Potting With Side

[markz]

Breaks could be between 20 - 40 on a good day but im going with a coach next week hoping in the next year to improve so i can play competition and not get slaughtered

Your making the right move seeing a coach, he can see you first hand and work one to one on your game. You will get advice on your basics and he will see when you can move on to the more advanced ideas. My own experience was I wanted to keep the game simple while I learned so until I was getting regular 50s I'd use side sparingly and concentrate on leaving myself nice angles for the next shot.

[golferson123]

Well, i started of really crap, like the first time i played and that, and am now only mildly crap.

You're going to have to do better than that, lad!

so we have a mildly crap player dishing out advice and belittling people who actually have done their own hard work, you could not make it up lol

[Tommykiid]

What level are you at Tommy? If your running out of position alot I'd say using side is going to make the game even harder for you.

Breaks could be between 20 - 40 on a good day but im going with a coach next week hoping in the next year to improve so i can play competition and not get slaughtered

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

So you have gone from what standard to what standard of snooker?

Well, i started off really crap, like the first time i played and that, and am now only mildly crap.

You're going to have to do better than that, lad!

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

What level are you at Tommy? If your running out of position alot I'd say using side is going to make the game even harder for you.

Agreed. Cue sports are all about mastery of centre ball (vertical axis). Spin for show, centre for dough.

[itsnoteasy]

What?

If you're asking if knowing what will happen to the object ball when applying side spin to the cue ball has helped my game, the answer is a resounding yes.

Still wish I'd never heard of gearing, though. Thanks dr dave! l

So you have gone from what standard to what standard of snooker?

[golferson123]

Goodness, it's worse than i feared.

After every experiment dave asks players to replicate his experiments to make sure they are correct. This is called 'peer review'. His experiments cannot therefore be called 'opinion'. If you think his methodology is flawed you are perfectly free to correct him, for which he, being a scientist first and foremost, will undoubtedly thank you. Off you pop, then.

That you are unaware of something does not mean it does not exist.

oh i am well aware of some things, have you replicated his experiments yourself?

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

Well how has all this help you have gotten transferred into results with your snooker?

What?

If you're asking if knowing what will happen to the object ball when applying side spin to the cue ball has helped my game, the answer is a resounding yes.

Still wish I'd never heard of gearing, though. Thanks dr dave! l

[markz]

Yeh i see what you mean its just i run out of position alot and in practice i try to work on that problem but i just want good knowledge of side as a rescue shot to use if the situation needs it to recover position

What level are you at Tommy? If your running out of position alot I'd say using side is going to make the game even harder for you.

[golferson123]

Well how has all this help you have gotten transferred into results with your snooker?

he can talk one hell of a game lol oh sorry he doesn't play he's just an expert on the game

[itsnoteasy]

Precisely why it's important. A little throw can make a big difference at snooker. Not everyone is a maxy monster like you mate. Some of us need all the help we can get.

Well how has all this help you have gotten transferred into results with your snooker?

[Tommykiid]

Yeh i see what you mean its just i run out of position alot and in practice i try to work on that problem but i just want good knowledge of side as a rescue shot to use if the situation needs it to recover position

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

in print you look like a right wally god knows what the flesh sounds like lol, still got no ideas of your own only repeating others.

Your, ahem, thought processes are a little puzzling. How, precisely, am i meant to present my own ideas on what happens when balls collide? Would you like me to rewrite the laws of physics for you?

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

another truly condescending post from mr know it all, i didn't waste twenty years like you did so please catch up

To you? I caught, and significantly surpassed, you at 20 months, let alone years.

[Hello, Mr Big Shot]

the worlds leading expert, its not a field its opinion, who has tagged him thus? instead of quoting him hows about trying it for yourself and instead of quoting you could have an opinion yourself, and of course quoting dear old winston to add weight to your post your own knowledge would then suffice

Goodness, it's worse than i feared.

After every experiment dave asks players to replicate his experiments to make sure they are correct. This is called 'peer review'. His experiments cannot therefore be called 'opinion'. If you think his methodology is flawed you are perfectly free to correct him, for which he, being a scientist first and foremost, will undoubtedly thank you. Off you pop, then.

That you are unaware of something does not mean it does not exist.