[IROCK]

A lot of places do not allow jump cues to be used. What is your opinion on the subject. Earl Strickland always voices his opinion that he thinks they should not be used, but it is ok if he jumps with his regular cue. I bet if he was really good with one he would have a different opinion. I use one but would not really care one way or the other as long as they could get together and make the same rule everywhere.

[CocoboloCowboy]

Jump Cues should be allowed in ALL GAMES IMHO.

[MitchAlsup]

It is my considered opinion that jump cues should be legal in any sanctioned event (billiards and snooker excluded; 3-c billiards because fundamentally it is a 2D game, and snooker because of historical reasons).

Jump cues add the third dimension to shotmaking to mere mortals, but it still takes considerable skill to wield a jump cue and save a game as opposed to giving it away in a different manner.

It is also my considered opinion that banniing of phenolic jump and break tips is the right thing to phase in over a year or so. {And just to be sure, this will cost me a little}. There are leather jump tips up in the 98-99 reading on the durrometer; which is hard enough to jump well, but not so hard that ball damage is "rather implicit" in their use.

[FASTLARRY]

MitchAlsup, on Jun 29 2009, 11:28 PM, said:

It is my considered opinion that jump cues should be legal in any sanctioned event (billiards and snooker excluded; 3-c billiards because fundamentally it is a 2D game, and snooker because of historical reasons).

Jump cues add the third dimension to shotmaking to mere mortals, but it still takes considerable skill to wield a jump cue and save a game as opposed to giving it away in a different manner.

It is also my considered opinion that banniing of phenolic jump and break tips is the right thing to phase in over a year or so. {And just to be sure, this will cost me a little}. There are leather jump tips up in the 98-99 reading on the durrometer; which is hard enough to jump well, but not so hard that ball damage is "rather implicit" in their use.

I just got 3 new jump cue models from the show, all really priced nice, they come with phenolic tips, or I can give you the Tailsman XX leather, which is just as hard. I'll get some pics up soon.
They are shipping back and wont arrive for 7 to 9 days.

[FASTLARRY]

What's legal and what's not on jump cues today. Who knows? There is no universal rule book everyone plays from. Each organization makes up their own different rules and they are constantly changing them.
There are ways around all of these problems. Everywhere you go, somebody will have a different rule on it.

You can't use any short jump cue, you have to jump with a regular sized cue. Buy a 15 oz cue, or remove the weight bolt out of a cheap cue, put a Talisman XX jump tip on it, and grab it when a jump comes up. With a little practice, learning how to jack up higher, you can have success with this. Earl did all his jumping with his play cue for years so it can be done. You will lose the close up jump over a full ball. Remember the lighter you can make the cue, the better it will jump.

Your jump cue has a phenolic tip and they are outlawed where you now play. Mine are so cheap, starting in the $50 range, buy one and have my XX jump leather tip put on. It is as hard as they can make a tip and it will do everything a plastic tip will. Or just buy the XX tip from me and change out your plastic tip and then you will be legal in most places.