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"I would not have won the 2009 IBSF World Amateur Championships without Nic Barrow being here with me during the event. He has a massive knowledge of the game, a great ability to spot a players faults, and the keys to solve them. I also found him to be a calming influence who always says the right thing at the right time." Alfie Burden, 2009 IBSF World Champion

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Snooker Coaching Books

Transform The Key Parts Of Your Game

The Snooker Gym Training Guide Series
Snooker Books Guaranteed to Improve Your Game!

Transform every area of your game with our Training Guide Series. If you dont feel the benefit you gain (or the time you save in trying to discover and learn all of this yourself!) is not worth ten times what you pay for it, then we will be happy to issue a refund - that's how confident I am you will get everything you are now looking for from this series of books.

You will have the option of buying the physical books, ebook version or both together.

Read this now to discover all the benefits you will have received after having read the 422 page Snooker Gym Training Guide Series!

snooker coaching book set

TSG TGS 01 Tip Mounting Made Easy
TSG TGS 02 Improve Your Practice, Improve Your Game
TSG TGS 03 The Champion's Bridge
TSG TGS 04 Positional Play Prowess
TSG TGS 05 Vision
TSG TGS 06 The Joy Of Bad Tables
TSG TGS 07 Aiming, Sighting and Potting
TSG TGS 08 Nic's Coaching, Learning and Practice Principles

TGS 01 Snooker Book

Tip Mounting Made Easy.

Know the shortcuts, save years of mistakes.
Know every tool that any pro would ever need for the job.
Simply step by step to a pro tip.
Get the biggest differences from the smallest details.
Know the perfect shape, and how to shape.
Learn the finishing skills for a top tip.
Instantly get used to your new tip – others will think it impossible!
Become your tip's maintenance manager – easily and simply.

TGS02 Snooker Book

Improve Your Practice, Improve Your Game.

Save yourself years of research.
Know how the professionals practice.
Know what is really required to improve your game.
Understand when not to practice.
Real life examples from both snooker and Hollywood!
Discover the secret ratios and averages.
See the power of the worst case scenario.
Realise how practice is actually mastered in planning.
What to do when it seems impossible.
The four dimensions of practice.

TGS03 Snooker Book (The Champion's Bridge)

Understand it, feel it, learn it and remember it in a way your body will never forget!

Know the ultimate purpose of the bridge hand.
Learn about the misconceptions and common errors.
Transform your aiming ability through your bridge hand.
Learn how to be ahead of 90% of all players.
Find the perfect bridge for you as an individual.
Learn the secret way of vital practice.
Know causes, know cures!
The urban legend of centre cue ball striking.
Making a 147.
Be able to teach The Champion's Bridge Hand to anyone!
48 lovely pictures!

TGS04 Snooker Book

Positional Play Prowess

Exactly where is the cue ball going and why?

Learn what you cannot do without in positional play.
Know how the top pro's think.
Break the biggest myth in snooker, and realise how easy positional play really is.
Learn it all for a lifetime, NOW.
Discover the power of the Perfect Stun Angle.
The secrets of position from angled balls.
Lets talk about side, baby...
Ever heard of Automatic Side? You have now!
Learn how to dominate the black spot.

Out of all the areas of snooker that clients ask me about, positional play has to have the biggest number of misconceptions. Yet it is the easiest of all subjects to understand if there is someone competent to guide you through the process.

Once you understand a few basic principles, the whole topic falls into place. The biggest mistake most people make in wanting to learn position is not realising that it is impossible to learn good positional play without having the following essentials firmly in place.

Positional play is also one of the most rewarding subjects within the game to learn because the improvement you will go through when you have integrated the concepts will be truly astounding. Whole new horizons in the game will open up to you and it will suddenly become clear how the professionals on the TV are going about their work. This will give you much more enjoyment and learning in both watching and playing.

