Snapping cues

Bigjohn said:
I don't know why cue snappers take it out on the cue.... They should punch theirself in the face instead:D
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This makes me think of "Fight Club" at the end, when Ifound out that Norton and Pitt are the same schitzo character. I realized that when they first fight outside of the bar, and the bar partrons come out to see what's going on, Norton is kicking his own ass... He says "You want some of this?!?!??" Too funny....

Banger
 
Pushout said:
Like I said, shows a lot about your attitude. You've made that clear, again.
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LOL This is clearly something u will never understand! keep ur weak insults to urself and give it a rest now and go join peta or something! do something with ur life rather than patroling the azboards tossing your unwanted negitive bs my way.
 
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railfirst said:
how come its funny when a baseball player breaks his bat over his knee after he strikes out and we laugh about it watching it over and over again on SportsCenter, but when its a pool player breaking a cue its totally different? You have to be passionate about what your doing to be the best at it and occasionally it boils over to frustration when you arent performing as well as you know you can. Is breaking your cue a smart idea? No. Is it as dispicable as some people on here have made it out to be? No. As long as its your cue, who cares what you do with it.

Ben
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I think the name for it in baseball is roid rage. If the juiced up ballplayers were pool players they would break the cue, the table, the balls, the chalk, the light, and everything else in the place. Those roids make people do some crazy stuff.
 
Because of good fortune I was able to retire over a decade ago.

After a while I was bored and because of a relashonship with pool dating back to the 50's decided to buy a pool room. Great decision and a lot of fun.

Anyway, we had a customer who was a decent player (apa-7,or, good enough to lose) that also made cues. He was down on his luck so we gave him quite a few broken house cues which he used to construck SP's. Because his cues weren't fancy he touted their playability. He got into a game one night with a shortstop (Gil/Sunshine) and ended up going off. By the end of the "match" his speed was at apa-4 level (gamblers know what I'm talking about). He blamed his cue (the one made and brought in to sell) and destroyed it in front of a PACKED house.

Another customer picked up a lot of the pieces, glued them to some plywood and mounted his artistic endeaver in a prominent spot.

^#(^ didn't sell many cues from then on...
 
Great, cue snapping stories...here's one from across the world:

Back when I was living in Taipei and in highschool, some guy at the house table lost a match, or missed a shot. Anyway, he stuck the butt of his fancy, ivory-pointed gina (true story!) into a corner pocket, and broke it below the joint by snapping down on the shaft end. He then went to his case, screwed a gorgeous dark-nosed SW together, and did the same thing (I think the SW broke above the joint). He then left w/o a word.

-roger
 
First thing out of my mouth when a player breaks the shaft on his cue is "All give you $20 bucks for it right now!"

I've picked up a lot of nice cues over the years and all it costs me is the price of a new shaft.

Earlier this evening, I was playing with a young man who works very hard on his game but sometimes gets emotional when things aren't going well.

Tonight was one of those nights. I could see his frustration building until finally, he started knocking the balls down the table between racks with the side of his shaft. Finally, I said, "Don't do it, just walk away!" when it looked like he was going to snap it.

He laid his cue on the table and walked away straight over to one of those punching bag machine, reached in his pocket, put money in the machine and went to beating the crap out of the bag, time after time. After blasting the bag about ten times, he calmly walked back over to the table and picked up his stick and started playing again. Never said a word!

Stones
 
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I started thinking and I have broken a cue before.

I managed a pool room about twenty years ago and one night, two of my regular customers get into a "fight". They are both drunk and looked like a couple of school girls in a cat fight. I jumped between them and got them seperated. I made them both leave.

Nest day, I went in early just to knock some balls around before I started work. Mike, one of the regulars who I threw out the night before, yells at me from across the bar, "Hey, I got a bone to pick with you!"

I said, "What's that?" He yells, "I heard you think you can whip my a$$!"

