Having read Acuerates claims on their website I was skeptical to say the least. Okay I admit it, I did not know one cue could throw more than another. My laymans logic told me that if you set up a robot to hit the white in exactly the same way then if the tip used was identical and the shafts had the simlar amount of stiffness all cues would send the white on the same path.
Having just googled this threads title I'm not so much sceptical as confused, theres so much info out there its a minefield. Apparently it's the first few inches of a shaft that accounts for the difference more than anything else, at least thats what these independent testers say: http://www.platinumbilliards.com/rating_deflect.php. What though is so different in those few inches?
As for Acuerates claims, maybe there's something in them after all but I'd be much more convinced if there tests were independently made. One thing though I think I can explain why say Peter Ebdon was so impressed yet still uses his old cue, He's had it 20 years or so and his brain compensates
for its throw automatically now. Changing to a low throw shaft now would perhaps in his view mean he'd need years of playing with it to automatically compensate less.
Having just googled this threads title I'm not so much sceptical as confused, theres so much info out there its a minefield. Apparently it's the first few inches of a shaft that accounts for the difference more than anything else, at least thats what these independent testers say: http://www.platinumbilliards.com/rating_deflect.php. What though is so different in those few inches?
As for Acuerates claims, maybe there's something in them after all but I'd be much more convinced if there tests were independently made. One thing though I think I can explain why say Peter Ebdon was so impressed yet still uses his old cue, He's had it 20 years or so and his brain compensates
for its throw automatically now. Changing to a low throw shaft now would perhaps in his view mean he'd need years of playing with it to automatically compensate less.
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