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If my response was received as disrespectful, my bad. No confrontation was intended. Your explanation was clear and I felt I understood your perspective. Your version of rhythm closely parallels what I call flow. Rhythm involves an ebb and flow when applied to movement, rather than music...

Maybe there is personal experience you can draw on when you do something precise. Do you purse your lips when making an exacting cut? What about when threading a needle or edging with a paintbrush? Nearly everyone I speak to about this has a lip or tongue tick when targeting. A dart player...

Musical training may bias my understanding of the concept. From Wikipedia “One difficulty in defining rhythm is the dependence of its perception on tempo, and, conversely, the dependence of tempo perception on rhythm. Furthermore, the rhythm–tempo interaction is context dependent,” This...

The start of a session is often a feeling out phase. Trying to find the line, aligning the perception center, the elbow hinge, and establish neutral but in control cueing hand feel that will carry you through the match. Part of that is finding your rhythm. The pitfall is losing the rhythm, as...

There is a saying at high levels that there is no such thing as an easy shot. The mindset that takes things for granted, leads even the best, to miss ”easy” once in a while. Lifelong learning is more a mindset, quite different from the complacency found in marginal play. Accepting mediocrity is...

Each session needs to go through stages culminating in your performance phase for the day. Motor skill acquisition goes through different stages than academic learning. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4672876/ There is an overlap of process across the learning spectrum. Cognitive...

Not knowing what to do creates more hesitancy and doubt than anything. There has to be something between just getting down and shooting, without thought, that is not suddenly called “over thinking”.

Recently I have been checking out how the lips and mouth are engaged in precision activities involving the fingers. Brain mapping reveals that the size of representation of both areas is huge, especially when mapping motor activity. Michael Jordan was noted to having his tongue involved in his...

Or, dislocate your sense of humor.

The Japanese had a word for this “kaizen.” It means continuous improvement. The idea in sports development is to pick something small that you believe you can do better. Dedicate the session to that singular improvement. The next day pick something else. The underlying theme is that small...

I think many don’t understand the pure metaphor this represents at the table.

The seedy underbelly of pool in America didn’t help its reputation as a wholesome family activity model. The adoption of the games by the much larger Asian population, will eventually relegate American influence to the margins unless they own it as a national past time. Asia are taking aim at...

In a TAR podcast, Corey Deuel and John Schmidt discussed this. There was an Interesting point where they talked about the fragmentation of the game in America. They talked about how big an audience there is in Britain for snooker, a single game. At one point it was noted that a little old lady...

You’re right that’s 100% english so, the corrected amount won’t be more than 7.5mm or 5x what I apply. Thanks. Will correct the original post. Thanks for taking the time to read and respond. Too often it feels like I’m spouting into the ether.

Just setting perspective based on physics findings. These are facts based on actual at the table findings using a non-skidding ball, a firm stroke and inside english. That is what the graph tells us. I use a consistently modified ghost ball line to the undercut side of the pocket and apply...

50% english = maximum throw It is roughly a 7.5 mm offset, at center of mass, from center ball line. If 50% is max, then less is less. I use roughly about a 1.5mm offset, generating negligible deflection and the ball goes where my cue is pointed. Notice that the blue graph line shows 1° of throw...

First I will quibble a bit with the characterization of “putting spin” on the cue ball. Too many players use a flourish, which is not a straight stroke, trying to spin the ball. My description of how I apply inside english includes a constraint to the cue line moving farther away from the center...

The thing is with using just a “touch of inside”, the knowledge is that deflection is negligible. That leaves you with two other bits of knowledge, the effect of a very small amount of inside english on ob throw and then it’s spinless effect on the cue ball.

Check out your natural instincts with one handed, square to the rail, potting. Ronnie O’Sullivan and Stephen Lee tell us that the grip must be able to tighten and that a squeeze best describes that action. Hold the cue, so that at the end of the follow, the forefinger is triggered into a...

There is more relevance on a snooker table where balls travel in different relationships based on the direction of nap. Direction of spin relative to the flow of the nap, cause different drift when the leading edge of the spinning ball is spinning with or against the nap direction. Against the...