Two things you have to understand about Mike is: first, he thinks he's a real pretty boy. Never a hair out of place and always sits in spot at the bar where he can see his reflection in a mirror. Second, he is head over heels in love with my day bartender. He wants her BAAAAADDDDDD.So, I know this show is for her benefit.

I tell him I don't have a clue what he's talking about. He proceeds to yell, "ANYTIME, ANY PLACE, IF YOU GOT THE BALLS, yada, yada, yada."

I tell him I'm not going to be cheap entertainment for the rest of the place and if he wants to discuss it, he can quit yelling and come talk to me man to man.

He finally comes over and sits down and then starts yelling again how he's going to whip my a$$, all the while looking at the girl of his dreams behind the bar to see if she's watching.

I was trying to be nice for customer relations, but finally I'd had enough after he threatened me for the forty third time. I held up my finger and said "Hold that thought." I stood up, walked over to rack of house cues on the wall, pulled one off, looked down the shaft for straightness, checked the tip, and turned around and smashed it over the brass bar rail, flipped the butt over in my hand and calmly walked back over to where he was sitting and sat down.

At this point, he's all bug eyed and I say, "Where were we?.........Oh, that's right, you were threatening me!"

He stuttered, "What are you going to do with that?", eyeing the broken butt in my hand.

I said, "You idiot! What do you think I'm going to do with it? I'm going to do my best Babe Ruth impersonation using your head for a baseball if you threaten me one more time and she's not going think you're real pretty anymore when I get done with you!", pointing the butt at the bartender."NOW, GO AHEAD AND THREATEN ME AGAIN!"

It was amazing! All he could say was how cool everything was about a dozen times!

I got up and threw the bartender a $10 bill for the cue and never had a lick of trouble out of him again.

The fine art of customer relations. Go figure!

Sorry for the novel. It was funny at the time but I guess you'd had to been there.

Stones
 
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I saw Earl Strickland at the first or second BC Open. Myself and some friends were at a vendor's table looking at Joss cues. Earl walked up and the vendor {not Dan Janes} introduced Earl to us all. Earl said that he now played with Joss cues and thought Dan made as good a cue as Szamboti. At, IIRC, the next big tournament, Earl broke his Joss butt across his knee. End of that sponsorship.
 
Pushout said:
I saw Earl Strickland at the first or second BC Open. Myself and some friends were at a vendor's table looking at Joss cues. Earl walked up and the vendor {not Dan Janes} introduced Earl to us all. Earl said that he now played with Joss cues and thought Dan made as good a cue as Szamboti. At, IIRC, the next big tournament, Earl broke his Joss butt across his knee. End of that sponsorship.
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Good to see you left the dark side and decided to align yourself with the jedi :D May the force always be with you friend :eek:
 
Stones said:
I started thinking and I have broken a cue before.

I managed a pool room about twenty years ago and one night, two of my regular customers get into a "fight". They are both drunk and looked like a couple of school girls in a cat fight. I jumped between them and got them seperated. I made them both leave.

Nest day, I went in early just to knock some balls around before I started work. Mike, one of the regulars who I threw out the night before, yells at me from across the bar, "Hey, I got a bone to pick with you!"

I said, "What's that?" He yells, "I heard you think you can whip my a$$!"

Two things you have to understand about Mike is: first, he thinks he's a real pretty boy. Never a hair out of place and always sits in spot at the bar where he can see his reflection in a mirror. Second, he is head over heels in love with my day bartender. He wants her BAAAAADDDDDD.So, I know this show is for her benefit.

I tell him I don't have a clue what he's talking about. He proceeds to yell, "ANYTIME, ANY PLACE, IF YOU GOT THE BALLS, yada, yada, yada."

I tell him I'm not going to be cheap entertainment for the rest of the place and if he wants to discuss it, he can quit yelling and come talk to me man to man.

