cueball2010 said:

Hello Bulletproof Billiards! Any promos coming up on the Recoil tips?

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Dont be cheap!!!
Just buy it

jayman said:

Still available...

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What size tip? Do you have joint protectors for it?

fastone371 said:

I would try a different tip on the 3 piece first. I have a Gulyassy break cue with a phenolic tip, I grew to hate that tip so I had a clear Bulletproof installed on it and it made a huge difference.

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Does the bulletproof hold chalk at all? Thanks!

Paul_#_ said:

In any event, it is not the way to reduce deflection.

McDermott's Defy carbon-fiber-only shaft also mimics McDermott's effort to make their i-series and G-core shafts non-Revo like. Defy's carbon fiber is different from other companies's CF. As McDermott states on its website about a component in the carbon fiber rod:

SmacWrap, originally designed for the aerospace industry, absorbs vibration and dampens noise resulting in a confident hit with a soft feel and quiet sound.​

OK, it is remarkable stuff, but that accomplishment of a 'confident hit' (read not a Revo hit) and quiet sound (read not a Revo tink) comes at a cost of lessening the energy transfer efficiency to the cue --- significantly. Its a sort of joke but it is an accurate test of relative energy transfer efficiency by dropping a shaft on a pool table and seeing how far it bounces. The higher the bounce, the more energy transferred. Defy doesn't bounce while other shafts do. Proof enough this CF shaft lives up to company hype that their shaft is different. But it comes with a cost of less oomph to each hit.

Find Bob Jewett and Dr Dave's bounce-test of whole cues not done on a pool table by clicking here. See bar bouncing of Defy shaft by clicking here.

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You are assuming it's everyone goal to make some sort of magical zero deflection shaft. There are many players who are doing just fine with a 30 year old cue with an over 4 ounce shaft that has had no consideration for deflection. Most of those people don't want a drastic change in how they aim if they decide to buy a new cue. A large majority of pool players who are buying these things never even hit a ball with them before the purchase. They just like the way it looks.

Oscar just had a really good run at US Open. He plays with the 12.9mm LP Infuzed shaft because it is not as low of deflection as their other products.

Also, I completely disagree with your assessment of the bounce and energy transfer. Ever hit something with a dead blow hammer?
Just because there is a dampening system within something doesn't change the potential for energy transfer. And some people like a soft, quiet hit.

Here's the Open lineup. A bunch of strong local players and the pros. I'm going to go up to Skinny Bob's at least once to see Fedor and SVB play.

