CAP Shaft
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Crap shaft
I can take a bar cue and using that BHE pivot almost eliminate squirt. Old-school players called it tuck-n-roll. This DI dude is saying zero deflection. Bullsh*t. Show us some side-by-side comparisons to OB,Pred., Tiger,SS360 etc. Snakeoil in my book.
I can take a bar cue and using that BHE pivot almost eliminate squirt. Old-school players called it tuck-n-roll. This DI dude is saying zero deflection. Bullsh*t. Show us some side-by-side comparisons to OB,Pred., Tiger,SS360 etc. Snakeoil in my book.
Without any personal experience with the shaft or first hand testimonials I have to agree with you
From watching the video, this seems like baloney to me.
LOL. You should watch the rest of his videos.
Schon has been making the "CAP" shaft for about 30 years now.
Seems like BHE & yes I like it very much. We have a top notch Pro in our area & he brought that to my attention, about 14 years ago. I used to have a fit with "Inside English", but no more. Also, my CueMaker whittled some wood off the shaft, to give me a 12.62 Diameter shaft. Love the hit & the success in potting.
There's been quite a bit of talk about BHE, pivoting, low deflection & other attempts to minimize errors in potting of balls. Leraning & practicing can make a difference.
On the break shot in Golf, our Kling Snooker Table has some roll off, so I cue with some RH Spin to throw the cue ball off line, to compensate for the roll off. Works for me.
Golf on a Snooker Table, with Pools balls is a different game & the use of free stroking is very limited. Accuracy & CueBall control is very necessary, for playing position or leave.
There's been quite a bit of talk about BHE, pivoting, low deflection & other attempts to minimize errors in potting of balls. Leraning & practicing can make a difference.
On the break shot in Golf, our Kling Snooker Table has some roll off, so I cue with some RH Spin to throw the cue ball off line, to compensate for the roll off. Works for me.
Golf on a Snooker Table, with Pools balls is a different game & the use of free stroking is very limited. Accuracy & CueBall control is very necessary, for playing position or leave.
I'm glad Dominic figured this out 100 years after it was first written down, and 20 years after the first discussions of it on the Internet.
And now he's marketing a shaft that has a bridge-length pivot point.
Awesome.
Freddie <~~~ and people will buy it
Lol. You put it better than me.
PS: i have special, optimized house cues that can do the same thing. Only 1000 dollars each.
PPS: I have to spread more reputation around before giving it to Cornerman again.
I knew there was something familiar about that guy, lol. I HAVE watched some of his videos...Let's put it this way: The guy really know how to sell you stuff you don't need. I pity the fool that buys lots of crap with militaristic names, from a guy in a funny hat. If you want to emulate the military, emulate their virtues not their names.
Discipline
Training
Attention to detail
Courage
DTAC video available now. Only 500$.
But wait, this video is not just for pool! Thinking about these virtues will also help you in realistic military scenarios, for instance digging a latrine or shining your shoes for the 5th time that day. Ah, good times.
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I wonder if you can use BHE with a CAP shaft, anyone know if its possible. If so I am going to order that amazing shaft immediately!!!!!.
Talk about a circus barker ............
Simple back-hand english (which is not so simple if employed for all shot speeds and distances). It can be done with any shaft, but it's nice if the shaft's natural pivot length pretty much matches your preferred bridge length. It has been talked about at length forever on here.
"The most revolutionary thing happening in the entire billiard industry ..."
Bhe adjustment
I just finished working with squirt and deflection and studying aiming for a very long time.
Hes making a BHE adjustment and look at the short range he is from the object ball. Of course BHE will hold up a straight line at that distance. This is nothing new. He's just marketing BHE as some magical shaft but he does say that the shaft does it for you and its you that use the shaft to do it for you. He sure is barking and Im sure some folks will believe him. Even with BHE you get some distance from the cue ball to the object ball and there is going to have to be some allowances made. No way around it, and youre going to have to know the allowances based on distance and stroke pressure. Softer= less, harder strokes equal more.
When I play with 13mm Plastic or Ivory ferruled shafts I use more BHE myself because the ideal pivot point is shorter, the shaft much heavier and the squirt much more up to 3 and 1/4 inches at 7 diamonds of distance for a hard stroke. I dont see anything new here and no magical shaft. The only shaft that doesnt squirt balls might be something about as thin as a straw.
Now he could be custom designing the shaft to have pivot point where he says it is.....that he could do.
I just finished working with squirt and deflection and studying aiming for a very long time.
Hes making a BHE adjustment and look at the short range he is from the object ball. Of course BHE will hold up a straight line at that distance. This is nothing new. He's just marketing BHE as some magical shaft but he does say that the shaft does it for you and its you that use the shaft to do it for you. He sure is barking and Im sure some folks will believe him. Even with BHE you get some distance from the cue ball to the object ball and there is going to have to be some allowances made. No way around it, and youre going to have to know the allowances based on distance and stroke pressure. Softer= less, harder strokes equal more.
When I play with 13mm Plastic or Ivory ferruled shafts I use more BHE myself because the ideal pivot point is shorter, the shaft much heavier and the squirt much more up to 3 and 1/4 inches at 7 diamonds of distance for a hard stroke. I dont see anything new here and no magical shaft. The only shaft that doesnt squirt balls might be something about as thin as a straw.
Now he could be custom designing the shaft to have pivot point where he says it is.....that he could do.
3 diamonds cb - ob distance is where "FEEL" stops working....
