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While it sounds intuitive and lots of people claim it, I see zero evidence that low deflection shafts of any kind (wood or carbon fiber) improve someone's level of play. In fact pretty much all the evidence says it makes no real difference at all. Willie played straight pool for ~60 years and...

I too look forward to seeing your demo and hope that you include more in depth detail and programming stuff than what many would have interest in or understanding of if you aren't opposed to sharing some of the finer details as well.

This was actually a pretty easy call to make with a little understanding of some very basic physics which really any half serious player and certainly all referees should already know anyway, and then taking a few seconds to think things out. As the referee the hard part here is just forcing...

Not to side track the thread but the one and only reason that record stood so long is because nobody plays straight pool and nobody cared about that record and therefore nobody made any real effort to beat it. Finally one guy (not even an upper tier pro) decided he cared and broke it within a...

I think it is pretty rare that sound alone can be reliable enough to make a call based solely on that. With this particular shot it would be completely impossible to make a reliable call based on sound.

In a recent interview when talking about and defending the purple 5 ball, Emily Frazer among other things said something along the lines of "we haven't had any players shoot the wrong ball yet" with the clear implication being that this proves that switching a standard traditional color over to...

Because they have a purple 5 ball. No more reason needed lol.

Looks like the diveneycue.com (not plural) link that they have posted on their facebook page is down with a 404 error and I'm guessing that is the link the OP was using? DiveneycueS.com as you posted above is indeed working. I don't know the history of the diveneycue.com page so I have no idea...

We don't know exactly what the fine was for but it doesn't appear that it was for simply cursing. I think it could be reasonably argued that telling someone they need to wipe the smile off their face is an implied threat. I think it could also be reasonably argued that throwing things out of...

A quick search seems to turn up lots of roughly comparable products with Methylene Chloride (aka Dichloromethane) so if that really was the issue then it seems to be a pretty easy one to fix. If it was actually something else then perhaps you or someone else might be kind enough to use your...

For those in the western world for whom that symbol has not been part of their culture or religion for hundreds or thousands of years, then yes, most of those westerners would not adopt that symbol post 1939 because of how most other westerners tend to first think of it and identify it, nor...

I've seen you make comments indicating you are one of the people who believe that that some cues inherently play better (inherently meaning for everyone) than the others that are within the mainstream spectrum, but what I've never seen from you is any cognizant explanation about what exactly...

There are arguments for promoting the "seedy" side of pool as well as for trying to make pool "respectable" which are obviously opposing directions. To help settle the debate the only data we actually have on what might work best today is to look at the only billiards sport than has seen any...

The most recent videos of Rafael playing that I am aware of are linked below of him playing down in Mexico (on a real slow table) a couple years ago where he lives now. I agree with tomatoshooter that Rafael might be the most exciting player to watch. For those not familiar with him he shoots...

I had taken a quick glance at the cue and that never even occurred to me, didn't notice. Then I saw measureman's post and now the resemblance sticks out like a sore thumb and I find it a bit creepy too. I do know the use of that symbol (left and right versions) go back thousands of years and...

Congratulations Mike. It was a good place for Accu-Stats to land too.

Agreed. You should have stopped there, this says it all. As long as a cue is turned/tapered to a reasonable precision (if it ends up hexagonal like a pencil it might affect play) and put together in a reasonably solid way, and they pretty much all are, it escapes me how some people believe...

My thought is that this will rarely be true and on average makes the CIT greater for most shots as well as harder to judge/predict. Outside english (but only the correct amount) can negate CIT because it "gears" across the object ball thereby eliminating CIT. Not enough outside however and you...

Some other thoughts... A knee jerk reaction would be to say that you should not be able to be drug tested more than once every three months or some other length of time or number of events or other similar limitation, but there is a good reason it is truly random which means potentially you...

Going by memory here but according to Neight in the video from post #4 Darren was already on tilt from losing his match to Filler when Darren was up big twice in the match including 10-7 in the race to 11, and also because Filler took a time out and went to his table to wipe his hands or take a...