From 8' on a 12 foo-ter, new cloth, a jump shot might even do it. MOF it probably depends on the aerial component.
Tip size
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Moe Szyslak
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Can anyone here get 8' of draw from 8' feet away with a 12.5mm cue? Top level snooker players and pool players can. I keep telling people the stiffness of my shaft means more power but they don't believe me and tell me to put my underpants back on.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
Sometimes. About 1/3 of the time it just stops dead and I look like a fool!
I played with a guy came from the straight pool heyday. Played with a Richard Black cue. 14 mm shafts late 80's early 90's. He played real good. Owned a pool hall that held 14.1 US open qualifiers in the 70's. Never hit the ball hard and still got around the table. He lightly sanded shafts. Had 4 of them. When his player shaft got down, he'd order another for the rotation. Shafts were like tree trunks to me. I used to ask him if I could have the old ones for my wood stove. I guess it's all in the beholder.
Some of that more-accurate feel may be due to the taper. Compared to the hybrid-conical Cynergy (and probably Revo) the Rhino shaft is helluva lot straighter (in the first 9" below ferrule, the Rhino width stays the same versus increasing by 1.8mm in the Cynergy).
Rusty in Montana
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Greg I understand how you must feel , the same way I feel about my 13.25 mm or the 13.50 mm shafts I have played with over the years .
My 10mm has a conical taper, and it feels more accurate, not less, because the smaller tip gives me a more clear view of where the tip actually hits the ball. The taper plays no part in the actual accuracy or in my confidence of it.
pj
chgo
Per your default stroke.
Moe Szyslak
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Right. It felt really weird to me to play billiards and making tiny little adjustments of english with an 11.5 and then start hitting tiny pool balls with a 12.5. It's like the cue blocks half the ball. It felt like clubbing this poor little thing with a giant baseball bat. With a 10.5, it's basically sort of relative to playing billiards balls with an 11.5. After doing force follow shots with extreme top spin in billiards and then doing follows with pool balls it just felt so clunky to me, like just hit the top half of the ball, I can't really see where the middle of the cue is hitting anyway.
Talkin’ right out my rear here, but could swear that I heard the majority of the players from Taiwan, or are we supposed to call it Chinese Taipei, use 14+ shafts.
Parica did. Looked like a 1" tip.
Nah, you're just not holding your mouth right,!!
I've got a coupla 14s!! Couldn't begin to see a 10. I'm lucky I can see those big tips. I figure I'm good as long as it's blocking out a certain part of the cue ball in my line of sight. Kinda like a moon phase, 1/4, 1/2, stuff like that.13 .50 mm?? Jeez, maybe that's what gave you arthritis in the first place
Put a hard tip on that and I might like it.
No kidding??