How to Improve Your Billiards Skills Step by Step

In fact, there are only a few ways to improve your skills. Learn from tutorials by yourself, seek advice from experts or play against them, and practice more regularly.
When you first start playing billiards, if someone gives you guidance, you can at least avoid taking six months’ worth of detours. Everyone knows that a blank sheet of paper is easy to write on. I have tried many times to ask people who have already formed a certain playing style and habits to change their style or habits, and the consequence is that these people may be more painful than starting from scratch. During that period, picking up a billiards cue was very painful for them.
If your basic skills are not solid yet, then watching demos, learning the postures of professional players, and then practicing carefully in front of a mirror is a good method. First, make your movements solid, which will provide a good foundation for power generation and stability. However, be careful not to just learn a showy form. Some friends have very beautiful postures at first glance, but their power generation is very insufficient, and the deviation of the balls they hit is measured in meters. This is just a showy form. The real posture is the foundation of stability and power generation. If there is no stability and power generation, then practicing the posture is meaningless.
Posture and Power Generation
In terms of posture and power generation, you must do three things before you are allowed to make a shot. First, does the cue pass straight from the middle of the chest to the center of the head and is it directly aimed at the point to be hit? When making practice strokes, can you reach a fixed point on the cue ball every time? When the cue is closest to the cue ball, is the forearm perpendicular downward? Do you make a backswing pause before making a shot, and do you feel that the back hand is very stable during the backswing pause? If they do these things well, at least their stability will be improved. As for power generation, I always ask them to imagine that there is a wheel under the cue and they are pushing a unicycle. It should be smooth, flowing, and pay attention to balance.
Basic Skills
Actually, this is the basic skills.
Some friends say that their main problem now is that they can’t find the points accurately. In fact, this may be wrong. As long as there is nothing wrong with their eyes, finding the points is not a problem. The key is that they find the points but can’t hit them. At this time, the stability of the basic skills is important.
After the basic skills are solid, through a period of self – training and exploration, preferably with someone’s guidance, you should be able to master various shot techniques.
Guidance from Experts
After the basic skills are basically no problem, what is needed is a deeper understanding. At this time, it is best to have guidance from experts and then play against experts who are good at position play. It is not necessary for these experts to be extremely accurate, and it is best not to be like Stephen Hendry who is simple and practical. It is better if they have a bit of formalism.
Breakthrough
It’s not easy to understand billiards. But there is a problem of not being able to break through. That is, it’s easy for me to score 49 points, but I just can’t break through 50 points (maybe it’s some other score). This situation exists and troubles many people. In fact, in terms of skills and understanding, as long as you can score more than 40 points, it’s enough. Even if I have a good position at 49 points, but the next ball just won’t go in. At this time, the problem is no longer in skills, but more in the psychological state. In fact, once you break through this barrier, you can score a lot more points all at once. At this time, you can choose a different training method from the above. You don’t necessarily have to play against experts, and coaches can hardly solve your psychological problems. Only the person who caused the problem can solve it. This process may take a day or two, or it may take a year or two. Breaking through by yourself needs a process, just like you must open up the governor vessel and the conception vessel. You need an opportunity. This opportunity can be realized by yourself or created by yourself. Open up your channels, preferably unconsciously. Don’t pay attention to how many points you have scored. I’d like to introduce some personal experience. For example, play with someone you don’t attach much importance to. When you are completely relaxed, it is easier to score high.
This period is mainly to break through the psychological bottleneck. Find a way by yourself. The key is to let go of your desire for gain and victory. The reclusive masters are always free and unfettered and transcendental.https://www.tiktok.com/@spk.billiard?_t=8qRRRnXP4N8&_r=1