These guys don't know what they are doing. They don't know footwork, ob edges, stroke technique, eye movements.
It's all about cb-ob distance, angle and swerve.
Pivoting from ccb is NOTHING. It's a "feel" thing. There is no cue or shaft that can make it work for cb-ob distance greater than 3 diamonds.
It's really funny how people think that the cue ball must travel on a straight line when they apply sidespin.
Trying to play this game against the LAWS OF PHYSICS is the worst thing a pool player can do.
These guys don't know what they are doing. They don't know footwork, ob edges, stroke technique, eye movements.
It's all about cb-ob distance, angle and swerve.
Pivoting from ccb is NOTHING. It's a "feel" thing. There is no cue or shaft that can make it work for cb-ob distance greater than 3 diamonds.
It's really funny how people think that the cue ball must travel on a straight line when they apply sidespin.
Trying to play this game against the LAWS OF PHYSICS is the worst thing a pool player can do.
Cap
While not buying into the hype, I picked one up on here used because I wanted to try a LD shaft and it was cheap. I was very surprised at how it plays. I really like it and seem to make more balls with the shaft. With that being said, I don't know a thing about low deflection and don't make any claims about this shafts LD properties. I know I bought it, threw it on a Gulyassy 31" butt and it plays better FOR ME than other cues I have recently played.
I had tried an OB one time and I liked this one much better. I also have a BMC Meucci with the pro shaft and I like the CAP better. If you can find one cheap, I think it's worth a shot. You might like it. I bought the whole cue from him when he had a 50% off sale in the summer. It is great for taking to league and not worrying about taking your good cue. There is a post on here somewhere where the teacher RandyG was saying he had switched to the cue with this shaft. If it's good enough for him, it will outplay me.
The shaft plays nice but it is hard getting past the DI sales pitch..
Good luck.
While not buying into the hype, I picked one up on here used because I wanted to try a LD shaft and it was cheap. I was very surprised at how it plays. I really like it and seem to make more balls with the shaft. With that being said, I don't know a thing about low deflection and don't make any claims about this shafts LD properties. I know I bought it, threw it on a Gulyassy 31" butt and it plays better FOR ME than other cues I have recently played.
I had tried an OB one time and I liked this one much better. I also have a BMC Meucci with the pro shaft and I like the CAP better. If you can find one cheap, I think it's worth a shot. You might like it. I bought the whole cue from him when he had a 50% off sale in the summer. It is great for taking to league and not worrying about taking your good cue. There is a post on here somewhere where the teacher RandyG was saying he had switched to the cue with this shaft. If it's good enough for him, it will outplay me.
The shaft plays nice but it is hard getting past the DI sales pitch..
Good luck.
Cap
Here is the thread discussing the M1A1 which has the CAP shaft.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=402030&highlight=M1a1
Here is the thread discussing the M1A1 which has the CAP shaft.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=402030&highlight=M1a1
His CAP shaft does not appear to be what we would call a low squirt (LD) shaft. His bridge length is not long enough for that. It looks to me like the cue ball is actually squirting a lot, given where the stick is pointing after the back-hand-english pivot.
He slyly calls it ZDP or "zero deflection performance." I don't hear (or see) that as meaning the shaft produces no cue-ball deflection (squirt). It simply means that the combination of the back-hand english (the pivot) and the cue-ball deflection (squirt) are sending the cue ball on the same line as if he were using no english for the shot (or using parallel english with a hypothetical shaft that did not produce cue-ball squirt at all).
Again, proper use of back-hand english for squirt compensation on all shots with english is not so simple. Much on this can be found on Dr. Dave's website: http://billiards.colostate.edu/threads/squirt.html
This Shaft or that shaft
I'm fairly sure he has the shaft made to specs to produce a certain pivot point,but thats about all the special there could be here in my opinion. I have a natural maple playing shaft that the pivot point is around 12 in that I use and favor, but its natural maple, long pro taper 12.80 mm. It squirt "2in" over 7 diamonds of distance is in the middle of LD' at around 1.5 inches to 13mm non pro taper shafts which squirt nearly 3 inches at that distance.
The configuration aka "pro set up" makes it easier to work with but you can do that to any out of the box shaft by taking your shaft to guy with a cue lathe that knows what he's doing with a piece of sandpaper for a few bucks.
I wouldn't consider playing with 13mm stock shafts again because these type shafts play so well. I don't know what the Drill Instructor is charging for them but you can have your own cue shafts "customized" for a lot less cost and produce the same results.
I'm fairly sure he has the shaft made to specs to produce a certain pivot point,but thats about all the special there could be here in my opinion. I have a natural maple playing shaft that the pivot point is around 12 in that I use and favor, but its natural maple, long pro taper 12.80 mm. It squirt "2in" over 7 diamonds of distance is in the middle of LD' at around 1.5 inches to 13mm non pro taper shafts which squirt nearly 3 inches at that distance.
The configuration aka "pro set up" makes it easier to work with but you can do that to any out of the box shaft by taking your shaft to guy with a cue lathe that knows what he's doing with a piece of sandpaper for a few bucks.
I wouldn't consider playing with 13mm stock shafts again because these type shafts play so well. I don't know what the Drill Instructor is charging for them but you can have your own cue shafts "customized" for a lot less cost and produce the same results.
You can buy one on his website for a modest $289.99
Here you go guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6YCunW7x8
Only 19.99
Why isn't this guy Earl's sponsor?
Only 19.99
Why isn't this guy Earl's sponsor?