Chalk gate at the open !!!!

Chris said:
Twenty years ago, people argued about the merits of pre-flag vs post-flag Masters chalk. Some claimed the pre-flag stuff was better quality than the post-flag chalk.

Masters said it was the same chalk; only the label changed.
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Beyond that, I asked Skip Nemecek, Tweeten's President, about the flag. He said that Tweeten was making Masters with and without the flag on the wrapper at the same time. I think "pre-flag" is not a useful idea.
 
Bob Jewett said:
Beyond that, I asked Skip Nemecek, Tweeten's President, about the flag. He said that Tweeten was making Masters with and without the flag on the wrapper at the same time. I think "pre-flag" is not a useful idea.
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You have to realize there is a small amount of unobtainium in the preflag stuff that isn't in the stuff with the flag.

I didn't believe for a minute that the gross of flag master I bought was as good as the preflag but sometimes you have to make do!

Hu
 
garczar said:
Agree, its not how much but where its done. Off-table is no issue, over the table is.
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So I have a unique problem. Most players switch their cue to the opposite hand and chalk with their playing hand. I play left handed. I eat left handed and I write and draw left handed. Almost everything else I do right handed. I throw a ball, bowl, bat, do just about everything right handed. So I chalk right handed. I always wondered why other people's hands don't get as chalked up messy as mine until I was watching someone who played right handed set their cue in the opposite hand and chalk with their right hand. I thought that was so weird.

Then I realized I was the odd duck, but it makes for a messy hand and table, it's unavoidable. It's also why I never needed a glove, I was constantly chalking my fingers.
 
Jaden said:
So I have a unique problem. Most players switch their cue to the opposite hand and chalk with their playing hand. I play left handed. I eat left handed and I write and draw left handed. Almost everything else I do right handed. I throw a ball, bowl, bat, do just about everything right handed. So I chalk right handed. I always wondered why other people's hands don't get as chalked up messy as mine until I was watching someone who played right handed set their cue in the opposite hand and chalk with their right hand. I thought that was so weird.

Then I realized I was the odd duck, but it makes for a messy hand and table, it's unavoidable. It's also why I never needed a glove, I was constantly chalking my fingers.
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Don't think this has ever been an issue for anyone (unless they are missing digits), or something that anyone has ever committed energy to think about. You have just achieved a world first! I am functionally ambidextrous, and usually do things in the way I have learned through observation (in some cases, I will alter this according to who I deem worthy of copying). I fail to see how whichever configuration used, there would be more mess than the other (unless your opposite hand has fine motor skills of a first-grader).

I actually don't understand how there would be any difference in "mess" - I am annoyed that I have now spent an inordinate amount of time considering this 😂
 
Flakeandrun said:
(unless your opposite hand has fine motor skills of a first-grader)
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Sorry, Flake, but for many of us who are not ambidextrous, this is often the case. I can switch hands to weld, but not for much else. If I try an off-hand pool shot, it had better be hanging in a pocket and less than two diamonds away.
 
Flakeandrun said:
Don't think this has ever been an issue for anyone (unless they are missing digits), or something that anyone has ever committed energy to think about. You have just achieved a world first! I am functionally ambidextrous, and usually do things in the way I have learned through observation (in some cases, I will alter this according to who I deem worthy of copying). I fail to see how whichever configuration used, there would be more mess than the other (unless your opposite hand has fine motor skills of a first-grader).

I actually don't understand how there would be any difference in "mess" - I am annoyed that I have now spent an inordinate amount of time considering this 😂
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Well think a little harder. When you chalk and any excess gets onto your hands, if you're holding the cue with that hand, it will remain stationary. If that's your bridge hand, the shaft will be sliding against your hand and the hand will be rubbing against the table. So there's a greater likelihood of the chalk getting on the cloth and on your cue...

If I ever stop wearing a glove again, I'll take a picture of my hand after a session to show you the difference.
 
Jaden said:
So I have a unique problem. Most players switch their cue to the opposite hand and chalk with their playing hand. I play left handed. I eat left handed and I write and draw left handed. Almost everything else I do right handed. I throw a ball, bowl, bat, do just about everything right handed. So I chalk right handed. I always wondered why other people's hands don't get as chalked up messy as mine until I was watching someone who played right handed set their cue in the opposite hand and chalk with their right hand. I thought that was so weird.

Then I realized I was the odd duck, but it makes for a messy hand and table, it's unavoidable. It's also why I never needed a glove, I was constantly chalking my fingers.
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You're ambidextrous. Very cool.
 
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