The 8th & 9th of April my 147academy returned to Vienna in Austria to hold my latest Camp for the Austrian National Team. The Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association organised the camp and invited eight players from the National Rankings with Andreas Ploner, Manuel Pomwenger, Elias Kapitany, Serbest Hussein, Oskar Charlesworth, Jérôme Liedtke, Alexander Trinkl, Philipp Koch and Patrick Stift all…
Last week my 147 Academy travelled to the city of Tel Aviv in Israel to hold another snooker training camp for Israeli Champion Shachar Ruberg. This camp was aimed to prepare Shachar on his new Star Table for the 2017 EBSA European Snooker Championship in Cyprus next month. During this camp Shachar practiced various routines…
My 147 Academy travelled this weekend to the HSEBC Cue Sports Academy in Vienna, Austria to hold a two day Coaching Camp, This camp was aimed at preparing the Austrian National Team players for the upcoming EBSA European Under 18, Under 21 and Men’s Snooker Championships which is being held in Cyprus later next month. The…
Last week I held the Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association (RIBSA) second junior snooker development day of the season on Sunday the 29th of January in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. All junior player from all around Ireland were invited to attend and I was delighted to see so many talented…
Last week I travelled to the beautiful Ambrosian Snooker Academy in Milan, Italy to hold another coaching camp for Davide Coltro from the Italian Federation Sport Billiard (F.I.B.I.S.) who are the National Governing Body in Italy. I coached the 25 players on improving their Stance, Address Position and developing a smooth delivery in their Cue…
Last weekend I led the first Republic of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association (RIBSA) junior snooker development day on the 5th of November in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. All junior player from all around Ireland were invited to attend the day and receive guidance from myself and my team of RIBSA Coaches…
My 147academy travelled to Italy this week to hold a coaching camp in the Davide Coltro Ambrosian Snooker Academy in the amazing city of Milan. During the camp I worked on developing a solid playing technique in the players Stance, Cue Action, Grip, and Address Position. All the players attended training from 10am – 6pm each…
This week my 147academy again had the pleasure to coach my youngest 147academy player Adam Wynne from Boora, County Offaly in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. Adam has appeared on the biggest TV show in Ireland and Germany. He also competed in my 147academy National U-12 Irish Championship last year. I was delighted to see his improvment and was so impressed with Adam’s potting…
My 147academy travelled to Salzburg in Austria to hold a two day snooker training camp on behalf of the Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association. I would like to firstly congratulate the Austrian Snooker team on beating Germany and Switzerland last week to win the three Countries Championship in the Billardzentrum in Nürnberg! This camp was…
All the Champions I have ever coached had a good cue action with a smooth rhythm which gave them time to get their eyes up on the spot on the cue ball or object ball. The cue action I recommend for my Academy players is using both a front pause and a natural back pause. …