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Just popping in to say hello! Seems like a great place, wish I knew about it earlier!
A little bit about me:
I'm from Telford in Shropshire, I have followed snooker since the early 90's but kind of fell out of love with watching it during the mid 2000's whilst I was at university, I still played here and there but not a great deal. I have recently gotten back into watching snooker on TV and realised how much I've missed it, a lot of new names and faces since I properly used to watch it!
Growing up I've always been a pool player, playing at pubs and clubs whilst at university (it was more accessible/social compared to snooker). I would say I'm pretty good, above average on a UK pool table, can usually clear a table more often than not if given a chance thanks to spending pretty much all my time in the SU.
Over Christmas I was asked if I wanted to go play snooker so jumped at the chance as it had been years, maybe roughly since 2006 since I last played snooker. I was absolutely awful! I mean I couldn't get into double figures every time I made any kind of score, it was really frustrating especially knowing I'm decent at pool and usually have a good eye for angles. Certain shots seemed fine, I knew what I needed to do, I'd get in my stance and line it up and the ball would go nowhere near the pocket it seemed like the balls had a mind of their own! lol.
Since that day I've been determined to get better at snooker, I can't accept being poor at anything so I've decided to start regularly going on weekends, working on my technique, stance, action, pretty much starting from scratch for snooker as I feel it's a completely different beast compared to pool.
Telford isn't the greatest for social activity so we pretty much only have the one snooker club here, it's close by so that's a plus, I think once I get into the swing of things and get better I would like to maybe join some kind of league somewhere close by if they exist.
Hope you are all well!
Take Care
XLNC
Just popping in to say hello! Seems like a great place, wish I knew about it earlier!
A little bit about me:
I'm from Telford in Shropshire, I have followed snooker since the early 90's but kind of fell out of love with watching it during the mid 2000's whilst I was at university, I still played here and there but not a great deal. I have recently gotten back into watching snooker on TV and realised how much I've missed it, a lot of new names and faces since I properly used to watch it!
Growing up I've always been a pool player, playing at pubs and clubs whilst at university (it was more accessible/social compared to snooker). I would say I'm pretty good, above average on a UK pool table, can usually clear a table more often than not if given a chance thanks to spending pretty much all my time in the SU.
Over Christmas I was asked if I wanted to go play snooker so jumped at the chance as it had been years, maybe roughly since 2006 since I last played snooker. I was absolutely awful! I mean I couldn't get into double figures every time I made any kind of score, it was really frustrating especially knowing I'm decent at pool and usually have a good eye for angles. Certain shots seemed fine, I knew what I needed to do, I'd get in my stance and line it up and the ball would go nowhere near the pocket it seemed like the balls had a mind of their own! lol.
Since that day I've been determined to get better at snooker, I can't accept being poor at anything so I've decided to start regularly going on weekends, working on my technique, stance, action, pretty much starting from scratch for snooker as I feel it's a completely different beast compared to pool.
Telford isn't the greatest for social activity so we pretty much only have the one snooker club here, it's close by so that's a plus, I think once I get into the swing of things and get better I would like to maybe join some kind of league somewhere close by if they exist.
Hope you are all well!
Take Care
XLNC
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