New Technology LD stiffness

[bstroud]

Texdance,

You seem to be interested in Pucket.

I traveled on the road with him and knew him very well. I married his niece.

The reason he had a “short point cue” was that the points of the Rambo he had were coming apart so he taped the up with black Electrical tape.

Bill S.

 

[Island Drive]

Close up your bridge hummmmmmmmm

I think what OP said makes a lot of sense. The front end of a low deflection shaft is so light that it deflects rather than moving the cue ball off-line. That’s said, it makes sense that if the aiming point is too far to any edge of the cue ball, the LD shaft might deflect off of the cue ball whereas a regular maple shaft might make better contact. I just started shooting with a predator Z2 shaft about three months ago. Before that I used a traditional maple shaft for about the last 40 years. I have a pretty good stroke and I have miscued at least six or eight times in the last few months, whereas with a regular maple shaft I rarely, if ever, miscued. I can’t remember miscuing with a regular shaft in many years. For me the proof is in the pudding. I love the Z2 and I can do things with it that I can’t do with the regular maple shaft - due in large part to the very small diameter - but I’ll have to see if the occasional miscue continues before I know if I’ll be able to stick with it or not.

That may be the ticket....Sounds like the open bridge may also be in play. Billy your thoughts?

 

[Patrick Johnson]

...it makes sense that if the aiming point is too far to any edge of the cue ball, the LD shaft might deflect off of the cue ball whereas a regular maple shaft might make better contact.

I just hit a bunch of test shots with my ultra-low squirt cue and a high-squirt house cue, using a Centennial striped ball with the stripe vertical, trying to hit on or past the outside edge of the stripe (halfway to the ball's edge from center), at different speeds from firm to less than lag, checking the chalk mark each time to see exactly where I hit the ball.

The results for both cues were the same: Without miscuing I could reliably get chalk marks right on the edge of the stripe (part on the stripe and part outside it), but never completely outside the stripe.

pj
chgo

 

[ShootingArts]

seems like the shaft is working as expected.

The shaft is getting out of the way of the cue ball. The full mass of the cue ball centered over the shaft lets it apply maximum deflection to the shaft. A couple of possibilities: The shaft is trapped between the cue ball and table before the cue ball clears the tip or possibly the tip comes off of the cue ball faster than with a standard shaft, hits the table, rebounds faster from there too and there is a second hit of the cue ball.

If either of these speculations is correct or possibly both of them with different shafts and players, what we see are pro's who are used to taking things to extremes getting burned where those who allow more margin for error aren't having the issue as often.

Hu

 

[hang-the-9]

Much harder - my ultra low squirt shaft jumps like a short white guy. Predators I've had in the past did too.

What gives...? Who would know something about this...?

pj
chgo

View attachment 514460

This was brought up before, and the "official" answer from the OB guys was ... "we are not sure why".

I was trying to show an advanced position hop shot where you shoot a ball in with a small jump stoke to jump over another ball (basically to hop over it to get to the other side without hitting it), shot it with my LD shaft 3-4 times before I felt like an idiot for not making it and grabbed a house cue to demonstrate.