Lots of people said congrats or "wow, that is fast".
My question above is genuine, I actually wanted to know if anything was done to the BK3 to make it easier to stroke faster, namely the main thing in a cue that allows that is a reduction in weight. A person will stroke a 17 ounce cue faster then a 19 ounce cue normally and I was wondering if they reduced the weight of the BK3.
Talk above of a COR type of effect like there is in golf does not really work. When a golf ball is struck by a driver the ball itself compresses on the club head face, the face of many drivers also has some give and in effect causes a "trampoline" type of effect where the face of the club acts like a spring at contact on the golf ball. There are even crazy clubs that REALLY do it and add huge yards to the drive but the USGA outlaws them.
In pool the cueball does not compress, so you dont get the effects that ball compression gives you in golf on the distance. In pool you are also not seeing a spring effect off the cue tip in the same sense. Leather will compress and then rebound, but it is not a benefit to break speed and that is why people break harder with really hard tips that do not compress. Generally speaking all of break cues attempt to simply transfer whatever your cue speed is into the cueball, and as long as the cue is staying rigid at contact, the tip remains hard and does not compress, I do not see where the gain in speed from a BK2 to a BK3 would come from.
Given Mike tried one, had huge results, and is clearly marketing them I figured he might know what actually made the thing hit the ball better. If Tiger said he tried a new driver and it allows him to hit the ball 20 yards further then ever before and you asked him what was the difference with the new driver from all the others he has tried then rest assured his answer would be more then "I don't know, it just goes farther...".
