Trevor,
Thank you so very much for taking the time to explain this topic of throw in a cue, and to share your valuable experience and knowledge with us.
I was shooting with a John Parris. But I am now using a maple cue, just a really old cue. There is a cue maker here called Kevin Deroo, who bores out the front end of his shafts to reduce deflection. I have tried these shafts, but do not really like them.
When you apply inside english, do you have to make significant adjustment with your cue? I notice that it is this shot that I need to adjust the most. (e.g. using inside english to get on the black from the pink when I overhit the blue going to the pink.) I is ok when I hot the ball soft or medium speed. But to hit it hard, with inside, is very difficult.
With regard to throw, I am thinking about the throwing of the object ball. I think the claim of these low deflection shafts were targeted at the squirt of the cue ball, which are a bit different, isn't it?
If I understand correctly, their claim is about reducing the initial pushing off line of the cue ball with off center strike. However, this will not reduce the swerve effect, nor the throw effect, which happen later.
By swerve, I am referring to the curving back of the cue ball due to english.
So, for a shot made with right hand english,, the squirt effect will cause it to go to the left, then the swerve effect will cause it to curve back to the right.
From the video and the claim on the accurate site, I am under the impression that they say their cue can reduce the effect of squirt (the initial pushing off line of the white). This is achieved by the taper as well as other things that they do. Some US cues such as Predator and OB-1 also claim to achieve this by reducing the weight of the front end--the lighter front end will cause a lesser puching effect on the cue ball, because the shaft end will buckle more. I think the softer taper by Accurate will have more or less the same effect, as it will buckle more upon impact.
Am I way off here with my understanding of the topic? I am not sure if I really know what happens with off center strike. Please corrct me if I am wrong. Thank you.
Thank you so very much for taking the time to explain this topic of throw in a cue, and to share your valuable experience and knowledge with us.
I was shooting with a John Parris. But I am now using a maple cue, just a really old cue. There is a cue maker here called Kevin Deroo, who bores out the front end of his shafts to reduce deflection. I have tried these shafts, but do not really like them.
When you apply inside english, do you have to make significant adjustment with your cue? I notice that it is this shot that I need to adjust the most. (e.g. using inside english to get on the black from the pink when I overhit the blue going to the pink.) I is ok when I hot the ball soft or medium speed. But to hit it hard, with inside, is very difficult.
With regard to throw, I am thinking about the throwing of the object ball. I think the claim of these low deflection shafts were targeted at the squirt of the cue ball, which are a bit different, isn't it?
If I understand correctly, their claim is about reducing the initial pushing off line of the cue ball with off center strike. However, this will not reduce the swerve effect, nor the throw effect, which happen later.
By swerve, I am referring to the curving back of the cue ball due to english.
So, for a shot made with right hand english,, the squirt effect will cause it to go to the left, then the swerve effect will cause it to curve back to the right.
From the video and the claim on the accurate site, I am under the impression that they say their cue can reduce the effect of squirt (the initial pushing off line of the white). This is achieved by the taper as well as other things that they do. Some US cues such as Predator and OB-1 also claim to achieve this by reducing the weight of the front end--the lighter front end will cause a lesser puching effect on the cue ball, because the shaft end will buckle more. I think the softer taper by Accurate will have more or less the same effect, as it will buckle more upon impact.
Am I way off here with my understanding of the topic? I am not sure if I really know what happens with off center strike. Please corrct me if I am wrong. Thank you.
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