Can't see my posy?

[cueless]

Hi guys,

I have been trying to post in the coaching section over the last couple of days but my posts don't seem to be showing?

I sent a question via the contact us form but nothing back as yet.

Also when I try tho view my account I get a message telling me,

cueless, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
1.Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2.If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Sorry if this isn't the correct place to ask this question but I don't know what else to try?

Many thanks

Richard

[snookerdad]

This one is visible. What is your question?

Tim Dunkley (World Snooker coach)

[cueless]

Hi, I seem to be able to post anywhere but the coaching section?

I have tried twice but no joy?

[snookerdad]

Sorry. What I mean is: what was your coaching question?

Tim

[cueless]

Oh sorry,

I’ve had a problem with my cueing ever since I started playing many moons ago!

As I deliver the cue my back arm moves out away from me making hitting the centre of the white impossible.

I went to see a coach and he advised me to concentrate on the 4 points of contact and to basically to just stop doing it!

I try desperately to keep my back are in line on the delivery but I can’t do anything to stop it coming out, it’s an involuntary move.

As a bit of a self fix I propped a large sheet of wood up against a heavy chair, made sure it was vertical and parallel to my target line.

I hit a few shots with my arm against the wood and everything was great until I started hitting a few firmer shots for stuns, screws and run through. I pushed into the wood so severely that I actually moved the chair supporting the wood.

So far I have tried maintaining my grip pressure, turning my upper body to the right (I’m a right hander) but nothing seems to work.

I’m not too bad on slow rolls but as soon as I try to play any power shots my elbow shoots out. On a long straight deep screw I can this object ball half ball if there is any distance between the balls.

I’m a golf coach and have access to a great high speed camera so I recorded myself face on, it’s a wonder I ever pot anything!

To give you an idea of my standard, highest break 79, 134 doing line up drill (mostly slow rolls)

Any help would be great or even a recommendation for a coach in the Midlands UK

Many thanks

Richard

[cueless]

Thanks, finally got the post to show in the coaching section!

[Terry Davidson]

cueless:

In most cases a player will drag his right elbow outwards by gripping the cue too tightly during the delivery. This means when he's getting the baby finger to grip the cue that will cause his wrist to turn into his body which in turn drags the elbow outwards. Try and use your high speed camera to take a good shot from the side of your grip hand and see if you can determine if you are tightening the grip before you strike the cueball. The tightening of the grip should happen just after the cueball is struck.

Another little test you can try is grip the cue right at the end of the butt and first have the baby finger off the end of the butt and curled into the palm and see if that limits the elbow dragging. After that if it's still present then take the back 2 fingers right off the back of the butt and try again to see if it limits the elbow.

This is a very hard thing to correct and you're correct in assuming it's involuntary. It's normally called 'flying elbow' and it happens to a lot of players who have too tight a grip to start out with. I'm one of those type of players and have to conciously remember to loosen my grip right down when in the address position and try not to tighten it until after I've struck the cueball

Terry

[cueless]

Thank you so much Terry.

I can't wait to try your suggestions.

I'm not great on computers but as soon as I figure out how I will put the video up.

Thanks again

Richard

[Terry Davidson]

If you could post the video somewhere (youtube?) then I can download it here using Kinovea and analyse it frame-by-frame. Take the video of the grip hand using your highest speed as I just received a high speed camera (120 frames per sec) but haven't had a chance to see if first I can download it into Kinovea and then see if I can do a frame-by-frame analysis.

Terry