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  • New Video: Rest Play Tips

    Hi everyone. My latest video is now on my YouTube channel.

    Please have a look. Like the video if you find it useful and please subscribe to the channel.

    Thanks!

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  • #2
    Originally Posted by tedisbill View Post
    Hi everyone. My latest video is now on my YouTube channel.

    Please have a look. Like the video if you find it useful and please subscribe to the channel.

    Thanks!

    Good informative video that! May I know what cue that is? The badge looks different.

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    • #3
      Originally Posted by fkhan View Post
      Good informative video that! May I know what cue that is? The badge looks different.
      It is a B&W cue. Made by a local cue maker by me in England. The cue maker is Dean Jones. He has been making cues for 25+ years. My cue was made to my personal specifications.
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      • #4
        Originally Posted by tedisbill View Post
        It is a B&W cue. Made by a local cue maker by me in England. The cue maker is Dean Jones. He has been making cues for 25+ years. My cue was made to my personal specifications.
        Dean Jones cues look nice. I saw a few online.
        Last edited by fkhan; 6 December 2018, 01:34 PM.

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        • #5
          Another great video Steve. I like the way you just get on with it and provide what people want to know - which is how to play the game. Didn't realise the stance was slightly different for using rest, I've always been standing square on or relatively square, but I'll take that tip into account and see if it improves my rest play! Thanks...
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          • #6
            Originally Posted by chrisg View Post
            Another great video Steve. I like the way you just get on with it and provide what people want to know - which is how to play the game. Didn't realise the stance was slightly different for using rest, I've always been standing square on or relatively square, but I'll take that tip into account and see if it improves my rest play! Thanks...
            Thanks Chris!
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            • #7
              Originally Posted by tedisbill View Post
              Hi everyone. My latest video is now on my YouTube channel.

              Please have a look. Like the video if you find it useful and please subscribe to the channel.

              Thanks!

              Nice video that. Never really thought about my feet that much but certainly interesting and easy to listen to.
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              • #8
                my stance and body position is very different when using a rest than when usual cueing; I thought everyone was the same (except Akani )
                Up the TSF! :snooker:

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                • #9
                  Thanks for that, I never thought about how I stand when I use the rest. I'll try that next time I practise. I have to use the rest a lot being 5ft3 haha.

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                  • #10
                    Thanks everyone. Glad you're all picking up some good tips.
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                    • #11
                      Some good advice there Steve; I think your feet position suits your right eye sighting, I'm more square on with the rest as I'm a left eye sighter. I never thought about my shoulder position before so as I'm a poor rest player at times I'm going to try to get a little bit more side on and move my head a tad to get my left eye over the cue and see if it's better.
                      I'll post the reults better or worse.
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                      • #12
                        Originally Posted by vmax View Post
                        Some good advice there Steve; I think your feet position suits your right eye sighting, I'm more square on with the rest as I'm a left eye sighter. I never thought about my shoulder position before so as I'm a poor rest player at times I'm going to try to get a little bit more side on and move my head a tad to get my left eye over the cue and see if it's better.
                        I'll post the reults better or worse.
                        Thanks Steve. Let us know how you get on
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                        • #13
                          Originally Posted by tedisbill View Post
                          Thanks Steve. Let us know how you get on
                          Didn't work mate, felt really unnatural and couldn't sight properly.
                          Speak up, you've got to speak up against the madness, you've got speak your mind if you dare
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                          • #14
                            Originally Posted by vmax View Post
                            Didn't work mate, felt really unnatural and couldn't sight properly.
                            I would say that's the biggest thing that holds a lot of players back.

                            If you make a new change you have to stick to it for 3 months at least and see how you get on. Obviously any change in technique you make (having playing in a totally different way for years), will feel strange.

                            If a piano teacher told me to put my fingers in a certain position on the piano, I don't think I could expect that after one week I would have nailed it and be playing Mozart.

                            It's one of the things I'm always really keen to tell people when I coach. I can't tell you how to do something and in 5 minutes you'll be a better player. The pupil will need to take their new information and incorporate that into their game in the future.

                            Some players are happy with their game and enjoy playing and don't want any further improvement, that's fine. If a player does want to improve their game, then obviously any change you make won't feel 'natural', because that's not what you normally do. But that's also the point, I want you to do something you don't normally do.
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                            • #15
                              Originally Posted by vmax View Post
                              Didn't work mate, felt really unnatural and couldn't sight properly.
                              Originally Posted by tedisbill View Post
                              Some players are happy with their game and enjoy playing and don't want any further improvement, that's fine. If a player does want to improve their game, then obviously any change you make won't feel 'natural', because that's not what you normally do. But that's also the point, I want you to do something you don't normally do.
                              What I don't normally do is miss every single pot with the rest by six inches because I can't sight the line, so I went back to my own way where the cue was naturally directly under my left eye and potted seven out of ten, which I'm content with.

                              Mark Williams said that the sight right technique felt wrong but it worked, but you're telling me that if it feels wrong and doesn't work then to stick with it for three months at least until I see an improvement that might never come.
                              In the meantime I'm putting self 1 totally in charge of my rest play, overiding what comes naturally. I could be a poor rest player at times for a myriad other reasons, I know now that feet position isn't one of them so thank you for that
                              Speak up, you've got to speak up against the madness, you've got speak your mind if you dare
                              but don't try to get yourself elected, for if you do you'll have to cut your hair

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