Since my break shots have been an amusement for many patrons at our pool hall, it might not make sense to compound the ridicule by using a phenolic tip break cue. But yet, yesterday I finally got a fancy Longoni break cue from Italy, sprouting a phenolic tip.As you can see in this video, the very first shot I try using this cue, I completely miss the cue ball. And the next shot isn\'t much better, but yet I manage to pocket two balls, and the next after that, which is a fairly good break I only pocket one ball. Then my friend Colin (a semi-professional pool player) breaks the way it should be done... and he doesn\'t make any balls at all ;^) \n\nAnyways, somehow it feels like the worse I hit the rack, the more balls I\'ll pocket -- i.e., I have no control whatsoever. \n\nAnd speaking about control, or lack thereof -- since this cue is also a jump cue (it has two butt-joints) I\'m also gonna use it for my jumping. I\'m sure someone could write a short novel about my jump shots, but for now I\'ll leave it at that people are often in tears watching my balls fly off the table (even the pool-hall owner is crying). \n\n-- peer Army, AZB, Billiards, Bjork, Landa, Me, Of, Peer, Pool, Shoreline