We start our journey with technique.

Sections 1-2:
Technique optimisation skills are covered here which gives us an overview of the quickest way to help someone progress in this part of the game.

For the times when habit’s do not spontaneously upgrade, we spend quite a lot of time delving into how to upgrade habits and manage or negotiate away any negative side effects of doing so.

Sections 3-5:
Here we cover the ‘Shot Sandwich’ – what to do before and after the shot to maximise the player’s opportunity and consistency on the shot.

Sections 6-10:
We now go into the nuts and bolts of technique fundamentals. This collection will give you a solid armoury for how to navigate through the various blocks players face on their journey through these areas of the game. 

Sections 11-12:
The advanced techniques of cushion play and rest play are covered last. Once players have gone through sections 6-10, you will see many of the methods covered there applied to the final two aspects of technique.

The dozen elements of cue control are the next areas to study.

Sections 1-4:
Here we cover the important, but often unknown, fundamentals of keeping the cue on line.

Strangely enough, this also includes when and how to breathe and also move the eyes!

Sections 5-8:
We now break down the cueing phases into their constituent parts. This should help you understand and separate these key elements and work on them sequentially without feeling you have to do it all at once. For a player, this is much more manageable and achievable.

Sections 9:
The favourite worst topic of many players – rest play – comes next.

Some of these sessions were tough for the player. They cover the biggest obstacle I have found in learning the rest – namely that it needs up to half a dozen elements to be applied correctly at the same time, otherwise the player can get zero performance. This can get tough for the coach too, as they need to have enough time, patience, and rapport with the student to see this sometimes frustrating job through.

Sections 13-14:
The Robocue, and its successor the Cue Action Trainer, are shown in use here. These clips give a good overview of how coaching tools can be used in sessions, and you should learn some decent principles of cueing instruction from them.

Next in the repertoire is how to aim and pot balls.

This can be one of the most frustrating parts of the game to try to impart, because players are often so involved in their own theories on aiming they simply cannot let go and allow natural learning to take over.

Sections 1-4:
These straight pot aiming and vision centre tests address a lot of objections and misconceptions that players have on these topics. You can learn a lot of short cuts to excellence in this vital fundamental for potting – without which attempting angled potting is largely a waste of time.

Sections 5-8:
What we should be looking at, in what sequence, and at what tempo are vital to understand and can help a player become much more consistent and robust under pressure…

Sections 9-12:
This is where the rubber hits the road… with all the fundamentals in place one is finally able to learn how to negotiate the learning of potting angles. For some this is very easy, for others very counter-intuitive…. but many of the dead ends and invalid ideas on the subject are corrected in these final four sections.

The easiest part of the game for pros is understanding and planning positional play. However, they are not able to unpack and explain exactly how they reached that level of competency….

Sections 1-3:
These first three sections will help you teach players to become fluent in the mechanics of straight pot positional play. Without being bullet proof in this, it is largely a waste of time for players to progress to working on angled potting positional play.

Sections 4-5:
We next tackle the framework of thinking that will allow a player’s positional skills to flourish. With a little bit of practice, the details covered here will help a player reach their potential – and vice versa.

Sections 6-9:
How to PRACTICE positional play is a whole skill in itself. I have seen players who understand positional play very well, but simply do not get better at it very quickly because how they practice is all wrong. With a few of the details discussed in these sections, you or any student should be a very robust ‘Positional Play Practicer’!

Section 10:
This final section gives you an overview of a robust positional play curriculum -which can be adjusted to suit time constraints – and that any player can go through.

The next topic on our list sees us putting it all together with Break Building.
This part of the game can attract snooker players, like a light at night can attract flies – not always in their best interests!

The problem is that break building is the ultimate goal for many snooker players, so they tend to try to shortcut the essential processes of technique, cueing, and positional play in favour of the ‘excitement’ of break building. Actually, break building is simply the consistent application of those key processes – but with a couple of layers of thinking on top…

Sections 1-2:
We only have two sections here, and they are split in two halves:

             Firstly, the science of percentage play, and how to explain it.

             Secondly, the art of shot selection applied to various situations.

             Both these elements combined should give the viewer much more confidence in knowing the ins and outs of helping players apply percentages correctly to optimise their break building results.

Safety play can be one of the easiest areas to improve in, but can also act like a hole in a boat and sink your game quickly.

Sections 1-3:
The first section takes us through the most important element of getting safety play right – understanding half ball contacts. This progresses to learning how a player can judge back to baulk safety shots with a variety of thinner object ball contacts.

Secondly, one of the commonest issues players have is escaping snookers. We cover here a drill that can help those of any standard to quickly learn the basic geography of any snooker escape.

Lastly, we cover the basic principles of safety shot selection in a quick session with a client on his private table.

Once all the technical skills in the game are understood, your next level as an educator is the skills you use to help the player get the result they want. These 13 areas of Coaching Skills will give you a lot of flexibility in negotiating the often frustrating journey through coaching lessons that often are not as simple as it seems they should be.

All these topics can be utilised for your own benefit as a player and also in life… 

Section 1:
A variety of standard communication skills are covered here, which help to increase choice if you are stuck in a certain coaching situation.

Sections 2-4:
These sections go into a lot of depth in what many coaches skip. Needs analysis, prioritisation, and diagnosis are so important and a skill that needs to be consciously applied both to yourself and to students.

Section 5-9:
We now get into the fun part… getting deep into various coaching skills and tools that make lessons engaging for students, and more interesting and fast moving for the coach.

Section 10:
The all important feedback loop comes next – without which there is no improvement for anybody. We have some video examples of this in action, and also discuss how The Feedback Loop helps concentration.

Section 11:
What I have learned from setting up junior snooker schools is covered next. The lifeblood of snooker, this vital part of the game’s future is what started my coaching career off in earnest. Here, with Russian student coach Victor Sitko, I share a lot of these strategies I applied to catapult my future opportunities.

Section 12:
We cover a few advanced skills here, that are often fun but at the same time incredible powerful when used in certain troublesome circumstances.

Section 13:
Product development is an increasing market in cue sports coaching, This set of videos showcases the product development journey of the Cue Action Trainer – one of our best selling products – in a discussion with my generous student who loved the prototype so much that he funded the first production run.

We finish off this video archive with a selection of video analysis sessions.

Covering 16 student sessions, this collection takes you through the full initial video analysis that a client has at the beginning of my relationship with them. You will take away invaluable references of how to kick start your relationship with your own students, and be able to act with complete certainty when applying the proven video analysis model I demonstrate here.

The videos are organised per student so that you can focus on one complete student video analysis session, from start to finish, at a time.

Using our inbuilt search option, you can collate all the videos in two clicks according to any of the 50+ players who feature in this collection.

You could choose one of the clients whose lesson with me you enjoyed watching in other topics, and in chronological order watch all the videos in this archive.

This will give you an idea of the complete coaching process from start to finish, and give you invaluable time saving references for how to guide a student through the various stages and topics of learning over time.

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