Jump Cues and Break Cues

Jump cues and break cues are special billiard cue stick , you really don't need them only if you are a professional or serious player. A break shot is differentiated by two types, “safe break” or “open break”. When you break the billiard balls gently, it is a safe break. If you smash the billiard balls hard when breaking to open wide, hoping that some of them will go into the pocket, that's open break.

For safe break, the strength used is just like any other game play. So it is fine to use your own two-piece billiard cue stick . Whereas for open break, the intensity and force that requires to break the rack of balls on the billiards table as hard as you can, may damage your billiard cue stick. This extreme force that you exert on the billiard cue stick may cause the cue tip to flatten or maybe even fly off the ferrule. So during this situatiom, a break cue is required to do this job. Even though you may not even need it for every game, but having a break cue may reduce the chance of causing any damage to your playing billiard cue stick.

If you own a billiards table at your own home billiard parlor, it is good to have a break cue around, any one-piece billiard cue stick can do the job though there are specialized break cues. When playing in any billiards parlors, you can use any one-piece billiard cue stick on the wall as a break cue. Sometimes having two billiard cue stick can be troublesome, imagine you have to carry a one-piece billiard cue stick around. Just how to get the right break cue for you? Just get one with has the same, weight, length, balance as your two-piece billiard cue stick . In this way, your play will not be affected too much due to the same proportion of both billiard cue stick.

Do you have a situation where the ball you want to hit is obstructed by another ball? Well, this way, you will need a jump cue. But be clear that not all games are legal to use a jump cue. The purpose and design of the cue is to make the cue ball jump over the obstructing ball. Before you make a purchase of any jump cue, you should know whether the games you play are legalized to jump the ball. If you are not too interested in owning a jump cue, you can always use your own regular billiard cue stick to do the trick, though it is not that easy, that doesn't mean it is not possible.

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