I am here to answer questions from those who are interested to know more about the X Breaker. I will not spend my time entertain uneducated and ungrounded accusation toward me, the X Breaker, or Xtreme Billiard Concepts regarding misrepresentation. The responsibility of charging me for misrepresentation lies in the person who makes the accusation.
You claim you are here to answer questions but when they are asked you say that they are uneducated and ungrounded accusations toward you. People are making these statements because they are interested in your product and possibly willing to spend their money on an X Breaker. You say it can do this and that but you aren't willing to back those claims up with facts to the people who might buy your product.
Just because someone does not understand why certain thing can do what it can does not mean it is a lie, and just because I am not prepared to enter into a fight with a person who is simply looking for a fight for the sake of having a fight does not mean I do not know what I am talking about.
Here is your opportunity to educate people that don't understand.....
The maXimizer can keep the tip in contact with the cue ball longer.
This is the statement that I have been asking you to back up. I find it very difficult to believe that a piece of urethane at the butt end of the cue can control a vibration at the tip of the cue. So yes I don't understand, so educate me.
For those of you who have a X Breaker, I recommend that you try to break with the X Breaker without the maXimizer, and pay attention to the vibration on the shaft and the control you get on the cue ball. The MaXimizer does much more than just reducing vibration. It is a very new concept and I am working on putting forth a very easy to understand explaination. It is actually not a Limbsaver.
I tried it with both and like I have said before I believe it only offers a difference in feel and has little if any effect on the shaft / tip. When breaking how are you going to feel the vibration of the shaft? You aren't, you are going to feel the vibration of the butt because that is where you are gripping the cue during your follow through.
Try close your eyes, and listen to the sound the cue makes during contact. The hit is not dampened, it is actually intensified.
I don't think it's a good idea for people to try to break with their eyes closed.....
During the Expo, a lot of cue makers and companies have come to my booth trying out my cue. One big company which loves to use data to back its claims came and checked out my taper, and all sorts of things. They also wanted to buy one of my cue, their chief operating officer came to take my catalogues without asking me.
They acted so insecured and threatened it was actually very funny. The funniest part was that they kept trying to tell me they did not think we were competitions, and yet at the same time they were showing a lot of interests in the X Breaker.
I paid a visit to their booth the next day to return the favor, and the chief officer told his staff not to tell me anything about their cues.
One of his staff said when people loved the X Breaker because they could make more balls off the break, they were wrong.
He said they needed to be educated! I guess what he meant was everyone should only pay attention to a certain squirt percentage, even if it does nothing impressive to their break in terms of power and control.
They had a very fancy booth, with radar gun, lots of stuff, and what have you. Nevertheless, I have so many customors came to my booth after they tried their cue, and told me they loved the X Breaker and they wanted to buy one.
I think I should thank them, because it was even more obvious how good the X Breaker was when being compared to their product.
Why don't you just say it was Predator. I don't see it as a big deal if they took one of your brochures. You had them in your booth and any one walking by could take one. Also I believe all of the same information can be found on your website. And no I don't work for Predator.
My experience is when people are in a vendor's booth they almost always tell that vendor exactly what they want to hear. A lot of the same people who said they love the X Breaker probably told Predator how much they love the BK2.
I know someone is very interested to know how I came up with my design and I am not about to disclose any of it.
I don't understand what you think is so special about your design. It is constructed just like many other cues out there. If someone wanted to find out any detail that they can't see on the outside, then they could just as easily use a saw.
A lot of people like to see figures and data and numbers, without really knowing how the numbers were obtained and how meaningful those numbers really are.
I think the company which has tried to use number as an "objective" measure to measure the performance of a cue has done more bad to pool in the last ten years than it has done to promote the game.
You think Predator has done more bad than good for the industry? I think the thousands of people in who use Predator shafts would probably disagree with you.
I can tell you folks right now power and control are very important but control should not be measured solely in terms of "deflection." They can offer any data and theory they want but the truth is their breaking cue does not offer the control that mine offers.
How can you substantiate the claim that your cue offers more control than the BK2? I think this is the reason people are giving you such a hard time. You make a claim that you can not validate. This is not "truth" it is an oppinion unless you can prove it.
Speed is important but the speed obtained by a robot who does not drop its elbow, who makes the same effort to swing the cue be it 12 oz or 35 oz, is totally meaningless for those who wants to use these data to determine if a certain cue will break "better."
A lot of people kick their legs, raised their bodies, turned their shoulders, tighten their grips...how do you use a robot to duplicate that?
Powerful breakers swing the cue in a single plane. A robot can do just that and it can do it repeatedly with the same exact stroke. You do not want to duplicate all the variations of different people's break. You want to eliminate all the variances except for the cue when performing a test.
Without understanding the true dynamite of the break, these robotic data is, in my opinion, a set of data skewed to prove a point to make a sale.
In a nutshell, if these tests and data were really so meaningful, a breaking cue manufactured as a result of these tests should be better than anything else...but it simply is not!!! The first generation from this company was not great, and either is this second generation!
Instead of saying may be their approach is wrong, they think their customers are wrong and need to be educated. Therefore, more meaningless tests were done, more data were presented, and more misinformed customers went to make their purchase just to be disappointed.
That is why I think they have done more harm than good to pool.
Now you are trying to discredit a company without providing any proof that their product data is skewed and meaningless. That their customers are dissappointed without providing statements from customers. This is close to being libel. Platinum Billiards rated the BK2 #1 against over 30 other cues, therefore you could say that a cue manufactured as a result of those tests is better than any other cue it was tested against. To say Predator has done more harm than good for pool seems ridiculous to me and I think the people who play with their products would agree.
We pride ourselves as being a revolutionary company(i.e. a real revolutionary company; not one which sells the same product for the last ten years), and we do not like to be associated in any way with a company which has used meaningless data and statistic to misinform its customers in order to make a sales for over ten years.
Therefore, it has been our policy from the very beginning that we will try our best to differentiate ourselves from such a company.
This company does not know much about cues, they think a certain percentage is the key to a good cue.
Again you are making very bold claims against what is probably the most succesful company ever in the billiards industry. Don't you think a product that can stay on the market for 10 years and continue to be successful must be a good one. Are you saying that all the people who use Predator shafts are misinformed people?
I will not use this approach. My customers trusted me and I will try my best never to violate that trust.
If you want unrealistic data and stats, please go to the other companies.
In Xtreme Billiards, we offer a real cue, with real performance. We have found a secret to a good breaking cue that no one has found before, and we are here to offer you this secret weapon.
A secret weapon? Are you serious???
With the X Breaker, you do not need to be "re educated"; you try it, and you will know why it is better. No skewed data and unrealistic robotic test will be used to "educate" you.
When you look at a "Mona Lisa", you do not need data showing a certain squirt percentage to convince you that it is a master piece, do you?
On the other hand, these guys who have no talent to build a master piece can try their darest to come up with all kinds of test, data, use their computer and robot and what not...but they will never be able to build a master piece, as shown in this venture they started more than a year ago with their "new" breaking cue.
Please do not ask me to advertise the X Breaker the way they do, I am way ahead of them in case you dont realize.
Richard
