Squirt or deflection?

[LAMas]

Years ago at the Baze 10 in SP I met Dutch who had a shaft with a brass rod down the center of his shaft that made it very stiff. I tried a few shots and the cueball went off at an angle rather than a straight line to the object ball. Was that squirt?
Snooker players shoot with very thin shafts that impart a lot of english but stay on line. Is it because the whimpy shaft moves away from the cueball at contact? Is that deflection?

 

[THE SILENCER]

well, to answer your question. the reason why snooker cues have very little deflection and can still have pencil thin shafts, is because the material is made out of ash. very resiliant. on the other hand rock northern maple is much more "alive" flexible, if you like, and therefore will flex and bring in deflection. deflection and squirt are one of the same, just to go over it again. deflection or squirt is when maximum left english is applied with hard speed, and the cue ball goes in the opposite direction of the side spin applied in this case when left side is applied the cue ball will veer towards the right. now, finally, spin away, a term i coined is the opposite. when you hit the cue ball at maximum english, at very soft speed, the cue ball will veer in "THE SAME DIRECTION" as the side spin was applied. left side applied, the cue ball will "spin away" to the left. hope that clears it up.