Hard tip?
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hard tips
It seems the better players prefer a harder tip.
Is this true?
MMike
It seems the better players prefer a harder tip.
Is this true?
MMike
I have a hard tip on one of my shafts and I switch back and forth to see if I can used to it. The thing I like about it is that I can jump the cueball fairly easy with the harder tip - but I can't masse at all. With the softer tip, the exact opposite applies. And honestly, I like masseing more than jumping. I have a jump cue for "proper" jump shots, but for those shots where I want to jump into my object ball and have the cb hop over the edge of a blocking ball, I need the hard tip. But, I don't want to change shafts in the middle of an inning, so I need to make a decision really. heh
I have a kamui black soft on one and the black medium on the other. Pretty big difference in how they play; at least to me.
I have a kamui black soft on one and the black medium on the other. Pretty big difference in how they play; at least to me.
I like soft tips less because:
1. They don't "communicate" as much as I like
2. They change hardness as they compress
3. They mushroom more
4. They get too thin too quickly
pj
chgo
1. They don't "communicate" as much as I like
2. They change hardness as they compress
3. They mushroom more
4. They get too thin too quickly
pj
chgo
I think Dalton and Frost play with a soft kamui. I don't see anything wrong with their stroke!
I use to feel this way until Shannon D told me to try a kamui. I had the last super soft on for two years and it never mushroomed, which I couldn't say for anyother tip I tried.
because soft tips get harder... medium tips get harder... eventually all tips become hard...
so for consistency's sake why not just start there and have a tip that plays the same for it's entire life?
I have played with a lot of different tips through the years both layered and non layered as well as soft and hard. A tip is just like a cue. Some folks like a sneaky, and some like em fancy. Tips are no different. Some folks like the feel of a hard tip and others don't. It comes down to what you have confidence in, and what you like. I prefer the harder tips as from my experience they are pretty consistent for years, where a soft tip tends to compress and get harder as time goes by. I do like the feed back from the harder tip as well. One thing is for sure, just like buying a high dollar cue, buying one tip or the other will not make you pocket balls unless you aim and stroke correctly. It ain't a "miracle cure".
Thanx guys,
actually I think I've been playing with a "roughed up" tip more than a soft tip.
back when I was "really playing" I didn't know there were different kinds of tips (1970s)
Were there??? I just shot with whatever the local bowling alley guy put on:grin:
actually I think I've been playing with a "roughed up" tip more than a soft tip.
back when I was "really playing" I didn't know there were different kinds of tips (1970s)
Were there??? I just shot with whatever the local bowling alley guy put on:grin:
Back in the 70's was probably when I played my best pool. I played with what ever was on there which was usually a triangle or lepro back then. I never specified, just told em to put a tip on same as you.
Now days pool has become like golf. All kinds of new fangled gadgets, shafts, tips, chalks and so on. I come from the school of "it's not the arrow but the Indian" mentality so I don't buy into most of the hype. Each to his own, but I see a lot of it as just a sales pitch to get your money. Still playing with an ebony cue and maple shaft, just like back in the 70's.:smile: