Kamui tip, I just tried one.can't believe it !

genomachino

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I just tried a predator 314-2 about 2 weeks ago. I see now how all these young guns are shooting better than ever.

When I quit playing in 1999 I was using a La pro tip. Sometimes a Champion but I always came back to a La Pro.

I won alot of money and won alot of tournys in the 80's and 90's with my old La Pro tip but that was back before all these laminated shafts came out also.

I've only been playing seriously about 2 years again now and I finally started experimenting with some of these layered tips.

I tried a Morri but it seemed to get kind of dead after awhile. No bounce in it after a couple of weeks.

Then I tried a Wizard that Mark O gave me up in Fargo.

I liked it a little more than the morri but it kind of didn't play like I wanted and seemed to get flat also.

I was at Treasure Island this last weekend and had Cue Stickman put on another Wizard. I was really unhappy how this played. In the middle of the team match I ran over to the booth and they put on a Kamui.

I wasn't too excited about it at the time. It wasn't quite as round as I'd like and I was really wore out from the smoke I had breathed in for 2 days already.:frown: It was pretty minimal but for me it was catastrophy for my health and well being. So I didn't have all my pool skills working for me either.

Still feeling like crap I went to Shooters tourny in Burnsville to play in their Monday Night 9 ball tourny. It's a good tourny with some of the best players in the twin cities playing every week.

I really thought I would go 2 and out the way I felt.:shakehead:

I rounded the kamui tip a little and started warming up. I could not believe what I was experiencing. I could move the cue ball around with a great amount of accuracy and the balls were going in the center of the hole.

I can't believe I waited to try this great tip all this time. I told Jess engle, why didn't you tell me I should be using one of these. He just smiled and said , you think that one is good, you should try a kamui black. They are the nutz.:cool: Then he let me shoot a couple of shots with his cue. It did feel and grab pretty good.

This one plays so good that i can't imagine getting any better than this. I just can't believe that I was so pig headed as to not try this tip especially after all the hype I've heard on here about it.

But you know, the nay sayers got me again. I really thought there was some merit to the players that said they were no better than this one or that one.

Well I have news for them. They must be drunk or on drugs or both not to see the value of this great tip and how accurate you can be with it. Plus it is totally consistent. :yeah:

This was the final piece to the puzzle for me. I've been looking for that magic tip for about 2 years now and I have finally found it.

And I almost won the tourny. It was 2:30 AM and Brian Breke split the first and second place money with me. I think you call that chopping it up.
Brian had to go to work early so I said OK.

I really wanted to play the final. I feel so good about how this tip plays.

The good news is that everyone is telling me that these tips all play the same. I can't hardly wait to play in my next tourny.

Anyone that hasn't tried one of these tips needs to do it. Do yourself a favor I'm telling you.

Predator 314-2, Kamui tip and Perfect Aim.

It don't get any better than this.:dance::clapping: LOOK OUT................

UNREAL>>>>>>>>>....... Good Job Kamui............thanks for making a great tip.....................
 
did you invent a new and improved method for getting oil out of snakes??

Predator, Kamui, and Perfect Aim.....

Your one stop shop for a US open title:sorry::sorry::sorry::sorry:
 
At my age I need all the help I can get..............

did you invent a new and improved method for getting oil out of snakes??

Predator, Kamui, and Perfect Aim.....

Your one stop shop for a US open title:sorry::sorry::sorry::sorry:

The predator shaft shoots where you aim, the kamui does what I want it to.

If you have the shot aimed correctly it's pretty deadly.

I feel like a kid with a new toy.

Everyone knows I'm the Perfect Aim guy.

No secret there and I'm not bashful about it.

I gave 2 free lessons over the phone to Azer's tonight. I need to start telling them to get a predator 314-2 shaft and a kamui tip on it.

Everyone that I give lessons to I've had them try that predator. I will tell them all to try the kamui.

Winning combination. Perfect Aim works pretty good also.

It is what it is............
 
ok

im glad you shot great but a tip isnt going to make me a champ. glad you like the kamui but im shootin great anytime my confidence is high. its all about fundamentals and playing precision shape. If your going to base your game on a tip im not satisfied. i play with mooris, le pro, triangle and many other tips on all my cues and i always win the money when im gambling. Its my experience with a rounded solid tip. I believe they all shoot great depending on the player and the way he excecutes his position and shotmaking. later
 
I was just like a lot of people on here. Die hard Triangle man all the way for years..... Didn't think I ever needed anything else.

