Where to practice jump shots?

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ktrepal85

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Where do you guys go to practice jump shots? Pool halls won't let you sit there and hit jump shots for an hour and I'm definitely not going to screw up my felt at home. Any ideas...?
 
Any old piece patch of cloth would do.

This helped me build confidence, and it also comes with a piece of felt.
http://www.seyberts.com/products/EZ_Jumper-102561-38.html

Straightpool_99 said:
If you are worried about your cloth at home, use a small piece of excess cloth under your cueball when practising your jump shots. It does make it slightly easier to jump, so you have to hit your shots a little bit harder when you don't use it. You still get good practice applying spin, aiming and stroking.
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If you aren't willing to practice on your own table, why would anywhere else let you?

My initial reaction is, wtf, practice at home like a grown up.
 
find a place that doesn't maintain their tables. if they don't care about what happens to their equipment, neither do I. There's no way in hell I'd practice jumping on steinway or gotham's tables.
 
Straightpool_99 said:
If you are worried about your cloth at home, use a small piece of excess cloth under your cueball when practising your jump shots. It does make it slightly easier to jump, so you have to hit your shots a little bit harder when you don't use it. You still get good practice applying spin, aiming and stroking.
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I do this, but be warned that you will still make some marks on the cloth. The excess piece helps, but it does not eliminate the marks on the playing surface, in my experience.

Gideon
 
The best cloth I've found is the thin, worsted microfiber like they use for cleaning eyeglasses.

Here it is compared to a swatch of Simonis 860. About 1/3 as thick.
 

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I have a 3"*3" piece of cloth from the last time the table was re-felted.

When people are over, I allow them to place the square under the CB to perform jump shots.
 
It would be the best to practice than not in your local pool hall but in one whose owner isn't very becoming to you:o:o:o:wink::o:o:o
 
Your table at home for sure. Most of us don't have that luxury so take advantage of it. You're not going to do anything to the table that periodically recovering won't fix anyway.
 
i would not even think about practicing at a pool hall . i do occasionaly attempt jump shots with a full cue in apa league and am succesfull about 75% of the time.

i did try to practice at home but can not jump at all on my olhausen for some reason so i quit trying. don't know if its the slate or what ?
 
many large poolhalls

many large pool halls recover a few tables every few months instead of doing all of them at the same time. Get to know the manager at one and ask when and what tables are going to be done next. Usually they will let you practice jumps a few days before a table is going to be recovered. Its best to do this when the room is not very busy-usually in the daytime - or others will start doing the same and on tables not scheduled to be recovered for sometime. They will then have to stop everyone from doing it.
 
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