Andrew Highfield

[Red_Stafford]

Hi all I have just booked my first ever snooker lesson with Andrew Highfield at the Golden Cue in Bilston for a week on Sunday he charges £20 per hour including table time.

What sort of time (how many lessons) period should it take before I start noticing an improvement in my game?

As anyone on here got any experience of Andrew Highfield ?

[1lawyer]

Yes Andrew was a good player, think his era was around 2000 but he never made the breakthro properly.

He is a grade A snooker coach with the academy and so is a really good coach, coupled with good snooker skills himself.
He used to live in the midlands but I have seen him around the Sheffield academy and I rate him as a coach and actually think 20 quid an hour is quite cheap for a coach of his experience.

People improve at different speeds depending on what you need to improve.He should assess your game and give you things to work on along with some practice routines. You will improve but you have to put the practice in to make the technique you learn become second nature.

[RocketRoy1983]

All depends on your individual rate as 1lawyer says above but if it helps your in very good hands with Andrew. Say hi to him from Roy Beck. Cheers.

[Red_Stafford]

Hi all, well I had my first lesson this morning with Andrew and I must say I was very impressed and Andrew seems like a smashing genuine bloke, it was king of hard coming to terms with how many things I am doing wrong with my game but thats why I booked the lesson in the first place.

Things I was doing wrong.
Bridge Position, too far away from cue ball and not straight which leads to not going through cue ball enough.
Bridge arm too straight, need to bend it.
Incorrect Stance which leads to my cueing action not being straight.

I have come away with a lot to think about but I will practice on what Andrew as said and practice the drills he as showed me and hopefully when I go back for another lesson in two weeks time I have improved on all the above.

And on a more positive note I entered a pool knockout competion at a local pub, it is a memorial trophy for the guy who used to run the pub who died in a motorcycle accident it is held every year and sixteen players turned up including some very good players and I managed to get to the final which I was not expecting but I got beat 3-1 in frames by a guy who plays for warwickshire county, but maybe if I practice enough I can go back next year and do one step better and win.

[RocketRoy1983]

Well done on the pool comp mate. Practice what youve learnt and remember it well. One day it will all be 2nd nature.

[1lawyer]

Well done on the improvement..I am glad you enjoyed your lesson from Andrew, he is a good coach and you will make quick improvements once this all becomes second nature as Roy rightly says.

Like learning to drive ...get to the point when you don't have to think about changing gears and pressing the clutch.

Get the basics right first they are the main things to learn stance bridge grip etc. Otherwise to coin a phrase you are driving at night without your lights switched on. You may get away with it for a while but eventually you will get pulled or hit a wall.

[Red_Stafford]

Cheers guys