A professional BCA instructor and make statements like that? Well first let me thank you for the complement about nice looking cues. With that being said, lets take a deeper look into this. I don't know how much engineering you have done nor do I know how many cues you yourself made. But you are so wrong. Keep in mind there are a lot of people out there that have my cues as I have been building cues since 2003. They are probably laughing at your statement thinking this BCA professional Instructor still has a little to learn. So since you teach it is worth my time to educate you on a few things and maybe we can talk on the phone and I can get an education as well. (209) 233-6291. I remember playing with a Meucci back when I was a kid. I am now 40. It was a lot easier to draw the cue ball with the slimmer more flexible shafts. I know there are a lot of you players out there that can back me up here. When I say draw the ball I am speaking of at least a table length not just a foot or two. I don't really care how many mil-a-seconds it takes to blink my eye nor do I see what that has to do with this topic other than you have to keep your eyes open long enough to view the high speed photography. Because it happens so fast you better not blink! Here Is a little knowledge on engineering and cue building. A hard tip and a stiff shaft- What happens is when you go to do a power draw and you are real low on the cueball- the tip slips off the cue ball. You think you miscued. Probably did. But that is because the tip was hard and the shaft was stiff and the shaft did not move. The cue ball deflected and you miscued. I am assuming you had a level stroke and a perfect follow through. I see this happen all the time and I just laugh. I also saw this when I was studying this matter through high speed photography. How ever on the flip side- with a flexible shaft not to mention a "CORKED SHAFT" with a softer tip- what happens here is first the tip compresses. This alone increases the contact time vs. a hard non compressing tip. If its compressing it is staying in contact. The cue ball is still moving into the tip. Da! Then second the shaft starts to bend. This bending or flexing of the shaft allows the cue ball to go straighter decreasing cue ball deflection. Hit the ball off center and two things have to happen. The cue ball moves or the shaft moves. When the shaft bends or moves it is like the tip compressing. It allows the tip to stay in contact just 1/1000th of a second more. But let me tell you or better yet ask some people with one of my cues, that 1/1000th of a second makes a huge difference. How about the Base Ball player Berry Bonds. Remember back along time ago with the CORKED BAT. Ya the Base Ball only stayed in contact 1/1000th of a second but the flexing of that bat gave him an advantage sending that Baseball out of the park. Till one day when the bat shattered and they saw what was happening. Well I ran with that technology and put it to pool cues. It really does make playing pool a lot easier once you get used to playing with a non cue ball deflecting cue. Matter of fact it takes experienced players about a whole month to get used to it. But when they do, there game goes way up. It is just more accurate. And you don't have to muscle the cue ball as much which also increases your accuracy. Most lay up on these kind of shots. Well now you don't have too. For those of you out there an OB shaft or Preditor Shaft is the closest thing to a CORKED SHAFT. Those of you that have a Preditor or OB shaft can attest to fact that there more accurate and it is easier to draw the ball with these shafts. And once again I mean a table length draw not 1 foot. If after reading this reply and you don't agree or simply can't comprehend I can show you in person at our training facility with testing equipment or when I get some time I will make a you tube video showing you this. In the mean time you can call some of our customers or view the testimonials on you tube. I have a lot more testimonials that I have not posted yet simply because I had no need to till now. If you and Rufus think all you need is a house cue and a round tip, some chalk, aiming low, and a smooth stroke to draw a table length, then all of us can get together and bet it! I don't want to hear any crying when I draw 2 table lengths or three on a fast table! With that being said, I do have respect for Professional BCA Instructors. I love this sport and it is challenging. I guess that is why it keeps all of us interested in the game. I do offer cue repair as I did this for four year before I became a cue builder. If you send me a shaft, I can "CORK" it for $100.00 plus shipping. I can turn a high cue ball deflecting shaft into the sweetest hitting , non cue ball deflecting dream shaft. I have been doing this for 11 years now and there are so many players out here that have this done. Once I do there shaft they have me do all of them. I promise you- one day you will have me tune up one of you cues. Then after you get it you will order one of mine! Think I am full of it? I'll give you numbers all over the world to call and you can see for your self.
