Try Lynes wins fourth Redruth Branoze Waistcoat event. For more details go to Redruth Bronze Waistcoat Tour
Troy Lynes Wins Redruth Bronze
Pike Nets Silver Win
Ben Pike nets his first Silver Waistcoat win. For full resultsĀ go to Silver Waistcoat Tour Results.
WEBSF Coaching Team Expands
Steve Brookshaw Coaching 2005
Steve Downing Coaching 2005
Vic Wills Coaching 2005
Paul Broad Coaching 2005
Congratulations to Steve Brookshaw (Plymouth), Steve Downing, Vic Wills & Paul Broad (Redruth) for successfully achieving WEBSF Bronze Coaching status. All four have been involved in coaching leading up to their assessments, giving their time to pass on valuable knowledge and experience.
Steve Brookshaw, one of the top Billiard players in the West Country, is also an English Amateur Billiards Association Coach. He concentrates much of his time in the Plymouth area, working alongside Senior Coach, Roger Cole at the WEBSF Coaching sessions held most Saturday’s at the Victoria Snooker Centre, St. Budeaux
Steve Downing, Vic Wills and Paul Broad operate in the Redruth area. All were put forward and sponsored by the Cornwall Billiards & Snooker Association who intend to promote coaching sessions around the County. Steve Downing, a relatively newcomer to Cornwall, has demonstrated that he is a very good Billiards & Snooker player. At the coaching assessment he demonstrated he has a future as a very good Billiards & Snooker Coach.
Paul Broad (WEBSF Youth Development Officer for Cornwall) works tirelessly to facilitate and promote Snooker in Cornwall, especially with the youth, he too has much to offer, his enthusiasm is a joy to behold. Vic Wills is relatively new to coaching but shows a sound depth of knowledge and experience. Steve, Paul and Vic join existing English Amateur Snooker & Billiards Coach, David Grigg. The Cornwall Billiards & Snooker fraternity are fortunate to have the services of coaches with such commitment, enthusiasm, knowledge and experience.
Seldon Wins Exeter Bronze
Aaron Seldon wins Exeter Bronze Tour.Ā For full report go to Exeter Bronze Waistcoat Tour
Lock Sets Silver Standard
Darran Lock Sets the standard in Silver WaistcoatĀ event 3. For full resultsĀ go to Ā Silver Waistcoat Tour Results
Archer Shows Support for Snooker
Snooker Coach Frank Archer shows his support to the WEBSF by granting permission for his ‘Billiards & Snooker Coaching Manual for Coaches’ document to be made available to WEBSF Coaches.
This document is the result of many years observations and the study of Billiards & Snooker and will prove invaluable in helping WEBSF coaches further develop their coaching methods and techniques that will in turn benefit players throughout the region. The WEBSF Management Team express grateful thanks for this gesture.
Stewart Wins Bronze
Jake Stewart win Redruth BronzeĀ Tournament. For a full report go to Redruth Bronze Waistcoat Tour. Bronze Waistcoat Tour Results
Jake Stewart Wins Redruth Bronze
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Jake Stewart wins Redruth Bronze event. Bronze Waistcoat Tour Results
Vincent Reaches EASB Semi Final
Kris Vincent, Grant Cole and Sam Edmunds all 16yrs old and from Plymouth travelled to Woking Snooker Centre, Woking, Surrey to compete in the EASB English Under 18ās Championship 2004/2005 held on the 4th & 5th December 2004.
Kris, Grant and Sam who all attend the West of England Snooker and Billiards Foundation at the Victoria Snooker Centre, Plymouth, had no doubts of there enormous task to compete over the 2 days against 32 of some of the best under 18 snooker players in the country to reach the southern region qualifier finals.
On the first days play Sam Edmunds in round 1 played against David Lawrence (Portsmouth) but after a nervous start Sam could not overcome his strong opponent and went out losing 4 frames to nil.
Grant Cole who plays for Victoria Snooker Centre met Richard Bailey. The first frame went to Bailey with Cole taking the second frame with a 56 break and at 1-1 it looked as if Cole was the stronger player but with each of the rest of the frames finishing on the last ball Cole was defeated 4-1 frames.
With Cole and Edmunds out of the competition Kris Vincentās (England International) first opponent was Stephen Kerr (Woking) who had just defeated Darren Bond (Tiverton) the 2003/2004 Silver Waistcoat UK Champion 4-1 frames. After losing the first frame to Kerr the Plymouth player who plays out of Rileys Snooker Club began to show his composure and skillfully outplayed the Woking player to win the match 4-1 frames.
In Round 3 Vincent met with Sam Baird (Tiverton) and with the match at 2-2 Kris needed to step up his game and overcame his opponent to win 4-2 frames to go into the next days qualifying rounds.
Sunday 5th December saw Kris against David Lawrence (Portsmouth) who in his previous rounds did not drop a single frame and on paper the favourite to reach the final. Lawrence started well and playing with confidence had a break of 52 to take the first frame. Kris had to call on all his experience and tactical play in the next 4 frames to compete at a high level making breaks of 64-52-50 and a number of 30ās after a terrific match Kris won 4-1 to go through to the play-off for a place in the EASB final.
Krisās last opponent for the EASB finals place in May 2005 was Judd Trump the favourite and undoubtedly the number 1 junior player in the world with the accolade of the youngest player to have a 147 in a competition. With the match to be contested over 9 frames Kris knew he needed to keep pace with the Bristol player and with the match at the interval being all square at 2-2 it seemed to be the right tactics to play. The fifth frame Kris made a mistake missing a red ball to the centre pocket on his break and that was all it needed for Trump to take the advantage and win the frame. This was the turning point of the match with Judd taking the next frame and a lead of 4-2. Kris fought back to make it 4-3 but with a pressure shot in the 8th frame missed, Judd made no mistakes to clear the table with a 94 clearance and win the match 5-3.
Report by Jeff Vincent
Baird Wins Silver
SamĀ Baird wins Silver Waistcoat Event 2. Full report go to Silver Waistcoat Tour Reports.
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