This is just for Les Edwards

[DeanH]

no but really, lets be real here. if someone asks for help, you try and help right?!

someone asks for advice on snooker and you tell them to give up snooker?
helping?
admittedly it was in the middle of snooker advice, but you did say "give up"
so "you try and help right?" not the help I would want.

[j6uk]

someone asks for advice on snooker and you tell them to give up snooker?
helping?
admittedly it was in the middle of snooker advice, but you did say "give up"
so "you try and help right?" not the help I would want.

this is what we are talking about right? http://www.thesnookerforum.co.uk/boa...t=44961&page=1. i start at post #19. please can you share your issues with my input?

[lesedwards]

someone asks for advice on snooker and you tell them to give up snooker?
helping?
admittedly it was in the middle of snooker advice, but you did say "give up"
so "you try and help right?" not the help I would want.

LOL we are all looking for advice. Giving up is not an option neither is going to pool. A potatoe peeler now that an option..

[Ramon]

we should all learn something new every day
the story goes that there are only a limited number of officially sanctioned templates from WPBSA out there.
I believe back in the 80/90s Clive Everton & Snooker Scene magazine had a campaign to World Snooker to release many more so more clubs/organisations could have sanctioned tables. Not sure what happened.
FYI, apart from the normal arguments about pockets being big or small; a sanctioned table means that a 147 would be recognised, just ask John Spencer what that means

thanks for the info. hoeever, I think snooker is on this days not at the same level,, as the time of John Spencer. maybe I'm wrong!!!!! Thanks Anyway .

[DeanH]

thanks for the info. hoeever, I think snooker is on this days not at the same level,, as the time of John Spencer. maybe I'm wrong!!!!! Thanks Anyway .

I believe still today for a 147 to be recognised the table has to have been sanctioned or confirmed as to template.
maybe someone else knows more details...

[ace man]

LOL we are all looking for advice. Giving up is not an option neither is going to pool. A potatoe peeler now that an option..

Fine, but please be realistic...don't expect some day to win frames in one inning, even on rare occasions. That level is simply not reachable by those who started seriously with snooker very late. The game is far too hard, pocket size is irrelevant.

[j6uk]

Fine, but please be realistic...don't expect some day to win frames in one inning, even on rare occasions. That level is simply not reachable by those who started seriously with snooker very late. The game is far too hard, pocket size is irrelevant.

i would agree with you but.. then terry came along. he took up snooker seriously early 40s, made a bag load of tons plus a 147 against a pro, within three years! work that out

[lesedwards]

i would agree with you but.. then terry came along. he took up snooker seriously early 40s, made a bag load of tons plus a 147 against a pro, within three years! work that out

Hi guys I am hooked on Snooker and will not give up till I master this game. If I can stand a 100 yards from a green and spin a wedge shot with in 10' there has to be a way to move a cue ball around 12'

[Terry Davidson]

i would agree with you but.. then terry came along. he took up snooker seriously early 40s, made a bag load of tons plus a 147 against a pro, within three years! work that out

Not quite...I started playing in tournaments around 1979 at age 34 and then decided I should learn how to play the game properly and got Joe Davis' book and started working on improving my technique. Moved to Scotland in late 1984 at 39yrs and started playing in tournaments every weekend and actually moved to Leicester to be roughly in the middle of the country so I could drive to every tournament.

That was when things started really getting better. So no overnight success but a lot of hard work. Used to practice 8hrs a day on the match table at the Top Spot in Glenfield where I was the house pro(?) and captain of the league team.

It took me from around 1979 to 1986 to start playing half decent, so 7 years of hard graft.

Terry

[ace man]

i would agree with you but.. then terry came along. he took up snooker seriously early 40s, made a bag load of tons plus a 147 against a pro, within three years! work that out

There can be exceptions, very gifted individuals who also had to have lots of time at disposal combined with right environment (players, clubs...etc). Still very unlikely.

[j6uk]

There can be exceptions, very gifted individuals who also had to have lots of time at disposal combined with right environment (players, clubs...etc). Still very unlikely.

very yeah as you say, plus if you have an exceptional talent then maaaybe

[j6uk]

Not quite...I started playing in tournaments around 1979 at age 34 and then decided I should learn how to play the game properly and got Joe Davis' book and started working on improving my technique. Moved to Scotland in late 1984 at 39yrs and started playing in tournaments every weekend and actually moved to Leicester to be roughly in the middle of the country so I could drive to every tournament.

That was when things started really getting better. So no overnight success but a lot of hard work. Used to practice 8hrs a day on the match table at the Top Spot in Glenfield where I was the house pro(?) and captain of the league team.

It took me from around 1979 to 1986 to start playing half decent, so 7 years of hard graft.

Terry

sorry but you said you payed a bit in the navy then started propper in the uk mid 80s..
anyway doing 8hrs a day practice in your forty's for a few years is marathon like. i'm 44 and fitish, if i do more than three hrs i start to feel it, then my concentration goes and if i did any more it would be counter productive. though if i could split it into a couple of sessions i could maybe do five at the most, but not every day

[lesedwards]

sorry but you said you payed a bit in the navy then started propper in the uk mid 80s..
anyway doing 8hrs a day practice in your forty's for a few years is marathon like. i'm 44 and fitish, if i do more than three hrs i start to feel it, then my concentration goes and if i did any more it would be counter productive. though if i could split it into a couple of sessions i could maybe do five at the most, but not every day

I can spend hours down at my table but nothing seems to be productive. I am my biggest enemy. Tonight I spent 2 hours practicing a little bit of nothing. Started with throwing 15 reds on the table and just got my stroke going and made a lot of good pots then I moved into running the colours and after 10 tries I never got to the blue. Packed that in and started working on 15 red line up after 10 attempts 6 reds was my best moved onto the T routine and could not make more then a couple colours. In every routine I seem to just miss easy pots. I seem to do this as soon as I put myself under pressure. Everything goes jerky and all over the place.

[GeordieDS]

I can spend hours down at my table but nothing seems to be productive. I am my biggest enemy. Tonight I spent 2 hours practicing a little bit of nothing. Started with throwing 15 reds on the table and just got my stroke going and made a lot of good pots then I moved into running the colours and after 10 tries I never got to the blue. Packed that in and started working on 15 red line up after 10 attempts 6 reds was my best moved onto the T routine and could not make more then a couple colours. In every routine I seem to just miss easy pots. I seem to do this as soon as I put myself under pressure. Everything goes jerky and all over the place.

It could have been me that typed that, there's good days and bad so keep the faith

Edit: I just lost my league match tonight and i was terrible against a player who was begging me to win,done the hard work and when he left me the easy chance i missed a red which would have made Stevie Wonder blush and i beat myself up mentally for the rest of the frame.
I'll win next week though so it's cool

[j6uk]

It could have been me that typed that, there's good days and bad so keep the faith

me too! that's life. we all have good and bad days, what ever level
les fella, stay with 15 reds till you clear it. don't get all willy nilly on me