John, Just because you are a proponent of jump cues, (AND in the business of selling them) does not mean your lengthy dissections are indisputably correct.
You have a habit of talking down to anyone who disagrees with your take on ANY given subject.
You tend to throw $10,000. bets in their face (which is really a huge turn-off to most hard working middle class guys) knowing you will not be called.
In our last heated exchange, I thought we agreed to disagree.
I will still spout my beliefs, just as you have a right to assert yours.
However, you should not treat everyone who doesn't see the world through your eyes...as an uninformed idiot.
That is very disrespectful.
Dick
PS. I will ALWAYS view jump cues, as tatamount to a "foot wedge" in golf. Also, regardless of what you espouse, the skill to use one or the other is about equal. JMHO
Dick, it's alright. You're right that just because I write a contradicting viewpoint does not make it correct. That's the purpose of the forum to debate these topics and those watching can read everything and come to their own conclusions.
However it gets frustrating, especially in regards to this topic, to see anti-jump cue people spouting opinion as if it's fact. If you have facts then state them so they can be addressed. But if you don't know the history of an item or the history of the rules surrounding it then don't make comments as if you do.
I suppose that I do talk down to some people some times. I tend to think that it comes from dealing with the silly statements that are made. Maybe if people stopped trying so hard to PUT DOWN people and things with nothing more than assumptions and speculations presented as fact then I wouldn't be so condescending when rebuffing those statements.
All I have seen so far it is that the anti-jump cue crowd considers just about everyone who uses a jump cue to be an idiot.
Despite the facts.
Every single point that the anti-jump cue crowd makes against them has been rebuffed successfully by me and others plenty of times.
They take no skill to use - plenty of examples otherwise.
They destroy the integrity of the game - plenty of examples otherwise.
They cause people not to learn to kick - plenty of examples to the contrary.
They destroy the cloth and the slate - completely untrue.
And so then all that the anti-jump crowd is left with;
I don't like them - true, so just say that and leave it at that without making up things that are untrue to support your feelings.
Of course we can agree to disagree. You present your side and I present mine. It's highly unlikely that once you have a position that you will change your mind even in the face of plenty of evidence to the contrary. The debate however is not to get an anti-jump cue person to convert, it's to lay out the facts which counter the opinions and let those members of the audience who are still on-the-fence decide for themselves which stance they prefer.