Cutec Cynergy Adapting

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I recently switched to CF from my lifetime of playing with wood. That lifetime I guess I have always mentally adjusted for the deflection but since switching to the Cynergy my cue ball is striking the object ball where I’m aiming with very minimal deflection. Anyways about of the people I have spoke with or talk to say it takes about 3 months to get comfortable with the switch but that’s soooo subjective. If someone puts in 2hrs of practice a day it takes X time but if someone does 6hrs practice a day then that amount of (days) changes. In a nutshell I’m just eager to hear how many hours of table time do you think it took you to adjust and how did it effect you mentally when you were slumping while adjusting to the CF?
 
It took me two days (8 hours total) to be totally adjusted. It wasn't that strange to me at the start, to be honest. It's weirder going back to a maple shaft for a bit after shooting with a Cynergy for 7 years. :)
 
I have swapped to LD shafts so long ago that I don't remember exactly, but when I play around with my different shafts, it takes a few days before my playing level is near what it is with my main shafts. For example, I usually play with a Revo or a Z3, I went to a first gen 314 shaft yesterday to play around with a different cue, and I dropped almost a full level of accuracy for almost all the games I played with it, unless I really focused on closer to center hits or focus on exactly how much off I had to aim. To be natural with a new shaft, I think would take anyone 10+ hours of play, if not longer, going by gut feeling how I feel when swapping. I just don't see humans adjusting to new things that quickly, we are not built that way, it takes our brains a while to find a new "normal" when we get new experiences.
 
hang-the-9 said:
I have swapped to LD shafts so long ago that I don't remember exactly, but when I play around with my different shafts, it takes a few days before my playing level is near what it is with my main shafts. For example, I usually play with a Revo or a Z3, I went to a first gen 314 shaft yesterday to play around with a different cue, and I dropped almost a full level of accuracy for almost all the games I played with it, unless I really focused on closer to center hits or focus on exactly how much off I had to aim. To be natural with a new shaft, I think would take anyone 10+ hours of play, if not longer, going by gut feeling how I feel when swapping. I just don't see humans adjusting to new things that quickly, we are not built that way, it takes our brains a while to find a new "normal" when we get new experiences.
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I am with you, I’m trying to track my hours of table time to adjust. From a lifetime (started at age 6) of shooting with wood deflection is just factored in mentally and it’s like now I have to unlearn it. I’m a SL7 in APA 8 and Tuesday night was my first match with it and I lost to a SL3. He beat me 2-3 and yesterday practicing on the 9’ Diamonds I started to get frustrated with how adding left/right English is so different from CF/Wood
 
I have a Z2 and a Z2 S-Tuned shaft for my butt. Just about as close as any 2 shafts can be.

Playing very casually or just in practice, I can switch between shafts and hardly notice anything.

Playing for marbles, If I put the wrong shaft on, my game goes to crap--not on the easy shots, but on the shots that require a bit of spin and a precise hit on OB. If my S-Tuned shaft were to get discombobulated it would probably take me 3 weeks of 2Hr/day for the muscle memory to adjust. It took closer to 6 weeks when the S-tuned shaft showed up and I started using it.

Moral:: Low stress condition: time to get comfortable ~= 0
.............. High stress conditions: time to get comfortable = "a lot longer"
 
I was using wood LD shafts for decades. I went for a 314-1 shaft of about 20 years to a 314-3 for a few months till i switched to CF. It was a harder switch going from the 1 to a 3 then from a 3 to CF. Switching to CF maybe 5-10 minutes for the feel. But i made a commitment that i was going to play exclusively with CF for about a month.

As i've said wood is wood and shafts even LD change because of conditions. CF not weather or temp changes same damn hit every time. I'll never go back too wood.

With Wood i would be pulling dents out of my shafts weekly. In about 3 years with CF I've had one deep scratch in the shaft. I was easily filled with super glue and smoothed out. I can't even find the damage today.

I'm staying with CF
 
Also you would think that since CF is production made that shaft sizes would be consistent. I will tell you no. I have two Revo shafts and my calipers measure a diffrence of .01mm diffrence and i feel it. I swap my shafts every saturday and it takes me a few minutes to get use to the bigger shaft. The hit is the same just the feel of a larger shaft is what i need to get use too.
 
I was better straight away but I think that’s because I was conscious that I didnt have the deflection dialed in , so I played way more centre ball and stun shots for position
 
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