Poland Development Camp

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…

RIBSA 4 Day Coaching Camp

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…

Austrian Coaching Tour 2013

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…

Charleroi Coaching Camp

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…

Italy Coaching Camp

Last weekend the 28th – 30th of June I travelled to Verona in Italy to hold my first training camp for Italian Snooker player Francesco Bertaiola. The camp was held in the beautiful Billiardi Sala Slot Club from 10am to 6pm each day. The club contains 9 pool tables and one snooker table. In Italy the most popular…

Belgium Coaching Camp

This weekend the 22nd and 23rd February my 147 Academy was invited to Belgium to hold a coaching clinic in The Sandrine Vlamynck Snooker Room in Chatelet. The club is near the Belgium, French border and was named in memory of former lady number one French snooker player Sandrine Vlamynck who tragically died last year. In…

German trains in Ireland

My 147 Academy welcomed German Snooker Tour player Carl Rosenberger from Munich Bavaria who travelled to Ireland to attend a two day snooker training camp with me in the Ivy Rooms Snooker Club in Carlow. Carl competed in the recent IBSF World Championships in Sofia Bulgaria last November and he wanted to train and improve his…

RIBSA Coaching Camp

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…

India Coaching Camps

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…