Hypothesis: playing the tip you're used to is much mor important than any oth...
Yeah, in this context TOI and shaft stiffness is most important.
Talking about balance and weight, to me just the balance and just the weight, each of both regarded as a seperate and disconnected issue, are not so important to me, whereas the combination of everything: shaft taper + diameter, shaft feel, grip feeling, weight and balance point decide, if I feel well with a cuestick or if weight has to be added or removed. By this I have more than 2 cuesticks that have not more than 0,3 oz digference in weight, but up to 1 1/2 inch different balance points. Feeling all in all well with a cuestick is at the end not so highly important to me with the exception of the sound (here I'm a bit too sensitive, maybe). I would place the "all in all well feeling" not under the first 3 priorities of the things that allow me playing a consistent game.
But if I seperate weight and balance it is the weight to me that I admit a higher prirority than balance. But this is one of many things that is due to my pretty tight grip. Players that prefer a very loose grip are much more sensitive to balance questions because they let the cue flow more naturally.
Yeah, in this context TOI and shaft stiffness is most important.
Talking about balance and weight, to me just the balance and just the weight, each of both regarded as a seperate and disconnected issue, are not so important to me, whereas the combination of everything: shaft taper + diameter, shaft feel, grip feeling, weight and balance point decide, if I feel well with a cuestick or if weight has to be added or removed. By this I have more than 2 cuesticks that have not more than 0,3 oz digference in weight, but up to 1 1/2 inch different balance points. Feeling all in all well with a cuestick is at the end not so highly important to me with the exception of the sound (here I'm a bit too sensitive, maybe). I would place the "all in all well feeling" not under the first 3 priorities of the things that allow me playing a consistent game.
But if I seperate weight and balance it is the weight to me that I admit a higher prirority than balance. But this is one of many things that is due to my pretty tight grip. Players that prefer a very loose grip are much more sensitive to balance questions because they let the cue flow more naturally.
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