Mackey on the jump shot

[VTEC John]

Ban jump cues but not jump shots, mandate a minimum length for playing cues, and play pool.

 

[dnschmidt]

Without jump cues 1 foul 9-ball becomes a safety contest and not a shooting contest as it should be. If you want to maneuver play one pocket. Go back to 2 files and no longer is there a need to jump. You can't have 1 foul BIH without jump shots.

 

[Cuedup]

Ban jump cues but not jump shots, mandate a minimum length for playing cues, and play pool.

Like them or not,they're not going away. They're here to stay.

 

[buckshotshoey]

Ban jump cues but not jump shots, mandate a minimum length for playing cues, and play pool.

As I said before.... jumping with a full length cue will probably lead to cloth damage due to the heavier cue following through to the table.

And... those using soft tips have zero chance against someone using a hard tip. Should we ban hard tips now?

 

[L.S. Dennis]

As I said before.... jumping with a full length cue will probably lead to cloth damage due to the heavier cue following through to the table.

And... those using soft tips have zero chance against someone using a hard tip. Should we ban hard tips now?

I remember Earl jumping shot with his playing cue, and didn’t see any cloth damage

 

[buckshotshoey]

I remember Earl jumping shot with his playing cue, and didn’t see any cloth damage

There are not too many "Earl's" around here! Lol

 

[336Robin]

The other evening I was watching an interview on the pro billiards tour website with Don Mackey, Kim and Reed in which the subject of the jump shot and its all too pervasive use in today’s nineball events. Mackey offered this interesting idea on its reform, and that would be it could only be used if you were to hook yourself and not it you were to hooked on a safety play by your opponent. In that case you would have to kick your way out of trouble alla Efren! I for one would like to see this change.

The Jump Shot has become a thing in Pool.

End of Story

The most newest thing that could happen in Pool is if people were to actually watch the free pool on YouTube that helps Pool
retain sponsors.

 

[hang-the-9]

a) Oh come on now--everybody can see that even a J&J jump cue is now $90.

b) If the thing that was previously a good safety is not not--then it was not all that good a safety to begin with.

A "good" safe is one where the ball is fully hidden, a "great" safe is where the ball is hidden and blocked off from most or all rails for a simple kick. Getting a ball super close to another is only a new thing due to the jump cue and is way overdone for the skill it can take. If I'm moving a couple of balls 10 feet and going behind a 3-inch target, there is no way I will have anyone try to tell me that unless I'm 1/4 inch from the ball that was a bad safe LOL

It's like building a prison made to hold a human, but then said human gets a hold of dynamite. A perfectly good cage is now totally ineffective due to technology. It's not a fault of the prison, it's the result of equipment available.

I don't think we need to freeze a ball to another one to have it be a good safe, it's not the fault of the players that someone came up with a piece of equipment to make a hard shot easy.

 

[Cuedup]

Goes both ways.

It's not the players fault that they changed the rules to give ball in hand on a single foul.