The dreaded jips

[Philk1958]

Hi guys
Looking for advice how to get rid of the dreaded jips. For a few month now I'm really struggling to let my cue follow through smoothly after the final pause on my back swing. It's getting to the point where I am seriously thinking about packing in playing the game I love.

Desperate for help

Phil

[j6uk]

we last tried to tackled this subject here. you might just need mrT http://www.thesnookerforum.co.uk/boa...ad.php?t=48655

[vmax4steve]

Hi guys
Looking for advice how to get rid of the dreaded jips. For a few month now I'm really struggling to let my cue follow through smoothly after the final pause on my back swing. It's getting to the point where I am seriously thinking about packing in playing the game I love.

Desperate for help

Phil

Buy a couple of table tennis balls and practise knocking them around a snooker table. Get used to feeling that the balls have no weight and therefore your arm can stroke them around with a loose grip hand and cue arm.

You will discover that your cue will go straight through the table tennis ball like it's not even there.

After several weeks of this try to transfer that feeling to snooker balls, use the same loose grip and cue arm and play straight through the snooker cue ball just the same as you do with the table tennis ball, like it has no weight, like it doesn't need to be hit hard, like you can stroke it around the table without any tension in your body or cue arm or MIND.

[cyberheater]

Hi guys
Looking for advice how to get rid of the dreaded jips. For a few month now I'm really struggling to let my cue follow through smoothly after the final pause on my back swing. It's getting to the point where I am seriously thinking about packing in playing the game I love.

Desperate for help

Phil

Have you tried just looking at the point of the object ball you want to hit and not looking at the white at all after you get down on the shot.

[mr.boy]

A couple of pints before you play?!

[hotpot]

Hi believe there is no remedy or cure just advise and help , if we were robots and all thought alike then probably but were individuals and all have different thoughts , feeling emotions at different times , which are more often than not dictated by what is going or gone on around us .

[Philk1958]

Thankyou all for taking the trouble in passing on advice regarding my cueing problem, you all make valid comments. Anyway Ive been putting in some in some serious practice to try & snap myself out of this problem and I think I may have found something that may help me. I get down & line up my shot & after the final pause on my back swing I concentrate solely on letting the cue follow through as smoothly as possible & as far as possible. What Im trying to say is Im not really concentrating on the cueball or object ball. Im trusting myself that my aim is correct & as long as I keep still on the shot everything is going to be okay.

My cueing feels better & slowly my confidence is coming back.

Hope this makes sense & could be of use to anyone going through similar problems.

[hotpot]

Thankyou all for taking the trouble in passing on advice regarding my cueing problem, you all make valid comments. Anyway Ive been putting in some in some serious practice to try & snap myself out of this problem and I think I may have found something that may help me. I get down & line up my shot & after the final pause on my back swing I concentrate solely on letting the cue follow through as smoothly as possible & as far as possible. What Im trying to say is Im not really concentrating on the cueball or object ball. Im trusting myself that my aim is correct & as long as I keep still on the shot everything is going to be okay.

My cueing feels better & slowly my confidence is coming back.

Hope this makes sense & could be of use to anyone going through similar problems.

Im glad you finally found a way around this and its nice that you,ve taken time to to give advise to others that may help them too .