body position and alignment problem

[snookerdream]

Alter the position of your left foot to a more square position, ie closer or even parallel to your right foot rather than in front of it as this will bring the butt of the cue to the right a tad as it seems to me that you're playing across the line from left to right and this is where your right hand side is coming from. This is the natural position for right handed right eyed dominant sighters and will put your right eye over the cue without having to move your head.
If the right position is uncomfortable then so be it, get used to it as it's no good being comfortable and missing everything.

thank you i guess i have fixed the putting side part, now as i get down from standing position to address position, my head goes offline. although i dont think my head moves side ways as i walk in but i am offline. and if i imagine pointing with my nose i tend to improve my long blue pots but its not consistent. but instead of nose if i point my left eye i tend to pot more long blues.

at the moment as i walk in, i go offline, but as i get down if i move my head to the right i tend to pot balls and things looks online too

i just feel as i plant my left leg my head moves to left lets say 1 inch.

by the way if i dont even walk in, and while standing i just shape my feet position as if i m in address position, and then i get down without walking in, everything is great

should i just avoid walking in if this works?

[Danger Steve]

I don’t want to sound blunt, but the only way your going to get properly sorted is to go and see a coach! People of all abilities see coaches for various reasons but at the basic stage of just setting yourself up properly on the shot, really it shouldn’t be this complicated! Your going to get all kinds of different advice on here because everyone plays slightly different and that is just going to confuse things even more for you (too many cooks!) If you don’t have access to a coach then Steve Barton has loads and loads of videos that will help you self analyse your own game.

I went to see a coach when I got back into the game 18 months ago, I can play OK but still wanted advice on little tweaks here and there. So between that and playing against other players better than myself (Tom now not included) I just picked up on what they where doing different and tried that, a bit of trial and error, which is fine, but you still need a good base to work from and return to if something is not working.

[vmax]

the only way which shots look online and perfect is to tilt my head to left which brings the right eye on line of aim but my head is tilted and i can feel the neck pain. although i can tell that shots looks perfect and i can pot some good long blues however since its something new i miss too, but it feels very uncomfortable and i dont think i can stick to this.[/U]

also tried to put the cue under my right eye but i dont know for some reason of my head shape, even if i put the the cue under right eye, the line of aim and the cue is under left nostril.
the only way that i can bring my right eye on line of aim is tiling my head to the left but damn its painful and uncomfortable. but shots look perfect

You say the shot looks perfect with your right eye over the cue but tilting your head to do so is painful, this is what a square stance will cure as it will naturally bring your right eye over the cue without having to tilt your head to the left as you're having to do with a boxer stance of left foot in front of the right.
Alex Higgins, Stephen Hendry, Stuart Bingham, all world champions played this way as they were right eye sighters, now which part of this don't you understand

[snookerdream]

You say the shot looks perfect with your right eye over the cue but tilting your head to do so is painful, this is what a square stance will cure as it will naturally bring your right eye over the cue without having to tilt your head to the left as you're having to do with a boxer stance of left foot in front of the right.
Alex Higgins, Stephen Hendry, Stuart Bingham, all world champions played this way as they were right eye sighters, now which part of this don't you understand

i never said i had boxing stance
i already have square stance

[Cue crafty]

Another happy customer.....

[Danger Steve]

We are a friendly bunch on here!… honest

[Starsky]

We are a friendly bunch on here!… honest

We are friendly for sure, always willing to give advice which has on the most part been ignored by the OP.
It seems they are destined to spend the next number of months/years self analysing their technique and not making any real progress .

It’s all a bit tiresome after a while

[snookerdream]

We are friendly for sure, always willing to give advice which has on the most part been ignored by the OP.
It seems they are destined to spend the next number of months/years self analysing their technique and not making any real progress .

It’s all a bit tiresome after a while

what are you on about?

[snookerdream]

Another happy customer.....

he said use square stance, i said i already am using square stance, no need to type something like" another happy customer"
how about a positive sentence and help someone?

[snookerdream]

Anyways: today i moved my leading foot to the right of line of aim and i got 32 out of 50 long blues, later i moved to my foot to the left of line of aim and i made 29 out of 50 long blues. then i tried placing the leading foot on line of aim and i made 16 out of 50 long blues.
i dont know but something is up with my stance or sighting!

[Cue crafty]

he said use square stance, i said i already am using square stance, no need to type something like" another happy customer"
how about a positive sentence and help someone?

I was taking the pee out of VMAX, we've been on here a while and need a giggle now and then mate. Not directed at you, so don't take it personally.

[Starsky]

Anyways: today i moved my leading foot to the right of line of aim and i got 32 out of 50 long blues, later i moved to my foot to the left of line of aim and i made 29 out of 50 long blues. then i tried placing the leading foot on line of aim and i made 16 out of 50 long blues.
i dont know but something is up with my stance or sighting!

Or maybe after trying to pot 100 long blues your focus had gone and it wasn’t anything technical that caused you to miss the next 34 blues .
That’s what I’m trying to say snookerdream , your looking for small technical reasons why your missing this and that and constantly trying to make adjustments .
Go back to Tom’s excellent post and read it again .
I would also suggest getting a lesson so you can cement the basics to avoid all this second guessing.

[vmax]

i never said i had boxing stance
i already have square stance

Your original post states half boxer stance, to me this means your left foot is in front of your right foot, a square stance means both feet are parallel to each other, and if that's what you have then you've completely wasted our time. Which foot is your leading foot btw, the foot that's not in front of the other one, or the foot that's not behind the other one.
Christ it's like trying to coach Jake The Peg on this forum sometimes

[snookerdream]

Your original post states half boxer stance, to me this means your left foot is in front of your right foot, a square stance means both feet are parallel to each other, and if that's what you have then you've completely wasted our time. Which foot is your leading foot btw, the foot that's not in front of the other one, or the foot that's not behind the other one.
Christ it's like trying to coach Jake The Peg on this forum sometimes

wasting your time? isnt this forum all about snooker and help each other? and by the way a good coach or successful person should have patients
and yeah leading foot i meant, the right foot for a right handed player

forum is all about discussion and questions etc which requires patience, and yeah if you are a qualified coach or want to become one, gotta handle the pressure and questions!

and yeah im thankful for your replies and suggestions
and thanks others here

[DeanH]

wasting your time? isnt this forum all about snooker and help each other? and by the way a good coach or successful person should have patients
and yeah leading foot i meant, the right foot for a right handed player

forum is all about discussion and questions etc which requires patience, and yeah if you are a qualified coach or want to become one, gotta handle the pressure and questions!

and yeah im thankful for your replies and suggestions
and thanks others here

just to clarify - in your first post you said:

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how do i line up my shots: i line up my shots with the line of aim going through my middle of the body, at this point my feet are pointing towards line of aim however as i walk in like tradition way or half boxing style i turn my right leg almost to 45 degree and get down. as soon as my bridge hand hits the table my upper body with the cue and right hand wants to readjust itself ( and this is when i think i move the butt of the cue towards left )
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maybe a misunderstanding or misuse of a term or lost in translation

often it is very difficult to explain in words what we do when going to the table

is it possible to get a video?
they help so much