It didn't seem like I lost much if anything on the power end but my style wasn't to roll the cue ball an inch further than I absolutely had to at the time anyway so I might not have played but one or two shots needing a lot of power in a set regardless. On the other end the light stick opened up a whole world of finesse for me that wasn't there when I was letting the stick do the work. I had the kind of cue ball control that just made life miserable for anyone playing against me. One way to describe it is that I could do my best to finesse one shot with a 18 ounce stick and then shoot one as slightly harder or softer as possible and then I could put three or four balls in between each of those distances with the 12 ounce stick. For better or worse I had total control of the cue ball speed. It was for worse for a few months but then things got good, very good.
It is thanks to Cuebuddy that I finally have one of the old superlight snooker cues to copy. He helped me search for one for over a year but one way or another I kept missing the ones that he found. He finally got tired of looking and sent me one of his own! The playing days of this one are probably past but it is in fine shape to copy. I'm going to roll back the clock 25 years with the cue, hopefully I can do the same with the shooter.
Hu
