Recent content by Paul Bell

Maybe this is the group with SVB, but Jay Helfert recommended practicing for hours at the table. This is instruction advocating mindlessness to improve. I think being in the zone is super way of playing and one that has a magical reliance on one's subconscious. It is over-rated, however...

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Enjoy both. Wood on outside and carbon fiber inside. Weights movable anywhere along butt length:

At the other end of the sales spectrum, cheap cues are cheaper. Facebook Marketplace has new cues nearby for $35 and they probably have a bum tip but are otherwise OK. A pallet of new cues was sold by the box of five cues for $100. A complete set of new cues and pool accessories go for $65...

It took AZBilliards eleven pages to discuss the Pristine shaft; two posts reviewed it --- reviews by GideonF (he posted above) and Icon of Sin (copied here). Pristine and Meucci's Carbon Pro shafts are probably the only two carbon fiber shafts that include wood. See photo below of a Pristine...

The product page is contradictory about the butt: it claims it is 100% maple and "made of exotic Rengas". Rengas is a wood. PoolDawg has another Pure X HXTE model --- HXTE4. It, too, has the Rengas but it describes the butt as birdseye maple with Rengas and abalone graphics. Graphics likely...

Regarding a very stiff shaft --- that's not the 11.8mm Jacoby V5. Here's Jacoby's blurb on it: Just when you thought the best couldn't get any better, Jacoby Custom Cues brings you the V5 BlaCk Carbon Shaft. The new V5 shaft is slightly more flexible than its predecessor, the V4. This is...

Is your Shark snooker cue related to the one-piece pool cue stick with a logo of a blue shark with a cue stick?

I can't find where Dr Dave tested the deflection of stiff versus whippy shafts. The way I understand the Wheat State cuemaker, if all other conditions are the same, a whippier shaft has less deflection than a stiffer shaft. This isn't just about stiffness; it's also about weight. Whippiness...

You are right that only comments should be made as to Jay's health. I just finished his book, though, and was thinking how the book was good, wondered why hustling was so dangerous, and found it hard to figure how to fit the good and bad of gambling into pool. I thought Jay's writing was...

Jay describes below what he suspected was a rigged game in his his book Pool Wars: On the Road to Hell and Back with the World’s Greatest Money Players (p.143, iUniverse, Bloomington IN. 2012). Jay was the referee in 1991 of the final game of what would be the Challenge of Champions...

From Dr Dave at https://drdavepoolinfo.com/faq/squirt/endmass/ and Shaft Endmass and Stiffness Effects, Dr Dave explains how its easy to change the amount of deflection by adding front-end mass (to increase deflection) or removing front-end mass (to decrease deflection) while not changing...

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Here are the FUZE shafts: i) solid kielwood Pure X Kielwood FUZE shaft, ii) a carbon-fiber core in a 10-splice maple wood shaft Lucasi Pro 10 Splice InFUZED shaft; iii) a carbon-fiber core in a 10-splice kielwood shaft, Lucasi Pro Kielwood 10 Splice CF InFUZED Shaft; and iv) a carbon-fiber...