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Chapter 1

The most important thing to remember is that to achieve maximum stability your legs should be slightly apart and in a staggered position. If your legs are parallel, you will tend to sway backwards or forwards.

If your legs are one in front of another you will tend to sway to the right or left. So it‘s best to stand with your legs apart as shown in the photo.

Furthermore, the rear leg should be stiff and not bent at the knee. If you do not heed this advice you will tend to move your leg, but except for the playing arm nothing should move, if at all possible. You could also say that bending the knee introduces an additional variable into the equation which increases the susceptibility to mistakes. Such small mistakes make themselves felt almost exclusively in situations of stress. Where the front leg is concerned you can handle the situation according to comfort and depending on your size: it can be bent or stretched.

Andreas Huber, German national coach

One of the most common mistakes made by the sportsmen I train is in the area of stance and distribution of weight. Now that so much snooker is shown on TV and trainers say (quite rightly) that the rear leg should be straight, players now tend to put all the weight onto this leg. But this can (unknowingly) lead to all kinds of mistakes: Snooker players make sure they put some of the weight on their front leg (by turning the front knee slightly inwards).

If the center of gravity is shifted too much to the back, the player literally „falls“ onto his shot when following through and involuntarily applies side spin to the ball. Simply tensing the thigh muscles slightly, or consciously trying to feel the floor with your front foot is enough to eliminate this source of error.