Good question. In everything we do in life, whether it’s cooking, or learning a new skill, (I am currently learning a small amount of Japanese) or playing sports, the basics are the foundation of everything. If you don’t do the basics and learn them so that they can become auto-pilot, then your game won’t improve.

The only way is to keep doing the basics EVERY TIME YOU PLAY, and playing as many frames as you can – regardless of how many times a week you play, if you can do the basics, then you are on the way to a healthy technique and game in snooker.

And regardless of how many times a week you play this game, the basics are winners.

Every time you go and play frames of snooker – EMPLOY the basics, and you will win – and learn. If you come out of a session and you know you did the basics to the best you could, you’ve won in my book. And you learn. It’s called GROWTH MINDSET.

SENSEI’S in MARTIAL ARTS LIKE KARATE will tell you to go back to basics EVERY TIME, and decent coaches in snooker will tell you that.

The basics first. They set the foundations…

I was told it and taught it, and it has stuck with me. Plus I have read books that have said it – so I know…

And I won a LEAGUE TITLE with it, and have got to a doubles final and played in a TEAM CUP FINAL.

So I know things…