Measle balls in practice

I have the red and the black. Just like the above, I do like the feel of the black better, but that could be because the red is probably 15+ years old now and the black one is newish.

The biggest thing I get from practice is long stop shots to see if I'm adding unintentional L/R spin. Other than that, it doesn't really do a whole lot.
 
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I think the spinning dots are information that your brain can use even if you don’t know how and even if you don’t consciously see it. Our brains are smarter than we are.

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lfigueroa said:
Well, the black dots seem easier to see.

And my unscientific feeling is that the black plays a bit harder than the red. I always felt the red, for whatever reason, played like it was a of a softer composition.

Lou Figueroa
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I've heard the same from other players, notably Bergmann who was playing with a black just a few weeks ago.
 
garczar said:
They were invented for tv/stream so people could see spin. I'm not a big fan. I've never stared at whitey after a shot to see how it spins. They play ok but i'd never buy one. I like a classic clean white cb.
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This. Personally i like them because it helps read the table going from one to another (slippy/sticky table, etc), but effectively it doesn't do anything.
I prefer the black measles ball, but really the only CB i *don't* like is the single big red dot (Brunswick?). The single dot is distracting.
 
i think most of the learning i do that comes from the measles is when it quite obviously does something i didnt expect. Always makes me go…. Huh…. What caused that
 
No vendors that sell the Aramith Black measles ball advertise it as being made with Duramith, and Aramith doesn't even list the Black measles ball on their "Cue Ball" page. Nevertheless, the Black measles ball does come with the Aramith Black ballset, which is advertised as having Duramith technology, so that is one indication that it is made with Duramith. From personal experience, the Aramith Tournament ballsets with Duramith that I've played with are slightly yellowish, and the Black measles ball also has that yellowish appearance, which is another indication that it is made with Duramith. On the other hand, if you prefer a white cue ball, then get the Red measles ball.

I noticed that Predator tips that come stock on Predator shafts leave a sickly yellowish mark on a Black measles ball when I miscue, which is very hard to polish off with Aramith Ball Cleaner. In my experience, the Red measles ball stays cleaner than the Black measles ball.

Personally, I don't like playing with a blank cue ball anymore. An Aramith measle ball is my preferred cue ball.
 
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I paid thirty bucks for the red dot way back when. I tried to give it away for several years before somebody took it. Problem was that it rolled long compared to the red circle ball that all the tournaments were played with, and that we gambled with. Everybody that hit with it awhile agreed it rolled long on a trip around the table, a foot and a half to two feet long. Enough to blow shape playing with it and be out of tune with the red circle when you got tuned to play with the measle ball.

I went to a barbox tournament, first one in twenty years or so. I spent an hour tuning with that Valley cue ball. Yee-haaa! Got that thing rolling right and I was ready to kick ass and take names! Then the tournament director came around and swapped all of the cheap cue balls out for the twenty-five dollar ones. Fifty or more players trying to get on eight tables, I just shook my head. I could have bought a lot of beer or a trailer park hooker with that forty dollars!

The nine ball makes a good practice cue ball.

Hu
 
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