How dominant do you believe Carbon Shafts will become, at the pro level?

[Ghost of OBC]

Anyone here shoot archery?

Remember wooden arrows? They were replaced in the 70's/80's by aluminum...that was the greatest advancement in archery in years...

Then along came carbon fiber arrow shafts...they don't bend, they are more "true" than either aluminum or wood, they are stronger and lighter (allowing for more feet per second) and they are more accurate...

I also thought these new-fangled black arrows were a passing fad...Like CF pool cue shafts...

That was 10+ years ago...And I still shoot carbon fiber arrows today...And I don't know anyone who shoots aluminum, much less wood...

I think this is a much more convincing analogy than golf. In golf carbon is only ubiquitous in driver/3w shafts. Good players mostly run steel in at least putters and wedges, but usually through the whole iron set. If we analogized to golf we would all break with carbon and pot with wood.

 

[Black-Balled]

Haha it's been a few years, seems like a lot of pros are using Revos (and some ignites). But they're also sponsored.

I recently just came back after a few years off and my pool hall seems have about 50% of the players using CF shafts nowadays... all handicaps. The other trend I didn't expect was how many Cognoscenti's I've also been seeing at the pool halls lol (I'm in Chicago). And the a lot of the Cog Players have a revo/kielwood shaft tapped to play on their cues (defeats the purpose if you ask me).

Why are you picking on handicapped people?

 

[MitchAlsup]

Seven. The answer is seven.

The answer is 6×9 in base 13 which is 42.......

 

[NathanDetroit]

It depends on how many are getting paid to use them, trying to get paid to use them, or started using them fairly early in their careers.

As it stands, it looks like even some of the top sponsored guys are sticking to wood outside of the break.

Those pros using sposored wood cues are all LD.