YOUR PAIN WAS MY PAIN
If you are anything like me you have experienced – and probably will still have – those ‘Frozen Moments’… where you just do not know what to do on the table with a player. Or you may just be nervous about that situation happening with one of your students.
For me, some of those moments were:
The first time I coached anyone (my school friend Lawrence O’Toole in 1985 when I was 15!):
I had no clue what to say, or what to do – and although I was a much better player than him I just felt lost and as though I was making it up.
The first time I coached someone and I could not work out how he could get better.
This was in about 1992, and this player had a highest break of 63 but to me looked to have a better technique than Steve Davis! I could not work out how to solve his potting and cueing issues because I did not know where to look. It was only many years later than I worked out the process I should have gone through to make no errors slip through my awareness.
The first time I coached 100 break players.
In fact, this was also my first role as a national team coach – overseeing the UAE team in my full time contract living in Dubai from 1999-2006. Even though I had made a 147 many years earlier (and was a better player than anyone on the team at the time), I still felt extremely intimidated and as if I was a charlatan.
The first time I coached a world champion / world number one player.
Whilst back in the UK on holiday from my role as UAE head coach, I was invited to a ladies ranking tournament where I would be a coach on hand for the day for any players interested.
The world champion and ladies world number 1 at the time – Kelly Fisher – was one of those players… I was so nervous as I saw this as a huge feather in my cap and something I had always wanted to do. After watching her play for a few minutes and methodically came up with three points to work on. I was so scared of forgetting them that I had to secretly scribble them down on a scrap of paper when she wasn’t looking so that I could refer to them during the remainer of the one hour session!
All these thresholds (and a lot more work in addition) helped me reach a point in 2009 where I was coaching Ronnie O’Sullivan for the first time… and felt completely relaxed and as if he could throw nothing my way to destabilise me.
THE PROBLEM WITH LEARNING COACHING SKILLS
When I was trying to work out my own coaching skills, personality, and style…
I was filled with doubt about so many elements of coaching…
So, how can I help you with these problems?
I analysed around 10,000 videos of me coaching students in the last 7 years for the best coaching knowledge nuggets, and here is what I categorized - a comprehensive 853 video library to accelerate your snooker coaching skills to the next level.
They do this by helping you sift through ambiguity in your coaching knowledge / experience, and giving you the certainty you need to negotiate in session sticky patches.
This collection of videos were perfectly suited to coaches (or players and enthusiasts who had a thirst for more depth in their own knowledge).
These selected lesson videos tended to have the following characteristics:
PLAYER RESULT
- The client got their desired result
- We reached the result, using a particular learning or communication method that was valuable for coaches to see
- The client did not find it easy to understand / learn / demonstrate was being taught
- We had to go in different directions and build other foundations first before getting back to the original topic
TECHNIQUE CHANGE
- We needed to spend time optimising their particular technique set up – and the optimisation process was as valuable or more so than the topic being taught.
- We needed to apply a variety of habit upgrade methods to ‘negotiate’ with their old habit, a way of progressing.
ADVANCED COACHING SKILLS
I needed to use a deeper armoury of coaching tools to help the client get the result. Many of these I have learned from experience with thousands of students, testing, other coaches, or the Neuro Linguistic Programming / Time Line Therapy / Hypnotherapy Examiner certifications I earned in 2003-2005. A selection of these methodologies include:
- Passive
- Humour
- Authoritarian
- Confrontation
- Profanity
- Logic
- Emotion
- Creative!
- A specific coaching methodology was used, which had a standalone value in its own right that was perhaps more relevant for, or of greater value to the coach / serious enthusiast viewer than the topic being taught.
SCOPING SKILLS
The session would often consist of the following adjustments in expectation from my side. At the beginning of my career I used to find this quite frustrating, but it is sometimes appropriate to take longer on backtracking than the technical intervention itself:
- I often had to explain things in a few different ways before I could communicate my point
- We had to go back a number of stages in the student’s understanding before we found common learning ground
- We had to rescope / simplify the exercise a number of times to find the skill level at which they could learn.
STUDENT ISSUES
I often had to negotiate the student’s model of the world before we could get to the topic in concern
- The student had pre-conceived ideas on the topic that prevented learning, which I had to break through
- The student was resistant to / had an objection to the topic being presented, which I had to overcome before we could continue
- The student was not listening to what I was saying, and I had to persuade / push / knock / smash through that wall to get them (and, for their own benefit, the lesson) back on track
Have a look at this screen shot
video walk through of the library
The nine topics and detailed sections the collection is divided into are listed below.
Click on each bar to discover more details.
01 Technique: 288 Videos
02 Cue Control: 206 Videos
03 Aiming & Potting: 117 Videos
04 Positional Play: 97 Videos
05 Break Building: 58 Videos
06 Safety Play: 16 Videos
07 Coaching Skills: 116 Videos
08 Video Analysis Sessions: 43 Videos
09 Lesson Examples: 50+ Students
These videos are my best work in demonstrating the coaching methods and techniques I have learned since I began making century breaks and coaching in the 1980’s.
You can comment on any video in the collection to get feedback from other users, as well as getting replies from myself.
This collection allows you to be a fly on the wall of the highlights from coaching lessons spread over five years that have cost students well over £100,000 in total. Plus, it has taken me weeks to do all the distilling, collating, titling, organising, and uploading of these videos.
I have also spent at least £50,000 on various training courses over the years to develop the coaching skills to help players through their issues.
Watching just one of these videos could save you more than the cost of the entire collection if it helps you get certain results for yourself and your clients both now and in the future…
You don’t have to do any of this now, though, because I have done the hard work for you – and am offering the same information to you for considerably less than £100,000!
You now have three choices…
Do nothing, and carry on as you are
Spend 30 or so years (and coach thousands of people) to work all this out as I have
Save time, take the shortcut, and join now
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Nic Barrow