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A Public Call For Fair Treatment To Pool Players Who Are Taller
You know sometimes I just want to say to the cue-length rule makers this: Hosea is 5 foot 1 inch tall and he shoots with a 58 inch cue. Why can't you understand that a player who is 6 foot 3 inches tall needs a cue longer than 63 inches! You know . . . some people do not have a clue at all.
Lets re-word that another way. Hosea Parica is 61 inches tall and uses a 58 inch cue. Then wouldn't a man that is 75 inches tall use a cue that is 71.311475 inches long? Yet that 6 foot 3 inch tall man is restricted to using a cue that is 63 inches long!
You may say that my comparison was eXtreme. Yes, but so is the IPT 63 inch cue-length rule! But if Hosea is allowed a 63 inch cue (and according to the new rule he is) then what? See the mess?
Efren Reyes had me build him a cue that comes up to his top lip. Then if the IPT wanted a cue length rule that was fair for everyone then make the length of approved cues to be in proportion to the man's height, i.e., up to his upper lip. Now that would be fair for everyone, wouldn't it?
Then this would allow most players who are 6 foot 4 inches tall to use a cue that is more approximate to their height, which would vary but be in the neighborhood of 66 to 67 inches in length.
If you are 6 foot or taller (there are some players as short as 5 foot 10 inches tall that do need a cue 63 inches long, but no one has sense enough to know this) then you are at the web site of the man that first advocated longer cues for taller players...just like golf or any other sport. Of course some dumb folks laughed at me. The main ones were two Filipino cue manufacturers (who had their laugh at me back in 2002) and It should be noted that one of them now will make you a long cue. Heh, heh. Nothing like money to make a man (some men, and certainly not all men) compromise his principles. heh, heh. You can always tell who the ones with "sour grapes" (a case of the old green eyes) are, they are on the gossip forums slandering. heh, heh. But the world has, by 2006, smartened up about so-called cuemakers from where these two men are, haven't they?
Some of the well-meaning, but terribly wrong, leaders in this sport want to make sure taller players have to also use the bridge so they limit cues to 63 inches in length. By this manner they keep out millions of players 6 foot 2 and taller. Are this smart or what? What they are doing is to allow men short like Hosea to use a cue so he does not have to bridge. i.e., a 63 inch cue could be bought to use ONLY on shots they would normally have to use a bride for. All the 63 inch rule has done is help a few taller players and given more of an advantage to the shorter players who, formerly through cuemakers' lack of knowledge and concern for taller players - and now through the length limit, have dominated pool for the last 100 years!
I am the cuemaker with the most experience in the world in making longer cues which are designed to fit the person based upon their height, shoulder width and arm length.No other cuemaker in the world has my years of experience.
I know a lady pro right now (in August 2006) that needs a 64 1/2 to 65 1/2 inch cue, but has to shoot with a 63 inch cue (I built for her) because of some uninformed rocket scientist rules.
I mean like.... REALLY!!!!....Where is the common sense of most people? Well, my cuemaking buddies says we have made them 57 and 58 all our life and we are just going to continue.
Har, har. Come on, get a life! Taller people need longer pants, longer sleeved shirts and then you guys are going to make them a 58 to 60 inch cue? Give me a break.
A Public Call For Fair Treatment To Pool Players Who Are Taller
You know sometimes I just want to say to the cue-length rule makers this: Hosea is 5 foot 1 inch tall and he shoots with a 58 inch cue. Why can't you understand that a player who is 6 foot 3 inches tall needs a cue longer than 63 inches! You know . . . some people do not have a clue at all.
Lets re-word that another way. Hosea Parica is 61 inches tall and uses a 58 inch cue. Then wouldn't a man that is 75 inches tall use a cue that is 71.311475 inches long? Yet that 6 foot 3 inch tall man is restricted to using a cue that is 63 inches long!
You may say that my comparison was eXtreme. Yes, but so is the IPT 63 inch cue-length rule! But if Hosea is allowed a 63 inch cue (and according to the new rule he is) then what? See the mess?
Efren Reyes had me build him a cue that comes up to his top lip. Then if the IPT wanted a cue length rule that was fair for everyone then make the length of approved cues to be in proportion to the man's height, i.e., up to his upper lip. Now that would be fair for everyone, wouldn't it?
Then this would allow most players who are 6 foot 4 inches tall to use a cue that is more approximate to their height, which would vary but be in the neighborhood of 66 to 67 inches in length.
If you are 6 foot or taller (there are some players as short as 5 foot 10 inches tall that do need a cue 63 inches long, but no one has sense enough to know this) then you are at the web site of the man that first advocated longer cues for taller players...just like golf or any other sport. Of course some dumb folks laughed at me. The main ones were two Filipino cue manufacturers (who had their laugh at me back in 2002) and It should be noted that one of them now will make you a long cue. Heh, heh. Nothing like money to make a man (some men, and certainly not all men) compromise his principles. heh, heh. You can always tell who the ones with "sour grapes" (a case of the old green eyes) are, they are on the gossip forums slandering. heh, heh. But the world has, by 2006, smartened up about so-called cuemakers from where these two men are, haven't they?
Some of the well-meaning, but terribly wrong, leaders in this sport want to make sure taller players have to also use the bridge so they limit cues to 63 inches in length. By this manner they keep out millions of players 6 foot 2 and taller. Are this smart or what? What they are doing is to allow men short like Hosea to use a cue so he does not have to bridge. i.e., a 63 inch cue could be bought to use ONLY on shots they would normally have to use a bride for. All the 63 inch rule has done is help a few taller players and given more of an advantage to the shorter players who, formerly through cuemakers' lack of knowledge and concern for taller players - and now through the length limit, have dominated pool for the last 100 years!
I am the cuemaker with the most experience in the world in making longer cues which are designed to fit the person based upon their height, shoulder width and arm length.No other cuemaker in the world has my years of experience.
I know a lady pro right now (in August 2006) that needs a 64 1/2 to 65 1/2 inch cue, but has to shoot with a 63 inch cue (I built for her) because of some uninformed rocket scientist rules.
I mean like.... REALLY!!!!....Where is the common sense of most people? Well, my cuemaking buddies says we have made them 57 and 58 all our life and we are just going to continue.
Har, har. Come on, get a life! Taller people need longer pants, longer sleeved shirts and then you guys are going to make them a 58 to 60 inch cue? Give me a break.
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