and in the end you are right back where you started..
Shane SVB's playing cue
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and in the end you are right back where you started..
If I were a pro, I could care less if Sportcraft sponsored me if they made the EXACT cue to my EXACT specs and gave me multiple opportunities to reject the cues I didn't like. Then Sportcraft could brag about how I won 3 major tournaments with "their" cue. Of course, the same cue wouldn't be actually available to anyone just by purchasing it online, but that doesn't matter ... the company rep won with a cue with their name on it! Might as well grab a Szamboti and stick a Cuetec label on the buttcap somewhere, heh.
exact...
straight maple with some leather on the end...
that is as exact as any real pool player needs.
Don't know if it is true or not but I believe Allison says her Cuetec is right out of the box and anyone can buy one just like hers.
Go glue a hunk of uncured pig butt on an untreated 40 mm wide broom stick and tell me how well you play, heh.
I understand your argument, but you are over simplifying it just a bit.
*edit* sorry, this was in response to softshot, who thinks that any random piece of wood with a hunk of dead animal on the end is just as good as a custom cue.
I understand your argument, but you are over simplifying it just a bit.
*edit* sorry, this was in response to softshot, who thinks that any random piece of wood with a hunk of dead animal on the end is just as good as a custom cue.
Go glue a hunk of uncured pig butt on an untreated 40 mm wide broom stick and tell me how well you play, heh.
I understand your argument, but you are over simplifying it just a bit.
*edit* sorry, this was in response to softshot, who thinks that any random piece of wood with a hunk of dead animal on the end is just as good as a custom cue.
Willie Mosconi learned to play with potatoes and a broomstick...
don't matter what you got it's better than that... and he was better than you will ever hope to be.
Technique trumps equipment..hands down... every time
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I'm sure Michael Jordan could play better basketball with a square ball than I would ever be able to ... but give him a round ball and watch out! Saying equipment doesn't matter *at all* is just ridiculous.
If equipment didn't matter, golfers would still be using their one wooden club to knock their hunk of leather around. I'm guessing a purist like yourself would say that the top golfers would be able to compete just as well with a hunk of wooden club and a roughly round hunk of leather. And yes, I know golf isn't pool, but if you can't see the comparison, I'm completely lost in having a rational discussion regarding this.
If equipment didn't matter, golfers would still be using their one wooden club to knock their hunk of leather around. I'm guessing a purist like yourself would say that the top golfers would be able to compete just as well with a hunk of wooden club and a roughly round hunk of leather. And yes, I know golf isn't pool, but if you can't see the comparison, I'm completely lost in having a rational discussion regarding this.
i think it's earl's tantrums that ruined his career. cuetec paid him for years to use their cues and that's the kind of stuff he spits about 'em.
to be honest they'd have sold more of them if they'd made earl's cue look like shane's. i dig the way shane's looks. i'd consider getting one if i was in the market and they came with wood shafts. and hit ok obviously
golf is NOT pool there is no benefit in hitting a ball farther than the other guy
this game is about control.. and control comes from bicep articulation..
combined with good form
there IS a comfort factor.... I myself I like linen wraps...but I don't NEED a linen wrap
I like hard tips..but I don't NEED a hard tip
I like the cue I have been practicing with for the past 6 years
but I don't NEED it.
I can do anything with a house cue as I can do with my preferred cue...
and so can you..
end of the day.. if you can't do it with a cue off the wall then you can't do it reliably enough to try it in competition..
PERIOD
Strike First
Registered
And yet equipment still matters :smash:
Softshot you have to remember your on AZ some battles cant be one.
but i will agreee with you.
Kenny Mckoy (might have spelled that wrong) the Truck Driver
if you know him then you know he was a monster player
he hangs out in our local room everyday
he leaned to play pool with a warped cue with no tip on a table that was put out next to a old tree with ripped cloth and bad rubbers.
played like that everyday on the way home from school for years until he left for college went to a pool room and when he got there stood looking at the cues and the balls for about 20 minutes until a man came over and asked if he wanted to gamble a bit. Kenny stepped back and said "well i might but..... whats this thing on the end of the stick" pointing at the cue tip. kenny never played with one before. and still beat the other man out of his money after learning the rules for the first time and never even playing with a real tip until then.
now i will admit that a great player will always be more comfortable and play better with a nice cue of there own but at the same time if you play good it doesnt matter what you play with you can adjust and learn to drive on with what you have.
most people in this forum need the 7 from our B league around here, and have no idea what im talking about.
It's the indian, not the arrow.
Geez, there is so much hate for cuetec on here. At times, I participated in looking down my nose at them.
A buddy of mine plays with one so I've picked it up & hit some (a lot) of balls with it just to see what all the fuss is about. The reality is...AFTER HITTING BALLS WITH ONE...I don't understand why cuetec deserves such hate. They aren't all that bad.
Cuetec serves a specific role & satisfies a need for cheap, decent playing cues. Not everyone can swing a TS, Bender, Schon, Zinzola.....
Besides, they sponsor some of the best players in the game and sponsor pool on ESPN, so thumbs up from me on that.
A buddy of mine plays with one so I've picked it up & hit some (a lot) of balls with it just to see what all the fuss is about. The reality is...AFTER HITTING BALLS WITH ONE...I don't understand why cuetec deserves such hate. They aren't all that bad.
Cuetec serves a specific role & satisfies a need for cheap, decent playing cues. Not everyone can swing a TS, Bender, Schon, Zinzola.....
Besides, they sponsor some of the best players in the game and sponsor pool on ESPN, so thumbs up from me on that.
A player with talent can "juice" (english) the cueball to do anything with any stick ..yes i agree. What technology does is make it easier for said player to do the same with the cueball with less "juice". Less "juice" on the cueball means less missing. Therefor it is just common sense to say that the same player with talent has just improved his game simply by missing less using the very technology you say is not needed. IE: low deflection shafts, cue extensions, better tip technology....If you can do the same with any stick why on earth did you go buy a personal cue..waste of money if you ask me.
Side Note: I can make shots with my OB1 shaft that I could never ...ever... do with my original Schon shafts. That is just simple fact. I do however understand the point you are trying to make. But, I have the argue the point of new technology does improve your game.
Exactly! The more elite players need to realize that our sport would not exist without the "casual" players and without the companies that serve those casual players. Cuetec invests a lot of money into pool and if more companies paid their players as well as Cuetec does it would be a lot easier for pro's to make a living.
Unless it has changed from when Shane first signed with Cuetec (which is very possible because I haven't seen him in awhile so I don't know) he did play with a cue right off the shelf. They offered him a couple of choices in diameter of tip but it was a stock cue, no special material or special taper.
You do realize that he's serious? He really does play with one since they started handing him money.
When I was running the poolroom, if I was out front and wanted to hit a few balls, I would always grab a Cuetec off the display rack. I could have grabbed a Joss, Viking, Meucci, Falcon, or even a custom cue like an Omen or Paul Mottey. Employees would always say use my cue or why grab a Cuetec? Because they have a decent hit and no matter which one you grab they all play exactly the same.....
So you 2 are no longer married? Hu-muh-na Hu-muh-na.
Don't mean to open the debate about technology v. old school but I'm not sure I understand this point you are making about LD shafts. I get how using less english may translate into making more balls for you but how does an LD shaft allow you to use less english than an old school shaft with an ivory ferrule? I would think the LD shaft, if anything, would allow you to use more english.
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I heard the same thing Chris DLG did, that Shane's Cuetec was pretty much off the rack from the company, or at least, whatever they made for him was going to become available. But my understanding about when he went to Cuetec was that he wasn't playing with a "one-off".