Last week my 147academy had the honour of holding another International camp for talented 15-year-old Jenson Schmid from Switzerland in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow, Ireland. Jenson returned to Ireland with his father Patrik to improve his overall game ahead of the 2025 U-16 & U-18, U-21 and Men’s European Snooker Championships which…
Last weekend I returned to the beautiful ÖSBV Academy in Vienna to hold my first Camp of 2025 on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of February. This training camp which was again organised by the Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association. Venue The training facilities in the ÖSBV Academy in Austria was perfect after the academy…
This week I had the pleasure of coaching talented 20-year-old Velian Dimitrov from Bulgaria for another snooker training camp in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow. Velian regularly competes in the QSchool, and the QTour. He boosts fantastic wins over Liam Davies, Leone Crowley, Iulian Boiko and Bulcsú Révész at EBSA European Championships in the…
This week my 147academy had the honour of having 16-year-old Filip Vidak from Belgrade in Serbia for a training camp in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow, Ireland. It was a pleasure in holding this camp for another International student who is preparing for the upcoming WSF Snooker Championships in Morocco and EBSA Snooker…
Last weekend I returned to Austria to hold my last Camp of 2024 on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of December in the ÖSBV Academy in Vienna. This training camp was organised by the Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association. The weekend will always be remembered as the weekend Austrian Florian Nüßle became the first Austrian to…
This week my 147academy had the pleasure of training one of the most exciting young players in the world when the current World IBSF U-17 Champion Christian Richter from Germany returned for another camp in the SBI HQ Academy of Excellence in Carlow in the Republic of Ireland. This talented German returned with his father…
This week my 147academy had the pleasure of holding a snooker training camp for International student 16-year-old Holger Åkerblom from Stockholm in Sweden in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow, Ireland. The Swedish Billiards Federation sent Holger to Ireland to develop his game and I was very impressed with his work rate to learn…
Last weekend I returned to Vienna in Austria to hold another Development Camp organised by the Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of October. The Players A mixture of top Austrian ranked Junior and Men Snooker & Billiard players plus a lady player was invited to the ÖSBV Academy in Vienna…
My 147academy had the pleasure this week of holding another Coaching camp for 14-year-old Jenson Schmid from Switzerland in the SBI Academy of Excellence in Carlow, Ireland. Jenson returned to Ireland with his father Patrik to improve his overall game ahead of the 2025 U-16 & U-18 EBSA and WSF European Snooker Championships. Jenson made…
This week I had the honour of holding another coaching camp for the new World Under 17 IBSF Snooker Champion, Christian Richter from Germany in the SBI HQ Academy of Excellence in Carlow town in the Republic of Ireland. New World Champion Christian had won the IBSF World Snooker U-17 title in style in India…