My 147academy sponsored the first ever RIBSA Irish Under 12 National Snooker Championship for 2014 in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. It was great to see young players from all around Ireland battle it out for the title. Corey Ramsbottom from Carlow and Dean Roche from Youghal both played great to reach the final and…
This week 12th – 16th of May, My 147 Academy travelled to the beautiful city of Wrocław in Poland to hold a Junior Development Camp for the Polish Billiards & Snooker Association. The host Association had organised the camp to improve the young player’s technique and potting skills while giving them the correct training program…
I was again invited by World Snooker to be the lead coach in the World Snooker Cue Zone on the opening two days of the 2014 Dafabet World Professional Snooker Championships in the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. This year World Snooker Coaching launched a new purple polo shirt which is in association with their official charity…
I am delighted to announce I have been asked to be the Poland National Team Coach. I will travel to Poland throughout the season to train the National Snooker Team. It is a great honour to be selected by the Polish Snooker Association for this position and I am really looking forward to working with…
This week I held a four day RIBSA Coaching Camp to prepare the RIBSA players for the 2014 European Billiards & Snooker Association Team and Under 21 Snooker Championships. Josh Boileau, Daniel Dempsey, Rodney Goggins, Stephen Bateman, Mark Tuite, Stephen Walsh, Tom O Driscoll, Tony Seymour and Alen Matic attend training in the Ivy Rooms in…
On the 10th of February 2014 I travelled to the beautiful city of Prague in the Czech Republic to hold a five day snooker training Cue Zone in the Billiard Centrum sports club in the Harfa Galerie Shopping Complex. The Cue Zone was arranged to promote the game and provide players with guidance of how…
Last week my 147 Academy travelled to three different cities in Austria to hold Snooker & Billiards Coaching Zones. First I was in Vienna to train the Austrian National Billiards team for the upcoming four Nations Billiards Championship in the newly opened Austrian Academy. The Austrian Association organised the two day billiards camp to improve…
This week my 147 Academy was invited back to the beautiful city of Tel Aviv in Israel to train and prepare Shachar Ruberg for the 2013 Israel Senior National Snooker Championships. The 19 year old went on to win the Israel National Senior Snooker Championship for the first time when he beat David Vaizman 6…
Last weekend the 18th – 20th of October my 147 Academy travelled to Charleroi in Belgium to hold a snooker training cue zone. The cue zone was organised by Mathieu Protin and it was held in the Charleroi Snooker Club and in Isnes with players from France and Belgium. It was hailed a great success…
Last week my 147 Academy had the honour to be invited to Beijing in China to hold IBSF Cue Zones for players participating in the World Under 21 Snooker Championships in the CBSA / WBPSA Coaching Academy. Players from Russia, England, India, Finland, New Zealand, Iran and Mongolia attended my cue zones which were held…