nice, bouncing around keeps it fresh lol. i mostly stick to end pocket here in hamilton cause my friend chris owns it and the regulars are solid. is the competition at your new spot mostly better players or just more of them
is expensive chalk actually worth it or is masters just fine
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nice, bouncing around keeps it fresh lol. i mostly stick to end pocket here in hamilton cause my friend chris owns it and the regulars are solid. is the competition at your new spot mostly better players or just more of them
that actually makes the math pretty easy lol, 3 to 6 months for one piece is not bad at all. i chalk up after pretty much every shot so i am probably on the fast end of that. do you use the taom v10 or the pyro
This one too. Most of the guys I play can run out. That's why most of them are conservative on the break. Although that can be a bad thing as well if they only needed 1 more ball to win and you have a couple of blockers left. have them lose on a foul. Is a tough pill to swallow.
lol that losing on a foul part is brutal, one ball away and then its just gone. i get why they play safe on the break though if everyone can run out. do you break hard or play it safe yourself
once per game is wild to me lol, i chalk up way more than that. two years out of one piece though, that price suddenly sounds pretty fair. which new chalk are you using
I agree with trob, it's worth the money. I chalk every shot, but I can chalk at the beginning of a rack and get through it without chalking again if I had to.
The only 2 times I've had to replace my Kamui Roku in the last 5ish years is when I lost the dang thing. I had about 18 months on the last piece and would have probably gotten another 9 months or so.
Better players.
I break hard regardless who I am up against. I must say that my break became weaker recently after I got a full-time job and being a lot sick recently. I still break good but not as explosive in the earlier half of this year. I find it more fun to spread the balls eventhough it's risky and allowing your opponent to potentially run out. They are also wary and careful not to give me a turn or a chance to get back on the table as I can run the balls too. So it really doesn't matter if your opponent has a ball left and you have to clear 7 or 8 more balls.
I use Taom because it's cleaner.
Chalking is part of my pre shot routine, like many others. All the more so now that I've trained myself to carry my own piece of chalk around the table with me. Even before that though, I chalked with Masters regularly and it worked great. But it did get my hands, my glove, and my shaft pretty dirty. I would say switching to Taom reduced that to like 25% of what it was with Masters. That to me is way worth it, especially considering a single piece will last me a year or so. It would probably last me longer if I didn't chalk before every shot when it's really not needed with the Taom....but that's part of my process so I just roll with it. Still stays nice and clean even with overly frequent chalking.
Chalking is part of my pre shot routine, like many others. All the more so now that I've trained myself to carry my own piece of chalk around the table with me. Even before that though, I chalked with Masters regularly and it worked great. But it did get my hands, my glove, and my shaft pretty dirty. I would say switching to Taom reduced that to like 25% of what it was with Masters. That to me is way worth it, especially considering a single piece will last me a year or so. It would probably last me longer if I didn't chalk before every shot when it's really not needed with the Taom....but that's part of my process so I just roll with it. Still stays nice and clean even with overly frequent chalking.
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I have a piece of V10 for home. I play maybe 4-6 hours/week. I chalk about every third or fourth shot. It is about 1/2 worn after nearly 3 years.
I have another piece I use in leagues. I play three leagues, one is a double league (8 and 9), the others are just 9, so four matches/week usually comprising 6-10 racks. That piece is similarly less than 1/2 worn after two+ years.
nice, better players will sharpen you up fast lol. do you find you learn more just watching them play or actually getting games in with them
wow, half worn after almost 3 years is crazy value lol. i chalk up way more than every third shot so mine would never last that long, do you find the v10 grips better than masters on the longer shots
I believe the only learning we have right now is knowing each other's strengths, weaknesses and habits. They knew me for having a soft pocket speed stroke (someone even refer to it as a lady's touch)or someone whose shot have a different purpose than the conventional one. On most occasions they would question my shot choices to only realize afterwards why I did that. Tbh, I find they are learning more of my games than just I do from them only because they play conventional shots. There is one decent player in the group that is a ball banger that is already starting to play conservatively when I joined since I always beat him coming from behind and I love torturing him with safeties. The other guys followed and began torturing him for fun as well.
In my experience, I feel masters is less likely to miscue. But Taom is squeaky clean. I’ve been on Taom about 2 years now. Masters 30 before then.
Master, Silver Cup, or Triangle work well. Do I use Super Chalk? Heck no.
lol thats a good flip, they end up learning more from you than you do from them. i love the safeties part too, do you find the ball banger gets more rattled by the safeties or by the soft speedI believe the only learning we have right now is knowing each other's strengths, weaknesses and habits. They knew me for having a soft pocket speed stroke (someone even refer to it as a lady's touch)or someone whose shot have a different purpose than the conventional one. On most occasions they would question my shot choices to only realize afterwards why I did that. Tbh, I find they are learning more of my games than just I do from them only because they play conventional shots. There is one decent player in the group that is a ball banger that is already starting to play conservatively when I joined since I always beat him coming from behind and I love torturing him with safeties. The other guys followed and began torturing him for fun as well.
He's more rattled when I'm running balls. I do safeties to give him a chance back in the table and give him something to ponder about. We love playing him since he is such a funny character. The only players that are rattled are more skilled than he is. I know they are rattled once they start playing safeties against me. And they begin missing some good safeties.
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I don’t think there is a significant performance difference but there is a HUGE difference in cleanliness and skid avoidance. The reduced maintenance of my home table and balls is well worth the extra price for Taom chalk. Not even close. I can’t even imagine going back to Masters at home.
The only caveat is that I have found that Taom doesn’t work well with phenolic break/jump tips. I use Masters for my break and jump cues.
V10, as I found I miscued more with the Pyro, although that could’ve been my fault.
Chris, it's always your fault. You know that. Not the tip, not the chalk, it's you coming out of the shot the slightest little bit. The body follows the head. Up with the head and the body follows.