Snooker/Pool Chalk Review - TRIANGLE vs TRIANGLE PRO vs TAOM SOFT vs TAOM PYRO - Which is Best?

let's do a chalk review [Music] hello and welcome back to the snooker shed and today's video is all about chalk i really can't find a chalk that works for me i've used all the different chocolates out there and i'm still to find one that i would put in my pocket time and time and time again maybe there's a chalk out there that i'm not going to look at tonight and you could suggest for me to have a go and see how it works out but let's go on with tonight's video and let's look at the chalks that i've used since i started playing back in november 2018 so what i've done is i'm going to set up three balls i'm going to play each shot a stun shot a screw back and a follow through shot then what we'll do is we'll examine the cue ball after each shot and we'll examine the table after each shot and then we'll just look at the results how each of the chalks go on and we're going to start tonight with a famous triangle chalk the one that we all know this is about 30 pence a block i'm sure amazon was doing like three pound for six you know it's really really cheap stuff extremely common in all the clubs and i don't know a snooker player that hasn't had this yellow beauty in their hands so let's see how triangle chalk fares on the snickers sheds test right so start the triangle chalk i'm going to just take any chalk off my tip so there's nothing on the tip there you go and the tip i'm using tonight is our century g2 tip and then we'll stick on some of this beautiful triangle chalk um covers the tip really well yeah pretty happy with the coverage of that tip no really any spots where i feel that the chalk didn't go into the tap i wanted to clean the cue ball and hit spotlessly clean and obviously we've brushed the table right let's crack on with the first set of shots so triangle chalk on the stun shot so here's the point where the cue ball was setting and we could see this really a splattery chalk on the cloth it's pretty standard stuff for triangle we've all seen this moving up the cue ball so i could see clearly that we've got a nice circular chunk of chalk on the cue ball there so i quite clean the cue ball make sure that there's nothing left on that and a good brush to the table getting ready any chalk so obviously moving on to the next shot screw back shot and typical triangle chalk again cue ball started we've got this splatter a triangle chalk in the table that one's not as bad as what we normally see uh i might have played my screw shot a wee bit deeper but you can see that street going there let's grab the cue ball bring it back into shop and then again you're seeing that chalk residue left on the cue ball final one for the triangle and let's do the top spin shot not as much chalk residue on the cloth here there is a wee bit a splatter there and so not too much let's grab the cue ball but yet once again you can see that blue that kind of blue chunk on the cue ball there so triangle chalk is a great chalk let's be honest we've all been using that as cheap it's very effective very little mascules it does however mark the cue ball and it really leaves a bad residue in the cloth it leaves the tables in a hell of a mess um if you're over talking with this stuff right let's move on and the next one we're going to look at is the triangle pro the market up one okay jumping in for those that's got a little bit more pocket money and we're going to look at triangle pro and there's quite a few different chalks in the market that's like triangle pro and there's one called russian magic which i've used as well and i'm not going to feature it because it's pretty much the same as this leaves the same kind of results as this one does so let's crack on let's play the stun shot so sticking this one on my tip and you could see that it covers the tip really well really well i'm really impressed by how that there is very little spaces left when you put this pool stuff on really really good for covering your tap let's see what happens when we play the shot so results for the stun shot on triangle pro and pretty much nothing at all on the table but let's see if any of the chalk went on the cue ball and there you go this is what i've found with the triangle pro chalk it leaves a very very big mark on the cue ball so quick cleaning the cue ball and then move on to the screw shot so screw shot with a triangle pro chalk and you can see we've got a kind of dark and streaky chocolate on the table isn't it much isn't as much as the triangle normal chalk but it's there let's grab the cue ball though and let's have a look yep again we've got some residue chalk where i've had the ball so topspin shot with a triangle pro and pretty much like it's sweet brother the triangle chalk nothing on the cloth nothing to say which is it's a bit surprising you just wonder where all that chalks went to so let's grab the cue ball and let's have a look at the cue ball and right away yep there it is there again let's see that similar mark on the cue ball so there you go three live shots with triangle pro chalk comes in at around four or five pounder block and i didn't use this