The Les Edwards Snooker Challenge Thread

[Leo]

I have that and every other routine app, I thought you where talking about some kind of log app. Lots of good apps out there but I am staying away from all of them for now as I work on my challenges from Ted. I have bounced back and fourth between all these routine apps and coach instructions to the point I was so mixed up I could not make a ball. With my new idea I seem to stay focused with total concentration because I only have five attempts. I am sure I will have nights where I do not clear the routine in five. Maybe then I take a break and try again. A month ago I could not clear the colours and if I setup the reds, pink and black I could not make more then two reds n blacks and last night I clear all routines within five attempts and the colours three times. I could really feel the pressure build when I was down to my last attempt on both red routines but still made them both. Staying Focused.

I didn't mean a Snooker App, I meant like one of those running time type apps that you know exactly how much practice you're doing, set yourself a minimum practice time on a weekly basis Nd if you don't do it you add it on the following week

[lesedwards]

I didn't mean a Snooker App, I meant like one of those running time type apps that you know exactly how much practice you're doing, set yourself a minimum practice time on a weekly basis Nd if you don't do it you add it on the following week

Okay I will have a look. Snowy day here today so I have time to check things out watch Ronnie and practice. Thanks

[alabadi]

I think TED has it spot on, has my attitude too, I love solo practice and playing snooker. If it were up to me and I had the means I would spend most of my time each day on a snooker table.
I have bags of ambition, tons of determination and loads of drive.

I was probably a few years ago like les, I wanted to run before I could walk. I just wanted to find short cuts to playing well but soon realised there are non.
Only hard work, thousands of hours of purposely focussed practice gets you success. There are good days and bad days and eventually the good days out number the bad days, however the bad days never really disappear and they are always there . So now whenever they come around I just remind myself that it's only a phase and eventually the good days will be back as long as I don't allow the bad days to effect me mentally.

Take for instance my one day a week match I have with a mate of mine, we usually have 6 or 7 frames when we meet, he use to beat me most of the time if I win it was probably 1 every 4-5 matches which was painful. Then I got better and around a year ago I use to win 1 in 3, well now I have won the last 7 or 8 in a row and if I lose one match I usually win the next one and go on another run.
Yesterday I played awful for some reason I couldn't get anything going I was 3-1 down but hung in there and eventually got it back to 3-3 , we didn't have time for a decider so left it at that. We have this medal we play for who ever wins gets the champion of the week medal. And whoever has the medal if it's a draw keeps it. Just some incentive to play for.

Anyway the gist is even when I play bad now I find ways to win, not all the time but more than I lose. I don't get as frustrated now and just go and practice everything I feel I was messing up on.

[guernseygooner]

Yeah, it's all about how good your bad game is

[lesedwards]

I think TED has it spot on, has my attitude too, I love solo practice and playing snooker. If it were up to me and I had the means I would spend most of my time each day on a snooker table.
I have bags of ambition, tons of determination and loads of drive.

I was probably a few years ago like les, I wanted to run before I could walk. I just wanted to find short cuts to playing well but soon realised there are non.
Only hard work, thousands of hours of purposely focussed practice gets you success. There are good days and bad days and eventually the good days out number the bad days, however the bad days never really disappear and they are always there . So now whenever they come around I just remind myself that it's only a phase and eventually the good days will be back as long as I don't allow the bad days to effect me mentally.

Take for instance my one day a week match I have with a mate of mine, we usually have 6 or 7 frames when we meet, he use to beat me most of the time if I win it was probably 1 every 4-5 matches which was painful. Then I got better and around a year ago I use to win 1 in 3, well now I have won the last 7 or 8 in a row and if I lose one match I usually win the next one and go on another run.
Yesterday I played awful for some reason I couldn't get anything going I was 3-1 down but hung in there and eventually got it back to 3-3 , we didn't have time for a decider so left it at that. We have this medal we play for who ever wins gets the champion of the week medal. And whoever has the medal if it's a draw keeps it. Just some incentive to play for.

Anyway the gist is even when I play bad now I find ways to win, not all the time but more than I lose. I don't get as frustrated now and just go and practice everything I feel I was messing up on.

