Byrne on Stiff Shafts and Squirt

[Craig Fales]

So basicically what you guys are saying is this: If you measure the scategoriphical triumphants of the endoplasmic reticulum, you may come up with an ATP energy mitochondrion converter in which the pulsar rapidly propels, causing deflection in the stage II mitosis. Thanks, I see everything so clearly now.

LOLz...In my mind this whole "squirt" talk is getting out of hand...no matter what shaft you use there is going to be variables in each on whether it's stiff or whippy so on and so forth...it's what you get used to playing with that makes the difference....not anything else is going to improve your game except staying with the same cue and shaft....you eventually "learn" to compensate for that one cue only....
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[Cornerman]

I think Steven Waldon has it right. It seems likely that shaft/ferrule flexibility is the principle determiner of a cue's squirt characteristic. The end mass approach is misleading, in my opinion.

You've got it backwards. Physics points to end mass. Intuitionists point to flexibility. Physics trumps intuition.

One way to resolve this is to reduce the diameter of a cue and see how the squirt changes.

Been there, done that. Another way is to add mass to the tip end like a brass rod or some lead tape, neither of which affects the flexibility in any way, but increases squirt by loads.

Fred