Snooker is doing my head in. I have 2 personal goals and 4 months on from my 26 year hiatus, I feel I haven't improved and no closer to my goals. My biggest break in my 30s was 99, and I have never cleared up a line up. My biggest break playing someone in my restart is 36 and my best run on line up is 13 reds with colours 92. I watch you every week and very pleased you met Hendy, can I please have a pin? Brett from Stowupland Suffolk. Watching you and finding a local place to play really has rekindled my love of snooker. Thank you.
Missing thick is because your brain is drawn to want to hit as much of the ball as possible, you have to fight against that part of the brain that's betraying you.
@Cycle.every.day. I agree, and this seems to be the mystery of helping side. It is far to easy to rely on helping side that corrects the error, until you need to use plain ball and miss every time.
The explanation makes sense and is very reminiscent of the cautious warnings I've always heard about motorway drivers drifting into side of the road distractions. Pretty eye opening on my end, I'll have to take that onboard.
1:50 Yes that's exactly what I was thinking! Focus on the cue ball reaction not the object ball, to help not hit the object ball in the wrong place. You're "willing" the cue ball's motion. I'm rubbish but at least I can understand how I should think while playing. Pt 4 too, so often you get down on a shot, think ah my angle is wrong and adjust while still down there, turns out you had it right from above when you first got down on the shot... if you need to adjust you have to stand back up and clear what you were thinking, then get down on the shot fresh again.
This is an interesting idea. I wonder if this one reason why we might play better when confident - if you don't think you're going to miss, you don't look at the object ball, you look at the white and start immediately thinking about the next shot. Also, it would explain why missing shots quite quickly turns into playing worse and worse. I do think snooker is game played in the head more than technique (which obviously is still important).
Ah it seems you've changed your tip! Gone to a traditional one again have we? Loving the videos and congrats on the Cue Tips videos. Joe from Tooting london
Snooker is doing my head in. I have 2 personal goals and 4 months on from my 26 year hiatus, I feel I haven't improved and no closer to my goals. My biggest break in my 30s was 99, and I have never cleared up a line up. My biggest break playing someone in my restart is 36 and my best run on line up is 13 reds with colours 92. I watch you every week and very pleased you met Hendy, can I please have a pin? Brett from Stowupland Suffolk. Watching you and finding a local place to play really has rekindled my love of snooker. Thank you.
All the technique issues in this video crept in to my game yesterday one by one as my technique left me 😂
Missing thick is because your brain is drawn to want to hit as much of the ball as possible, you have to fight against that part of the brain that's betraying you.
@Cycle.every.day. I agree, and this seems to be the mystery of helping side. It is far to easy to rely on helping side that corrects the error, until you need to use plain ball and miss every time.
The explanation makes sense and is very reminiscent of the cautious warnings I've always heard about motorway drivers drifting into side of the road distractions. Pretty eye opening on my end, I'll have to take that onboard.
1:50 Yes that's exactly what I was thinking! Focus on the cue ball reaction not the object ball, to help not hit the object ball in the wrong place. You're "willing" the cue ball's motion. I'm rubbish but at least I can understand how I should think while playing. Pt 4 too, so often you get down on a shot, think ah my angle is wrong and adjust while still down there, turns out you had it right from above when you first got down on the shot... if you need to adjust you have to stand back up and clear what you were thinking, then get down on the shot fresh again.
Ahmed Wajeeh from Lahore,Pakistan. love your informative videos
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Congrats on 400K subs. Been with you since you only had a few thousand,
This is an interesting idea. I wonder if this one reason why we might play better when confident - if you don't think you're going to miss, you don't look at the object ball, you look at the white and start immediately thinking about the next shot. Also, it would explain why missing shots quite quickly turns into playing worse and worse.
I do think snooker is game played in the head more than technique (which obviously is still important).
bro you are the next legend of snooker after ronnie please go in cru cible and play championships
Keeping your head still and committing to the shot even if it looks wrong will help your potting tenfolds
Thats sontrue thanks for sharing this its a massive plus for every player
Ah it seems you've changed your tip! Gone to a traditional one again have we? Loving the videos and congrats on the Cue Tips videos.
Joe from Tooting london
This is exactly what i needed. What an amazing diagnosis
Thats funny, I booked a lesson in for this eve to address these exact issues
Morning..
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Would you be interested in doing some coaching? My teammates and myself are in need of a coaching day! Thanks 😊
Michael holt does team coaching workshops
Yay