much because i thought it really marked the cue ball a lot but what i did use this for and i also used the russian chalk which you're seeing here was it does mark the cue ball and that's really good for learning because when you think you're striking center ball it marks the cue ball and if you've got nick barrow's ball then you could see if your hat hitting center ball or not so it was really useful um for training purposes but for actual playing sorry pro wasn't for me so next chalks we're going to look at is the new kid on the block and that's teom i've got three chalks here for term there's a soft version two in the pyro during filming i'm playing i've found that the version two and the soft chalk was identical the results were always the same so i'm not going to review both i'm just going to review one of them and i'll choose the soft then we'll look at the pyro right so sticking the soft on my tip and it doesn't cover too well and i'm really lagging this on but i've cleaned the tip so i'm putting it on it's not too bad there is patches there where it feels like the chalk's actually not on the tip okay so team soft chalk nothing nothing on the table and from the stun shot nothing on the cue ball okay so here i'm soft on the screw back and pretty much as expected the table is pretty clean um there will be signs from where this chalk goes because it certainly doesn't go in the table and it certainly doesn't go on the cue ball so let's play the top spin shot and again same again nothing on the cue ball and nothing on the table so damn soft chalk what could i say no marks in the cue ball no marks in the cloth let's move on to taong pyro just to be the information on why my my pyro tea on pyro chalks kind of shake like this it fits in to this v-square block there's got to be magnetic clip for when i'm playing games so if you're interested in purchasing any of these chalks that we're reviewing tonight go to q sports yorkshire and q sports yorkshire is run by a lady called rebecca kenner number four in the ladies snooker it's an absolute cracking lady and she'll give you the best deal you'll also get the chalk from a reputable dealer link is in the description right so let's get some of this pyro chalk on right so you can see it's kind of same as the the soft it really doesn't cover all the tip i think this kind of leads me to over chalk but okay so table tail pyro chalk nothing on the table but on the cue ball there is a glimmer there pyro with the screw back and again expected nothing on the cloth but here on the cue ball is one of the biggest problems i'm finding with the pyro chalk is when i play a deep screw shot i'm getting a chunk like that on the on the cue ball i'll also get this if i missed you but clearly that shot that i played wasn't a miscue it was a good enough screw back when you try and clean this chalk off it's almost embedded into the cue ball itself you're sometimes having to scrape off with your nails and it still leaves like almost a crater in there but it takes a bit of cleaning follow through shot with the tail pyro and again nothing i have no idea it must just vanish into space there's nothing on the cloth again nothing on the cue ball okay so i hope you enjoyed that video and let's summarize what i think of these chalks so let's look at triangle chalk it's probably the most common chalk like i said with everybody's had a shot yet and it's a good all-rounder chalks whale plays well disadvantages as it leaves the table and such a mess and it marks the cue ball moving on to the triangle chalk pro far too messy for me on the cue ball every time you play a shot you're constantly having to clean the cue ball great though if you're practicing and learning where you're striking the cue ball moving on the taom the soft chalk or the version two very very good all-rounder very little marks on the cue ball in fact there was none and very very little chalk dust on the table and then the last one reviewed was the taom pyro chalk still a good chalk but it leaves big chunks on the cue ball and for that reason i'm certainly not going to be using it much when i'm playing a march and i play a screw shot i'm finding that i'm having to stop the game to clean the cue ball so all in all i'm going to put taeyum softchalk as my number one i've had thousands and thousands of balls and played thousands and thousands of hours a snooker in the last three years and i found this one as probably the best out them all the only problem with this chalk is it's fairly expensive because coming in second is the triangle and mainly because it's pennies to buy and it's still a decent chalk but for me this is the one i'm going to be using more in the future it isn't perfect you get a miscue with this and it'll mark the cue ball when you get a mess queue but the results are playing live this one's top if there's a chalk that you would like me to have a look at or you think would be the one for me then leave the chalk name down in the comments i'll go buy one and we'll have a look at here at the snooker shed once again thank you very much for watching please hit the like button and subscribe and listen i'll see you on the table [Music]