Ginky,
Just a quick question for you. I was watching a sudden death 7 ball match on ESPN yesterday from 2000. You were playing Mika. On one shot, you were looking at where you wanted the cue ball to come off the second rail and placed your chalk cube down there. Hopkins made a comment about it, but acted like it was a normal technique. I am a B player and had never thought of doing this. That got me to wondering if it was considered acceptable so I did a thread search on here and found out that many people consider it cheating. Now if you weren't doing that on purpose, and it is considered inappropriate, then I definitely apologize. I am just curious, because it seemed that on many shots after that, your rail contact points had a piece of chalk by them. It could have been all coincidence. I was just wondering if this is something common among the pros if the rules don't state otherwise. I don't mean marking a spot on the rail for banks and kicks, I mean for a rail target while playing position. Again, if this was coincidence, I apologize. I noticed the BCA rules stated you couldn't place a cube on the rail to help with aiming, but that would be up for debate if thinking about cue ball placement is considered part of aiming.
I have always thought that you have been a perfect gentleman on the few occasions that I have seen you on tv, and at the DCC once. I just wanted a pros perspective on this issue.
Thanks