby Elements cue with a Bulletproof CF shaft & Recoil medium tip.

I received both at roughly the same time and have spent most of my playing with this combo. I have another cue with a radial pin and a couple of CF shafts, so there's been some swapping around. This combo yields the best synergy though, in my opinion. Everything works well together.

I like the balance here. The hit, accuracy and control all align excellently with my skill level and gives me some solid confidence at the table. I think they look great together, as well.

Now, I have also ordered a deep brown dark roasted shaft for this. I'm very interested to see how actual wood plays here (The standard maple shaft that came with it hits good, but I can't stand 13mm tips anymore). I have a PureX inFUZEd (in a different joint) and really like it a lot, so I'm thinking Kielwood will be nice here, as well. I chose not to go with PureX, however, because I wanted a deeper brown that I think will look exceptional on this cue.

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Yapp winning, with a foul! Just like Maradona making a goal with his hands :D

You simply don't understand how camera/video works, it is motion picture combined together, it is picture after picture after picture and so on and so fourth, very quickly to make it moving pictures then you perceive it as a video.
I do understand it, which you should know because I already gave an explanation of it better than yours. It is you who clearly does not understand how cameras work, certainly not in the sense of being aware of the optical illusion type tricks they can play on you, which I showed indisputable proof of in post #138 but apparently you weren't willing to spend the minute to look and actually learn something. The camera/video is making it look like the nine ball is moving many times all throughout the video, even before the shot, when it very clearly cannot have really moved. You also don't seem to understand basic physics and seem to think that after being sideswiped by a pool cue that an object ball will sit there for a while and postpone its reaction before it finally decides to move at some later time at its leisure when it feels like it.
If he fouled the 9ball, then you may think as a simple guy who don't understand video that the same FRAME (picture) should have the cue attack the cueball and that same specific/particular frame should also have the 9ball moving right?
If you expect to have ONE PICTURE where the SHAFT hit the cueball & have the 9ball move in one frame, then please for the love of god read a book about motion pictures, thats all I am gona say here.
Seriously, learn to read. It's just pure laziness in cases like this where you repeatedly fail to comprehend the same very simple words over and over. Contrary to your statements above I have said several times already, very explicitly, that the frame in which this type of foul occurs does not have to also show the movement on the nine ball (although also contrary to your claim that it was actually impossible for that to be able to happen, it actually is quite possible that it can happen in the same frame, it just doesn't always have to and I have never once claimed that it needs to here and in fact have repeatedly said otherwise).

What I have actually said, over and over, and this is the part you just can't seem to understand and comprehend, is that the next frame AFTER the foul has occurred, and read that closely again and really let it sink in because I am not now and never have said it has to be in the same frame with the foul, but on this type of foul, the next frame AFTER the foul has occurred will show that the object ball has moved as a result of the foul that already occurred immediately BEFORE that frame. On this type of foul, if the ball isn't moving in that next frame AFTER the foul occurred, then you have to deduce that a foul most likely did not occur. Read that 50 times if you have to in order to understand it because you haven't comprehended it correctly the last 13 times you read it when I said it. "Same frame" and "frame after" are two very different things, yet for some reason you keep "hearing" "SAME frame" every time I actually say the "frame AFTER".

In post #138 I point out where the foul HAD to have occurred if it occurred. And then I point out the next frame AFTER that, where you would expect to see the nine moving if indeed a foul had actually occurred just prior to that. I point out that we do not see the nine ball moving in that frame AFTER, not even a little bit, not even maybe, thus making it very unlikely that a foul occurred at all because nine balls that get sideswiped by cue sticks tend to move and they tend to move right away, not at some later date, and we would have seen it moving in the frame right AFTER the foul if there had been a foul.

KO brothers tip review.

To play devil's advocate I can think of a few... I draw well. Nuff said.
I don't use draw that often unless I blow shape or there's no other way to get where I need to be. Idk what makes draw so much harder than follow in everyone's minds, but it's a fact that more strange things can occur with a draw shot than using high or follow.
That being said, I also avoid banks and combos whenever possible as they add complexity to the shot and I'm all about simple. Park my ass mid table and go. Why take chances when not necessary??
If more players went home hungry after a loss, they'd understand this.
Help me out Hu.😉
I think its quite simple: You need to use draw when the situation calls for.If you cant draw the ball you will not be a good player.And sometimes you get to the table and ''have'' to execute a big draw shot.

For example here

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Any help identifying this cue

Hey my brothers I've taken a few pics of a cue I was hoping someone can chime in with any thoughts on it, it's got old school vibes, no makers marks or anything. Thanks for your time!

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SJM at the 2025 US Open: Matchroom Delivers Again!

Looks like the U.S. Open is moving. Texas is the goal.

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Looks like a few players won't miss AC from the comments haha. I don't blame them.

AC was somewhat local for me. I never go to AC otherwise, unless I'm literally driving through it to get to Cape May or I have to attend some kind of industry event down there.

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