iontarget said:

We are all over 65 years of age.

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There are several options. Just add a 14-year-old to the tournament to help you pick one and set it up online.

i traded for a Runde in 2012 maybe.... after the bulletin change / redo from previous tech I lost all those messages and history.

Cool cue.

bbb said:

I’m not sure I agree with that
You see many top players today taking full back swings close to the bridge hand and doing well with the tight pockets
Chris Meling and fedor Gorst come to mind

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Yes - but the big difference is that most of the great players today who pull the cue further back on the backswing do not have much shoulder integration into their stroke - it is mostly an elbow only pendulum swing.
So they are clearly more compact and robotic. They get the timing down so that the elbow pivot allows for max velocity as the cue strikes the cue ball and that creates the action needed without extra effort or moving parts.
Some, like Meglino, as seen this week, are mostly just forward motion of the cue with little back swing - he uses a short backswing almost exclusively when he wants to draw the cue - watch closely on different shots.
There is NO doubt that the old Brunswick GC 4 7/8 standard and the Cenntenial/ Anniversary model were 5+ — allowed for way more leeway in stroke mechanics to still play very very well.

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skor said:

Great, out of millions of players around the world, there are two that are exceptional…

In any system, a moving part is a weakness point, and since the human body is far from being an accurate machine, the stroke is the weakest point in our game and usually the main reason for misses even at the top pro level.

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Gymnastics, football, baseball, volleyball, etc etc etc. Lots of moving parts.

If fact, pool has almost no moving parts, in most cases only the forearm/elbow/wrist

BTW, he only mentioned 2, he didn't say there were only 2

Long story short, I've seen players practicing their "max spin swoop stroke" and their "quick draw dive-bomb stroke" and I want them to know AND BELIEVE that they are just adding complications.

Trying to figure this one out.

Silver label. Steel joint collar. 3/8x10 pin. Ebony into stained maple. Rounded points.

Crappy eBay pics. I don't have the cue yet.








Yes, I am still looking for ebony into maple cues. Passed up a number of spectacular cues. There are a couple good examples available right now. I did not prefer the stain on this one, but just couldn't pass it up. Nice condition.

My cue efforts are on the back burner while I am busy but I ran into this and grabbed it for this collection:

SSP said:

You could always lie to your friends and say I played SVB once for a C note, I had him but got lucky.....

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He'll be at Skinny Bob's in a couple weeks; I could probably make that actually happen. The playing, probably not the lucky.

Kris_b1104 said:

Are you an idiot? You must be allergic to proof and evidence.

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Allergic? Evidence? Idiot? Is this where I should threaten to slap you like you did me? Maybe I can manufacture some outrage so I can threaten you?

Again, you make me laugh, have a great day

Not directed at anyone in particular but after competing at many things one of the funniest things I have found is that many people will argue that the rules of physics don't apply to a particular pursuit.

Most would agree that gravity, inertia, and inclined planes apply consistently. I had dozens of posts disagreeing that these things matter. A few years after I left that forum a friend notified me that a new thread had been started titled "Hu is Wrong!" The funny thing, they were now agreeing these things existed and affected motion and only disagreed about magnitude. Since these things and the propulsion were variable, well except gravity for the most part, we were now in agreement. There were two hundred and fifty posts in the Hu is wrong thread now agreeing with me while saying I was wrong so I didn't bother to post!

Physics are consistent and immutable for the most part. What I do find over and over is that people refuse to consider all factors. Basically they scream two plus two is four! True enough, but the equation you need has at least ten other variables! I wasted a week in a test lab to prove to my boss that while two plus two is four, two plus two plus a plus b plus c etc, ain't!

Concerning stroke not mattering, it matters a lot. It affects the movement of the cue stick significantly which is roughly three times the weight of the cue ball, why would we think it wouldn't affect the cue ball?

Hu

From Google searching McDermott VQR
AI Overview




The McDermott Defy (VQR) is a high-performance carbon fiber pool cue shaft featuring a Viking Quick Release joint, designed to fit Viking cues

We have a good discussion related to this in another thread.