Strickland, love him or hate him...

I believe the shorter cue is his playing cue, not the break / jump cue. The reason I say this is I always thought that Earl played with a longer cue, well I was in Atlanta a few years back at the Pool Room in Marietta (before Johnny bought it) and I saw these two cues beside each other and you could see the difference it length, just like the pictures. So I asked Earl why he played with a longer cue. He said he didn't. The longer cue was a standard length cue and the shorter one was his playing cue. I was shocked that he played with one shorter. I started looking at the cue and it was a special made cue from Cuetec and from what I can remember the wrap was close to the end. Kinda of like it didn't have a butt cap.
 
nichollss said:
I believe the shorter cue is his playing cue, not the break / jump cue. The reason I say this is I always thought that Earl played with a longer cue, well I was in Atlanta a few years back at the Pool Room in Marietta (before Johnny bought it) and I saw these two cues beside each other and you could see the difference it length, just like the pictures. So I asked Earl why he played with a longer cue. He said he didn't. The longer cue was a standard length cue and the shorter one was his playing cue. I was shocked that he played with one shorter. I started looking at the cue and it was a special made cue from Cuetec and from what I can remember the wrap was close to the end. Kinda of like it didn't have a butt cap.
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Could be........Earl and Jimmy Reed experimented more with different length cues than most.
 
jumping Earl

In the video of Strickland trowing his cues across the room wasn't one of them a short jump cue? Regardless of what he uses or does not use he can have the opinion that there should be a minimum length allowed.

Personally I would like to see jump cues go away along with mechanical bridges for jumping.I recently lost a game of 9 ball to a C player who jumped perfectly from the middle of the table pocketing the ball with perfect shape by using one of those clear plastic tall bridges.It seamed to me that he was more accurate jumping with that see-through bridge then when shooting a ball from his normal stance.

I use a JJ jump break.
 
smoooothstroke said:
In the video of Strickland trowing his cues across the room wasn't one of them a short jump cue? Regardless of what he uses or does not use he can have the opinion that there should be a minimum length allowed.

Personally I would like to see jump cues go away along with mechanical bridges for jumping.I recently lost a game of 9 ball to a C player who jumped perfectly from the middle of the table pocketing the ball with perfect shape by using one of those clear plastic tall bridges.It seamed to me that he was more accurate jumping with that see-through bridge then when shooting a ball from his normal stance.

I use a JJ jump break.
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It was a jump cue that he tossed. Sure he can have the opinion that they should all be burned. However it's a little bit like a Greenpeace activist driving an SUV in the jungle I guess.

You are probably right that the C-player did better with the bridge and the jump cue than he could if he had a normal shot using his normal cue. Why might this be? Well he might be concentrating more when he has to use a bridge and a jump cue at the same time. I would be much more careful in that situation. Perhaps if he gave that much attention to his normal play then he wouldn't be a C-player.

I personally think that a see through bridge is a great thing. Such a device can only lead to better pool playing.

Or maybe Finger Extensions, that's the ticket, anyone know where I can buy those??? :-)
 
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