TGS05 Snooker Book

Vision

Understand how your eyes work.
Know how this can help your game.
Know the secrets others can't tell you.
Uncover the misunderstandings about vision in snooker.
Test your eyes with a professional vision chart.
Learn about the common faults in vision.
Play innovative vision games.
‘Free ball' – the two minute lesson for a novice or top referee.
12 lovely diagrams!
Contents.

You will also learn:

Vision test.
Test your eyes the professional way, with a full sized vision chart.

What is 20/20 vision?
Learn what this means, and what is doesn't mean.

What is near sightedness and far sightedness?
Clear up the common misconceptions on this subject.

The ‘finger on the chalk' test.
How to do it, how to check it.

What is the dominant, or preferred, eye?
What it is, what it isn't.

Depth perception with one eye – how the brain can achieve this.
The mechanism of one eyed depth perception, proving why two eyes are not always necessary.

Binocular vision.
Ever watched a 3D movie with special glasses? Here's how the brain automatically does the same thing for you, as well as a self test.

Depth perception.
Self tests to discover in which category of binocular vision you belong.

A common error amongst coaches.
Up front ammunition for the commonest eye argument in snooker!

Colour blindness.
Learn the four types of colour blindness.

Blind spot.
What it is, and the party trick that reveals it.

Lazy eye.
Common characteristics.

Concentration and the disappearing white.
Can you concentrate so well that a ball will disappear?

End credits.
The source of the ophthalmological knowledge in this guide, and where to find him.

TGS06 Snooker Book

The Joy of Bad Tables

... and how to make it your dream to play on them.

What is a 'bad' table anyway? One that always nags at you? One that is always down at the pub with his mates? One that never listens to anything you say?

Unfortunately, none of these descriptions hit the nail on the head because the definition differs from person to person. Everyone has their pet bug bears relating to certain types of table.

Some like slow, some like fast. Some like TV style lighting, some like snooker club lighting. Some prefer bigger pockets, some prefer smaller.

Here, we will explore the different variables possible on all snooker tables. This being the first of three steps to turn your nightmare around:

  • Observe each variable.
  • Predict how they will react.
  • Planning your shots with this knowledge, and enjoying the variation in every table.

In addition, you will learn:

Be prepared for any of the main types of table fault.
Learn how to deal with them.
Learn how to use them to your advantage.
Gain an edge in matches.
Have fun with faults.

TGS07 Snooker Book

Aiming, Sighting and Potting.

All the questions, all the answers.

Angle theory – maths and geometry NOT required!

The Back & Belt of the ball – potting is guessing.

Where to aim in the pocket – Phantom Balls & Potting Points.

Aiming – with your nose or with a sheet of glass?

Keep the line of aim!

Three requirements of aiming.

What to look at on the shot – lessons from the pro's.

Three reasons for cueing, three more for 'pausing at the front'.

Getting your eyes up, getting your cue back.

Both eye options when striking the cue ball.

What the eyes MUST do.

The three roles of all sighting strategies.

30 lovely diagrams!

Angle theory – Full ball, ? ball, ? ball, ? ball and fine cut.

Maths, geometry and angles are NOT required!

A computerized snooker player.

Sidespin – does it make a difference?

Missing on purpose.

Steve Davis OBE missing six times in a row NOT on purpose!

Aiming outside the object ball.

The fast track to failure.

The Lights! The Lights! Aiming by reflection...

12 lovely diagrams.

BOB and the aiming point.

The Back Of the Ball.

Geometry and Trigonometry NOT required!

Focusing on an oxygen molecule.

The sure path to confusion.

Cycling by centimeters.

Don't worry, be experienced.

Potting is guessing.

FAIL at guessing – it's an order!

Guessing leads to knowing.

Instinctive sighting.

The Belt Of the Ball.

Having SAID all that...

If you reaaally want the Geometry & Trigonometry, here it is...

The science of aiming.

SOHCAHTOA!

