Recent content by SSP

All quality tooling machinery have better tolerances than machinery of old just like everything else, even cheaper cues are better built, old growth wood is harder to find and more expensive but many like me are using CF, the advantage being repeatability in how the cue plays, if it feels good...

I'll give you that, the shape of TAOM chalk makes it easier to apply correctly too in my humble opinion, it's easier to wipe instead of drill......

Do you like your cue? Don't worry about what anyone else thinks about your cue, they don't have to use it, look at the cue Efren started out with, after a while you may try different cues and find one you like better but this might be just the right cue for you, if you truly want to be a better...

When TAOM V10 chalk came out I thought anyone who bought it would be stupid,$20? No way!!! I have always used a magnetic chalk holder, I hated having to walk around the table and having to look for it, having right at my side just made my pre-shot routine, more routine, so I bought a new chalk...

Rent or buy a used valley table😉

I think LePro is a pretty hard tip and the Bulletproof Recoil is harder than that in my opinion but has the best chalk retention of any tip I've ever used, I was not a hard tip guy until I tried the Recoil tip so you may be the better judge there, I am still using the 1st one installed on my cue...

You are correct, I assume you have already found your vision center, that should be the first thing you learn before learning anything else, if you don't know how your brain computes what true center is it's going to be a long journey.......

If you really want to see if your stroke is straight and you are hitting center of the cuball try the "whitey don't lie" drill, cueball on the foot spot, object ball on head spot, the goal is to shoot a stop shot, after hitting the rail have the object ball come back and hit the cueball and...

The tip on the left has a proper nickel radius, the one on the right doesn't, looks just like the one I did by "eye" after using the proper tool and returning the tip to a nickel radius the difference in play was dramatic, I now use a Willard's nickel radius tool about every 6 weeks to verify...

Been using the green (Hard) for 2 years, doesn't mushroom, it's a really hard tip, I started with soft tips then went to med tips, when I tried the Taom Fusion I expected it to be a med tip but it was much harder, if I try a new tip and I don't like it I always leave it on for a couple of...

No and absolutely no, each has a different stroke, they also have different arm lengths, height, weight, speed of stroke, we could go on but the point is there no "right" stroke, only the right stroke for you, if you are copying someone else's stroke and it doesn't feel right to you it's...

There are wood shafts that transfer the energy from YOUR stroke as efficiently as a CF shaft but they are few and far between, wood changes, wood will never be consistent because it's a natural product, all wood has different grain structures even in the same family of wood, does it make wood...

and we complain about chalk dust on the table, puts life in perspective

Play for something is what gamblers say, if winning for the sake of being the best that night is not enough for you then you don't love the game as much as I do, beating my friends out of $10 or $20 means nothing to me, I don't mind losing a few bucks at a tournament, you don't win anything...

Definitely a shark move but.....if she was only concentrating on her shot the spectator would have had no influence on her shot, we are all human, it's understandable at that point of the match for the nerves, it's happened to me in pool league and I get it, not the same, but sorta, I just lined...