Folks usually with lots of hearing loss suffer from tinnitus.
So even if his hearing aids are off his brain is manufacturing noise.
The noise is hard to deal with..........
One pool hall I played in had the music so loud I would play with shooting muffs on............
It takes a little while to get used to not hearing certain sounds in the hit.........
The LD shafts that were made of wood had ' feedback ' problems according to purists.
Many Old School One Pocket players avoided them.
Brand to brand the CF shafts hit different.
I play with a Mezz CF shaft and have no feedback issues.........
Then there is the issue of ferrules, different...
I've seen many champions giving away massive weight to folks that still can't win.
They take the money and run............
A fair game?
Ain't nothin fair in this world.............
Someone on this thread said that Yapp exhibited a reaction to the alleged bad hit.
I reviewed the tape and saw nothing I could point to.
I watched the event as it was going down as was not aware of a foul.
They had a really fine closeup of the action.
Haven't seen that much of JJ playing.
I thought the guy was Russian from his name.
My apologies.
I saw Arseni before running around the table shooting in a prior match.
It almost hurt watching JJ toweling off his CF shaft after every shot. The dude plays with a glove too.
Then Arseni...