Most people who have not had a 60 break do this same thing.

Glad it was helpful!

You are so welcome!

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Thank you ViswaNath - I hope it helps

Most welcome!

More to come!

Did it help?!

Yes let us know how you get on - the helicopter method is just too contrived and wooden.

Thank you Arshad and well done for testing it - please let us know when the tons start flying in sir!

Thank you

Most welcome 😊

Thank you for letting us know!

That is the idea of these videos - to save you guys a ton of time ;-)

yes they have, its calld uppper body rotation, john higgen doesnt do like this one, he gets down and rotates. i watched in another coaching channle he clearly explains both ways

@@147academy6 Ultimately all players must rotate their shoulders and hips at some point during the approach. As this feels unnatural to most club players, they stand with their shoulders far too square on which crowds the cue, pushes the cuing arm off vertical, and reduces the distance from bridge to grip - which magnifies any sideways grip errors on delivery. www.thesnookergym.com/blog/facing-it-square-on-natural-shoulder-positions-that-can-harm-your-cueing www.thesnookergym.com/blog/would-you-have-any-clue-why-i-would-cue-across-the-ball-so-much-without-realising-it

Glad it was helpful!

Hi Erno. Yes I agree it is unusual that our first choice of doing something in this game is correct - as so much of it is counterintuitive. Keep watching the channel to learn about more of these pitfalls!

Thanks for watching!

I am so so happy Guillermo! Thank you for letting me know and keep us updated with progress.

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Yup

Yes bending knees can make sense Juris and help to 'get us moving'. The issue with focusing on the right foot is that the right shoulder will tend to move ahead of the left, which will make the shoulders too square when we settle on the shot.

Thank you Tero!

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Thank you

Yes

You're welcome!

Thank you very much Mark Gilmore. I appreciate it. Yes there are so many moving parts in the game of a snooker player, and very rarely is our first choice in any of them... the optimum choice! Maybe we can even meet on the table one day. I am fully booked until the spring, but you are welcome to provide some details here to strike up a contact and see if we would be a good fit for each other www.thesnookergym.com/snooker-lessons

Believe me Nic, I would come and see you tomorrow if it were possible. it's only the distance that stops me. Can you remind me of your postcode please?

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Thank you Chirag

Happy to hear you found this useful, Rory!

Ah nice question - keep looking at object ball until bridge hand touches the table, then look to cue ball.

@@TheSnookerGym thanks for the reply nic..i hav been doing somewhat like this.. but i tried something today which was, I stood(with dominant eye on line) right behind the centre of the of the cue ball.

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Debug lol - very nice way of putting it! I will bear it in mind!

@@TheSnookerGym i mean how to figure out the right things that causing it , is it my stance ? or should i "detach " the cue from my chin .... ???

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Well done!

There is no need to tighten the hand - so hold loose in pre approach position. Then walk into shot and notice if hand tenses. If it tense, stop the approach immediately and begin the shot approach again. This will gradually improve how long you can keep the hand loose during the shot approach, cueing action, backswing, and delivery. So you can have five minutes per session of stopping the shot as soon as you notice the hand tightening.

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You cannot - so approach can be a bit more awkward for some players

Hi Nic, so does it mean that we need to take the helicopter approach for cushion shot? What's your recommendations? Thanks

more or less although I still slide 2-3 cm or so

So allowing the belly to tip us forwards!

There is no benefit to doing that as you have to spend too much time adjusting foot correctly before you approach. Two steps forwards is what all pros do as they can micro adjust subconsciously as they approach

@@TheSnookerGym i also noticed that when you walk in and tip into the shot,you land a bit harder with your bridge hand on the table because you are falling forward and if you have shoulder tendonitis or any other shoulder injury it can probably aggravate it,am i doing something wrong?are there any helpful tips for this?

