Does anyone know if the BCA is or has banned specific jump cues? My feeling is the person that told me this is talking out of his butt. What do you all think?
In the 2007-2008 rules they are perfectly legal--including phenolic tips--as long as they are not shorter than 40" and not heavier than 25 oz, tip smaller than 14mm--metal ferrules are limited to 1".
Someone told me that at one time they banned a break cue called the x breaker, thats something i heard a while back from someone at a tournament, i dont know if it is true, but they said the company went out of buisness or something cause the were banned, anyone know anything about that ?
Why should they ban jumping?Because some people can`t or don`t want to learn how to jump?Many years ago I was ask to play on a league and in the discussion about joining I was told they didn`t allow jumping.I ask the league operator why jumping was banned.His reply was because it`s a unfair advantage because not everyone can do it.I said to him not everyone can draw the cue ball a table lenght so shouldn`t that be banned also?He couldn`t give me a answer.I said to him it took me several years to develop a stroke that could draw the ball 1 1/2 table lenghts on a 9 ft table but it took me about 4 hours to be able to jump a ball a chalk width away.Now which one is harder to learn and is a more unfair advantage?If you say the jumping then you need to play better safties.Needless to say I didn`t join the league and have never played in any league(it`s just not for me).Now don`t get me wrong I understand some people have simply never tried to learn or weren`t showed how to do it correctly so they risk damaging the cloth or possibly the equipment for this reason I can see why some rooms ban it but what other plausable reason other than skill is there?Just my opinion.I`m sure there are many people that will disagree with me but whats your reason other than an unfair advantage when you play safe and your opponent jumps and makes a hit or makes the ball?If that`s your reason you need to learn to jump and play safties that freeze the cueball to the safeball.
BCA bands Phenolic at meeting at B C A national last Saturday.
The Reason G10 material was fracturing the cue balls so they banded Phenolics.
The tip has to be glue on no one piece ferrule tip assembly.
I was approach being Jerico stinger. And I ask why.
But I introduce leather All in one tip in 2005 that did it all.
And with 2 years working on this we have leather that will perform with Phenolic with added benefits of jump draw and jump masse as we have shown at Valley forge and the nationals. It is approved by the B C A and the APA at this point.
http://www.jericopoolcues.com/Phenolic-Banded.html
For more info that affect stinger cues
BCA bands Phenolic at meeting at B C A national last Saturday.
The Reason G10 material was fracturing the cue balls so they banded Phenolics.
The tip has to be glue on no one piece ferrule tip assembly.
I was approach being Jerico stinger. And I ask why.
But I introduce leather All in one tip in 2005 that did it all.
And with 2 years working on this we have leather that will perform with Phenolic with added benefits of jump draw and jump masse as we have shown at Valley forge and the nationals. It is approved by the B C A and the APA at this point.
http://www.jericopoolcues.com/Phenolic-Banded.html
For more info that affect stinger cues
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Does anyone know if the BCA is or has banned specific jump cues? My feeling is the person that told me this is talking out of his butt. What do you all think?