Have you heard of this? If so, - how does it work for you?

[chrisg]

Recenly - we've been trying out something referred to us by a friend who said it had really helped his game . So we tried it over weekend and then wrote a post on it on the SnookerZone blog...

Is there anyone who uses this and how does it work for you?

Read what it's all about on the link below...

https://snookerzone.co.uk/how-quiet-...by-37-read-on/

[howardlax]

It's basically said about 3rd pause(according to Terry's 4 pause theory) right before the delivery, which not only servers direction transition of cue movement, also works for the last focus before pulling the trigger.

I found it's so true about the factor in this article that people didn't give enough focus of a few extra seconds/milliseconds under pressure. Me falls in that category as well.
When I was under pressure or simply feel fired, I always messed up at very 1st pause at getting down the shot. Most of time I found it's NOT enough for me to have same amount of front pause under pressure than in practice PSR. I just needed more time to focus the contact on the very first beginning. If this bit wasn't right, I definitely would have doubt later in process then causing twitchy. But sometimes you just couldn't focus enough because of being tired at all...

Pause is important.

[Siz]

This appears to be building on work by Dr Vickers of Calgary university on 'the quiet eye'. She has written a good book on the subject, 'Perception, Cognition and Decision Training. The Quiet Eye in Action'.

It has been established that a Quiet Eye, which is a gaze fixation of 1 or 2 seconds just before you 'pull the trigger', is strongly associated with high performance in self-paced targeting skills (this would include snooker).

However when I was looking into it a few years ago, there did not seem to be any agreed theory as to why this should be. I suspect that it is not the gaze fixation itself that is important; rather it is some cognitive process, such as a stilling of the mind, that results in both the QE phenomenon and the performance enhancement (in other words, the gaze fixation is just a symptom that indicates that you are doing something right).

So before you release the cue, you need a pronounced pause (either at the start or the end of the backswing); and during this pause, your eyes must be still (probably focussed either on the cb or the ob, but I suppose as the linked page seems to suggest, focus on the shot line could be ok - provided that the gaze is steady).