Fine, John. Here's my problem with the jump cue. You can teach any monkey to jump in 5 minutes. That is undisputable, from your many teachings and rants about jump cues. The game, when designed and thought up, never contained the vertical element of going over balls. If the jump cue is going to be added to the game, what next? I agree that technology should add to the game - it already has. I'm not saying ban the low deflection shaft. I'm not saying ban the break cue. There are a lot of people out there that have the same opinion as me, but because it differs from your opinion (imagine that, the creator of the Bunjee and the pumper of the Fury J/B is pro jump - wonder if the motives aren't financially driven), so the rest of us are wrong.
I'm imagining that I have to get a new cueball at the hall I play at, due to scuffs in it. I'm imagining the pair of C and D playing trying to do the "less than a chalkwidth" jump shot and having to pick the ball up off the floor and give it back to them. I'm imagining that the cueball leaves the table more often with the phenolic tipped break cues than with leather because of the slight jumping action. I'm imagining the little white burn marks on the cloth on the table after you jump the ball. But hey, you'll come back with all the little white dots on the table from the breaking from the wings, so you'll probably say I want the break shot banned from pool, too.
My opinion is my opinion. I don't call you full of BS or an idiot for expressing your opinion. I tell of the damage I've seen, and you make it out like I'm delusional because you haven't seen any of it in your 200,000+ jump shots. You say I can't kick a lick because I don't seem like the kind of player that would study this, yet I mentioned in another post that I own all of Grady's instructionals. I also own Feeney's, and Reid's, and Fleming's, and a whole bunch of books, too. I skipped right over the parts where they talked about kicking and chose to read the chapters on the "evilness" of the jump cue and why it should be banned.
If you want to talk intelligently, John, stop talking about piling up stacks of cash, or betting that you're better than me, or saying I'm full of BS. I'm not. BTW, I apologize for my comment about the jump cue and case. It should have read "keep shorty in your Chinese-made tooled leather case". We're good, now?
I'm imagining that I have to get a new cueball at the hall I play at, due to scuffs in it. I'm imagining the pair of C and D playing trying to do the "less than a chalkwidth" jump shot and having to pick the ball up off the floor and give it back to them. I'm imagining that the cueball leaves the table more often with the phenolic tipped break cues than with leather because of the slight jumping action. I'm imagining the little white burn marks on the cloth on the table after you jump the ball. But hey, you'll come back with all the little white dots on the table from the breaking from the wings, so you'll probably say I want the break shot banned from pool, too.
My opinion is my opinion. I don't call you full of BS or an idiot for expressing your opinion. I tell of the damage I've seen, and you make it out like I'm delusional because you haven't seen any of it in your 200,000+ jump shots. You say I can't kick a lick because I don't seem like the kind of player that would study this, yet I mentioned in another post that I own all of Grady's instructionals. I also own Feeney's, and Reid's, and Fleming's, and a whole bunch of books, too. I skipped right over the parts where they talked about kicking and chose to read the chapters on the "evilness" of the jump cue and why it should be banned.
If you want to talk intelligently, John, stop talking about piling up stacks of cash, or betting that you're better than me, or saying I'm full of BS. I'm not. BTW, I apologize for my comment about the jump cue and case. It should have read "keep shorty in your Chinese-made tooled leather case". We're good, now?
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