He finally comes over and sits down and then starts yelling again how he's going to whip my a$$, all the while looking at the girl of his dreams behind the bar to see if she's watching.

I was trying to be nice for customer relations, but finally I'd had enough after he threatened me for the forty third time. I held up my finger and said "Hold that thought." I stood up, walked over to rack of house cues on the wall, pulled one off, looked down the shaft for straightness, checked the tip, and turned around and smashed it over the brass bar rail, flipped the butt over in my hand and calmly walked back over to where he was sitting and sat down.

At this point, he's all bug eyed and I say, "Where were we?.........Oh, that's right, you were threatening me!"

He stuttered, "What are you going to do with that?", eyeing the broken butt in my hand.

I said, "You idiot! What do you think I'm going to do with it? I'm going to do my best Babe Ruth impersonation using your head for a baseball if you threaten me one more time and she's not going think you're real pretty anymore when I get done with you!", pointing the butt at the bartender."NOW, GO AHEAD AND THREATEN ME AGAIN!"

It was amazing! All he could say was how cool everything was about a dozen times!

I got up and threw the bartender a $10 bill for the cue and never had a lick of trouble out of him again.

The fine art of customer relations. Go figure!

Sorry for the novel. It was funny at the time but I guess you'd had to been there.

Stones
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It's still funny now. Good story. Good pick me up at work. Thanks
 
I watched a guy miss a shot one night...take the shaft end of his cue and raised it over his head and hit the butt end on the floor....snapped it in half of course. then proceeds to get another cue saying it wasn't a loss of the match because it wasn't the same as dismantling his cue. He finished the match, lost and got kicked out of the league the next week. It was funny but to be honest he looked more like an a$$ than anything. He's back in the league and every time I see him I just chuckle.
 
Cue Snappin'?

I agree with the majority that snapping a cue is:

1. Not funny
2. Poor sportsmanship
3. A sign of mental weakness
4. Disrespectful to your opponent

I can somewhat understand how this can happen in a brief moment of insanity, when rage and temper gets the best of you. But if you can take a moment, consider that you have another cue to finish out the set, and then STILL break your cue, to me that makes it all the worse. If you can pause and think that lucidly, you can reconsider making a boneheaded move and just go back and sit in your chair like a gentlemen.

I say, express your dissatisfaction with a flawless inning when you step back to the table.

Breaking cues reminds me of kids who would throw their head gear after a loss at wrestling tournaments. I saw this in high school and even college events when I competed, and the only think it made me think was "that guy is a no-class head case"

Is it possible that the guy is really a classy person? Sure. But that is not the message you send to all in attendance with a move like that.

Just my humble thoughts.

longhair said:
I knew a guy who carried an extra cue just to break later.

In the Archer video, I think you can see that moment when he is recalling that he has another cue to finish the match with. I think most people do this before breaking a cue. This is the moment to decide not to break your cue.
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champ2107 said:
Good to see you left the dark side and decided to align yourself with the jedi :D May the force always be with you friend :eek:
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I've never been on the dark side on this forum. To answer the questions you posed in your reply to my original post: "us" does not necessarily refer to people on this forum, but to the hundreds, if not thousands, of pool players I've met over the years. ''u" is somebody with 45+ years of experience around the game and its players. There are a bunch of people here who can tell you in no uncertain terms that I am anything but a "bible thumper". Just because one lives, as I happen to, on the "buckle of the bible belt" doesn't make someone a religious nut. I'm a transplanted New Yorker. Take a good look at my avatar, it's not a cross, though it may have been a christian symbol at one time.
"knowledge is enlightenment."
 
