Deflection question, explain how a stiffer CF shaft has less deflection.

[garczar]

If the cue ball comes off the tip in a millisecond, or so, where does the "whippiness" of the shaft come into play?

Hasn't the contact between the tip and the cue ball been broken before the shaft begins to whip?

Ever seen those super slo-mo videos? The shaft gets out of the way instantly with lo-def shaft. That's how they work, shaft deflects, cueball doesn't. Well, it still squirts but less of it.

 

[dendweller]

If the cue ball comes off the tip in a millisecond, or so, where does the "whippiness" of the shaft come into play?

Hasn't the contact between the tip and the cue ball been broken before the shaft begins to whip?

I suppose you could say the same for the ball. My guess is there is a finite amount of force when they hit, it gets divided, if the cue eats more because it's wippy the ball will take less and go off line less, But that's a guess and I'm not a phd.

 

[straightline]

If the cue ball comes off the tip in a millisecond, or so, where does the "whippiness" of the shaft come into play?

Hasn't the contact between the tip and the cue ball been broken before the shaft begins to whip?

Jumping in for no good reason. It occurs to me people may hit closer to center with a whippy shaft. Wouldn't this provide a longer contact window? Perhaps by millions of nano temporal increments.