AzBilliards Official Tip Poll

What's your favorite cue tip based on maintenance/performance...

  • How soft/med/hard

  • Zan plus soft/med/hard

  • Zan prem soft/max/grip hard

  • Ki-tech ss/soft/med/hard

  • Tiger Onyx/sniper

  • Predator victory/soft/med/hard

  • Kamui tan soft/med/hard

  • Kamui Black soft/med/hard

  • Moori soft/med/hard

  • Kamakaze ss/soft/med


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Me too. Miss smoke filled rooms. Old crusty guys that ran local numbers gigs sitting there all day betting on games. Guys barking for action. Characters. Local characters. Now we have folks with $3k worth of pool gear that can't run three balls or bet that water is wet.
Things got soft. Too many A holes watching youtube and think they know it all. Back in my day we paid for our knowledge, now these jackasses give it away for free.
 
Things got soft. Too many A holes watching youtube and think they know it all. Back in my day we paid for our knowledge, now these jackasses give it away for free.
internet has broken alot of things ... some better some worse ..... people want those advertiser dollars ....
 
Kamikaze is pretty much like Kamui without the the high overhead. Hardness is shifted a level, so Kamikaze hard is like Kamui medium, their medium is like a Kamui soft, etc. kamikaze super soft is really soft and doesn’t last well. Fortunately they don’t cost much if you install them yourself.
 
Way back when I did play quite often I used Le Pro tips because a friend recommended them to me and I really enjoyed how well they played .
After a 20 year break from the game I'm back playing again and a newly acquired cue was in need of a new tip so I bought some milk duds which I liked as well .
Then a friend suggested a Techno dud and I enjoy using it more than the milk duds for whatever reason .

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the HOW tips
 
Here is my take. Kami is most popular so they have sheer numbers and mostly sold to APA players who don't know anything. BUT......truth is most of the hate comes from folks in my category. Older folks, like me, who are still bitter that we were never pros for whatever reason. Stuck in the world of maple shafts, single layer tips, baby powder and chalk towers, cloth with tumbleweeds on it, house chalk and smoke. Pissed that things have changed without our permission. That things have passed us by and the new is better than our old way.
So yes. Kamui sucks. Even though I've never owned a cue with a Kamui tip on it..........
I had a Kamui Black Soft on one of my shafts, I wasn't amazed. It didn't last very long and the black base made it hard to see when the tip was worn out. To be honest, although I am liking my new Le Pro, I don't think I'm going to try a tip and have some sort of epiphany. I've had a couple of Ultraskin Mediums, I think they had a crisp hit which I liked a lot. That feedback seems to help me play a more delicate, finesse game.
 
I had a Kamui Black Soft on one of my shafts, I wasn't amazed. It didn't last very long and the black base made it hard to see when the tip was worn out. To be honest, although I am liking my new Le Pro, I don't think I'm going to try a tip and have some sort of epiphany. I've had a couple of Ultraskin Mediums, I think they had a crisp hit which I liked a lot. That feedback seems to help me play a more delicate, finesse game.
I would of tried a harder Kamui. I liked LePro's for many years, the issue i find with them is they are incredibly inconsistent. You have a golden one now but the next one's probably going to be shit. I use to have to change 3-4 tips to find a good one.
 
Well BBB I've learned what I figured all along is no one is happy with anything they try ha ha

The old tried and true is boring but it still works to a degree , since they aren't running rack after rack it's easy to fault a tip because after it it hits the cue ball and it couldn't be the fault or a miss judgment of the angle or condition of the cloth or balls being used .

Along with each cue if made from carbon fibre or wood will hit differently depending on the make up of each tip my suggestion is to contact a representative who is selling them and ask for what they think would work best for your cue and playing style and whatever game you play most often .

Just some tongue and cheek thoughts from a old pool player ha ha
I wonder how many heads are about ready to explode now after reading this if anyone reads it at all ?
 
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