The greatest safety player of all time, Efren Reyes, refused to use a jump cue for about his first fifteen years as a pro. Also, the advantage enjoyed by the greatest kickers is diminshed by the existence of the jump cue, because they get less value out of their kick safes than otherwise. I find it amazingly funny that Efren, the best safety player and kicker of all time was, for so long, intolerant of the jump cue.
In Efren's first 15 years as a "pro" in the USA jump cues were not very popular. Most pros did not own or use them during that time. Fong Pang Chao bought his first one from me at one of the shows in Las Vegas and that same year won the Challenge of Champions against Bustamante with a long jump shot to cut a mid-table 7 ball in. Allen Hopkins rightly commented that Bustamante had played the wrong safety and diagrammed another one that would have cut off the jump shot.
Efren now uses a jump cue.
Speaking of Allen Hopkins he didn't use one for a long time either despite being near Pat Fleming who kind of pioneered them. But many years ago Allen stopped by my booth and wanted to try one. His first shot he jumped the cue ball off the table. After 3 seconds of instruction from me which consisted of saying "half that power Allen" he locked into what he needed and proceeded to make some great controlled shots. He bought a cue.
Room owners are all wrong when they ban jump cues. The cues are legal in the world rules so instead of banning them how about teaching the "amateurs" the proper way to use them and when to use them. Encourage learning and skill-building.
People talk about the decline of pool well THIS is one reason why. All this fracturing is ridiculous.
I think it was Bob Jewett who recommended having a jump shot practice day when the pool room is going to recover the tables.
Imagine for a moment what sorts of FUN you could have in a pool room where you invite your customers to GO CRAZY learning to jump and masse?
I can guarantee that the end result would be customers and players that have more skills AND more respect for the equipment after they spent a day or so tearing it up on purpose.
Those newly skilled customers would then be the ones who guide all the others who didn't get the benefit of the training day.
Bring in someone who knows how to jump and someone who knows everything about masse' shots. What fun it would be to learn from them in a setting where no one was afraid to kill the cloth.
BUT no one thinks this way do they? Just fracture pool as much as possible and be DIFFERENT than the rest of the world and then wonder why the rest of the world is better at the game.
In China and Taiwan they have house jump cues that any one can use.
In America, the land of prohibition, people have to make up hybrid workarounds to get around biased bans.