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Having played snooker a number of years ago, recently I have joined padiham snooker club in North East Lancashire a hotbed of snooker where players from age 6 to 76 play to a variety of standards. The club is run br Paul Rinaldi a former ex professional who is well known throughout the game. The revisiting of an old pastime is interesting as the standard of this club is much higher than other clubs I have previously visited.

Paul has made several 147s and the club is supported by a number of good players including "snooker legend" Derek Thompson who all visiting professionals view with trepidation. The Legend like some of the other players have played visting professionals like Mark Williams, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis, Alex Higgins, Jimmy White, Cliff Thorburn and others.

One of the good aspects of seeing a variety of top players close up is that you can clearly differentiate the change in standards between the quality of play. The other key distinction is precision and level of precision to various aspects of the game. Paul Rinaldi has been around the block and can offer coaching as a WPBSA coach that will highlight and correct faults in your game. The art and science of precision cueing has been a revelation. This just highlights the principle that you cannot deliver a quality product with flaws in the process. So stance, setup, grip, movement on the shot, feathering, rythmn are all important aspects of delivering that cue in a straight line.

So there is precision in technique, consistency and being able to replicate a cueing action accurately. A mindset to support the delivery of the consistency. Its quite simple when you say it quickly.