On Tuesday the 13th of November I held a coaching day in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow for the Republic Of Ireland players who will compete in the 2012 IBSF World Championships next week in Bulgaria. Johnny Williams, Greg Casey and Brendan O Donoghue will compete in the Men’s Championship and Mark Tuite…
My 147 Academy was invited to India this month to hold two coaching workshops in the magical cities of Mumbai and Pune. Twenty-one players in total attended a two week training course to improve their game which was organised by fellow World Snooker Coach Derek Sippy and the Billiards & Snooker Association of Maharashtra. The snooker…
Last weekend my 147 Academy travelled to the beautiful city of Salzburg in Austria to train the Austrian Billiards national team. The Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association organised the camp to improve their player’s technique and potting skills. This was the first time I had trained a billiard team but I realised the main objective…
Last month I travelled to the beautiful city of Prague in the Czech Republic to hold a 7 day snooker training camp in the Billiard Centrum Sports Club. A selection of players who compete in various Czech Republic ranking events teamed up with players from the National Team to attend the training course to promote the…
The 2012 – 2013 season promises to be another exciting season for my 147Academy as The Austrian Billiards & Snooker Association have just announced their Association will be holding PJ Nolan coaching camps for the National teams in selected clubs throughout Austria next season. National team training camps are planned for Salzburg, Vienna and Graz throughout…
This week I had a great honour to coach and manage the Ireland Senior team of Brendan O Donoghue, Rodney Goggins, Greg Casey, Johnny Williams and Robert Redmond to win the prince of Wales Home International Perpetual Shield. The event was held in Pontins in Prestynn, North Wales where Ireland faced England, Wales A, Wales…
One of the highlights of the summer was when I was invited by World Snooker to lead the cue zone at this year’s world snooker championship in the Crucible in Sheffield. Players from 5 years old to 87 years old participated throughout the Saturday, Sunday and Monday on specific routines against the stopwatch and some…
April has certainly be a busy month for Republic of Ireland National Coach PJ Nolan. The Official World Snooker Coach will be our lead coach in the Cue Zone in Sheffield but before that the much sought after coach is currently in Dubai working with the UAE’s finest snooker players as they prepare for their…
One place in the world I love returning to hold coaching camps, is the Le Safety Snooker Club in Chatelet in Belgium. Chatelet is a small town located on the border between France and Belgium and snooker in this region is very popular. The Club was formerly owned by the French number one lady player Sandrine Vlamynck who died…
PJ Nolan became an official W.P.B.S.A. World Snooker Coach when he was invited by the WPBSA to attend an intensive training course in the England Institute of Sport in Sheffield. Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths and Chris Lovell conducted the two day seminar which covered all aspects of the game and PJ becomes the first ever…