Jacoby V5

I too am very interested. I currently play with a Jacoby and a pair of V4s, will likely grab a V5 to try out as soon as they’re available in 30” length.
 
There was a short clip on it in the Super billiards expo post I think, or maybe I saw it somewhere else. Some reviewer was going around and stopped at the Jacoby booth to look at his award winning cue then asked about the new shaft. Brandon took him over to a table and let him shoot some balls with it. He shot about 20 shots and I don't remember him missing. Brandon also showed where the difference was by flexing the shaft sideways back and forth. It seemed to bend fairly easily in the middle. So it looks as though they designed it to flex away from the ball more easily when using english. At least I think I saw it that way.
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muskyed said:
There was a short clip on it in the Super billiards expo post I think, or maybe I saw it somewhere else. Some reviewer was going around and stopped at the Jacoby booth to look at his award winning cue then asked about the new shaft. Brandon took him over to a table and let him shoot some balls with it. He shot about 20 shots and I don't remember him missing. Brandon also showed where the difference was by flexing the shaft sideways back and forth. It seemed to bend fairly easily in the middle. So it looks as though they designed it to flex away from the ball more easily when using english. At least I think I saw it that way.
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Thank you for sharing!
It sounds like Brandon Jacoby made the shaft more flex which is the complete opposite of what other manufacturers are doing making their carbon shafts more stiff. Very interesting!
 
Yeah, it's interesting. No mention of deflection either.

I'm very curious what this will play like and would really like to compare to my V4s. I would love slightly lower deflection with the same feel but not sure if that is what they're going for here or why they changed how the shaft flexes.
 
Ome of the reasons that I like the SMO shaft is that it’s more flexible than most.

We keep circling this over and over when it comes to low deflection shafts, YES, low front end mass is what allows for low deflection but the shaft needs to deflect instead of the CB.
 
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