i'm in Germany right now and there is a big tournment in the UK that is running for 17 days so i'm watching it on TV(they have that down cold too, Mitch Laurance/ESPN needs to come here and take notes), and wow those guys stand with this odd stance but they can fire the balls hard with an open bridge, get huge english on the cueball, and pocket balls better than you can imagine, there is some great sooker on youtube in the snooker forum here there is alot of links to some great frames(racks),
their cues are made fron ash and have no taper, they weigh what a normal cue weighs and the length is 57" to about 60", their ferrels are brass and usually 9mm and only 3/8ths to 1/2 inches long, they use Elk Master tips that mushroom over the ferrel the chalk before every shot, with I cant think of the brand its the one in the yellow wrapper its a fine chalk very powdery. I have hit balls with a snooker cue and its much better than any American cue stick.
Its amazing how far they can draw the ball of follow with such stiff cues with super soft mushroomed tips(that look like they are about to come off), but they have it down cold. some of those guys pot(make) balls and push around the red balls Efren might not like it, its alot different than a GC with simonis on it. different world.
They hardly ever miscue, and those guys shoot off a bridge just like its their hand, I saw shot yeaterday, it wasnt wired but almost it was a 3 ball combo into the corner and he shot it off a bridge with a tempoary extension on his cue, he made the shot like it was nothing, it wasnt like a trick shot that is wired and all you do is just hit it he had to throw the first ball a bit into the second ball.