Stroke with no acceleration versus stroke with acceleration

Wrapping the cue stick in rubber or put a rubber coating on the cue stick is one low cost attempt worth trying.

I get hand pain from playing too many break or power stroke shots.

With a rubber glove, your arthritis will be loved.
 
Funny thing, some of the CF shafts feel as crappy as the old aluminum or fiberglass pool cues. Had they came out for under fifty dollars serious players wouldn't have touched them. As super premium shafts people are jumping all over them.

Some feel pretty good. What you are playing with matters too. I test hit a friend's 11.8 REVO on a snooker table before they came out. He was supposed to get the medium size, 12.4mm I believe. The 11.8's weren't available for some time yet. Either he had a little stroke or a prototype got in the supply line somehow. Whatever, the REVO played great with the smaller lighter snooker balls. Much better than my wooden pool cue shaft. I didn't have a snooker cue or shaft to compare the REVO to.

Somewhere down the road I want another CF shaft but I will hit with it before buying. Some are good shafts, some are cheap shafts that people are making a quick buck on. I have only hit with a few of them and I don't know which are which. Haven't hit with enough of any of them to know if they are consistent either so while I can say which I liked, I can't say that all of the shafts from a brand that I tried and didn't like are the same way and there are always different strokes for different folks. What I hate somebody else might love and vice versa. I like a much softer hit than most people are used to.

Hu
 
Bob Jewett said:
Actually, a study that some biomechanical researchers in Austria did at a Eurotour stop found that a large majority of shots were played with zero acceleration at impact -- the cue stick was coasting at the instant it hit the cue ball. That is the most efficient way to hit the ball, all else being equal.

However.... For the break shot the players mostly were still accelerating when the stick hit the ball. I don't think they concluded anything about the reason for this but I suspect that if max speed is your main goal, you want to keep accelerating for as long as possible.

Of course the cue stick must be accelerated at some point during the stroke or it won't be moving. Most shots require the stick to be moving.
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For those interested, a link to the study along with related discussion and demonstrations can be found here:

 
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