Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Cue positon

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Cue positon

    Hey all. I'm using this forum as a last resort as I've become really desperate. Well to start off I'd like to say none of my friends experience the same problem, even the beginners don't. I don't know the exact term but let's say I'm cross eyed (hope you got me ) so I'm using just one eye and it makes no difference (in snooker) if I close the other or not.
    The thing is that when I look at a point on the cue ball then get down to the shot my cue usually isn't in a straight line although I know that "with my eyes" I'm sighting the correct angle. I kind of can't get the eye line and cue together. Strangely enough I CANNOT see whether I'm off the line or not so I have to play the shot and when I miss it's let's say in 70% caused by this. I have to lift up and look from some distance. Sometimes when I'm really struggling I pot much more ball when im like 40cm above the cue. All of my frineds tell me they just get down to the shot and their cue is instantly in line with their eyes. So I'm "solving" (not solving actually heh) the situation that I'm moving my head horizontaly verticaly, moving my cue up and down my chest which results in total incosistence of my cue action. Well I get it time after time... Three moths ago I made a break of 90 from the line-up but right the next day I couldnt make a break potting more than 4 balls. I tried to make a video of me playing when I had the feel but it was no help.
    Pleas guys, any tips on fixing this? I heard of some snooker pad where there is a line that you place in line of the shot and then chech if you are straight. Well I do this with the baulk line which works fine but as soon as I'm playing balls I can't see it anymore... Any help appreciated.
    Edit: I often find the cue / eye line but you can have dozens of them concerning that when you turn your head right you move the butt of your cue right as well but my cue action works just with the one original position otherwise the cue action is really bad...
    Last edited by Z-E-N-I-T; 11 May 2008, 08:15 PM.

  • #2
    For sighting with a dominant eye, Del Hill gave the following advice in his coaching thread:


    as you aproach the shot put your tip to the cue ball then as you are approx 10cm above your cue sight your shot this is done in a split second then put your chest contact point to the cue .This will enable you to be sighting your shot naturally .if your head tilts or do esnt whatever is your natural way of sighting
    :snooker:

    Comment


    • #3
      Thanks. Believe or not the whole problem was in the right hand, not sighting as I got into it yesterday again. I thought I wasnt sighnting correctly which I wasnt actually, i knew what I had to do -> move te butt of the cue to the right to make the cue line parallel with the eye line but when I did it my cue action was a bit of a mess. Yesterday when I was playing I accidently raised my elbow a bit which corrected the problem and I made couple of decent breaks. Now I have to drill it because when I play a match the stress and nervousity makes me forget my technique...

      Comment

      Working...
      X