In order to perform the double jump shown in www.xtremebilliard.com, the player and the cue are both important. The player has to be able to hit the ball with so much power that the ball jumps very high in its first bounce, and then it needs to have enough energy to bounce again. The second...
The first guy is Ying chieh Chen. He is the 2002 World Junior Champion and he came to the last sixteen in the WPC this year.
In the WPC 2004, he did not lost a single match in his group. In the knock out stage, he lost his first match.
Taiwan paid about one million dollars last year to have the WPC held in Taipei. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt if the US government would ever do something like that. :(
Sorry, I know it is very late to post some pictures of the WPC 2005. I have decided to post them here just in case some of you are still interested.
These are pictures you do not get to see on the web site.
I hope you will enjoy them.