Snooker Forum Advice Killed my game!! but Im back :)

[Leapfrog11]

what is beginning to make sense to you?
why do you now have a rear pause?
and what advice did you get rid of?

fine tuning my game is making sense instead of drastic changes.
I have a rear pause from following advice on TSF whether that is a good or a bad thing who knows
but I am definitely not going messing with my game again.
I got rid of locking eyes on object ball I now flick from CB to OB as I used to.

[vmax4steve]

I got rid of locking eyes on object ball I now flick from CB to OB as I used to.

You could very well have been flicking your eyes from cue ball to object ball on the strike anyway and locking on to the object ball may well have upset your timing.
The advice given on this forum is mostly gold but only if the recipiant knows what they are doing wrong, especially with regards to sighting issues. Post a video, don't just blindly ask "how can I improve" as without visual evidence no one here knows just exactly what changes are needed, if any, and any awareness of the basics if they are already in place could be counter productive. especially to ones timing of when exactly the eyes move to the object ball ready for the strike.

[throtts]

Overthinking is the real killer. How can you be natural when you want to dissect everything..

[Sidd]

Overthinking is the real killer. How can you be natural when you want to dissect everything..

Just so true I hope I can ever get rid of this menace.

[Nic Barrow]

Hi Leapfrog
I am seeing this condition more and more frequently now with the advent of forums and facebook etc.
The problem is that everyone wants to help and has their own experiences and different knowledge base.
What happens then is a player with good intentions for their game gets involved at looking at all these comments -
all of which seem on the face of it to make perfect sense.
The issue is that there are then contradictions in some advices over others, both of which offer convincing arguments.
So which one to follow?!
The answer is that players can often get sucked into following everything - ALL AT THE SAME TIME!
the art of building your playing style is coming up with a log of default settings chosen from the palette of all available choices in each part of the game, and from which you do not deviate.
I have had main tour players come to me who are making changes DAILY in their technique!!!
it is impossible to perform in this mode.
So one thing i suggest is the 'Snooker Sandbox'...
every single idea you have on how to 'improve' your game is to be written down and put in a box and the lid closed.
Then, on the first day of every month, you open the box and do two things:
1. Filter out the rubbish (which will be most of it!)
2. Perhaps take up one or two of the top ideas which may help - but no more than that.
I would be interested to hear if anyone takes up this challenge, and what their results are!
Nic

[Raldon]

So one thing i suggest is the 'Snooker Sandbox'...
every single idea you have on how to 'improve' your game is to be written down and put in a box and the lid closed.
Then, on the first day of every month, you open the box and do two things:
1. Filter out the rubbish (which will be most of it!)
2. Perhaps take up one or two of the top ideas which may help - but no more than that.
I would be interested to hear if anyone takes up this challenge, and what their results are!
Nic

Good advise. I do it like this since approx 18 month...and my list shrinks more and more

[cyberheater]

Hi Leapfrog
I am seeing this condition more and more frequently now with the advent of forums and facebook etc.
The problem is that everyone wants to help and has their own experiences and different knowledge base.
What happens then is a player with good intentions for their game gets involved at looking at all these comments -
all of which seem on the face of it to make perfect sense.
The issue is that there are then contradictions in some advices over others, both of which offer convincing arguments.
So which one to follow?!
The answer is that players can often get sucked into following everything - ALL AT THE SAME TIME!
the art of building your playing style is coming up with a log of default settings chosen from the palette of all available choices in each part of the game, and from which you do not deviate.
I have had main tour players come to me who are making changes DAILY in their technique!!!
it is impossible to perform in this mode.
So one thing i suggest is the 'Snooker Sandbox'...
every single idea you have on how to 'improve' your game is to be written down and put in a box and the lid closed.
Then, on the first day of every month, you open the box and do two things:
1. Filter out the rubbish (which will be most of it!)
2. Perhaps take up one or two of the top ideas which may help - but no more than that.
I would be interested to hear if anyone takes up this challenge, and what their results are!
Nic

A very good post Nic.

I have had main tour players come to me who are making changes DAILY in their technique!!!

I am also guilty of this but maybe not to that degree. I've decided to keep to a particular grip, holding the cue in the same place and performing the same pre-shot routine and hopefully I will develop some consistency from there.
I'm done with tinkering for now.

[Leapfrog11]

Hi Leapfrog
I am seeing this condition more and more frequently now with the advent of forums and facebook etc.
The problem is that everyone wants to help and has their own experiences and different knowledge base.
What happens then is a player with good intentions for their game gets involved at looking at all these comments -
all of which seem on the face of it to make perfect sense.
The issue is that there are then contradictions in some advices over others, both of which offer convincing arguments.
So which one to follow?!
The answer is that players can often get sucked into following everything - ALL AT THE SAME TIME!
the art of building your playing style is coming up with a log of default settings chosen from the palette of all available choices in each part of the game, and from which you do not deviate.
I have had main tour players come to me who are making changes DAILY in their technique!!!
it is impossible to perform in this mode.
So one thing i suggest is the 'Snooker Sandbox'...
every single idea you have on how to 'improve' your game is to be written down and put in a box and the lid closed.
Then, on the first day of every month, you open the box and do two things:
1. Filter out the rubbish (which will be most of it!)
2. Perhaps take up one or two of the top ideas which may help - but no more than that.
I would be interested to hear if anyone takes up this challenge, and what their results are!
Nic

Thanks Nic

What a good idea Nic and you're right Throtts over thinking is the real killer.

Regards

[j6uk]

what is a good idea?

Thanks Nic

What a good idea Nic and you're right Throtts over thinking is the real killer.

Regards

[Leapfrog11]

what is a good idea?

It would be a good idea for j6uk to find something better to do with his time ��

[j6uk]

i could not agree more..
but getting back to the thread of things, what is a good idea?
btw, don't be afraid to reply to me directly fella

It would be a good idea for j6uk to find something better to do with his time ��

[Leapfrog11]

i could not agree more..
but getting back to the thread of things, what is a good idea?
btw, don't be afraid to reply to me directly fella

No problem kid I wont be afraid to reply to u directly why would I? Lol
Have another read of the threads and u might figure it out kid and if u cant well back to school for u!

[bagpiper13579]

it is generally favorable to regard "rules" about technique as guiding principles. Everybody should have their own style, and most of the time that style will be a variation on the "rules", which is just fine. And If somebody's playing style is their head 3 feet above their cue, standing on one leg, and holding the cue in their armpit (however deviant it is), and that's the way they play best even though they tried conforming to the "rules" then thats it.

[j6uk]

No problem kid I wont be afraid to reply to u directly why would I? Lol
Have another read of the threads and u might figure it out kid and if u cant well back to school for u!

with your failure to communicate i now see why you've not progressed in your play, and have found it difficult to understand what what the good people on the coaching area of tsf have been saying since march. this is not just about snooker as you know, its probably blighted every other area of your life and you find everything, just all so confusing..
but who knows, you might just simply need a cuddle

[Leapfrog11]

with your failure to communicate i now see why you've not progressed in your play, and have found it difficult to understand what what the good people on the coaching area of tsf have been saying since march. this is not just about snooker as you know, its probably blighted every other area of your life and you find everything, just all so confusing..
but who knows, you might just simply need a cuddle

Thanks for your input clown I bet u enjoy Trolling, sad life nothing better to do?