X Breaker 1 mm jump by Larry Nevel

Larry Nevel jumped 1mm with the X Breaker shaft

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• billiards
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[zzzfore]

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.

[Turambar001]

A cheat cue??? FYI, in pool competitions, jumps shots are allowed and minimal length of a cue as defined by rules is 914 mm. Jump cues, although much shorter then ragular 145-148 cm cue, are still much longer then the mentioned limit.

[TASK104]

@lakunas23 Did you even read my 1 year old comments before you insulted me? I never said it was easy(although it is infinitely easiER than with a playing cue) and I never called it a magic wand. LOL I guess I'm just "another beginner" because I don't like what you like.

[lakunas23]

@TASK104 Are you on the WPA board or just another beginner in pool? Making a short jump with position play is NOT easy. I compete and also like this cue, but it's not a magic wand.

[lakunas23]

@zzzfore Safety play and strategy improved because of the jump cues, nowadays you can see great safes with balls tied up instead of easy snookers. Why do people have a problem with it? Take the short cue, go to a tournament and see if you are better then someone without it. This cues are regulation and why not take advantage if you are good at it. Like prohibiting 5 rail escapes for Efren, because he can do them.

[matt1746]

He can jump just fine. He rarely does though because he can bank and kick so well. Doing that there are a lot less variables, and if you know what you're doing you can be much more consistent. It's not that jumping is a weakness in Efren's game, relative to him everyone else has a major weakness in kicking and banking.

[keenster14]

I just like the table ;)

[LeonFleisherFan]

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!

[LeonFleisherFan]

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.

[TASK104]

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.

[TASK104]

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.

[locorossco]

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.