Learn faster to play cue sports. 5 Key points to help you improve your game

I'm Gary and I'm in the snooker shed hey people welcome back to the snooker shed and it's absolutely fabulous to be here finding time to make some videos back in the shed for you guys and we're going to start off with this video which is all about learning I'm going to give you five key points that's going to increase your learning per hour and if we can increase the learning per hour we're going to get much better much quicker hi I'm fer ran s and no coach and you watching SN so let's start the video with the very first tip and the very first tip is discipline and discipline Works across the board it is the most important tip that I can give you because if you can do everything in a well disciplined manner then your learning per hour will go through the roof which means your game's going to improve rapidly let's have a closer look at discipline so why is it I've made such a bold statement in saying that discipline will improve your game so much quicker than anything else and it's really simple if we follow a structured set of instructions given on any task and we do them after one after the other exactly in the order they should be and to the best of our ability and repeat that over and over and over and over again your brain will learn that set of instructions very quickly so take for example if we know that when we put a foot down it needs to be in a certain place discipline will repeat that every time and put in the correct place an undisciplined player will put it in different places so therefore the learning your brain as your brain is saying I'm not sure where the foot goes sometimes it's here sometimes it's there where the disciplined brain will say yeah that's where it goes cuz that's where I put it yesterday a 100 times so you can see just from that little example of where we put her foot how important it is to be disciplined and how much more information gets stored in your brain correctly now one of the other things that discipline brings being self-disciplined is it helps with concentration if we're going to carry out a set of steps correctly with discipline we need to be concentrating on those steps and we know if we could improve our concentration then again our learning per hour is going to go up now we've just scratched the surface in the connection between discipline and learning but I hope that you can take from this first tip something back away with you and if you can you're definitely going to improve so let's look at tip number two and tip number two is learning to strike the CQ ball in the center now why is it so important that we learn to strike the cube ball in the center well to improve improve your potting to improve your positional play and to improve your angle recognition by striking the center of the cuq ball all these areas will improve much quicker let's take a closer look so why is it so important to strike the CU ball or learn to strike the CU ball as best we can in the center and the main reason for that is it reduces the amount of unwanted side and the word is unwanted which means we really don't know how much we're applying we really don't know when we're applying it because it's unwanted it's unknown so if you take that to the learning side of playing the game and you're trying to learn a black off the spot a half black off the spot if we're already applying left hand side unknown then the Cubo will deflect deflect to the right which means our brain is adjusting for that right deflection when we're aiming now yes you'll put the ball and you'll consistently put the ball using that but the problem comes in when you decide you want to use side for position because we've got an unknown amount of side going on the QQ ball to accurately to add the side we want for position makes it a lot more difficult also if you change tables if you're playing in one club on one table and another club on another table or like Cubs the factors will change again which makes the pot a bit more different and that means more chance of missing moving on then to tip number three and tip number three is staying down on the shot staying down on the shot gives you a massive boost in learning when you stay down on the shot and you watch what happens on the table as your shot and folds the learning potential that is there is massive okay so what are the Boost to learning from staying down on the shot well we're going to take two scenarios here in this we brief section the first one is when it goes wrong so when you play a shot wrong you normally get up say some things feel frustrated angry and leave all the information to what went wrong on the table whereas if you stay down on the shop you will know what side of the pocket you missed did you play it with left hand side instead of right hand side was it too much side all the information that you gather from that shot helps you understand why the position was wrong or the pot was missed Now by taking that information and giving it to your brain then your brain will process that and hopefully take it to the next shot and correct what you've done wrong and on top of that when you walk away with that frustration and anger you're passing that on to the next shot so the second part of the Boost and learning that you're going to get when you stay down on the shot is when it goes correctly now we all know when we hit that QQ ball and it is sweet you hear that object ball crack the back of the pocket there's nothing more satisfying than seeing that feeling that hearing that happen but again if you stay down on the table while that takes place what you're doing is appreciating the shot that you've just made you're enjoying that part of the game and you're also telling your brain this is how we want to do it this is how we want to cue that was a perfect positional shot this is how I want to see the balls go into the back of the pocket so much learning that your brain then can take store and hopefully repeat on the next shot so tip number four is going to be keep your head and body still on the shot so why is it so important that we keep our head and our body still in the shop well we all wish we can play like Alex Higgins who used to dance almost while playing the game but us meere Mortals can't do it like that so we must give ourselves every opportunity to deliver that queue and see where we're delivering the QQ ball every time perfectly so if you think about your eyes is what we use to aim whether you look at the Cub ball when you you strike the Q ball or you look at the object ball when you strike the Q ball either way your eyes have to stay on that point as soon as your head moves as you're delivering the queue so does your eyes these are your sights you move the eyes you move the point where you're striking the object wall or cube ball depending on what you're looking on so you can see the problems with that if you constantly move the sights it makes it more difficult to strike the cuq ball and place it where we want when we look at the body the body's exactly the same unfortunately our head is attached to it so when the body moves either way the body is going to move so is your head so holding that body still helps keep the head still on the shot helps keep our sights fixed on where we wanting the cube ball to go tip number five and the last one for this video is the pre-shot routine why is it we need a pre-shot routine what is a pre-shot routine and how does it benefit our Q Sports let's have a we look so the pre-ot routine really is a set of instructions and those instructions lead us to send a cuq ball to where we want it to go so the importance of having a good pre- short routine covers things like consistency if you have a good consist consistent repeatable pre-shot routine your game will come more consistent if you have a good consistent pre-shot routine you could always diagnose your game much better when you miss a ball or get a position that isn't what you wanted everything that happens in the pre-shot and post routine is a result of what you're seeing on the table and what I mean by that is if you miss a shot something went wrong in the pre-shot rot if you missed the position something went wrong in the pre-shot routine so having a good pre-shot routine and not only that understanding what the pre-shot routine could do for your learning per hour is incredible so what we've done is we scratched the surface of five key elements that I think if you apply you will definitely improve your learning per hour if you've got any questions please leave them down below in the comments ments and I'll get to them as soon as I can if you've got any personal questions I'm also doing on toone videos here at the Snookers shed and I'm also doing onetoone coaching here in Scotland I'd like to thank all the people that has continued to support the channel when it's a wee bit dry lately when I've not been making videos I've been really busy improving my own game and getting some coaching badges so links are in the description for any personal contacts that you would like there's an email there just send me email if you'd be interested in some one toone tuition and listen my name is New Wales and I'll see you on the table