Taom, Pagulayan etc are not “makeup chalk”. The old Kamui was like lipstick. These new chalks are just clean.
Whatever, keep telling yourself that. Everyone talks about how clean they are yet because the bangers who buy everything new thinking it will make them better, have made a mess of the tables of the hall I play at using the green version on blue cloth to where the guy that did the table maintenance, cleaning quit because the owner wouldn’t take a stand against those using green chalk on blue cloth. If it’s so clean then how does such a mess of things?
Master and Triangle chalk have been around near forever, yet somehow world class players still managed to play at an elite level with it without all the whining like Mr. Appleton displayed by using it as an excuse for his sub par play. Funny he managed to win 2 US Opens and a World 10 ball title before this “miracle chalk” arrived. Clean my ass, it’s turns blue cloth a shade of yellow because the idiots can’t use the blue version and when you ask them why, they say it plays different.
EDIT:to add a final thought. Years back Magic Chalk came on the scene, everyone here raved about it, that it was cleaner than standard chalks, Dr. Dave tested chalks for amount of hits without a miscue, it ranked the highest amongst all others tested. Yet no one talks about it anymore, did it become less clean, stop preventing miscues? No, it just became forgotten because something new and more expensive came along. It’s the way most “pool players” and I use that term loosely are. Those that can play, can play with anything, they don’t need LD Shafts, CF shafts, $1000 break cues, $800 jump cues and $25 chalk. They can play with a wooden house cue with an elkmaster tip and a cube of masters all day. The mediocre, they buy every new thing convinced that this new add to their kit will be the thing that finally helps them play good and then will defend these purchases to the death while still being 3 ball runners. The manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank.
