What's the best practice for an absolute beginner?
I played a fair bit of pool and a little bit of snooker during my misspent youth, and watched my granddad's Terry Griffith's video maybe thirty times. Now I'm in my thirties and am looking for something to get me out of the house.
I have a fair idea of the very basics. I went to the local snooker hall yesterday for about ninety minutes and started concentrating on my cueing action, stance, grip, lineup, etc. Placing a red halfway between the black and pink spot and the black on its spot I could sometimes manage both the red and black, and once manage a red, black red, with the reds I had set up off to the side. I started noticing from one side of the table I was drawing the cue across my body and not hitting the cue ball straight, so the next time I'm back I'm going to reevaluate how I'm standing.
I did a few minutes where I'd just knock the cueball along the baulk line. I manage to hit it straight along it, but sometimes I'd spin the ball off once it hit the cushion, mostly to the right.
At my starting point I think I have to get into the routine of setting up properly for every ball. It's a lot of thought process into doing it every time, but the plan would be to make it second nature. I don't have the facility to record myself or get a coach (not with the cost involved at my starting point.) So a lot of it is based on just examining my own physical feelings and what's happening on the table.
I think it's natural to want to be potting balls, that's where the fun is. I'm just wondering what type of practice I should be doing, what should I be focusing on, and what should be going through my mind as I do all this?
I played a fair bit of pool and a little bit of snooker during my misspent youth, and watched my granddad's Terry Griffith's video maybe thirty times. Now I'm in my thirties and am looking for something to get me out of the house.
I have a fair idea of the very basics. I went to the local snooker hall yesterday for about ninety minutes and started concentrating on my cueing action, stance, grip, lineup, etc. Placing a red halfway between the black and pink spot and the black on its spot I could sometimes manage both the red and black, and once manage a red, black red, with the reds I had set up off to the side. I started noticing from one side of the table I was drawing the cue across my body and not hitting the cue ball straight, so the next time I'm back I'm going to reevaluate how I'm standing.
I did a few minutes where I'd just knock the cueball along the baulk line. I manage to hit it straight along it, but sometimes I'd spin the ball off once it hit the cushion, mostly to the right.
At my starting point I think I have to get into the routine of setting up properly for every ball. It's a lot of thought process into doing it every time, but the plan would be to make it second nature. I don't have the facility to record myself or get a coach (not with the cost involved at my starting point.) So a lot of it is based on just examining my own physical feelings and what's happening on the table.
I think it's natural to want to be potting balls, that's where the fun is. I'm just wondering what type of practice I should be doing, what should I be focusing on, and what should be going through my mind as I do all this?
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