Need help here...
I play with a Mezz cue, LD shaft, medium hard tip. I've also used soft tips, super soft, and hard.... Anyhow, here's the story:
There is certain stroke shot I really like. You place the ob froze to the long rail at the 1st diamond away from one of the corner pockets on the foot end of the table. Place the cb on the headstring and about 1 diamond out from the same side rail. Shoot the shot with low-inside spin and draw the cb back and around 3 rails to the other corner pocket at the foot end of the table.
With my cue I can typically get the cb to draw around 3 rails, but it seldom has enough steam to get all the way back to the pocket or end rail at the foot of the table. A couple of weeks ago I shot the shot with a friend's Cuetec Synergy and was amazed at how easy it was to get that cb all the way around to the end rail. I did it several times in a row. Then I used another player's cue, a Predator with a carbon fiber shaft, and found it to be just as easy to work the shot.
So is it the carbon fiber shaft or the tip that makes the cb react so much better, or more dramatically?
Or is it the thinness (12mm or whatever) causing me to strike the cb a touch lower, resulting in better action?
Any thoughts or insight?
I play with a Mezz cue, LD shaft, medium hard tip. I've also used soft tips, super soft, and hard.... Anyhow, here's the story:
There is certain stroke shot I really like. You place the ob froze to the long rail at the 1st diamond away from one of the corner pockets on the foot end of the table. Place the cb on the headstring and about 1 diamond out from the same side rail. Shoot the shot with low-inside spin and draw the cb back and around 3 rails to the other corner pocket at the foot end of the table.
With my cue I can typically get the cb to draw around 3 rails, but it seldom has enough steam to get all the way back to the pocket or end rail at the foot of the table. A couple of weeks ago I shot the shot with a friend's Cuetec Synergy and was amazed at how easy it was to get that cb all the way around to the end rail. I did it several times in a row. Then I used another player's cue, a Predator with a carbon fiber shaft, and found it to be just as easy to work the shot.
So is it the carbon fiber shaft or the tip that makes the cb react so much better, or more dramatically?
Or is it the thinness (12mm or whatever) causing me to strike the cb a touch lower, resulting in better action?
Any thoughts or insight?
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