OPEN DIVISION - FULL

1 Vitaliy Patsura
2 Eric Aicinena
3 Fuad Mohammed
4 Miguel Salvilla
5 Randy Whitehead
6 Eric Smith
7 Jason Casebolt
8 MIchael Montes
9 MIchael Hamman
10 Demetrius Jelatis
11 Dave O'Keefee
12 Mark Szabo
13 Aro Majumder
14 Savannah Easton
15 Jackson Evans
16 Chase LaFerney
17 Jude Rosenstock
18 Jay Tang
19 James Davis, Jr
20 Sammy Downs
21 John Morra
22 Brian Saxton
23 Daniel Cole
24 Manny Orta
25 Robert Orta
26 Josh Keller
27 Ray Baca
28 Ricky Ferguson
29 Randy Corpuz
30 Joel Nabia
31 Elijah Rendon
32 Daniel Hix
33 Danny Seay
34 Steven Kay
35 Ken Nguyen
36 Charles Carlisle
37 KC Massey
38 Tony Mathew
39 Gavin Ray Mathew
40 Jayden Holt
41 Sky Woodward
42 Tony Chau
43 Cameron Hahn
44 Jaden Acuna
45 Steve Sheppard
46 Donnie Proctor
47 Marshall Butler
48 Ian Bowling
49 Andrew Bowling
50 Josh Roberts
51 Bill Fuller
52 Steven Butler
53 Daniel Sardoncillo
54 Juan Acuna
55 Noah Contreras
56 Ruben Silva, Jr
57 Frank Urbaniak
58 Matt Wong
59 Jeremy Voigt
60 Robert Perez
61 Charles Swisher
62 Steve Kolecki
63 John Eagle
64 Robert Raygoza
65 MIchael Koch
66 Carl Honey
67 Paul SIfuentes
68 Eduardo Ramirez
69 Jay White
70 NIcholas De Leon
71 MIguel Polanco
72 Curtis Tidmore
73 Mark Johnson
74 Lucas Taylor
75 Jacob Warriner
76 MIchael Alonzo
77 Juan Longoria, Jr
78 Devin Poteet
79 Billy Dyke
80 Chris Sharier
81 Clint Palici
82 Bernard Walker
83 Ricardo Guiterrez
84 John Askew
85 Chris McDaniel
86 Adam Sisneros
87 Marcus Romero
88 Lazaro Martinez III
89 Matt Schimming
90 Billy Sullivan
91 Chris Morris
92 Valerio Torres
93 Shane VanBoening
94 Rodney Jones
95 Brian Sanders
96 David Neumann
97 Jesus Atencio
98 TJ Lohr
99 Matthew Shoemaker
100 Mike Hoffman
101 David Sanders
102 Max Sun
103 Blake Kamiab
104 Justice Eagan
105 Shunsuke Chino
106 Jeremy Diggs
107 Tommy Tokoph
108 Fedor Gorst
109 Bubba Staton
110 Cody Vann
111 Daniel Campos
112 Shane Wolford
113 Billy Thorpe
114 Callum O'Donnell
115 Raed Shabib
116 Michael Schneider
117 Woldai Alex Wagner
118 Marshal McCloskey
119 Bobby Stubbs
120 Nick Chirco
121 Mike Maloney
122 Justin Espinosa
123 Gabriel Martinez
124 Shahram Changezi
125 Thomas Leonard
126 Logan Calhoun
127 Sky Massingill
128 Norman Skinner

TheGrandWazoo said:

Gotta say Diamond’s customer service is off the charts in my book. Got a wonderful package in the mail today!

The old leather buckets have outlived their usefulness, and Diamond did me a solid!

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Please be sure and take pictures of the install process so you can share.

I would try a different tip on the 3 piece first. I have a Gulyassy break cue with a phenolic tip, I grew to hate that tip so I had a clear Bulletproof installed on it and it made a huge difference.

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AverageTXN said:

I just want a little more feel. I understand all the performance aspects of CF. That's why I use CF right now. But CF can't give you feel.

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The LD shafts that were made of wood had ' feedback ' problems according to purists.

Many Old School One Pocket players avoided them.

Brand to brand the CF shafts hit different.

I play with a Mezz CF shaft and have no feedback issues.........

Then there is the issue of ferrules, different ferrules play differently............

I had several tips put on by Gus back in Jersey and they were always Le Pro tips.
If he had any others I dont know.
Like manwon said back in the day there were not a lot of tips around.
If you needed a new tip you just had one put on rarely even asking what brand it was,same with chalk you just used want the room had mostly Masters.
The game was simpler back then.

I would keep the jump break cue.
Sand the tip flat and put a hard leather break tip, it will make a ton of difference.
I have of these players modified and it doesn’t feel less solid than the BK2 when it comes to the butt, the only difference is due to the shaft and tip.

fjk said:

I had Garth make me a case too. It was over 20 years ago. Sold, beautiful case. I'll see if I could post some pics later.

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I should have hung on to this case.

skogstokig said:

only 2 is infinitely more important than 1. again i ask, what has fargo #2 ameer ali banked? he works part time selling cutlery. no shame in that, but yapp has won over $325000 and that's why he's ranked #2 in the world in the WNT rankings

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Depends on what you are measuring. Fargo attempts to measure pure pool skill. Money won is as much about number of tournaments entered as it is about skill.

As a pro, I don't doubt #2 is what matters. Gotta pay the bills. But improving #1 (the actual pure pool skill part) can also boost #2.

Also Ameer has so few games in the system it's probably still much more likely that his true rating should be much lower than that it's accurate. Whether that means he'd be an 820 or a 780 or what I don't know, but I'd bet lots of money he'd drop a lot by the time he's at 3000 games.

The problem with a lot of sites proposed on this thread is the crowd size is a big unknown. The South seems to be the most hospitable region in that regard and Matchroom is aiming for a triple or home run like Orlando. Texas seems like the best bet by far.