[VIDEO] Can anyone critique my cueing please

[Ramon]

Do you think? I never thought I had a short backswing, maybe it's the angle of the vid?

could be !!

Well in that case , I owe you an apology.
I do'nt know how much Nic asking for coaching. Maybe other members ?
you can contact him via Facebook btw, and ask him lol.
He is also a member here on TSF. Would be nice if you can go there for some coaching lesson.
He's a good coach !!

[markz]

From a google search there is a coach called Gavin York in Northampton. http://snookercoaching.net/
Nic Barrow will be very good but yes I would think he'd be quite a bit more expensive.

Gavin is on the here, forum name CoachGavin. Send him a private message.

[DeanH]

yep, recommend Gavin

[tomwalker147]

Come over to Coventry or Nuneaton i'll give you some coaching FOC, just pay the table rate.

You obviously have some hand eye talent the way you managed to pot some of those long blues, two in a row isn't a fluke in my book.
Don't get hung up on right leg first. What works for me is focusing on having my weight shifted forwards, this cannot work without having a strong stance (you'd fall over).
You also appear (in my opinion) to slide to the left slightly rather than walking in directly onto the line of the shot (somebody else mentioned this already). This is dead easy to fix.

The next time you practice don't just play long blues. Try blues into the middle or pinks into the corner pockets. For some reason because of the length of shot people's technique falters on the long
blues including my own sometimes.

[Cue crafty]

Come over to Coventry or Nuneaton i'll give you some coaching FOC, just pay the table rate.

You obviously have some hand eye talent the way you managed to pot some of those long blues, two in a row isn't a fluke in my book.
Don't get hung up on right leg first. What works for me is focusing on having my weight shifted forwards, this cannot work without having a strong stance (you'd fall over).
You also appear (in my opinion) to slide to the left slightly rather than walking in directly onto the line of the shot (somebody else mentioned this already). This is dead easy to fix.

The next time you practice don't just play long blues. Try blues into the middle or pinks into the corner pockets. For some reason because of the length of shot people's technique falters on the long
blues including my own sometimes.

Now that's what I call community! Good on ya Tom, top man. I hope he takes you up on that offer.

[johnjohnson123]

Come over to Coventry or Nuneaton i'll give you some coaching FOC, just pay the table rate.

You obviously have some hand eye talent the way you managed to pot some of those long blues, two in a row isn't a fluke in my book.
Don't get hung up on right leg first. What works for me is focusing on having my weight shifted forwards, this cannot work without having a strong stance (you'd fall over).
You also appear (in my opinion) to slide to the left slightly rather than walking in directly onto the line of the shot (somebody else mentioned this already). This is dead easy to fix.

The next time you practice don't just play long blues. Try blues into the middle or pinks into the corner pockets. For some reason because of the length of shot people's technique falters on the long
blues including my own sometimes.

Sounds great I'll drop you a pm

[markz]

Sounds great I'll drop you a pm

I've played Tom a handful of times myself, good player and a top guy. He's like most decent players, keeps it simple and no doubt he will help your game.

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

You're decelerating and not finding the centre of the CB.

[ace man]

...For some reason because of the length of shot people's technique falters on the long
blues including my own sometimes.

Speaking for myself, on longer shots there's definitely more chance of me either snatching or having some head movement. Nothing excessive, but really, for me it seems that just 1cm or so of head movement, which is barely noticeable completely kills my technique. I mean, I could be aligned 100% correct, it does me no good if I move on a shot.

[johnjohnson123]

You're decelerating and not finding the centre of the CB.

Okay any tips to improve this?

[tomwalker147]

Sounds great I'll drop you a pm

no problem mate

[OmaMiesta]

Yes that is one thing I noticed from watching the videos back. Do you know what could cause that?

Im not a coach but I'm almost certain that you're adding a touch of left hand side on the cueball which is causing your cue to also push left.... this is causing you to miss the object ball left of the pocket. Usually the side you miss the ball on is an indication of the unintentional side you put on the cue ball, assuming you were lined up correctly. My advice is to either line up your aim to the far outer jaw of the pocket or get down on the cue ball slightly right of what you think is centre cue ball.

[vmax]

Yes mate, in video 2 it's clear you're playing from the shoulder and not the elbow.

You're broad shouldered but you seem to have a square/ish stance that puts your shoulder joint to the right of the line of aim with your elbow tucked in, meaning that when the upper arm drops from the shoulder the cue goes across the line.

You must play the stroke only from the elbow, the upper arm must drop from the shoulder after the cue ball has been struck or preferably not at all seeing as you don't have dead straight elbow, shoulder, grip hand alignment.
It could be that the upper arm drops because you're forcing a long follow through as you've read somewhere that that is very important, but it's not. The follow through will happen naturally according to the pace of the shot you play.

It will feel at first as if you're not following through at all but stick with it and do not drop the upper arm into the stroke before the cue ball has been struck.

[johnjohnson123]

Yes mate, in video 2 it's clear you're playing from the shoulder and not the elbow.

You're broad shouldered but you seem to have a square/ish stance that puts your shoulder joint to the right of the line of aim with your elbow tucked in, meaning that when the upper arm drops from the shoulder the cue goes across the line.

You must play the stroke only from the elbow, the upper arm must drop from the shoulder after the cue ball has been struck or preferably not at all seeing as you don't have dead straight elbow, shoulder, grip hand alignment.
It could be that the upper arm drops because you're forcing a long follow through as you've read somewhere that that is very important, but it's not. The follow through will happen naturally according to the pace of the shot you play.

It will feel at first as if you're not following through at all but stick with it and do not drop the upper arm into the stroke before the cue ball has been struck.

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. I finish the shot when my grip hand hits my chest, is this wrong? Or perhaps I am hitting my chest too low? I don't tend to follow all the way through e.g. ronnnie I just let me hand hit my chest but I did notice my elbow drops when I do this. So I think if I focus on just keeping the upper arm where it is then I imagine my grip hand would hit up higher, does that sound right?

[vmax]

Watch this, when Hendry was king before his cue problems. Unlike you he had narrow shoulders so his right shoulder joint was closer to the line of aim than yours so his elbow was only slightly tucked in to place the cue on the line of aim whereas yours is tucked in more.
He was a right handed right eye sighter so had a short boxer stance (left foot slightly it front of the right), but the general set up of shoulder outside the line and elbow tucked in meant that he dare not drop the upper arm from the shoulder when playing the stroke, otherwise the cue would come across the line of aim.

You can see that he had a relatively short follow through compared to others and apart from the opening shot in this break when the pace of the stroke denotes a longer follow through and his upper arm drops from the shoulder after the strike, his upper arm doesn't drop from the shoulder once.

Both he and Jimmy White played this way when young and both ended up dropping the upper arm in their later years and played to a diminished standard as a result..