Kamui tips are the real deal. It is not hype. They are the best tip ever made period. The chalk works well too, but I like my Blue Diamond.
 
I know exactly what you mean. I tried the regular kamui (brown) and enjoyed it but wasn't sure. I tried a kamui black and was sold. It played perfect for what I wanted. There are many people who say it is hype but it is the best playing tip I have used and I won't go back to another one. I have a bag of extras in my bag just in case I need one, lol.
 
I just tried a predator 314-2 about 2 weeks ago. I see now how all these young guns are shooting better than ever.

When I quit playing in 1999 I was using a La pro tip. Sometimes a Champion but I always came back to a La Pro.

I won alot of money and won alot of tournys in the 80's and 90's with my old La Pro tip but that was back before all these laminated shafts came out also.

I've only been playing seriously about 2 years again now and I finally started experimenting with some of these layered tips.

I tried a Morri but it seemed to get kind of dead after awhile. No bounce in it after a couple of weeks.

Then I tried a Wizard that Mark O gave me up in Fargo.

I liked it a little more than the morri but it kind of didn't play like I wanted and seemed to get flat also.

I was at Treasure Island this last weekend and had Cue Stickman put on another Wizard. I was really unhappy how this played. In the middle of the team match I ran over to the booth and they put on a Kamui.

I wasn't too excited about it at the time. It wasn't quite as round as I'd like and I was really wore out from the smoke I had breathed in for 2 days already.:frown: It was pretty minimal but for me it was catastrophy for my health and well being. So I didn't have all my pool skills working for me either.

Still feeling like crap I went to Shooters tourny in Burnsville to play in their Monday Night 9 ball tourny. It's a good tourny with some of the best players in the twin cities playing every week.

I really thought I would go 2 and out the way I felt.:shakehead:

I rounded the kamui tip a little and started warming up. I could not believe what I was experiencing. I could move the cue ball around with a great amount of accuracy and the balls were going in the center of the hole.

I can't believe I waited to try this great tip all this time. I told Jess engle, why didn't you tell me I should be using one of these. He just smiled and said , you think that one is good, you should try a kamui black. They are the nutz.:cool: Then he let me shoot a couple of shots with his cue. It did feel and grab pretty good.

This one plays so good that i can't imagine getting any better than this. I just can't believe that I was so pig headed as to not try this tip especially after all the hype I've heard on here about it.

But you know, the nay sayers got me again. I really thought there was some merit to the players that said they were no better than this one or that one.

Well I have news for them. They must be drunk or on drugs or both not to see the value of this great tip and how accurate you can be with it. Plus it is totally consistent. :yeah:

This was the final piece to the puzzle for me. I've been looking for that magic tip for about 2 years now and I have finally found it.

And I almost won the tourny. It was 2:30 AM and Brian Breke split the first and second place money with me. I think you call that chopping it up.
Brian had to go to work early so I said OK.

I really wanted to play the final. I feel so good about how this tip plays.

The good news is that everyone is telling me that these tips all play the same. I can't hardly wait to play in my next tourny.

Anyone that hasn't tried one of these tips needs to do it. Do yourself a favor I'm telling you.

Predator 314-2, Kamui tip and Perfect Aim.

It don't get any better than this.:dance::clapping: LOOK OUT................

UNREAL>>>>>>>>>....... Good Job Kamui............thanks for making a great tip.....................
Gene, which one is it medium or hard.
 
I just recently installed a Kamui medium black on my playing cue... the best tip I have ever used. I actually never thought that there could be a better tip than a GOOD Le Pro.

I like a medium hardness tip, generally. The medium I put on seems slightly hard, but I like it a lot. The next time I will try their soft, just for the heck of it. Maybe the SS.

When I shaped this tip, on my lathe using a utility blade cutter, it seemed like I was cutting some type of plastic. I'm sure the tip was pure leather, but just reporting my observation.
 
I just recently installed a Kamui medium black on my playing cue... the best tip I have ever used. I actually never thought that there could be a better tip than a GOOD Le Pro.

I like a medium hardness tip, generally. The medium I put on seems slightly hard, but I like it a lot. The next time I will try their soft, just for the heck of it. Maybe the SS.

When I shaped this tip, on my lathe using a utility blade cutter, it seemed like I was cutting some type of plastic. I'm sure the tip was pure leather, but just reporting my observation.