Great Post, I wish I had someone to play a best of 7 match against. I have Floyd once every couple weeks but not really a match as I don't have a chance. He is still one of the top in Canada at 56 years of age. Terry has sent me a couple little guide lines to work with. Done work heading home to watch the Rockets match and practice.

[lesedwards]

I thought I better wake up this post. Ended up with not as much time as I thought today but I did the 4 Reds with Black / Pinks completed it 2-5 times and all had great position but three of them I left myself low on last red which made my last colour too tough to make. But overall great CB control. Then I did the T Riutine 2-5 and again down to last red or colour on every attempt but left myself on the wrong side of last red. I will try and get up some videos tomorrow.

[alabadi]

went to the club for a couple of hours solo practice, so i tried the T exercise. I managed to do 4 or 5 clearances in about 15 mins, so to challenge my self i added a couple more reds to make it 6.

i took a few videos and here are 2, the first with 4 reds and the second with 6. i didn't think every shot was perfect, had to use the rest once or twice. but overall it wasn't bad. any more comments welcome.

4 Reds T Exercise
http://youtu.be/_MgyMSqgdo0

6 Reds T Exercise

http://youtu.be/bRS84VA8JFY

[lesedwards]

went to the club for a couple of hours solo practice, so i tried the T exercise. I managed to do 4 or 5 clearances in about 15 mins, so to challenge my self i added a couple more reds to make it 6.

i took a few videos and here are 2, the first with 4 reds and the second with 6. i didn't think every shot was perfect, had to use the rest once or twice. but overall it wasn't bad. any more comments welcome.

4 Reds T Exercise
http://youtu.be/_MgyMSqgdo0

6 Reds T Exercise

http://youtu.be/bRS84VA8JFY

Looking Good. Except for that one red to the side where you did not come off the rail high enough the rest to me looked text book perfect. But I am only the student.... You looked to be about as hooked on this game as I am. I have found with limiting myself to five attempts I stay much more focused on the shot at hand. I think you an me could have some real good matches. I should get some more practice in tomorrow afternoon. Next game is Feb 28 best of 3 probably loose 3 straight because I am not match tough. So sad I could play best of 19's daily. Looks like a nice clean club you play at.

[fractivsammy]

Excellent alabadi! Very nice and controlled. My consistency is definitely not as good as yours yet.

[alabadi]

i'm not that consistent really, well at least in matches i'm not, but improving all the time. my practice is much more consistent these days because i try i put in as much hours as i can

[Leo]

i'm not that consistent really, well at least in matches i'm not, but improving all the time. my practice is much more consistent these days because i try i put in as much hours as i can

More hours you put in the better player you become, people forget that practicing on your own has so many benefits and rewards, they'll come a time where you will be become so consistant with your game play that you'll naturally take this to matches, I hear people on this thread saying I can't take my practice game into matches, that's bollox imo it's just the player coming out of his comfort zone and losing concentration.

[itsnoteasy]

That six red vid is bang on Alabadi, could I ask if you are left in the balls or manage to create a chance for yourself in a frame what your kind of normal break is?or if someone asked you what is your break standard what would you say, not your high break but your consistent average break. I can't figure out why you are not doing better, I would like to see you do a few scattered red videos so that all the colours go to begin with, so no reds blocking paths ,just to see where it goes wrong, because I can't see any reason why you wouldn't stick sixties and seventies and the odd high one in ,because I can, and you are easily at my standard so there must be something minor holding you back. I'm guessing it must be cue ball positioning( that's what normally mucks mine up). It certainly can't be missing pots. Maybe you spend too long on routines? i think I did, so learned the knack of them but didn't learn how to play snooker if that makes sense?

[luke-h]

Its easy doing these kind of set ups as you have a lot of clear space to work the cue ball, i'd like to see a few scattered reds around the pink and black as thats where the difficulty come's.

[j6uk]

throw out all 21 balls in the middle of the table and pot them indiscriminately.. this training sorts out the potters from the chotters. when you miss put two back on until you can clear, i always liked to start with a long shot

[jrc750]

.... when you miss put two back on until you can clear, i always liked to start with a long shot

Where do you get the extra 2 balls from when you miss the first pot ??