This week top International German Snooker player Felix Frede attended a camp in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club, Carlow in Ireland with World Snooker Coach PJ Nolan. Felix was training in the Star Academy in Sheffield last month with all the professionals to get valuable match practice as he will be competing in Qschool next…
This week I had the pleasure of coaching the current World IBSF U-16 Champion Dylan Emery from Wales in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. Dylan travelled to Carlow for a session to prepare for Q School in May. I was very impressed with his work rate and passion to learn all the different…
Last week I had the pleasure to return to the city of Třebíč in the Czech Republic to hold another training camp for 14 year old Jan Matějíček. Jan represents the Czech Republic in next month’s European Under 18 and Under 21 Snooker Championships in Bulgaria. Improvement Since Last Camp I was very impressed with…
Last weekend I returned to the beautiful city of Bucharest to hold another snooker training camp for the Real Snooker Tour Association in Romania. The training camp was arranged to promote the game and provide guidance to Junior, Masters and Senior Romanian players. Florentin Ciobanu, Paul Croitoru, Iulian Zamfirescu, Alex Oprisor, Rzavan Baciu, Maxim Ene, Tudorache,…
Last week my 147academy travelled to the city of Milan in Italy to hold another training camp in the beautiful Ambrosian Snooker Academy. The camp was again organised by Davide Coltro who is the head EBSA Coach in Italy and the main developer of the sport of snooker within F.I.B.I.S. who are the National Governing…
Last week I had the pleasure of coaching a very talented 14 year old snooker player Jan Matějíček in Třebíč in the Czech Republic. Jan has a beautiful new Star Table to practice on and I was very impressed with his attitude. Each day he got stronger and stronger by learning the techniques and shots…
My 147 Academy returned to the beautiful city of Gérardmer in the North East of France to hold another snooker camp which was organised by Jean-Michel Martin from the Gérardmer Billiard Club. It was a great honour to be asked to return to Gérardmer which is also known as the pearl of the Vosges to…
Last week my 147academy travelled to the amazing city of Budapest in Hungary to hold a snooker training camp to train 16 players in the Rex Williams Snooker Club. The camp was organised by Hungarian Snooker Gala team and a junior and senior camp was held with some of the players who have competed for…
Last weekend my 147academy returned to the beautiful city of Saint Quentin in Northern France to hold another 147academy camp in the Academia de Billiard. Among the players who attended were former National French Champion Jean Marc Beauchamp and one of the leading French Juniors Nicolas Mortreux plus local club players Frederic Dieupart, Philippe Proix and Fabienne Wemeaux. During the…
My 147academy returned to the beautiful city of Bucharest this week to hold another training camp arranged by the Real Snooker Tour of Romania in the newly opened Century Snooker Club. This camp was to promote the game and provide the players with more guidance to improve their game to a higher level. The 14 players…