Most of important skill in snooker

[Piseth]

Well, m new here. and not an andvanced snooker player yet ! so i got a doubt about the most important skill in snooker. is it the confidence or else?
Thanks

Piseth

[zimrahil]

It has to be your ability to pot balls - not having this skill surely renders any other abilities you might have practically worthless ?

[reverse_side]

gotta get em the onion bag Piseth - No.1 objective.

To be fair to you though, the question you're answering is, "what separates the Good Pro's from the Great ones?".

Confidence allows you to trust yourself to play your own game well, knowing that you've practiced hard (against players who can beat you; handicap if it's needed) and if you haven't got it, then you maybe very talented but the 'occasion' may get to you and your game falls apart..... but you've got to be able to pot in the first place.

For amateurs, it's a similar type of pressure... will I play well? will it be my night? I hope I don't loses.... The only difference is that a Pro will have practiced 4-9hours a day to allow them to feel they're right to 'hope' they'll win.

Give yourself some targets today; what ever your highest break is; add 50% and aim to beat this within 6 months.

Good luck, let yourself improve and enjoy the trip!

[Piseth]

Thanks riverse side for ur great comments !! well, actually, my cue is John Parris Regal: 9.5mm, 57", 20oz. but i just ordered it, not yet delivered to me yet. well, i prefere kind of heavy cue. that's y i got the 20oz one.

[kev147]

i had a heavy cue and they can be a problem well i have a reord to whack them miles to hard and with a heavier cue it results in the cue ball flying off the table

[reverse_side]

can't beat a bitta snooker golf, especially if you're aimin for someone!!!

[kev147]

i know someone who actchly did that he tried to screw back and hit it miles to hard and the white landed in a guys pint and beer went all over him i think it was more luck than judgment though

[reverse_side]

a new forum section for "bizarre snooker happenings".... years ago one of my mates got hacked off at missing a simple blue that he spun round and lopped the top of the table full of our pint pots and empties .... with exceptional drunken energy fuel and an expression like he was arm wrestlin Mike Tyson made him grab his cue like a light sabre and shout ........ "Excali-cue".

Another time I chucked a 50p towards a mate who needed it for the pool table and he went to catch it with the hand he had a full pint of cider in it - d'oh way before Homer was born... and before pool tables were an abortion of a charge! The coin smashed through the glass leaving a hole on one side and thankfully just sunk to the bottom without smashing the other side and covering him in shards; the cider then gushed out in a steady tubular stream until the hole was completely uncovered - staring and laughing ensued - oh and some cheap pool.