I always thought it was a recent rule to me ( maybe in the 90s) I could be wrong but everyone there seems like it is been that forever
Posting about 1 foot on the floor on FB
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This is the only way to play this shot.
The Old Jaybird
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always been a rule for me, I started playing in 1956 at age 9.
What about jumping when you break. I would think there is no foot on the floor
Good point but I would think it's rare for both feet to leave the floor. I think players would fall onto the table.
mick hodapp
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my eight-ball team lost a city league championship one season in Toledo, Ohio on the last game of the playoff match when we were even up & I broke & ran out but had to stretch to reach the eight ball & didn't have my one foot Flat on the floor (Toledo Pool League rules) so I lost the game & the championship, Pretty Nitt Picky to say the least but a rule is a rule !
This would get you banned for life at any room I ever played in.
Are you asking when was the "one foot on the floor rule" implemented? I don't know for fact, but I'd guess on the very first version of the BCA rulebook, whenever that was. 1930?
The one pocket room in Lousiana is an anomaly. No other room I've ever heard of allows climbing on the table. They probably get great publicity out of it.
The one pocket room in Lousiana is an anomaly. No other room I've ever heard of allows climbing on the table. They probably get great publicity out of it.
Ever heard of a bridge? Shooting from horseback, that's a thing.
Foot stools?
danny harriman broke with both feet leaving the floor. i can imagine bustie did too back in the day
I was offered the score sheet to boost me up by the opposing team when I was having a difficult time reaching a shot. 
It appears in Cotton's "The Compleat Gamester" from 1674. So far as I know, it has been in every written set of rules since. No table owner wanted the clients/guests climbing on it.
I don't think the problem is with both feet in the air, as in breaking, but with people laying over or crawling on the table to make a shot without having one foot on the floor.
The requirement is that a foot be touching the floor at the instant the tip hits the ball. The jack-in-the-box breakers may have a foot on the floor at that time.
I see a lot of knowledgeable people here. I was asking when they actually made it a rule that you had to keep one foot on the floor. 1800s 2020s ect.