This was an extremely thin cut on the Brown which required a lot of left hand side. In a league match or tournament, this isn’t necessarily a shot I would go for as it’s very risky, but in a paractice training frame with players, it is useful to find out the capabilities of what balls […]

Lessons from the League: The Scoreboard Doesn’t Decide How I Perform How reaching an Oxshott doubles final taught me about pressure, belief, the importance of basics and why there’s always something to learn — whether you win or lose. By Chris Gaynor | SnookerZone.co.uk It All Started With Two Words: Why Not? Sometimes, the most […]

THE REVENGE CLUB HOW DO YOU SERVE JUSTICE? The main course is on its way… What happens when five ordinary people receive an extraordinary invitation — and discover that the truth is considerably harder to establish than they ever imagined? A mysterious invitation. A respectable establishment. A courteous manager. And five people whose lives may […]

If the leader isn’t building a team of leaders, they’re NOT A LEADER… That means trying to lift others up – so that there is a team of great leaders, who offer help, support, advice, and encouragement and take responsibility when needed…

This was a tough shot to negotiate as it had to be struck with precision and delicate to keep the white in line with the blue for the next shot. I managed to keep the head down and deliver with a nice pause, and this shot went exactly how I had planned it…

LESS INGREDIENTS. BIGGER IDEAS: What Cooking Has Taught Me About Learning, Creativity, and Leadership… Cooking may put dinner on the table. But if you pay attention to what happens along the way, it can teach you considerably more. Many people just see cooking as switching on a hob, and bubbling some food in a pan…But […]

I have created a few cracking WOK UNDERDOG meals and, here are some of the best WOK meals I have created in past weeks and compiled them into a MEAL PLANNER so that you will never be stumped by what to cook for dinner in the evening. One of the philosophies at the WOK UNDERDOG […]

What Is Coaching? Lessons Are Passed On EVERYWHERE… From Mr Miyagi to Miyamoto Musashi — and from the snooker club to YouTube to Online — coaching may be less about instruction than the transfer of knowledge between generations and people – humanity. We tend to think of coaching as one person standing beside another and […]

When the Basics Become Instinct: How Experience Teaches You What Might Work, and What Doesn’t… Mastering the fundamentals isn’t the end of learning. It’s what eventually gives you the confidence to think for yourself. There is a phrase that has stayed with me throughout my years of playing and learning snooker: “Basics will always win.” […]