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Take all of the weight out of your break cue

Flakeandrun
The Old Jaybird said:
assuming that the lighter the cue, the more cue ball speed, the stronger the break, how much is TOO much??? There has to be a sweet spot of cue weight and velocity. look at the chart below.

20 ounce cue moving at 20 mph
18 ounce cue moving at 22 mph
16 ounce cue moving at 24 mph
14 ounce cue moving at 26 mph
12 ounce cue moving at 28 mph
10 ounce cue moving at 30 mph

these are all made up numbers, but you get the idea.

If speed was the main factor then a one ounce cue, think pencil, hitting the cue ball at 80 mph would be ideal.
or if cue weight was the main factor then a 19 POUND cue hitting at 2 mph would be the best.

There has to be a "magic" combo that produces the ideal break shot. Doesn't there???
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True, and I think that will be relevant to the individual, there physical condition and their stroke mechanics. Like most things in cue sports, you can learn to use anything. Some things fit our playing 'personality' (for want of a better word)
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Take all of the weight out of your break cue

Flakeandrun
Blue said:
Interesting thread Flake.

I reduced my break cue weights recently too.

What tip do you have on your break cue?

I am currently on kamui sai but dont really like it.
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Currently PBkai with Ignite G shaft. A bulletproof tip.

After playing it in for a few months, I find it transfers energy really nicely through the ball. Enough softeness for 'feel' and hard enough for power through the ball. I like the 'feel' to it, for me I feel this helps with timing and stroke mechanics. I can clearly define the point of contact with the cueball, and time my mechanics nicely. Highly rate it as a tip (I dented it badly when I first got it, and when I asked, he said he'd give me a lifetime supply if I could truly break it lol - after a little more playing, right back to how I shaped it).

Nice for jumping the ball too (if you're into that sort of thing).

Sai was second on my list, and if it wasn't for the fact someone gave me the BP to try, I would have gone that route.
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Any help identifying this cue

Poolplaya9
Chopdoc said:
You can also look up Anton Syndrome. It's a rare disorder where a person is blind but thinks they can see. Their brain can manufacture "sight".
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Sounds kind of related to ghost limbs where people can still feel limbs that they no longer have. Both covered in the show.
Chopdoc said:
As a demonstration that your brain constantly does such things, you have been reading this while not seeing your nose until I mention it. Your nose is in your field of vision. Your brain has been "erasing" your nose and filling in the missing visual information by creating it.
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Yup, our brain fills in significant parts of our vision, pretty much all of the time, with stuff it is literally making up for us to "see". All covered in the show with many dozens if not hundreds of examples shown over the course of the series.
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