Just wanted to post my experience from changing form one to another.
I have been using high deflection cues and BHE from the first day i started playing pool. It took me a long time before i totally got how BHE worked, and what the different variables are. I finaly had 5 lines drawn with a pencil on my shaft that i used as a reference, and i just loved to dont have to adjust my aim when using any english at all.
I know most of the players use LD shafts now, and i never wanted to switch. I didnt get why Low Deflection would be better then NO deflection. Well i thought it give it a try, knowing that i could resell the shaft easily in case i wasnt suted for me.
I was expecting to need a big time laps to fully adjust, but it took me 3 sessions to master it. I'll try to give the pro's and the con's of each method.
pro's:
1/ with the LD the maximum englisch i can aply is ALOT higher. I can't explain it, because im hitting with the same speed, and same distance from center, but i'm getting different results. it frustrates me that i can't explain why, but it just plain gives more english. Its rare that you have to use MAX english, so its not that you will need it often, but in case where you completly missed your position it can help alot (especially on inside englisch shots) I'd say im getting 30% more english then the regular shaft (that came with the bob frey sneaky).
Pro's: If i ever brake a shaft, i know i can buy one with same deflection characteristics as the one i had before. If i brake my standard shaft, i will have to play and test different shafts to find one that is the same, or Adapt my pivot points (wich might not be the same as my natural pivot point).
Pro's: i don't have to adjust my bridgelenght as much as with a low deflection shaft. In cases where i used to very slowly roll the cb with alot of english i had to bridge so far, my precision on the cb was getting worse, and from time to time, i'd miscue. Using fhe solves this problem for me.
con's:
With BHE, if u didnt stroke the cue straight, and you aplied some extra english, as you would hold the shaft at the pivot point, the unstraight-stroke won't have much of an influence. Your bridgehand always stay's stable, and whatever the backhand descides to do, the BHE-pivot point won't make the cb go into a different line. With FRE, your backhand has to go straight.
(this can be seen as a pro, because if i dont stroke straight i will see the difference, and i will be constantly reminded about it, and it will make me stroke straighter in the long run.)
feeling: I finaly understand what people mean with the death hit of the shaft. I can agree its different, and once my tip (standard hercules that comes with the 314²) has been more compressed the feeling is less death. (or maybe its just me who got used to it). Personally, i prefere a hit that gives me a lesser strong feedback. I can see with how the CB reacts if i didnt hit it right, i dont need a cue to tell me that, so for me personally, i have no problem at all.
Basically, i think im going to stick to the high deflection shaft, (even if i never thought i'd say it).
PS this is just my personal 2c, i just know alot of people might be temped to switch, only advice i can give is: give it a try, it might sute you, or it might not.
I have been using high deflection cues and BHE from the first day i started playing pool. It took me a long time before i totally got how BHE worked, and what the different variables are. I finaly had 5 lines drawn with a pencil on my shaft that i used as a reference, and i just loved to dont have to adjust my aim when using any english at all.
I know most of the players use LD shafts now, and i never wanted to switch. I didnt get why Low Deflection would be better then NO deflection. Well i thought it give it a try, knowing that i could resell the shaft easily in case i wasnt suted for me.
I was expecting to need a big time laps to fully adjust, but it took me 3 sessions to master it. I'll try to give the pro's and the con's of each method.
pro's:
1/ with the LD the maximum englisch i can aply is ALOT higher. I can't explain it, because im hitting with the same speed, and same distance from center, but i'm getting different results. it frustrates me that i can't explain why, but it just plain gives more english. Its rare that you have to use MAX english, so its not that you will need it often, but in case where you completly missed your position it can help alot (especially on inside englisch shots) I'd say im getting 30% more english then the regular shaft (that came with the bob frey sneaky).
Pro's: If i ever brake a shaft, i know i can buy one with same deflection characteristics as the one i had before. If i brake my standard shaft, i will have to play and test different shafts to find one that is the same, or Adapt my pivot points (wich might not be the same as my natural pivot point).
Pro's: i don't have to adjust my bridgelenght as much as with a low deflection shaft. In cases where i used to very slowly roll the cb with alot of english i had to bridge so far, my precision on the cb was getting worse, and from time to time, i'd miscue. Using fhe solves this problem for me.
con's:
With BHE, if u didnt stroke the cue straight, and you aplied some extra english, as you would hold the shaft at the pivot point, the unstraight-stroke won't have much of an influence. Your bridgehand always stay's stable, and whatever the backhand descides to do, the BHE-pivot point won't make the cb go into a different line. With FRE, your backhand has to go straight.
(this can be seen as a pro, because if i dont stroke straight i will see the difference, and i will be constantly reminded about it, and it will make me stroke straighter in the long run.)
feeling: I finaly understand what people mean with the death hit of the shaft. I can agree its different, and once my tip (standard hercules that comes with the 314²) has been more compressed the feeling is less death. (or maybe its just me who got used to it). Personally, i prefere a hit that gives me a lesser strong feedback. I can see with how the CB reacts if i didnt hit it right, i dont need a cue to tell me that, so for me personally, i have no problem at all.
Basically, i think im going to stick to the high deflection shaft, (even if i never thought i'd say it).
PS this is just my personal 2c, i just know alot of people might be temped to switch, only advice i can give is: give it a try, it might sute you, or it might not.
. Is it because of the way the tip deflects from the sphere when the sphere is hit of center that is different from one shaft to another? Maybe the timelaps in between the contact of the tip with the cb is longer/shorter? maybe as the shaft deflects more as its cored in the front, the final position when the tip leaves the cb is "deflected" to a bigger distance from the center (eventhough at the moment when the tip makes contact with the cb they are in the same place?) i have NO FREAKING idea, and honestly i don't need scientist proof to explain me why, all i can see is what the CB does, and it does it differently then before. 
I don't care what others think, and i won't gain anything for changing your opinion, but I can't deny what the eyes see.
