Predator 314 or Original Shaft?

[Cornerman]

cornerman...<<FWIW, Cuetec makes four or five different styles of shaft. To my knowledge, none of them claim to have low squirt characteristcs.>>

Sorry but I believe you are quite mistaken. This is from the Cue-Tec website

"The Cuetec VORTEX™ Shaft is:

The most durable maple shaft ever created!
The most powerful maple shaft ever made!
The best controlling deflection, squirt and distortion.
The most consistent playing shaft available.
The sharpest performing shaft available. "

Fair enough, and I stand corrected.

Has anyone tried this shaft to see if it indeed has low squirt characteristics?

Or are they wordsmithing by saying that their squirt is controllable?

Fred

 

[pollux]

Av84fun,

About the ladies, here is the current ranking from the WPBA web site, www.wpba.com, under "ranking".

I have listed along their names to my best knowledge what shafts they are using:

1. Allison Fisher: regular
2. Karen Corr: 314
3. Monica Webb: regular
4. Kelly Fisher: 314
5. Vivian Villarreal: regular
6. Ga Young Kim: regular
7. Helena Thornfeldt: regular
8. Kim Shaw: 314
9. Jeanette Lee: regular
10.Sarah Ellerby: smart

It is very clear that 3 out of 10 of the top 10 ranking pro on the WPBA tour play with a 314 shaft. The percentage is 33.3%.

About BK, I do not think any of them breaks with a BK, but I could be wrong, because I do not know what Kim Shaw breaks with. I also believe Karen Corr might be breaking with a Dufferin with a 314 shaft, but I am not sure. I am sure Sarah Ellerby uses a Lucasi break cue or something made by Universal, but I do not know what shaft she has, although I can certainly say it cannot be a 314.

Here is the break cues that I know they use.

1. Allison Fisher: Cuetec, regular shaft
2. Karen Corr: Not sure
3. Monica Webb: Sledgehammer, regular shaft
4. Kelly Fisher: X Breaker, regular shaft
5. Vivian Villarreal: Bender, regular shaft
6. Ga Young Kim: Searing, regular shaft
7. Helena Thornfeldt: Unknown brand, regular shaft
8. Kim Shaw: Not sure
9. Jeanette Lee: Jacoby, regular shaft
10.Sarah Ellerby: Not sure

If Kim Shaw is not using a BK/BK2, then the percentage of top 10 ranking pros on the WPBA breaking a BK or BK2 is ZERO.

The above is the best analysis I can offer, with data as accuarate as I can provide them.

From the above data,

It can be seen that:

1. 66.6% of the top ranking top 10 pros on the WPBA are playing with something other than a 314. Only 33.3% of the top 10 ranking pros on the WPBA are playing with a 314 shaft.

2. no more than 10% top ranking pros on the WPBA tour breaks with a BK or BK2.

It is obvious that the percentage is much less than 65%.

As far as I know, there is no official ranking of men like that of the women, so although I would love to include the men's data, I do not know how to obtain them objectively.


Richard

last time i checked, 3 out of 10 was 30%. which only adds to the gap between predator's percentage and the "empirical" one...

 

[av84fun]

Cornerman...<<Has anyone tried this shaft to see if it indeed has low squirt characteristics?>>

Allision Fisher! (-:

Regards,
Jim

 

[matt9ball]

cues

In the game of golf we now have bigger heads with a huge sweet spot on the drivers more flex for distance but of course it is harder to control all the flex all the time.Are we also saying that we should tell Tiger Woods to go back to the small wooden heads and steel stiff shafts because it will be better for his game?cause he will have more control in his distance and because with his graphite shaft and huge sweet spot due 2 the size of the head that it is encouraging poor fundementals and would weaken his stroke due to getting away with a flaw in his stroke???

and maybe we should go back to hand saws in building instead of electric??

times change technology advances and we will always need bigger,faster,quicker to stay in the running for any sport in more cases than not.

time to forget the past and bring things to newer higher heights!

 

[xidica]

Fair enough, and I stand corrected.
Has anyone tried this shaft to see if it indeed has low squirt characteristics?
Or are they wordsmithing by saying that their squirt is controllable?
Fred

I know my shaft well. I can also control the squirt (usually).

Sorry (couldn't resist)

 

[Dawgie]

Take your new Olney cue just the way it is. BUT - get the Predator Shaft also. If you are like me I would have always wondered how the cue would play IF I had the Predator shaft. This way you will have both. I did this with a Meucci Black Dot and I am glad I did. It is having both shafts that gives me a certain level of comfort. I also use both shafts but I do use the Predator more often than the black Dot.