Straight cueing

[itsnoteasy]

and where would those movements come from?

I'm not sure about anyone else but I had a stage where I got a bit of a wobble in my cue action on the way back, turned out my grip was too tight and my hand wasn't opening and closing nicely, once I had the back of my hand working it stopped.

[vmax4steve]

tels got it a bit wrong by putting obstacles in the way of the line, the center of your tip simply 'hovers the line' with no wobble on completion.

I think Tel puts an OB on the cushion at the end of the line j6.

I know you're trying to engrain some muscle memory but without a target to focus on I fear for anyone trying this who looks at their cue going up and down the baulk line and then subconsciously takes that to the match table, as there is a really good chance that the muscle memory achieved will be associated with, and only coincide with, looking at the cue.

Ok I accept that those who are natural potters like yourself won't do this and could (did in your case) hone a straighter cue action that will help them, but we're dealing with all sorts on the coaching threads and what is written can and will be taken literally by some.

Playing over the spots with a block of chalk on the wood of the cushion rail as a target to focus on, directly in line on the top cushion behind the black spot is a better option IMO.

No line on the table to look at but if the cue ball comes back to your tip then you're cueing OK while keeping your eyes on a target with no separation of target focus and muscle memory. And this is something that you can take to potting angled balls, the experience of keeping your eye on the target during the delivery stroke.

[j6uk]

I think Tel puts an OB on the cushion at the end of the line j6.

I know you're trying to engrain some muscle memory but without a target to focus on I fear for anyone trying this who looks at their cue going up and down the baulk line and then subconsciously takes that to the match table, as there is a really good chance that the muscle memory achieved will be associated with, and only coincide with, looking at the cue.

Ok I accept that those who are natural potters like yourself won't do this and could (did in your case) hone a straighter cue action that will help them, but we're dealing with all sorts on the coaching threads and what is written can and will be taken literally by some.

Playing over the spots with a block of chalk on the wood of the cushion rail as a target to focus on, directly in line on the top cushion behind the black spot is a better option IMO.

No line on the table to look at but if the cue ball comes back to your tip then you're cueing OK while keeping your eyes on a target with no separation of target focus and muscle memory. And this is something that you can take to potting angled balls, the experience of keeping your eye on the target during the delivery stroke.

without sounding to blunt.. you wont now until you try

[j6uk]

I think Tel puts an OB on the cushion at the end of the line j6.

I know you're trying to engrain some muscle memory but without a target to focus on I fear for anyone trying this who looks at their cue going up and down the baulk line and then subconsciously takes that to the match table, as there is a really good chance that the muscle memory achieved will be associated with, and only coincide with, looking at the cue.

Ok I accept that those who are natural potters like yourself won't do this and could (did in your case) hone a straighter cue action that will help them, but we're dealing with all sorts on the coaching threads and what is written can and will be taken literally by some.

Playing over the spots with a block of chalk on the wood of the cushion rail as a target to focus on, directly in line on the top cushion behind the black spot is a better option IMO.

No line on the table to look at but if the cue ball comes back to your tip then you're cueing OK while keeping your eyes on a target with no separation of target focus and muscle memory. And this is something that you can take to potting angled balls, the experience of keeping your eye on the target during the delivery stroke.

i only have a heightened spacial awareness

[golferson123]

had some sessions with him and hallet at pontins and I don't mean snukker

[j6uk]

I'm not sure about anyone else but I had a stage where I got a bit of a wobble in my cue action on the way back, turned out my grip was too tight and my hand wasn't opening and closing nicely, once I had the back of my hand working it stopped.

okay, i was thinking more balance and head movement

[j6uk]

had some sessions with him and hallet at pontins and I don't mean snukker

they seem like a good bunch, did they like to rep england and a baulk line in the chalet

[itsnoteasy]

okay, i was thinking more balance and head movement

That's why I feel chest and chin contacts are so important(again for me I realise others play diferently). On about balance ,I always felt a bit wobbly in the hips, but recently I have turned a tiny bit more and locked my hips more by dropping my right hip(left handed) and as Jack Karnehm said kind of sitting on my left hip, it's made me feel rock solid on the shot.

[golferson123]

they seem like a good bunch, did they like to rep england and a baulk line in the chalet

ha ha the fanny round Knowles was unreal I don't know how he had the strength to play snooker

[j6uk]

ha ha the fanny round Knowles was unreal I don't know how he had the strength to play snooker

ha, so it was getting messed up in the vic and then trying to tuck into tonys off cuts in the entertainment room

[itsnoteasy]

A little over thirty years ago I had a lads Holliday at butlins Filey(seemed like a good idea at the time) I got to watch Mike Hallet play , I stayed and watched him practice, there was absoloultly no fanny round him, unfortunately

[guernseygooner]

ha ha the fanny round Knowles was unreal I don't know how he had the strength to play snooker

In the Queen Vic or after a visit down the road to classy Rhyl?

[j6uk]

In the Queen Vic or after a visit down the road to classy Rhyl?

too classy for some, but not many

[hotpot]

without dampening your new year. you ant done the work, i can smell it a mile off

Ive done my fair share of disciplined practice down the years on all aspects of the game , like most of us thats all i thought about .

[j6uk]

Ive done my fair share of disciplined practice down the years on all aspects of the game , like most of us thats all i thought about .

okay so we're the same standard then,fancy a cueing challenge?