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Considerations for Selecting the Right CueMost players – actually, we're all guilty here – believe
(sometimes almost to the point of obsession) that if they could just find the
right stick, they'd play a lot better. And you know why, don't you? It's easier
to blame the pool cue instead of our lack of skill or bad aim or just hastiness.
Still, there is some merit in searching for a cue that better fit your style
and skill level. And most of it has to do with the end of the pool cue
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Mar 16th 2018
So we're not triathletes or even (usually) casual runners. We don't lift weights, and we don't spend hours on the basketball court. We play pool and billiards. A lot of people don't even consider it a sport and point to Minnesota Fats as proof. (But they also don't know he subsisted chiefly on candy and junk food.)But the fact is . . . playing pool has a multitude of health benefits, both physical and cognitive.1. Burns CaloriesAlthough pool is a fairly non-strenuous, low-impact game (although i
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Mar 1st 2018
Function and the Cool Factor When You're Passionate
About the Game
We've all seen them. Those guys who own fifteen fishing rods, more plastic worms and lures than you ever knew existed, and a tackle box so big and full they can barely lift it. And that's all they talk about. Weird, huh? But we're guilty, too.
If you're as passionate about the game as we are, you love everything about it – playing it, talking about it, finding and acquiring cool pool cue accessories. It goes withou
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Jan 11th 2018
Once in a blue moon, an innovation comes along that is so revolutionary you're forced to fall back on cliches in trying to describe it: game changing, paradigm shift, sea change, cutting edge, state of the art. Ultimately, though, all those phrases from your bag of cliches fall short. Predator has created one of those innovations with their carbon-fiber shafts.In the BeginningThe challenge has always been solving the problem of cue-ball drift. Predator first attacked this problem in partner
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Dec 23rd 2017
You wouldn't carry little to no homeowner's insurance and
just trust to chance that your home would never suffer any storm damage or
never burn down, would you? And you wouldn't refuse to insure your brand-new
car because you had high hopes that you'd never have an accident. So why would
you fail to use possibly the best insurance available for your favorite
game-critical pool cues and billiard accessories?You wouldn't, of course. So let's take a look at Instroke cases.Origins of
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Dec 2nd 2017