Carbon Fiber Shafts should be Banned
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Doesn't sound like that safety was too good after all.
Nyquil
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Just curious what shaft did you play with?
xX-Wizard-Xx
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it was if they needed to jump
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middleofnowhere
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I'm not sure you actually believe a word you say yourself. You just start these threads as sort of clickbait and get a kick out of seeing people respond to what you've started.
SPOT ON, its actually called TROLLING!!
TFT
I am enjoying exposing it for what it is: BULL$HIT
I’m anxiously waiting for the day when billiards makes the full switch to a bag FULL of purpose cues. I will have a cue bag that will look like a golf bag. The regulating agencies will have to agree on a certain number of cues. I think 10 would be a good number.
I think its PROGRESS for a sport that has been held back by fools running our industry and illegal gambling as the main focus!!! The industry needs growth, new products help that happen. We could only wish our sport got to be comparable to Golf. Young people could actually have a future playing our sport?? WHATT???? Yup, its getting better and not worse.
TFT
Are you scared of technology? I kind of understand the mindset honestly I see it all around me and its fine to be that kind of guy.
Listen, in engineering it all comes down to application and materials. We put down the advantages and disadvantages of certain material then come up with a conclusion. Then its down to the public to buy whatever they prefer. So if you prefer wood that's fine but you cannot take out the fact that Carbon Fiber is superior to wood in every aspect.
1. Carbon Fiber does not dent easily. Wood DOES have dents and hits easily.
2. Carbon Fiber always stays straight, no wabble nothing. Wood will wobble and bent, it's just a matter of time.
3. Carbon Fiber will feel slick on your hand all the time (no glove needed). With wood, you need either a glove or a POWDER (yuck).
4. Carbon Fiber doesn't care about humidity or the condition of the weather, it will feel the same just use a towel. Wood will get humid & will make a sound while bridging with your hands which feels awful.
In every aspect, the CF wins clearly.
For the price its obvious the WOOD wins.
Now that this is out of the way lets talk about playability. And I am here truthfully honest with what I have observed in front of my eyes.
I've been playing pool since I was 8 yrs old and now I am 40. I know many many players around me as I go to lots of pool halls and here's what I observed myself and even made a note of. I've seen many players throughout the years with so many levels. There are bangers who cannot play up to the pro levels and all of these guys improve whenever they start using a CF for a long period of time. You might not have this chance because you may shoot with it just one rack and say "Yuck I hate the sound of that crap" and then go back to wood which means you haven't even given it a chance. But believe me, when I tell you that I've seen players who played for 20 yrs and they were plateaued in their skill & stayed the same for a very very long period of time, they don't seem to improve at all for some odd reason, they remained the type of player who can occasionally run a rack but most of the time they are a 3-4 BALLS type of players playing 9ball. And as soon as they switch to CF and in front of my eyes, they started to improve within weeks in fact to become players who will run out the games more occasionally . They even jumped from a 3-4 BALLS in 9ball to a runout kind of guy. They literally started to run out more often and I believe it is due to the CF. Most people will argue this fact that I've seen many many times but it is the truth. Something about the CF that made these medium-skilled players to a better players within weeks. And listen they stayed in the 3-4 BALLS skill-wise players for yeaaaars up to this point where they switched to CF, so to me its 100% the CF. Now if the rack is open and they got a shot i'd say 90% they run out. So believe what you want man, its up to you if you want to give this technology a chance or not.
For snooker maybe they haven't realized it yet, the companies who make cues haven't come into this technology yet but lets see in 10-20 yrs maybe this will change. Probably most of snooker players right now are still into ash and wood because change is hard and I understand, but who knows in 20 yrs if one snooker company come out with decent CF snooker cue, if one young lad starts it. Maybe we see new era in snooker too.
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I think everyone should have to use a carbon fiber jump cue for every shot in pool. And you should have to jump every time even with no obstructing balls. It’s at the discretion of your opponent whether or not you cleared the invisible ball between CB and OB.
You should have to snort .25g of carbon fiber dust before each match too.
If your opponent can jump the ball, you didn’t play a very good safety.
I love my 314. The cynergy, not so much...It feels great in my hands but not good feedback while playing.
I do really want a carbon fiber Martin guitar like that guy Joel uses. I travel a lot with my music makers and while I love my trusty ‘69 stella harmony...she doesn’t travel well. I was outside once in the summer and I heard her going out of tune on my 2nd or 3rd song. As soon as I stopped strumming a string snapped and others were tweaking up and ready to go as the wood sucked up moisture and swelled and contorted.
The moral is, carbon fiber can sound good if you attach steel strings to it, robots will never play pool well because they don’t get the satisfaction from success like we do, and you must weld your opponent to a ball during a safe.
You should have to snort .25g of carbon fiber dust before each match too.
If your opponent can jump the ball, you didn’t play a very good safety.
I love my 314. The cynergy, not so much...It feels great in my hands but not good feedback while playing.
I do really want a carbon fiber Martin guitar like that guy Joel uses. I travel a lot with my music makers and while I love my trusty ‘69 stella harmony...she doesn’t travel well. I was outside once in the summer and I heard her going out of tune on my 2nd or 3rd song. As soon as I stopped strumming a string snapped and others were tweaking up and ready to go as the wood sucked up moisture and swelled and contorted.
The moral is, carbon fiber can sound good if you attach steel strings to it, robots will never play pool well because they don’t get the satisfaction from success like we do, and you must weld your opponent to a ball during a safe.
Ill Gotten Gain
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Ok, Drama Queen.
Are you saying carbon fiber shafts give a clear advantage to the player?
Think a “C” level player with a CF shaft is still not going to be a “A” level player because of new shaft.
Think I am wrong
Your uh moran!
9 is the right #!!!!
You’ve never seen me shoot. I could use at least 21. I was making a concession
I’m honestly shocked that we only started really using manmade materials for cues roughly 7 years ago. I would have thought a carbon fibre or light metal butt section would have been made years ago and would have caught on. You could control balance much easier, and the butt wouldn’t warp. We are a little resistant to change.
telinoz
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Yoyz rite man..
9 iz 1 of the Tesla vortex numbers... Da meaning of the UNIVERSE.