How Do You Consume Your Chalk?

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There are two motions in chalking a tip. One leaves the chalk with a round hole in the middle (Like Efren). The other leaves the corners less used with a cross-like consumption.

Does this reflect on good chalking habits?
 
Does this reflect on good chalking habits? Darn right! I don't like all the chalk on the ferrel from drilling that usless hole for one thing. Drilling the thing over the table is unexcusable, puts little chalk crumbs all over the cloth. Right up there on my list is to tap all the broken up stuff out of the chalk cube onto the rails.

Maybe you mean the corners are more used? Anyway anyone at Efren's level ought to do whatever they want. One day I hope to watch him play in person.
 
i chalk evenly, i mean, the chalk's corners are used up evenly, my *new* blue master chalk in fact doesnt have a hole anymore in the middle after 3 days straight of playing...:D
i really dont like the drilling of the chalk, not only because it stains my hands, my cue and the table, but the chalk is less effective, i mean, as your tip gets flatter as you use it, the chalk is not evenly applied on the whole tip. you get the point? i hate it when i use chalks with deep holes in it...;)
 
with lots of water...

nbc lol


Seriously, I chalk my cues in similar fashion to the way Steve Davis chalks his cues.
 
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I apply with the light brushing technique.A well used cube resembles a molar(tooth).Although Efren has better control and gets more spin than I do!!!!
 
locki, similar to what Billy Jungle does... a very light, brushing stroke.

Steve Davis holds the cue upright, at an angle. The butt end is on the floor. Then, with this grip hand, he lightly brushes the chalk onto the tip.

Looks really prissy...but, it keeps the cue clean because the excess chalk falls to the floor and not onto the ferrule or the shaft.

nbc
 
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