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on the BBC yesterday that no coach has ever turned a bad player into a good player. I know where he's coming from, you have to have the basics in position first, you have to have good hand and eye co-ordination first and foremost otherwise no matter what any coach tries to get you to do all advice will be lost on you if you don't do certain things naturally. You have to be able to pot a ball without any need to actually think about all the mechanics of stance, grip, arm and elbow otherwise you're a lost cause.
I have tried teaching those who don't do the basics naturally and it's very very difficult to firstly get across what the basics of natural hand/eye co-ordination are and why it matters so much, let alone getting them ingrained in someone who just doesn't do any of them.
That's on a one to one basis down the club where I can actually show them, on this website getting the same things across using only the printed word, not being able to actually show someone what they do wrong and physically demonstrate the correct way seems a lost cause and you find yourself endlessly repeating the same mantra over and over again with no idea if what you say is actually being taken in and practised.
The recipient of any advice cannot show, even by posted video, just what aiming process they use, where they look at what time during the aiming and shooting process as it's not possible to see their eye movements.
Sure you can use kinovea and slow down the video and check for any head, body, arm movement prior to the delivery of the cue, but where they're looking will always be an unkown to both the online coach and the pupil as I know from personal experience that one can firmly believe that ones eyes are looking where they should at every stage when in fact they're not.
For this reason my mantra of 'hitting what you look' at as the first basic of hand/eye co-ordination cannot be shown to be true on an online forum, and those who don't do it naturally will never be able to do it anyway so I shall take on board what Steve Davis says and post no more advice.
My last parting shot is to take in what the commentators say when a pro misses an easy ball, "He took his eye off the pot"
I have tried teaching those who don't do the basics naturally and it's very very difficult to firstly get across what the basics of natural hand/eye co-ordination are and why it matters so much, let alone getting them ingrained in someone who just doesn't do any of them.
That's on a one to one basis down the club where I can actually show them, on this website getting the same things across using only the printed word, not being able to actually show someone what they do wrong and physically demonstrate the correct way seems a lost cause and you find yourself endlessly repeating the same mantra over and over again with no idea if what you say is actually being taken in and practised.
The recipient of any advice cannot show, even by posted video, just what aiming process they use, where they look at what time during the aiming and shooting process as it's not possible to see their eye movements.
Sure you can use kinovea and slow down the video and check for any head, body, arm movement prior to the delivery of the cue, but where they're looking will always be an unkown to both the online coach and the pupil as I know from personal experience that one can firmly believe that ones eyes are looking where they should at every stage when in fact they're not.
For this reason my mantra of 'hitting what you look' at as the first basic of hand/eye co-ordination cannot be shown to be true on an online forum, and those who don't do it naturally will never be able to do it anyway so I shall take on board what Steve Davis says and post no more advice.
My last parting shot is to take in what the commentators say when a pro misses an easy ball, "He took his eye off the pot"
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