Bending the cue on the break

It be sweet if all the pool players in the world did the same thing. sell shafts in the 12 pack.

bill
 
Remember the cheap 5 or 6 piece cues? I remember watching a
player with a monster break use one and to the naked eye it looked like a snake when he broke!
 
I Break with alot of cue bendage (is that a word) anyway I have worked on my break probably more than my shot making, anyways when I play during league people are always asking me If I every broke a cue doing this and the answer is no my predator BK has no rolls to it and I am 285 lbs. I also can hit close to 29 mph if needed mostly in the 26-27 range
 
Baby PacMan said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KSBms3yP4Y&feature=related

If you pause it at .05 you can see it. What gives? I've seen the same in other breaks, is that even legal. That can't be good for the cue or the cloth.
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I personally love people who do it, because they end up breaking thier cue which translates into me selling them another one or fixing the one they broke!!!

As a pool room owner if I see some one doing it I will tell them to chnage the way they are breaking, because you are right it does damage the cloth and there is no good reason to break that way in the first place.

JIMO
 
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^^^Great shot for sure :thumbup:
I broke a Phillippe...in half... back in 90 :grin-square:. It snapped the forearm right in two... It's funny now, not so funny then...and I remember the shaft swinging in my fingers and the butt in my hand, still clear as day even now...wondering what happened LOL...

...now I hit the cue ball level and get a little hop... No more fancy breaking for me thank you very much...a lesson well learned :D
 
I learned to break that way years ago during some lessons with Mark Wilson in St. Louis. I was always intrigued with that style of break since seeing Tom Cruise break like that in TCoM. He was taught that break by Mike Sigel.

All it is is a continuation of your follow through. If you practice that stroke without a ball you will realize the tip of the cue will continue on a downward path.

It is the same as when you finish a full golf swing from the tee, the club winds up wrapped around your neck and shoulder. It promotes follow through and acceleration through the ball.

I have never damaged a shaft or any cloth from this break.
 
I know most Taiwanese players break this way (most notable: Wu Chia Ching). Its just an exaggerated follow through. Check out some power draw videos, people bend their cue sticks as well. Pretty sure its not that great for the cloth, but haven't heard about pros replacing their shafts every now and then from this type of break.
 
Can anyone explain what the purpose is to bend your shaft during a break.
Whats the advantage?
All I know is that people watch the pros do it and they want to be cool and emulate the pros, but they have no idea what the purpose is, they just want to look cool.
So, bend your shafts and be uber cool.

I Break with alot of cue bendage (is that a word) anyway I have worked on my break probably more than my shot making, anyways when I play during league people are always asking me If I every broke a cue doing this and the answer is no my predator BK has no rolls to it and I am 285 lbs. I also can hit close to 29 mph if needed mostly in the 26-27 range
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Wow, so whats your percentage of balls made off the break as opposed to someone who doesn't do a shaft bend break?
I think I will call you, Uber Break Master. And no, bendage is not a word and you shouldn't have to ask, unless your name is George Bush.
 
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Don't think of it as "bending your cue" but think of it as following through downwards without losing speed after the tip touches he cue ball. Happens on a power draw shot as well, you wouldn't let the cue fly upwards would you?
 
There really is no advantage to bending your cue after the break.

It does really increase the chance that you will snap your cue or shaft at or near the joint!

I think it comes as a result from an accentuated follow through, which is a good thing on the break, but only if it's in the right direction.

The best break tip I have ever heard originally came from Charlie "Hillbilly" Bryant. Basically, he said that you should follow through and try to keep your tip from touching the table. What this does is keeps you flat through the cueball, which helps keep the cueball from jumping before it hits the stack. This is huge!

I think that when great players ,as have been shown in this thread, are bending the cue it is a result of the follow through and happens long after the tip hits the cueball. But when most players try to replicate that break, they hit down on the cue ball and their break suffers. The cueball fly's around and jumps in the air too much.

I know that I break much better when I keep it flat and level.
 
Yeah I think for the most part when people bend the cue on the break I don't think they are doing it on purpose. When I break it just kind of happens naturally. If I try to follow through with the cue up in the air a la Johnny Archer it always feels like I'm coming up off of it.
 
manwon said:
As a pool room owner if I see some one doing it I will tell them to chnage the way they are breaking, because you are right it does damage the cloth and there is no good reason to break that way in the first place.
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Advice on my break from top players has been to drop my elbow (like I'm throwing an upper cut) and keep my bridge hand down so my tip stays on the cloth. That is exactly what he is doing in this video and that is exactly what a lot of great players do. If there is "no good reason" to break like that in the first place, then why do they? Maybe because it works?

It won't hurt the cloth any more than jump shots.
 

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