The cries to ban jump cues have slowly faded away over the past few years, but after watching a few recent events I feel like it might be time to start the conversation again. As a spectator, I really feel like it cheapens the game and would much rather see a beautiful safety shot have to be met with an equally beautiful escape. Yeah sure, jumping is a skill, but it takes nowhere near the amount of knowledge or precision that a return kick safe/make requires. If people had to kick out of safeties, I feel like of greater benefit to the more skilled player, which is what people in general want to see in the game anyway. It's why we play longer races, it's why we call shots in 10-ball, it's why we're spotting early money balls, etc. so why not just do away with jump cues. It just feels like there's so much more integrity in a nice kick shot, and when I see a player jump out of a hard to execute safety, I feel a little cheated as a fan.