tips shaped by chalk poll

Do you agree with this "99.9% of your tip shaping is done with chalk."

  • Yes

    Votes: 18 14.1%

  • No

    Votes: 110 85.9%
  • Total voters
    128
poolmonkey

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I was just reading another thread and was just curious as to what you guys thought of this statement.

99.9% of your tip shaping is done with chalk, yes or no?
 
poolmonkey said:
I was just reading another thread and was just curious as to what you guys thought of this statement.

99.9% of your tip shaping is done with chalk, yes or no?
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Crap. I wasted just under a minute reading and responding to this. No way I am going to waste another second by voting in this waste of space.

BVal
 
I agree that chalk is abrasive, and therefore helps to shape your tip whether you want it to or not.

I don't necessarily believe the 99.9% thing, except that the number (possibly incorrect number) was used to reinforce a true statement.
 
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If anyone thinks that 99.9% of your tip shaping is done by a cube of chalk, then I feel confident in saying that 99.9% of those people are purely and utterly retarded.
 
I put yes it does, but that is because I never shape it independently. I think it is an unnessary thing to do. Leave it alone and your play will shape it appropriately for your playing style.
 
poolmonkey said:
I was just reading another thread and was just curious as to what you guys thought of this statement.

99.9% of your tip shaping is done with chalk, yes or no?
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I was just reading this thread and was just curious as to what you guys thought of this statement.

99.9% of all polls are annoying and worthless, yes or no?
 
Nope

Do I believe chalk has something to with a tips shape, yes.

I do not believe that is resposible for 99.9% of the tip shape.
 
Its got a 3% chance of being such an item.

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BVal- how did your (first) post take you a minute?!?!?! WTF!?
BVal said:
Crap. I wasted just under a minute reading and responding to this. No way I am going to waste another second by voting in this waste of space.

BVal
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There should be an option "I do not want to vote on this poll"...
... oh wait! There is! :D
 
Chalk does shape

catscradle said:
I put yes it does, but that is because I never shape it independently. I think it is an unnessary thing to do. Leave it alone and your play will shape it appropriately for your playing style.
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Yep if your a banger it will be flat.:D
You know really Cats, I could not agree more.
But than I would also say it is still the abrasiveness of the chalk that is doing the shaping as it is squeezed between the tip and the ball.
So I vote Yes the chalk shapes the tip.:cool:
 
poolmonkey said:
I was just reading another thread and was just curious as to what you guys thought of this statement.

99.9% of your tip shaping is done with chalk, yes or no?
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It depends on the player. If someone rarely uses a tip scuffer or tool, then the chalk will account for most wear/shaping. This is because the main ingredient in "chalk" is silica, a well-known and very effective abrasive.
 
I think the statement is horse manure!!

I have it on good authority that not more than 99.875% of tip shaping is done by the chalk. 99.9% is a gross exaggeration!

Hu

PS: I'll be marketing my chalk with the precision ground pocket in it already formed to a precise nickel or dime shape in the very near future. Get your preproduction orders in now. Regular price will be one dollar a cube but pricing for early orders will be drastically reduced to 99 cents!
 
poolmonkey said:
I was just reading another thread and was just curious as to what you guys thought of this statement.

99.9% of your tip shaping is done with chalk, yes or no?
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It depends.

If you're one of those guys (idiots) that go into a pool room and take out one of those glass fragment encrusted tip shapers out of your cue case pouch, turn your cue upside down, and try and start fire... then no.

But my experience has been that it mostly depends on your chalking motion. There was a time when I use to sort of twirl my cue when chalking and I'd end up, in due course, with an almost bullet-shaped tip. Shooting a follow shot off the rail, with the cue ball near the rail was a challenge.

Since noticing that little bit of unconscious leather work, I now use more of a brushing motion on my cue tip and am much more successful in maintaining a normal looking tip. YMMV.

Of course, if you use your playing cue to break at 9ball or 8ball, have a soft tip on your ferrule, and a monster break, you can basically forget about everything I've just written :-)

Lou Figueroa
 
ShootingArts said:
I have it on good authority that not more than 99.875% of tip shaping is done by the chalk. 99.9% is a gross exaggeration!

Hu

PS: I'll be marketing my chalk with the precision ground pocket in it already formed to a precise nickel or dime shape in the very near future. Get your preproduction orders in now. Regular price will be one dollar a cube but pricing for early orders will be drastically reduced to 99 cents!
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You forgot

* warning, chalk must be replaced after each chalking in order to maintain proper radius
 
jondrums said:
USA Today recently reported that 53.7% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Yes, and 90% of that 53.7% can be used to prove anything 95% of the time.:cool: :cool:
 
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