Very good point - everyone has to adapt to any injury or strain as their number one priority

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Sounds like you are probably more comfortable in a more square stance, rather than left foot forward... if you are hitting every shot to the left of the pocket it is usually because your left foot is too far forward. I am right handed, with a dominant right eye (normally) and as I step in I place my right foot just outside the line, and then place my left foot as I am getting down on the shot... my left foot is a lot further back than most "coaches" would recommend but it works for me and I am online 99% of the time.

Yep! İ play a lot of regular 8 and nine ball cause in my City there is only one club with 3 snooker tables that are usually taken. Thanks to snooker stance İ was able to get my pool on another level. Moreover i can see a lot of bad habbits in my pool friends stances.

Agree with this Albert...

If you fall, you are over doing it!

Thank you samx! I really appreciate it... And I am so pleased it has helped. Such a small detail but so important and you will see most pros doing this.

@@TheSnookerGym exactly . you always amaze me with these microfocused details . best thing that I try to learn from you is how you are seeing and paying attention to these tiny but so important details in top ranking players . my best wishes for you and all those people and friends who are helping to provide these so informative contents on this channel . you are with us from 2005 ( Snooker Gym DVD series ) until now . thank you so much . happy new year coach . much respect from Iran . cheers

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Century tipping tips

Yup shoulders first is what pros do - most people have never noticed this so watch them carefully and you will see it...

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No I don't... if you move your left shoulder forwards 10mm WITHOUT TENSING ANY MUSCLES IN YOUR LEGS OR ABDOMEN.... you will fall over!

I agree 100% - but for most club players they are not natural at all at this and zig zag left and right because they prioritise feet not eyes. But we don't have eyes in your feet and even if we did they could not see the line of aim anyway! For example if someone does what you do I would never send them this video as they don't need to know it (unless they are coaching others in which case they will need to demonstrate both the error - so they can show their students what those students do - and the effective ways of doing something)

@@TheSnookerGym Now that I think more about it, I've seen high level players fixated on their foot placement, so much so that they actually look at the floor while placing their feet.... Now I wish I could remember who was doing this.... I watch a lot of pool, lol It's just hard for me to comprehend players at that level needing to focus that much on foot placement, you would think it would be 2nd nature and not require any thought effort at all... I'm not a high level player by any means, I was always a pretty good shot maker but had little cue ball control. Last year at 52 yrs old I built a barbox (all I have room for) I built it from the ground up, It's nothing fancy but plays pretty well. Now that I can play everyday I'm gaining a much better understanding of the game... Breaking and running a rack is such a satisfying feeling! It doesn't happen everyday, but I do get 5 to 8 ball runs all the time as my position play gets better.. Thank you for taking the time to reply. You could check out my table on my channel, like I said it's nothing fancy but I'm pretty proud of it. (sorry for rambling on)

Yes top players simply never look at their feet, bridge arm, or cue during shot approach. They are fixated on the object ball as they approach (to make staying on the line easier), and look at the cue ball generally as the bridge hand touches the table.

@@TheSnookerGym Exactly..! I've been trying not to look back up at the object ball, and staying focused on the cue ball, and have been doing well with that. It's hard to break a decades old habit of looking at the object ball...lol

Most pros have the majority of their eye time during the cueing cycle on the CB as that is where aiming begins.... we cannot aim the OB until we are correct on the CB

Thank you Nick it is to make the issue memorable by giving it a name. Most club players do this to some degree... and after teaching enough players, I can reliably report that some have gotten close to doing 'The Herman'!

@@TheSnookerGym You're right, I guess when something comes natural to me, I have less understanding that some could struggle with what seems to be relatively "easy" to me...

Yes some find the game so counter intuitive and almost ALL their initial assumptions about how the game clicks into place are wrong - and need to be undone. Some, stumble on the right decisions early on, so don't have the need for the detail of someone who struggles a lot.

@@TheSnookerGym If they struggle with this, they're REALLY gonna struggle with things like spin induced throw, cut induced throw, reverse spin and the rest of the physics of the game..... lol

Yes it is impossible Nick to consciously calculate all that - before all this knowledge become available, the best players just trusted the subconscious and left it to trial and error (as it did when we all learned to go from crawling to walking at two years of age!)

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