My Kamui black soft plays more like a medium and the SS plays like a soft. I would hate to see how hard the hard one is. If you like medium I think the kamui soft is for you. I break and play with mine and I have had no problems with them. I am on my fourth one and have never had to reshape it and I have yet to have one mushroom at all (which is the reason I switched to Kamui from Moori).
 
Kamui tip

I was just like a lot of people on here. Die hard Triangle man all the way for years..... Didn't think I ever needed anything else.

Kamui tips are the real deal. It is not hype. They are the best tip ever made period. The chalk works well too, but I like my Blue Diamond.
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I was up near T-town (Miami) this last weekend and bit the bullet and let Mr. JW Petree put on a Kamui black soft. Yes they are pricey but I have spent money much more foolishly gambling! Absolutely the most impressive tip I have ever played with. I am not the scientific analytical type about tips but I could really now understand what all the hype is about. Holds chalk like a magnet and no miscues yet. I'm a spinner and this tip has already helped my reverse English which has always been weak. JW said don't scuff it up and use a pick if anything. Having always dressed my tips this may be a challenge! LOL. Have left it alone so far. JW cleaned my shaft for free! Good guy and he plays good too!
 
One of the GREATEST Player of All times, who many Records still stand was Willie Mosconi. He had no Super Tips, Super Shafts, or $25.00 a CUBE Chalk, and I personally would trade all my Cues, Cases, and doo dads for Willie's skill, and ability to FOCUS on each ball I shoot.

Think many times Pool Player like Golfers, etc. are looking for magic equipment, and fail to realize winning Player, and golfer Win because of skill, and focus, and not what equipment they are using.

JMHO
 
One of the GREATEST Player of All times, who many Records still stand was Willie Mosconi. He had no Super Tips, Super Shafts, or $25.00 a CUBE Chalk, and I personally would trade all my Cues, Cases, and doo dads for Willie's skill, and ability to FOCUS on each ball I shoot.

Think many times Pool Player like Golfers, etc. are looking for magic equipment, and fail to realize winning Player, and golfer Win because of skill, and focus, and not what equipment they are using.

JMHO

Some of what you say maybe true. But who knows what Willie would be using today if he had all these choices we have. Willie also had his own cue ball he used in his exhibtions. Or at least he did when I saw him put on a show in the 70's in Omaha. Not that he couldn't shoot with any cue ball I'm sure it was more for consistancy than anything.
 
One of the GREATEST Player of All times, who many Records still stand was Willie Mosconi. He had no Super Tips, Super Shafts, or $25.00 a CUBE Chalk, and I personally would trade all my Cues, Cases, and doo dads for Willie's skill, and ability to FOCUS on each ball I shoot.

Think many times Pool Player like Golfers, etc. are looking for magic equipment, and fail to realize winning Player, and golfer Win because of skill, and focus, and not what equipment they are using.

JMHO

I was thinking the same thing. How many balls would Willie run with a Kamui lol.
 
For years I question why Jerry Briesath spent so much time on fundementals when working with students one on one or in his clinics, like stands, set-up, and stroke. Several people I know have taken lesson from Jerry. Then a lite went off in my knoggen, and I realized if your foundations suck, you have zero to build upon.
 
One of the GREATEST Player of All times, who many Records still stand was Willie Mosconi. He had no Super Tips, Super Shafts, or $25.00 a CUBE Chalk, and I personally would trade all my Cues, Cases, and doo dads for Willie's skill, and ability to FOCUS on each ball I shoot.

Think many times Pool Player like Golfers, etc. are looking for magic equipment, and fail to realize winning Player, and golfer Win because of skill, and focus, and not what equipment they are using.

JMHO

Yeah and Jack Nicklaus snapped off tons of majors with wooden drivers and blade irons you prob wouldn't pay $10 for at a yard sale today. That doesn't mean better equipment won't improve your game.

All things equal (ability wise), the person with the best equipment wins.
 
This is another preference issue. You like one thing and think its the best and the next guy likes another and thinks it is the best. I have had too many issues with Kamui's to buy another I have had every (5 or 6) tip glaze over and the blacks have an issue where they wont hold chalk on the glue lines after a while. I personally like a pressed triangle tip but its my preference.
 
Yeah and Jack Nicklaus snapped off tons of majors with wooden drivers and blade irons you prob wouldn't pay $10 for at a yard sale today. That doesn't mean better equipment won't improve your game.

All things equal (ability wise), the person with the best equipment wins.

You are correct, but IMHO some people are looking for Magic, and not willing to spend the time building Basic Skills.
 
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