Going to NASA in the name of snooker.

Where to aim in the pocket.

Margins of error.

Phantom Balls.

Potting Points.

The 1% exception.

Potting 'down the rail'.

Aim to miss, the pocket will help.

Don't get rattled!

Getting instinctive.

The television pockets?!

KEEP THE FORMULA.

A couple of aiming sectors, a couple of Phantom Balls.

The impossible pot.

A halfway house.

Thorburn Magic.

14 lovely diagrams.

All the errors, all the solutions.

Standing behind the line.

'When Potting Happens'… at a cinema near you!

Aiming with your nose.

Aiming with a sheet of glass?...

Stand in a queue…

…or crane your neck?

Keeping on the line in the approach.

Feedback with a finger.

The two key moments you lose your line of aim.

Self correct, self correct, self correct.

From feeling lost to feeling comfortable…

First eye movements.

The bridge hand eye switch.

Rigorous feedback.

Having to aim all over again.

Balance, comfort, consistency & accuracy.

The three major requirements of the aiming game…

Middle eye movements.

What to look at, on the shot?

The three objectives of eye movements.

Cue ball or object ball?

Peripheral vision.

A romantic Gondola, or James Bond speedboat?

What the pro's look at.

Does personality affect sighting?

The four ways to focus.

Are you deliberate, or instinctive?

Last eye movements.

The three reasons for cueing actions.

Consistency is key.

An unbreakable rhythm.

Consistency in your game, confidence and cueing.

The three reasons for 'pausing at the front'.

The four variables for the amount of time spent 'at the front'.

Backswing eye movements.

Getting the cue into position.

A mental plan.

The speed-awareness continuum.

The four methods of getting your eyes in place.

Eye movements during the strike.

Two methods of looking when striking.

Six main benefits.

From theory to reality.

Two disadvantages.

Ultimate targets, intermediate targets.

Choose one, or the other.

Post shot eye movements.

What the eyes MUST do.

The four reasons the eyes MUST follow the…?

The three roles of all sighting strategies.

Your evolution in sighting…

TGS08 Snooker Book

Nic's Coaching, Learning And Practice Principles.

Turbo-charged Techniques.

To Transform Your Game

Discover ‘Barrow's Dozen' – The Thirteen Principles Of Snooker
That Will Revolutionize Anyone's Game In A Heartbeat.

Save Fifteen Years Experience Applying These Magical Lessons
Just By Reading Training Hints Included In Each Chapter.

Learn How Just One Principle Can Instantly Solve Anyone's
Aiming, Speed Judgement & Positional Play Issues – Forever!
(Includes 23 groundbreaking and never before seen practice sessions)

Understand How Another Principle Can Show You A Better Technique
Than You Will Get From Any Coach, Player Or Book – Including This One!
(Includes ‘The Curriculum Of Perfect Technique”: 46 Terrific Technique Tests)

You will also learn:

Nic's Observe Predict Plan Principle in depth:

Why, how and where it can totally transform your game instantly

1: What is an ‘OPP' practice session?

2: Absolutely vital ingredients for designing and delivering an ‘OPP' practice session.

3: Unbreakable coaching laws for the three stages.

Exact instructions on HOW to transform any part of a players game using an ‘OPP' session NOW:

Section 1: Aiming the cue ball.

Section 2: Aiming the second ball.

Section 3: Cue ball behaviour.

Section 4: Aiming with side spin.

Section 5: Cue ball behaviour from a cushion.

Section 6: Positional play on straight shots.

Section 7: Positional play on angled shots.

Section 8: Getting used to any new tip in minutes.

Nic's Super Comfort Principle in depth:

How each part of a player's technique can be perfected in seconds using this principle:

Section 1: Approach to table.

Section 2: Stance.

Section 3: Bridge hand and arm.

Section 4: Grip hand and cueing arm.

Section 5: Cueing actions and delivery.

Section 6: Rest play.

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