Carbon Fiber Shaft & Touch Of Inside Aiming
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Depends what you mean by "works". TOI doesn't "increase the margin of error" as it claims, but it can be used to make shots with any shaft, like any aiming method.
pj
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phreaticus
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TOI works fine with any shaft. I currently play with anything from beater house cues to a Cynergy CF. You always have to get in touch with whatever your shooting with. TOI is more about stance & alignment than anything else. Cheers
CF shafts usually produce less squirt, not always - for instance, my maple shaft squirts less than any CF shaft I've heard of because of the way it's made (10mm hollow tip). But every shaft produces some squirt that must be compensated for when cueing off center.
And aiming with sidespin using TOI is exactly like aiming with any other method - you aim to pocket the ball while compensating for the squirt produced by your shaft. TOI just describes it differently (and makes wishful, illogical claims that it "increases the margin of error").
If you like TOI, that's great and more power/success to you - just ignore the wishful claims.
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I use it on some (rare) shots with a Z3 LD shaft so it should work fine with LD CF.
Actually its not the same. With TOI you are mainly just aiming a straight shot or a half ball hit then hitting firm and deflecting the ball with a parallel shift to pocket the ball.
I do agree however that you dont get any increase in accuracy it just seems easier to aim some (inside english) shots this way for me at least.
With TOI you are definitely losing some degree of linear independence because you are a slave to the tip offset and how hard you are hitting the ball.
It’s only a semantic difference: make the shot “using” squirt vs. make the shot “compensating for” squirt. No matter how you describe it to yourself, you use exactly the same alignment (of course, or you miss).
pj
chgo
Well, you might use the same alignment, but you are using an amount of sidespin and speed that might not be optimal because you are forcing the aim point to work, hence where I say you are losing linear independence.
If you mean that's a drawback of using TOI, I agree. The amount of side spin (and its correction) should be chosen for each shot's requirements, not dictated by a "playing system".
pj
chgo
Yea its definitely a drawback.
There is nothing magical about Carbon Fiber shafts. There are shafts made of maple and ash that deflects the same (LD), so there is no reason why a Carbon fiber shaft wouldn't work with any kind of aiming system you use.
Dr. Dave did UTUBE on CF Deflection v/s Wood, it's about same. Think like anything else in pool it trail, and error, plus the more you practice. Hopefully you will get turned into new Shaft.
With the small caveat that if the player is changing from a thick maple shaft with lots of squirt (cue ball deflection) to a low squirt CF shaft, the aim on all shots with side spin will change. If their old shaft squirts about the same as their new shaft, the aiming will be close to the same.
That's a given. However I find that Carbon fiber shafts are usually found in quite a large range of deflection "sizes", though obviously more in the ld category as that is most fashionable at the moment. It should be possible to find something close to his current shaft, unless it's a 15mm ivory ferrule monster. I just aquired some one piece cues from the beginning of the 20th century. Most are warped and the ivory ferrules are almost all cracked but a couple are playable, they are at least 14mm. Can't wait to try them out with TOI and all sorts of fun aiming methods! The best one is 56 inches, 14mm ivory ferrule with a cocobolo(?) butt that is hugely thick and beautifully figured! What a beast! It sounds like a musical instrument when tapped gently!
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