Snooker tips # cueing clinic (my grip).wmv

Here is part of my cueing clinic, in this video I demonstrate part of my grip & show how important & overlooked the grip truly is.
This clinic shows the need for locking any movement of the wrist & also how to reduce tension throughout the cueing technique.

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• grip)
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[paulboyce3]

Im getting 7 or 8 standard.... what is up with that??? lol

[kevy62]

@paulboyce3 Hi there Paul, could I assume you have only just started to play snooker?

If I'm wrong, then could you please explain further, so I might be able to offer some advice which may actually help.

cheers Kevin.

[paulboyce3]

@kevy62 Hello Kevin, yeah, I havent played for that long .. maybe a few months. However, I have been playing american pool for many years, and without sounding arogant I believe I am pretty decent and should be getting more than 2 balls in whilst im at the table. I can appreciate that snooker and pool are two very different games, but I feel that I should be hitting breaks of atleast 20.

Mank Thanks Paul.

[kevy62]

@paulboyce3 Just relax & try to drop all the bad habbits which pool has left you with. Especially aiming, I'm not saying pool's a bad game, but the technique is not as accurate as required in snooker. EG: the pockets are without doubt smaller on a snooker table, they are also cut differently, they have a longer lead into the fall of the pocket (where as on American tables) they have almost no lead into the pocket which means you can even pot if played into the rail first. cheers Kevin.

[dave5566]

correct me if im wrong, but ~ from what ive researched, others teach squeezing the grip as you follow through..... and also grab the cue with the 4 fingers and open your hand slightly pull, and squeeze/follow through. That is what i have been doing, please clarify, Excuse my english~

[kevy62]

@dave5566 Hi there, I'm not going to say you are wrong to do that, but instead only suggest that you use logic to answer the question yourself... If you were to squeeze as you contact , or just before contact , or just after contact, then you would move, correct? It would be far better to keep the same grip all the way through the stroke so not to change the grip at all. Also to change tension through the grip is not good, as this is what you should try to avoid at all costs. cheers, Kevin.

[kevy62]

@hikinguphigh actually I have all the matches recorded, but yes, you are indeed correct , but the final between Williams & Higgins , that was in my opinion a totally classic match.. K

[iulixxx]

allways good vids

[hikinguphigh]

nice vid dude did u watch murphy and williams last frame today in the semis it was epic lol

kind regards