A silly question requiring a wise answer!

[Sidd]

OK so I have a new silly question that just came to me through my game. This might be a questions that, once answered, would enable me to learn something from it or else make me feel stupid...you decide.

So I have been playing almost on daily basis now. Sometimes bad sometimes good and I guess this happens to everyone. I have been working hard on my technique, learning new things, practicing them and making them cement in to my approach etc. But there is this small thing that I noticed and did not put any heed over as I thought its just imagination or maybe wrong signal. But this has now happened more than thrice to me so I wanted to ask what it is and why does that happen.

While playing the game I sometimes feel that the weight of my cue has suddenly decreased or in order words my cue suddenly starts to feel lighter in my hands as if it is someone else's; and I get astonished as to how this can happen. I am serious guys dont lauch at this all right I have also noticed that this never happens in the begining but then (it happens rarely and seldomly) whenever this happens it happens during ummm well lets say mid-session and then sometimes it stays on with me for a couple of frames and sometimes till the end of that session or day...!!!!!

Any ideas what this stupid looking thing might be? What causes this and if this is a good bad or normal/abnormal thing LOL Would appreicate serious answers though.

[sydneygeorge]

The Snooker Gods are looking down on you. Sounds like you are becoming " one with your cue " this sounds very desirable to me.

[ADR147]

small fiber neuropathy?

[Terry Davidson]

I have no little pearls of wisdom for this one Sidd. You're on your own I think unless ADR has it right?

Terry

[Sidd]

This is strage really. I thought there must be some explanation to that. Anyway, I dont think its a matter of SFN as ADR mentioned and luckily I am not having that problem. It isn't the loss of feeling the cue in my hand I can well feel it but its just that teh weight sometimes feel lighter really...

I do happen to assume, for the time being, that Sydneygeorge is right Will try to find out what it is and enlighten accordingly.

[jhr145]

This happens to me when I am in good form it's a sign your body is not working against it's self nice and loose.

[LittleMissAlexa]

when u get used to something u actually barely remember ur holding it i think george has it right

[Sidd]

Wow ... Jhr and Littlemissalexa if you two are right, which I pray you are, then I am not doing that bad at all Nice to know!!!

[LittleMissAlexa]

Wow ... Jhr and Littlemissalexa if you two are right, which I pray you are, then I am not doing that bad at all Nice to know!!!

i know a cricket bat gets lighter the more you play with it also are you doing weights because the stronger u get the lighter things get as well

[vmax4steve]

If you are playing really well when this happens, then the cue is becoming part of your hand so you know longer feel it. When I am playing really well it's as if I'm no longer looking at what I'm doing, everything just happens without any effort. Sadly this is a very rare occurrence, and sadder still when it does occur, the moment I'm aware of it, it disappears.

[Sidd]

Ithink this might be the reason why. I have also heard that while batting if the batsman is timing the ball really well he feels as if the weight of his bat has been decreased. Having been a cricketer once myself I know what that means. Well I hope that this is the reason for that and happens more than rarely who wouldn't wish for that now...

[Sidd]

OK so the same thing happened to me last night as well. I was playing bad, not so good, and then suddenly during the last two frames once again I sensed that my cue has gone lighter as if I am holding someone else'e cue... I even, on one occassion, checked the butt of my cue just to make sure I have mine in my hands and then yes another thing happened alongside this i.e. on delivery my cue started sliiping away from my grip hand and started to slip back upon hitting the cueball and since Terry has mentioned it many a times to me while working on my grip that if one is really holding the grip loose enough at the time of contact, then the cue would slip off the grip hand, which is exactly what happened last night.

Since all of that happened at a time that I was also feeling my cue getting lighter; so I can say with certainty that it isnt due to a disorder; but yes the snooker gods are looking down on me with some attention and also smiling, in appreciation, towards Terry...!!!