Sight Right Snooker Aid..

[DandyA]

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.

gosh - me too ... that is a great post pj and I think deserves a whole thread by itself ... if I understand you correctly, sometimes you get down on a pot and it feels fine, but sometimes you get down and it feels all wrong ... I know it's wrong ...

my question is what to do about it?

[stan-mullin]

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

Or Cue Exenders

[submarine]

gosh - me too ... that is a great post pj and I think deserves a whole thread by itself ... if I understand you correctly, sometimes you get down on a pot and it feels fine, but sometimes you get down and it feels all wrong ... I know it's wrong ...

my question is what to do about it?

I always wonder why I never stand up and try to walk into the shot again, I just crack on and make a mess of it!

[cushtymax]

The lads would fall in fits of :-)

[QUOTE=kevy62;331832]you can use any device you want........
cardboard templates with lines on
cueballs with marks on them !
i have even seen some twit using a lazer sight attached to his cue !!!
but none of these can be used in a match so what's the point.....oh yeah?....doh!

remove these devices & you will notice that you won't pot or position any better,
this is because it only comes with practice.

please stop trying to find daft shortcuts, & learn that there is no quick fix.

I would love to see someone turn up at 1 of my league games with a Lazer sight on there cue. I wouldn't know if thay are going to pot or kill me with
that thing!

[Watford]

Laser sighted chalk is what you need!

Back to the sightright if you aren't lining your shots up correctly then I'm sure you might think it's worth the cash. I didn't find it helped me and then resented the cost of it.
I was having a bit of a throwing everything to the left problem at the time. Turned out that me hair was going over my left eye when on the shot and it was my dominant eye.
Hair out of way couple of weeks and back to normal.

[checkSide]

Maybe someone who has one could explain how to make a DIY version???

[stegorjus]

Maybe someone who has one could explain how to make a DIY version???

I don't want to stand accused of helping someone plagiarise another's patented idea, but there was an article in a national newspaper a couple of years ago with full instructions on how to make a diy version. I assume it was published with the consent of the designer. I'll see if I can find it post it if so.

[arumpoey]

Fino Snooker

I've just bought one a minute ago using my paypal account and hope it's gonna be as good as its claims. I'll post comment on this matter right after i try the product.

[cazmac1]

I've tried looking for sightright on the web but can't find anything, is this product still on the market, I saw it on SB waistcoat recently.
Also have a look at this, 4th post down. Surly this would do the same job?
http://www.everythingdarts.com/phpBB...php?f=6&t=7110

[nrage]

I've tried looking for sightright on the web but can't find anything, is this product still on the market, I saw it on SB waistcoat recently.
Also have a look at this, 4th post down. Surly this would do the same job?
http://www.everythingdarts.com/phpBB...php?f=6&t=7110

That does almost everything that sightright does. SightRight has a cover to cover the upper or lower portion of the line (IIRC), so that when you get down you're only using one of them as a guide. Once down you have your coach uncover the other half and it's only then that you find out if you're straight, or off center. If you have the whole line as you get down, you would be using it as a guide and could adjust on the fly.

[cazmac1]

well I just set up my make shift package using the stuff I all ready had and the rest made up of bit's and bob's. The sight right device I made told me nothing. Well it did in a way.... it confirmed that I am sighting correctly on the line of aim. Now here's the good part as far as I'm concerned it the laser has confirm what I've always know and that is that I'm cuing across the ball, by about half and inch in the length of the cue. I only had my son to help me but it was obvious even to a ten year old. Now by adjusting the angle of my foot on the laser line on the floor I was quickly able to change the line of the cue and have instant feed back. The only thing I don't have it the matt with the feet for reference.
If I was to dig out my first ever post out you would see it was related to the above problem, I've always known I do this to varying degrees but now I have some tools to help me correct it.:wink-new:

[cazmac1]

Sorry, I had my threads mixed up in case your wondering what package I was referring to here in the post from the other thread.


There seems to be a lot of toys around now for players wishing to improve, but they just seem to focus on one aspect at a time I would like to see someone put a package together that work on feet position sighting and line of aim.
The kit would incorporate a my matt, the sight-right system and a rear laser.

The matt is my own concept, it has a non slip underside and on top is made of Velcro. It has a centre line which is placed on the line of the shot and comes with two Velcro feet. The Idea is once you have found the correct position for your feet you then attach the Velcro feet so you know where to stand. For example for practising long blues.
Once the matt has been set up on the line of aim you would then place the sight right on the line(using the laser provided).
then finally you would set the laser up behind you showing a constant vertical line, on the line of the shot.
Now you will clearly with the aid of a friend ( or video) be able to see where your going wrong, sight-right matt will give you a reference point for your feet, the sight-right will let you know if you looking down the line of aim and the rear laser will ensure that the butt of your cues is on line and if it comes away during the stroke.
This would not cost to mush as all these item should be fairly cheap.
You can get a draper laser and tripod for twenty pounds and I don't know how much sight right cost. Then lastly there is the matt which I haven't made yet, but you could make this yourself with out to much effort.

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[itsnoteasy]

Cazmac1 could you please explain what you did with the laser ,i dont quite understand

[cazmac1]

Cazmac1 could you please explain what you did with the laser ,i dont quite understand

I tried taking a photo but the laser light doesn't show up on the camera. I will try and video it. It might show up under video, I played yesterday and changed my stance based on what the feed back I got from the laser and I had the best session of snooker for a long time. The laser is on the line of the shot so so when you get down in the address position the laser should be dead centre of the butt. But in my case it was was nearly always on my thumb, proving what I already new that I'm cuing across the ball.

[cazmac1]

Ok guy's I've up loaded the video. It shocking how far my cue is off line, I'm amazed I pot anything at all lol.