Practice cue
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i am not an instructor
but i am in the process of reinventing the wheel
i bought an ob1 shaft for my cue and am alternating plaing with the original shafts and the ob1
its making me SCIZOPHRENIC!!!!!!
you shoul practice / play with the same cue so you get the same feed back on your shots
imho
icbw
yes a pro can adjust to a house cue if necessary
but for us mortals the less variables to adjust to are better for building consistency
your thoughts appreciated
but i am in the process of reinventing the wheel
i bought an ob1 shaft for my cue and am alternating plaing with the original shafts and the ob1
its making me SCIZOPHRENIC!!!!!!
you shoul practice / play with the same cue so you get the same feed back on your shots
imho
icbw
yes a pro can adjust to a house cue if necessary
but for us mortals the less variables to adjust to are better for building consistency
your thoughts appreciated
different shafts
Hi bbb
Thats what i did. got a 314 for my playing cue, which always stayed in the case at home; but continued to practice with my older Adam that has a standard shaft.
I found it took a while to warm up and didn't necesarily attribute cose misses to the difference.
Anyway, last couple of days, shhok of the laziness and practiced with the 314. I think I'll just keep using only the one cue.
Thanks for the input
Dave
Hi bbb
Thats what i did. got a 314 for my playing cue, which always stayed in the case at home; but continued to practice with my older Adam that has a standard shaft.
I found it took a while to warm up and didn't necesarily attribute cose misses to the difference.
Anyway, last couple of days, shhok of the laziness and practiced with the 314. I think I'll just keep using only the one cue.
Thanks for the input
Dave
I actually have been shooting drills with a different cue than my player but they are all vertical axis drills.... I don't shoot any english shots whatsoever with it and I don't play racks with it....
I picked the closest cue I had to my player which has the exact same tip size and I threw it out on the table so that I had no excuse for not hitting a few balls every time I walked by it....
If I am actually going to spend more than a few minutes my player comes out of my case but I am hitting maybe 100 more balls a day now just by putting a cue on the table....
I would leave my player out but the dangers of having kids in the house outweighs only hitting straight top, draw and centerball shots 10 or so at a time.....
I also leave all the balls on the table to always have balls to shoot.... I have to this point acquired 5+ sets and keep them all out herded in one corner so I can do my "walk by 10" 9 times before I have to stop to get the balls up and herded...
If anyone has old sets they are tempted to toss out I'll gladly pay shipping... The 9 footer goes up soon and I should have plenty of room for another 30 or so LOL
I picked the closest cue I had to my player which has the exact same tip size and I threw it out on the table so that I had no excuse for not hitting a few balls every time I walked by it....
If I am actually going to spend more than a few minutes my player comes out of my case but I am hitting maybe 100 more balls a day now just by putting a cue on the table....
I would leave my player out but the dangers of having kids in the house outweighs only hitting straight top, draw and centerball shots 10 or so at a time.....
I also leave all the balls on the table to always have balls to shoot.... I have to this point acquired 5+ sets and keep them all out herded in one corner so I can do my "walk by 10" 9 times before I have to stop to get the balls up and herded...
If anyone has old sets they are tempted to toss out I'll gladly pay shipping... The 9 footer goes up soon and I should have plenty of room for another 30 or so LOL
I've noticed several posters using the word 'player' to define their playing cue. This word is new to me. How long has that been an accepted term for describing one's playing cue? Isn't the player the person who's doing the shooting?
Probably just slang, I guess, but I wondered when this term became acceptable.
Fran, I don't really recall how I picked that up... I think it may come from my neck of the woods tho... Down here we have our daily drivers and then we have our hot rods and show cars.... My driver is an 07 GT... My hot rod is a 96 Mystic Cobra..... My player is a Predator I have many collectors.....
Hopefully someone can point out where "player" came from.. I don't think I used that term 10 years ago......
Hopefully someone can point out where "player" came from.. I don't think I used that term 10 years ago......
Thanks for taking the time to explain. I figured it might be something like that. My driver is a Callaway. Don't presently own a hot rod but my first car was an oldie but goodie ---- '69 TR-6, 5 speed. My player is me. LOL!
Fran, I first noticed the term in the mid 1990's in the south. Custom Cues that were geared for pool players that didn't have a lot of fancy inlays were called players cues. Sometime around 1995 I started to hear the term player being used to describe the cue (often a "players cue") that the person was using on a regular basis. They may have owned several cues some high end and very elaborate but the "player" was the one they would take to bars especially when they were playing for money.
I'd imagine the term may have been used before that to denote the same thing in different places.
OK, thanks --- So maybe it originated in the South. Kind of reminds me of 'straight 8' ----still trying to figure out what that one means. It's interesting that all the different cultures have merged on the message boards. But that's a topic for another thread.
Sorry for the hijack...