Fedors butt wrap material

gbs52 said:
Does anyone know what it is exactly? I’m assuming it’s somewhat different than what Earl uses.
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cotton y-fronts under denim jeans...

Doesn't Earl use Tennis racket grip? Or did I imagine that?
Just go gripless and save yourself some hassle.
 
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Smutzc said:
I heard him say it was a silicone sleeve he bought in the Philippines, also said it was made by Kamui. But I didn’t see it on the Kamui website
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Curious minds could find his training session with Q&A part in ghe end (his yt channel). I recall something he was saying he tried this wrap once and did not plan to continue?
 
Just use a tennis overgrip already. It's the easiest thing to put on and off. It costs pennies (ok, max 3$) for months of perfect grip. You can have fun with colors. I recommend Yonex, Wilson that are readily available in any sports shop.
 
I heard him say it was a tennis wrap.
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looks like racket grip tape, all different kinds. stores like Academy or tennis shops sell it.
 
You folks must have some monster breaks to need that much grip on your cues!😲 I play with both wrapless and wrapped, depending on mood and I have never had one fly across the room due to lack of grip. I must be doing something wrong!🤯
 
jokrswylde said:
You folks must have some monster breaks to need that much grip on your cues!😲 I play with both wrapless and wrapped, depending on mood and I have never had one fly across the room due to lack of grip. I must be doing something wrong!🤯
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I have a wrapless. I like it but I noticed when I held it lightly is slipped. I was not deliberately stroking the ball. I got a clear Longoni silicon sleeve for $12 on amazon. You can still see the woodgrain and it feels better for me, at least right now. I can still grip lightly but my stroke is deliberate. It's all preference anyway but I like the feedback it provides. I don't feel the cue slipping and it's helped me focus on playing deliberately. It's fairly thin, maybe 1mm thick if I were to guess. My butt is a bit smaller anyway so I like it.
 
1. Not only does Fedor‘s cue have an extra wrap on it but it also has a spiral arrangement to give an even firmer grasp. I haven’t seen one of those in a while. Johann Scherz, an Austrian billiards pro in the ‘70’s, played with a butt shaped like that with one of those European rubber wraps stretched over it. He could have hammered a wood frame for concrete work with that thing.

2. I tried a European rubber grip for a while, but I found I didn’t like the feel. As a friend said to me recently, “I got one of those rubber grips, but I found it was TOO ‘grippy.’” (!)


3. More recently I discovered my own grip was unsure on both my wrapless cues and my leather-gripped cues. In my dotage, the skin on my hands has, I believe, grown too thin. So I bought another rubber grip and put it on. Again, I had the same unpleasant feel that I get when I wear rubber gloves to do something. Briefly I took the wrap off and then thought about it. I eventually took a scissors and cut the rubber grip into individual sections of slightly more than a half an inch. Then I rolled each new section onto the cue again but left slightly more than a half an inch between the sections. Now I’ve got the best of both worlds. The rubber sections give me grip but at the same time I’m in contact with the wood or leather of the cue for feeling.

4. CAUTION, If you attempt to use a rubber grip, be careful with your case. If your case is the kind that has tubes inside for shafts and a butt, with the rubber grip on the butt you may not be able to extract the butt from the case. All the European billiard players use rubber grips, but they also all have cases which open up along their entire length, not ones with tubular compartments.
 
I've got a break cue coming with a stacked leather wrap I'm interested in trying. My non wrapped hasn't really been a problem though.
 
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