Sight Right Snooker Aid..

[jasond28]

20 quid......

[Watford]

It would have to jump out and post it's self mate!
I'll see if I find it and PM you if I do.

[maximumbreak]

There appears to be a lack of understanding of this simple but very effective training aid. The post about the baulkline tells you nothing about how you are sighting both from the playing position or from your visual positioning standing above/behind the line of the shot because the line is constant both from the standing position and the playing position (i.e there is nothing to break the line).

Many of you are right - you can re-create the sightright concept (I demonstrated it last night with a fag packet and a tesco key fob club card...) but its generally not quite as effective as the real thing. The majority of players, when transferring from the standing to playing position (and getting closer to the line of sight) will not be 'on line', i.e. the standing position lines will be online, but the playing position lines will be off.

There is no 'absolute' way of knowing whether you are on the right line when you are in the playing position other than guessing...sightright provides you with a clear visual interpretation of your line of sight on the shot - allowing you to make the neccessary adjustments (starting with your body positioning behind the shot and your stance of course) in order to improve your sighting and improve your ability to cue through the straight line required to strike the object ball at the required point of contact.

These negative and apathetic comments seem to be a characteristic of everything snooker related at the moment. I guess the inventor must be quite pleased that he's made a golf related one too.

...I couldn't agree more - most sports have moved on in terms of both sports science and technology (from the 'kitchen worktop' to the factory floor so to speak). The nature of the UK cuesport market in particular somewhat dictates an apparent non-passage of information between the 'key' (?) players - as if it's all a big secret. However, it's this sharing of information that is of course where science and technological development is borne.

Is it any wonder why any development efforts are treated with the negativity you refer to?

[MikeWooldridge]

anything that is genuinely useful is quickly noticed and used.

£35 + p&p for what appears to be a bit of cardboard (maybe they could save packing charges by simply turning it over and writing the address on the back?), i dare say most people would not give it the time of day.

also, i don't believe stephen hendry would have the inclination to think the following, let alone actually write it:

“Stephen Feeney’s SightRight® Coaching is an amazing eye opener and the unique patented sighting diagnosis and coaching method has undoubtedly raised our Coaching standards.

“It makes me wonder just how much better players of the next generation will be!

(cut and pasted from site so don't blame me for missing speech marks)

lmao!

but for those of you who have bought one, good luck, i hope it helps you. may i suggest copying it and sellling it for a fiver on ebay. patent? do me a favour, it's a drawn line. how can you patent something people have done for years in one form or another to check if they're doing something straight?!?

personally, i consider this to be a gimmick. if it works for people then great, it will soon become huge. or not.

[maximumbreak]

I think it's made out of wood laminated with some kind of poly/plastic coating - not much to it and it's arguably quite pricey but I guess it's all down to whether or not people want to improve or not. 5-10 hours table play practicing with poor technique or the sightright, which will help you to improve your sighting and alignment, two fundamentals of a good technique.

Would it be worth your time and effort selling it for a fiver on ebay? From the impression that you've gave me in the past, that's surely not the kind of thing you'd waste your time with. Furthermore, I'm not sure you'd be able to outline it's benefits.

I don't think anything in snooker has the potential to be huge, but I really do believe that the game needs to move on. Old school coaching methods are one thing - innovation, science and technology are another.

[kevy62]

Oops i'm sorry , i was prepared to reply to the chap who dosen't seem to understand how to use the baulk line to check cue action/delivery or sighting problems, but it seems to have been removed?

Anyway,
i can't stress enough what a ripoff sightright is, as far as huge goes,
i think players will find it to be a huge flop & huge waste of money.

Seek the advise of a coach, "advise is usually free, coaching comes at a fee".
(ask to see if you have one at your local club)

You won't have to fold him up & carry him everywhere in rucksack
until he breaks in two! although he may sup the odd pint or two!

[stegorjus]

Oops i'm sorry , i was prepared to reply to the chap who dosen't seem to understand how to use the baulk line to check cue action/delivery or sighting problems, but it seems to have been removed?

Anyway,
i can't stress enough what a ripoff sightright is, as far as huge goes,
i think players will find it to be a huge flop & huge waste of money.

Seek the advise of a coach, "advise is usually free, coaching comes at a fee".
(ask to see if you have one at your local club)

You won't have to fold him up & carry him everywhere in rucksack
until he breaks in two! although he may sup the odd pint or two!

This post makes it quite obvious you are commenting on something you have no experience of and haven't even seen. If you had you would know that the Sightright does not fold up; and that the baulk line is no substitute for it.

[kevy62]

This post makes it quite obvious you are commenting on something you have no experience of and haven't even seen. If you had you would know that the Sightright does not fold up; and that the baulk line is no substitute for it.

http://www.sightrightuk.com/snookeraid.htm

ok, ok, i don't want to get beat up over a "laminated card"
that i first came accross back in 2006 ! this is nothing new!

