X Breaker 1 mm jump by Larry Nevel

I just like the table ;)

I've seen Efren jump. He's horrible at it. In my opinion, that's a huge weak point in his game. You don't need a jump cue ~ it's just easier to get above the ball with a jump cue - if you use a phonalic (spelling wtf? lol) tip break cue, you can jump very easily using a full length cue - but you have to hold the cue to the side instead - which is unnatural for most players. I can full ball jump with a damn bar cue - but it's a hell of a lot harder to sight the shot.

Yep, the jump itself is not the problem as beginners tend to think, but unless one's tall enough, it' hard to sight. Personally I believe, smaller players have advantages sighting other types of shots though, or at least I think so, so I guess there's some justice to being short.

That, by the way is the reason I don't have a principled problem in favour of or against jump cues: because shorter player would otherwise have to be allowed to stand on a beer crate etc. because it's physically impossible for them to shoot. And I firmly believe no one should be excluded from our beautiful sport for physical reasons. Same reason I find all anti-soft-break rules wrong - effectively banning physically weaker players (e.g. know one with a ligament rupture). That's just plain wrong!

The game would be better off without jump cues. If you want to jump, do so with your regular cue. It would improve safety play and strategy.

agreed

I also agree. I realize this is just an exhibition, but 9 ball isn't going to be much of a game if this jump cue BS gets to the point where you can practically freeze somebody to a ball and they can STILL jump their way out of it. This video is both impressive and depressing. Jump cues should be banned across the board.

In fact, what's even worse is that some of these really close jump shots aren't even legal hits. I've watched videos of jump shots in super slow motion and and when you are too close to a ball, the cue ball is popped straight up in the air upon contact, and then actually pushed forward over the object ball by the shaft during follow through. Sometimespeople are fouling with these cuesand it's impossible to see with the naked eye.

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Same to you:-)