"It's the Indian, not the arrow" the most nonsense I've ever heard.....
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billiards_watch
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Building my reputation because I want to start offering the finest cues to the community.
Someone participating everyday is better than a guy that comes a few times a year trying to sell.
are you planning on building cues or flipping ones you buy.
the market is pretty saturated with both.
for flipping being new here, is going to have to find a way for buyers to trust you. lots of posts wont do it.
a builder that made cues quickly and kept his word would have few competitors in that field.
the market is pretty saturated with both.
for flipping being new here, is going to have to find a way for buyers to trust you. lots of posts wont do it.
a builder that made cues quickly and kept his word would have few competitors in that field.
It is the archer, but surely the best archers in the world want to use the best arrows and bows. Olympic archers don't get their gear out of the bucket at the local YMCA summer camp shed. That's the rebuttal.
All this is true and like pool, I am sure there are rich archers that buy the best and can't hit a bullseye and are often bested by better shooters with lesser equipment. Talent is talent, end of story. I would bet Stevie Ray Vaughan could have made a $150. Fender Squire sound like a $4000.00 Fender Custom Shop.
One other note, these archers are sponsored, and I doubt using boutique bows, ala customs.
JV
How well do you play?
IOWs, what level Indian are you? If you're so bad you get shot in the first reel, thats one thing -- you're not capable of telilng the difference between arrows if you're a lousy player. If you're good enough of an Indian to still be standing with the Lone Ranger at the end of the episode that's something else.
Lou Figueroa
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while proving there are hundreds of responses to the profound question, do you ever take chalk home from the pool room?
....so what you're saying is that, its the indian and not the arrow?
You are the indian and you can play with any arrow, so the cliche does apply perfectly.
You just choose to use more expensive arrows?
I assume your're just trolling at this point!
Well I'll tell y'all a story
Surprised?) A friend with a bar and a fellow from Nemo's were using twelve ounce snooker cues to play bar pool. Jenson's had put early duds on both. For under twenty-five bucks total I joined in.
Damn was it hard to shoot with! I discovered low deflection when low deflection wasn't cool. Shooting a table length cut on a bar box I missed the object ball two inches. Not the pocket, the freaking ball! I had a wife and a life back then so it took me a few months or more to get in tune with that cue, a one piece brunswick or dufferin, I have slept a few times since then. Think I won about a half dozen local tourneys in a row, had to back off robbing them.
This cue was the first that I got pinpoint position with, my idea of pinpoint being I could put a dot on a bar table and shade it with the cue ball about nine times out of ten. I spent thousands of hours getting there, it didn't come easy. After getting there with that cue it wasn't long before I could get pinpoint shape with most any POS off the wall.
So easiest to reach a nice level with one cue, most any cue like Earl and Allison's cuetecs. Once there, it is the Italian more than the arrow.
Hu
Surprised?) A friend with a bar and a fellow from Nemo's were using twelve ounce snooker cues to play bar pool. Jenson's had put early duds on both. For under twenty-five bucks total I joined in. Damn was it hard to shoot with! I discovered low deflection when low deflection wasn't cool. Shooting a table length cut on a bar box I missed the object ball two inches. Not the pocket, the freaking ball! I had a wife and a life back then so it took me a few months or more to get in tune with that cue, a one piece brunswick or dufferin, I have slept a few times since then. Think I won about a half dozen local tourneys in a row, had to back off robbing them.
This cue was the first that I got pinpoint position with, my idea of pinpoint being I could put a dot on a bar table and shade it with the cue ball about nine times out of ten. I spent thousands of hours getting there, it didn't come easy. After getting there with that cue it wasn't long before I could get pinpoint shape with most any POS off the wall.
So easiest to reach a nice level with one cue, most any cue like Earl and Allison's cuetecs. Once there, it is the Italian more than the arrow.
Hu
lonely and looking for friends, nothing wrong with that, especially if everyone brings their own chair
Cicerone88
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It’s not nonsense. It may not be relevant in your situation, but theres so many new (and old) players out there that buy into the marketing thinking they need to spend thousands of dollars worth of cues to play their best. They see the buzzwords: “most accurate, most powerful, most technologically advanced” and think if they spend $800 on a new CF shaft it’ll somehow unlock their game and go up 100 fargo points
Buy what you like, and stay within your means. But the sooner you realize it’s the indian not the arrow, the sooner you’ll realize that your money would be better spent on table time developing your game than any new fancy cue/shaft ever could.
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Of course, 50$ was a lot in the Philipines, one would have to see the cue to grade the quality.But Earl did win the U.S.open and world championship with a 100$ cue.
I’m a cowboy. I shoot straight from the hip
with a 1911.
with a 1911.
it would sound much less ridiculous to say something like
our cues aren’t crooked or chipped and cracked
If you believe it is the Arrow, not the Skill, you should switch from POOL to Golf, as Golfer spend mega buck on Clubs, Balls, etc. Forgetting the way to get better is Practice. Tiger Wood in his prime was working on his game constantly, practicing constantly, winning constantly. He was paid 60 Million bucks by Nike to be affixed with them, Tiger was not paid because he was a crappy Golfer.
and steven hendry won his 7 world championships (and everything else) with a £40 cue he got as a teenager