Mark Williams laze with the rest shot....

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Yey!!!

That was the Justabridge
This is the TYPICAL bridge, the BatWing, also known as the 'Moose Head' (American names!)
All photos thanks to www.pro9.co.uk - European 9-Ball Pool resourse.

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American Pool 'Rake' number 3

www.pro9.co.uk

The OmniBridge (where do Americans get these names from)

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The Flexi-Rest, I have seen and held this, brilliant, used in Premier League Snooker, World Pool Champs etc, Des Morley inventor, English rest too, Snooker and Pool
www.theflexi-rest.com
www.pro9.co.uk (pictures)

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Well I have learnt about attchments today, Flexi-rest is quite popular and more well known that other perhaps! To save me putting the whole website here, go to www.pro9.co.uk, and then shop for more info and pics! Those rests are the most popular, put them here to help you guys!

Please Reply, all rests have rest sticks of course, only rest head shown.
Reply Please!
Thank You!
Chris

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Does current WPBSA rules allow such novelties?

I'm sure if they were allowed, a lot of players would use them. There was wee v-shaped attachment that attached to your bridgehand index finger which aided tricky cueing- Peter Ebdon endorsed it and said he uses it in practice, but I've never seen him, or any player, use one.

Are these (cool) devices allowed in snooker?

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Rests Heads

Well, for the answer to that, you would have to ask somebody in the WPBSA (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association), as they are the World's Professional Snooker Governing body, and apparently Billiards' as well (they have rejected it). If you wanted to find out then asking them is the right way to go about it. In the official WPBSA Equipment rules on their website www.worldsnooker.com, it says that rests must be approved by the WPBSA, as any design in the world can be made (it can be made even at home) it would only be possible to approve the well known ones, instead, if somebody wants to use a different rest head on the rest stick, it must be approved before a players uses it in their tournaments. That is the same with the rest gizmo thing that you put on your finger. Those are very different too!