+ the folding in half was a just a joke, but how else will you carry it?
tuck it under your arm? won't it poke out just a bit?

see the link above:

Oh & don't worry yourself, I won't be making any more comments on this subject as i've obviously touched on a nerve. although i do have the right to say what i like on the subject, & just because i don't happen to have the same opinion as you, does not mean i can't have one!
nuff said .

[kevy62]

I tried this.....but I would sell my soul to the devil for an extra black...

I think it helps because it helps fix the players alignment when in a standing position also and although I agree it can be easily copied. I feel some credit has to go to people who try and innovate within our game...from cue makers through to mind and playing coaches. Everyone is different and people who knock these inventive people without trying out their ideas first are silly to do so.

It helped me get my first hundred break and I have rubbish technique.

Thats great, i'm glad you got to use it to improve your game

congrats on your first century! well done & keep it up

[burwatchampion]

Well my club has no pros as such or coaches and i come from a small town(1 club), i have bought this and found it did help.
The reason i bought it was some little chav/mink through a stone and it hit me in the right eye about 10 years ago (torn muscle in my eye) and i stopped playing for a while.
Me picking up the cue again i found my right eye was that weak that i saw two cues where i used to line up, so i found when i closed the left eye i could just about keep the same allignment and was getting buy on that.
Then i heard Steve Davis talk about SightRight i forked out the cash and for me it was money well spent!

So i would say someone picking the cue up for the first time/beginner or the worst player in your club would benefit.

It would be easy to recreate but its not a flat card it has two levels and if you did not know about it i doubt you would think it up yourself.
Unless you were at least a semi pro.

[DandyA]

I apologise in advance for obviously being really really dumb but I don't understand the concept of SightRight ...

Their blurb seems to say it helps ensure that you sight the same both standing up and when you're down on the shot ... how does that help?

I suppose it could help you get your feet in the right place but I wouldn't be terribly convinced of that ...

Surely what we all do, is whilst standing, decide what shot to play, approximate potting angle, weight, spin etc ... and then we bend over and feather until we are happy we have got the*exaxt* potting angle (and weight and spin) ...

The reason for this is simple ... you can aim the cue far more accurately from the chin on cue stance than you can from standing upright ...

So I don't understand what they are saying ... well unless, it's a Ronnie type shot whereby he's going to pot the red, kiss another red out of the way, cannon a third red and leave himself perfectly on the black on the way to yet another 147 ...

[poolqjunkie]

I apologise in advance for obviously being really really dumb but I don't understand the concept of SightRight ...

Their blurb seems to say it helps ensure that you sight the same both standing up and when you're down on the shot ... how does that help?

I suppose it could help you get your feet in the right place but I wouldn't be terribly convinced of that ...

Surely what we all do, is whilst standing, decide what shot to play, approximate potting angle, weight, spin etc ... and then we bend over and feather until we are happy we have got the*exaxt* potting angle (and weight and spin) ...

The reason for this is simple ... you can aim the cue far more accurately from the chin on cue stance than you can from standing upright ...

So I don't understand what they are saying ... well unless, it's a Ronnie type shot whereby he's going to pot the red, kiss another red out of the way, cannon a third red and leave himself perfectly on the black on the way to yet another 147 ...

I think they are talking about the body not lining up along the intended line that you think it is lined up to.

I dont think it is a big deviation but it is significant enough to cause you to cross the ball, or miss the pot.

I know for myself I sometimes will get down on the shot, and felt completely wrong. This usually happens to some awkward bridge/cueing positions. I would look at the point I thought I was lined up to, feather, and then felt totally out of line.

Even with regular positions whereas I can comfortably put my hand on the table going for the long pots, I sometimes fail to hit where I am aiming.

I am not sure how this aid helps a player to line up right. I know it can tell you that your line up is wrong, and I think a lot of players know that anyway. But how do you improve? Do you just expected to try to figure it out?

I believe that sometimes it is not the foot position or the shoulder, elbow, or things like that, but just the back swing and follow through that is causing the misalignment. Like gripping the cue too tight, using too long a bridge...can this aid help with these?

Also, a player might be sighting the left of center thinking it is actually center of the white ball. Or he might be looking off center at the object ball believing it is center...how can this aid help someone like that?

[burwatchampion]

Its a basic aid and if you look at the website they have a full course that you can go on, i think this is what the pro's are endorseing more than the board on its own.
The board on its own really only helps with body and sighting alignment on a basic level.

Like i said for me starting to sight again from scratch it was a help.
If you can knock the balls in allready i guess the course would help but if you have a coach he would probably tell you all the board can show you.

[stan-mullin]

Like with all new ideas, it is the development outlay that reflects the cost of the finished product, not always what it is made of.

£35 for a piece of cardboard..........£200 for a stick of wood

I haven't tried it, but it certainly looks the part judging by the website and the endorcements

[MikeWooldridge]

£35 for a piece of cardboard..........£200 for a stick of wood

lol. now i know you know nothing about cues...