I know this has been brought up many times but I wanted to add my .02 cents. I have been playing pool about 10 years now. I started for the first five years were all standard deflection cues. My first nice cue I ever owned was a Judd JT-4. I played with that for a while then switched to a southwest which I didn't like as much. So after my journey with standard deflection cues I switched to Low deflection cues. I was playing with a predator sneaky and stuck with Predator for a long time. Then a friend of mine, JJ, here on the forums, handed me a Mezz EC-7 with a wd-700 shaft with a kamui tip. Note, that Up to this point I had always played with Le pro tips and then switched to moori meds. This cue had a Kamui Soft on it and I loved it, so naturally as a pool player I went and bought a Mezz.
I bought a Mezz ZZ-08 that I had up until last year when it was stolen out of a pool hall when I went to the bathroom. So, looking for another mezz, I bought a few, and liked them then I was handed a Cuetec 360 and thought it hit pretty good.
So I Tried to learn the deflection on the Cuetecs and they just deflect differently than anything and I didn't want to spend the time to learn it.
So after many years, I went back to my southwest and fell in love again with custom cues.
So my questions are why do so many people play with low deflection cues, and what is there appeal since they do feel so dead. Something that I did not realize until switching back to a standard cue.
It is so much easier to control the cue ball with proper stroke and feel of a standard cue. Anyways, Amazing how life brings up back full circle sometimes huh.
I bought a Mezz ZZ-08 that I had up until last year when it was stolen out of a pool hall when I went to the bathroom. So, looking for another mezz, I bought a few, and liked them then I was handed a Cuetec 360 and thought it hit pretty good.
So I Tried to learn the deflection on the Cuetecs and they just deflect differently than anything and I didn't want to spend the time to learn it.
So after many years, I went back to my southwest and fell in love again with custom cues.
So my questions are why do so many people play with low deflection cues, and what is there appeal since they do feel so dead. Something that I did not realize until switching back to a standard cue.
It is so much easier to control the cue ball with proper stroke and feel of a standard cue. Anyways, Amazing how life brings up back full circle sometimes huh.