You can get a scrap peice of cloth and put the cue ball on it to jump.I would like to learn this secondary skill but I don't wanna put deep gouges on my 860hr. For you guys that have experience with jump cues and have home tables is it pretty easy to get proficient where you are not marring up your cloth?
Thanks
Brent
I pretty much destroyed mine I probably jumped thousands of balls. I have since recovered it myself. You can do two things just to develop the technique. Jump off of a piece of cloth and get a piece of indoor outdoor carpeting for the ball to land on then you're not banging up your table at all. And you can develop the jumping technique.I would like to learn this secondary skill but I don't wanna put deep gouges on my 860hr. For you guys that have experience with jump cues and have home tables is it pretty easy to get proficient where you are not marring up your cloth?
Thanks
Brent
I thought mine was about done. Then I read the posts about cleaning the cloth with Woolite. I did that and boom, it looks new again. I guess that saved me some money!I practice jumps at home on 860hr. From my perspective, part of having a home table is for practicing shots I intend to use in a pool hall. As mentioned earlier, I don’t find more damage than the little mark we get when breaking. Actually, I almost wish I could wear out the cloth faster so I could justify recovering and re-railing my table. Simonis just doesn’t wear out.
I read that awhile ago and bought woolite but yet to use it. What was the mix ratio?I thought mine was about done. Then I read the posts about cleaning the cloth with Woolite. I did that and boom, it looks new again. I guess that saved me some money!
I can understand that. They are expensive.I don't allow jumping on my home table. Mostly though to protect the rails from dents that balls could make bouncing off the play surface on to the rail top as I have a Diamond with maple wood cherry finish, and one of our friends when jumping, put a small circular dent in the rail top when a ball was leaving the table. Couple of our friends teased me about it when I put a stop to jumping, but I told them they were better players than me anyway and shouldn't need to jump to beat me. They would chuckle at that. It's really fun playing safety's on them now to where they would normally just take out their jump stick to get out of it. If you would like to jump on your home table, just put a piece of cloth down when doing it to help protect it.
You can get a scrap peice of cloth and put the cue ball on it to jump.
That’s correct and won’t hurt the cloth. If you hit the tip on the cloth you’ll know. It’s loud and you’ll feel it through the cue. The trick shot guys tear up the cloth fast, destroy it-but that’s their game and it just is part of it. Pool players jumping balls or breaking hard just mark up the cloth with the CB, it’s insignificant.I got out the slow mo video to find out where all the marks were coming from since I wasnt hitting the cloth with my tip when jumping.
Turns out it was coming from the ball not the cue.