Hello,
Yesterday we had Chris Henry (is(?)/has been a coach for Peter Ebdon; for those that know snooker) at our poolhall doing a sales-pitch for something he has developed. He claims to have created a cue with extremely low deflection. There was some 15-20 of us watching him do his demonstrations and we got a chance to try his cues as well.
Now from what I can say, these cues do have extremely low deflection, but personally when I tried it (6-7 times 3 different types of shots, first with my own cue (Predator 3k1 with Sniper-tip) and then with his, I made every shot with both...so I couldn't find too much difference between the two.
However there were people there that could see quite a bit of difference.
The simple test that was done to see how much the cue deflects was to put a ball on the footspot (I believe that's what it is called) and cueball on headspot.....then try to het the targetball with just a little backspin. Then after the delivery, someone quickly removed the targetball and watched where the cueball hit on the cushion....in theory it should've been right on the center-diamond. The result was that most people don't hit the cueball perfectly in the center, resulting then into some sidespin and into deflection.
In any case....I am not here to do a sales-pitch....I am just curious to know if anyone here has heard about/tried it and what their opinions are. You can find their website at Acuerate.
I would be especially interested in hearing what the cuemakers here think.
At the end, 2 people from our group of 15-20 people bought the cue. It came with 2 shafts each having a different diameter tip....I believe 9mm and 10mm or something like that...thus 1/3 smaller than regular off-the-shelf poolcue at poolhalls.
Cheers,
Kimmo
Yesterday we had Chris Henry (is(?)/has been a coach for Peter Ebdon; for those that know snooker) at our poolhall doing a sales-pitch for something he has developed. He claims to have created a cue with extremely low deflection. There was some 15-20 of us watching him do his demonstrations and we got a chance to try his cues as well.
Now from what I can say, these cues do have extremely low deflection, but personally when I tried it (6-7 times 3 different types of shots, first with my own cue (Predator 3k1 with Sniper-tip) and then with his, I made every shot with both...so I couldn't find too much difference between the two.
However there were people there that could see quite a bit of difference.
The simple test that was done to see how much the cue deflects was to put a ball on the footspot (I believe that's what it is called) and cueball on headspot.....then try to het the targetball with just a little backspin. Then after the delivery, someone quickly removed the targetball and watched where the cueball hit on the cushion....in theory it should've been right on the center-diamond. The result was that most people don't hit the cueball perfectly in the center, resulting then into some sidespin and into deflection.
In any case....I am not here to do a sales-pitch....I am just curious to know if anyone here has heard about/tried it and what their opinions are. You can find their website at Acuerate.
I would be especially interested in hearing what the cuemakers here think.
At the end, 2 people from our group of 15-20 people bought the cue. It came with 2 shafts each having a different diameter tip....I believe 9mm and 10mm or something like that...thus 1/3 smaller than regular off-the-shelf poolcue at poolhalls.
Cheers,
Kimmo