Seen T. Timmy in a bad game in atlanta a couple of years back,he snapped 2or3 shafts.He would just calmly tell Mike G. to send him another one.People was going threw the trash-can for them rings,fer.etc.
 
champ2107 said:
I was playing league last night and one of my teammates missed a shot and then proceeded to snap his cue and toss it about 20 feet lol, last week I missed a shot and came very close to breaking mine over the rail, I hit the rail with my cue but at last second eased up, thought I dented it but didn't whew, my teammate who snapped his last night tells me "don't snap ur playing cue! I have snapped so many cues but not my playing cue" until last night lol it was a flacon with a predator. That was the second cue snapped by a teammate this year lol.
I was at a room a few weeks back and very strong player is playing $300 a set, misses a shot walks over to room owner asks him how much a bar cue is worth gives him $20 walks back and grabs a bar cue and SNAP! lol

Anyone else have any stories of players snapping cues?
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This is my last comment on this post! Is there any sentence in my original post that asks anyone on here to analyze anyones morals/ethics/actions or state of mind? The Darkside comment was a gesture of peace and again handling the situation with humor. U are not speaking for hundreds or thousands of pool players u have met in 45 years of playing pool. All the posters that stepped up and decided to post what a classless act it was, I wouldnt dout that half of them patrol these boards and luv when they get the opportunity to post something negative or post some smart ass comment (9on the snap, example) and look for a pissing match. My friend might have had some issues going on in his head that nite and lost it briefly, but for u to rant about his actions an my attitude for days when u had a lot of time to analyze this situation U decided to put urself in! tells me you are the one that has issues. Now lets move on and be enlightened by travis trotter post ok? I offer my hand out to you in friendship.
 
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Mike Sigel vs John Schmidt. 2000 US open Straight Pool It was MS first tourny in 5 years. Mike is the overwhelming favorite but just can't seem to get in stroke. This is one fantastic video not for the MS incident but for JS. The way he comes out shooting in the first rack is incredible.

steven
 
I don't think there is anything funny about seeing someone act like a two year old.

Having a tantrum is normal for 2 year olds. They have not learned to control their emotions. It's called emotional immaturity.

At any age beyond 2 years old, when someone's behavior is controlled by their emotions and they have a tantrum, or "act out"... as it's called these days, then it's still emotional immaturity... at any age.

Observing someones behavior and labeling the behavior as immature is not judging someone. It's just observing their actions and correctly labeling that action.

Emotional immaturity can be very dangerous so I choose to not be friends with people whose emotional immaturity causes them to "go off". If a person has a tendancy to "go off" he/she does not get to be a part of my life.

Pretty simple stuff and it's not being judgemental. It's observing behavior and choosing what you want, or are willing, to be around.
 
champ2107 said:
This is my last comment on this post! Is there any sentence in my original post that asks anyone on here to analyze anyones morals/ethics/actions or state of mind? The Darkside comment was a gesture of peace and again handling the situation with humor. U are not speaking for hundreds or thousands of pool players u have met in 45 years of playing pool. All the posters that stepped up and decided to post what a classless act it was, I wouldnt dout that half of them patrol these boards and luv when they get the opportunity to post something negative or post some smart ass comment (9on the snap, example) and look for a pissing match. My friend might have had some issues going on in his head that nite and lost it briefly, but for u to rant about his actions an my attitude for days when u had a lot of time to analyze this situation U decided to put urself in! tells me you are the one that has issues. Now lets move on and be enlightened by travis trotter post ok? I offer my hand out to you in friendship.
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it never ceases to amaze me (an provide a good deal of entertainment as well) how someone posts what they think is the best post of all time, then the well respected members of this board show the OP the light and next thing ya know the OP is whining like a little school girl (my apologies to an little school girls reading this).

man if you are here to learn, then learn.

only saw a cue get snapped once. at league a new team made up of all bangers was playing. all of a sudden CRASH. apparently a missed shot was taken on the poor unsupecting cue. there was 10 seconds of stunned silence. nothing like that ever happens in that poolroom. 10 minutes later the banger comes back in like nothing happened. all the regulars agreed that if the owner was there that night, instead of being on vaction, that guy wouldnt have been let back in. absolutely no class.

brian
 
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