Do expensive Snooker Cues really pay off?
World Class Snooker at the level of John Higgins, Steven Hendry etc. Playing at their standard – it’s hard to see yourself matching them right? Like any people with amazing skill they all have something similar in common. Years of experience and loads of practice.
Would it be true if you used a professional Snooker Cue that you would become a world class player? Hardly?
My own personal experience from playing snooker spanning back to the 1980′s, I started out in my local snooker club using the clubs own cues. It must of been a few years I’d been playing snooker with my buddies when one Saturday night a new guy joined our circle. This guy intrigued me straight away because in his hand he was carrying a long oblong case – very shiny and he was guarding it like the crown jewels! I’d seen a few other guys’ holding similar cases in the club but this particular one had a real classy finish to it.
Yep, He was carrying a snooker cue case – you guessed it probably. the suspense was killing me. I waited patiently to see the content of the case.
Well, I wasn’t disappointed when he finally revealed the content. The Cue Came out. He looked at me, smiled and said, “wanna game?”
When we got underway with the game I very quickly realised this guy had played before. Although he was very generous with his comments on my standard of play, he absolutely slaughtered me in the first couple of games. Thing is I wasn’t that bothered because I was learning so much from him. I had my eye on the cue he was using while he was playing. Apart from the refined and highly polished finish, I noticed there was a different action to my pitiful club cue I was using. It sounded different when it made contact with the ball. What a solid sound it made. When he hit the cue ball it looked effortless and it may sound pathetic but there was a certain grace about it.
He caught me looking at his Cue a few times. I was so relieved when he offered me to have a go with it?I went in nose first!
I was amazed as to what happened next! When that Cue was put into my hand It felt awesome, this was a different beast. I couldn’t help staring at it for a couple of seconds. I must have had a ridiculous expression on my face because he said, “are you alright?”I think so – never had a go with one of these. “It feels and looks awesome. He laughed. I couldn’t help asking what it was. He told me it was made by Peradon. It didn’t mean anything to me, all I knew was that it felt awesome and when I got down to using it, within moments it changed the way I thought about my game forever! I couldn’t believe it, I was knocking those balls in like a pro. My potting success just shot up that night!
I asked him what makes these Cue’s so good? He said Peradon have been making Snooker Cue’s for the industry since 1885 – they’re the oldest cue makers in the world and they are associated with Snooker legends like Joe Davies (well before my time). They hand splice the base he went on to say amongst other features.
My point here is that a good snooker cue may or may not make you a World Champion Snooker Player but it will go a long way to improving your existing game if your just starting out.
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