Nic Barrow`s Cue Action Trainer

Nic Barrow’s
Cue Action Trainer
The Fastest & Easiest Way
To Improve Your
Aiming, Cueing, And Potting
(By Invitation Only:
99 Units Available In This First Run
Along With Numbered Certificates:
86 Sold As At 26 April 2016)
Every hour using the CAT gets you the same benefit
as up to 20 hours of normal practice.
In most clubs, that could be a saving of up to
£200 for every hour that you use your CAT –
removing huge frustration from your game.
Use the Cue Action Trainer with your own cue from
the comfort of your own home for a few minutes a
day to learn the feeling of a perfect cue action.
The Cue Action Trainer is for enthusiasts,
gifts to loved ones, coaches, clubs,
and academies in all cue sports.
1. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Mastery Mode:
The balls (from
who supply World Snooker)…
fall off the legs (made from bearing grade plastic)…
and onto the base (made from aviation grade aluminium)
…if you do not cue perfectly!
Rest Play Mode:
(This Mode is very popular…)
2. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Featuring 18 different Modes that cover
Aiming, Cueing & Potting, the patent pending
Cue Action Trainer has a number of unique benefits
which improve your game in the following ways.
The reason it can improve your game so quickly is
because of the immediate, accurate, relevant, visible
feedback it gives you – a combination that has never
been experienced before in cue sports.
The Benefits You Get:
How Your Game
Improves…
Confirm or correct your eye
alignment and vision centre:
Never miss a ball again due to
incorrect eye alignment or off
centre cue ball striking.
You will then only miss for two
reasons: cueing or aiming.
Simplifying the game in this
way alone is worth the CAT
investment for many buyers.
Easily use extremes of screw
back, side spin, and top spin:
Stop miscueing, and improve
your positional play by having
the full range of cue ball spins
at your disposal.
Screw back is made easy!
Deliver the cue straighter
through the line of aim:
Quickly improve your potting
by feeling how to consistently
hit the cue ball on the line of
aim you have selected.
The Modes You Use
Eye Alignment Mode
Force Mode
Potting Mode
Centre Cue Ball Mode
Screw Back Mode
Side Spin Mode
Top Spin Mode
Force Mode
Feedback Mode
Mastery Mode
Mastery Mode (Eyes Closed)
3. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Deliver the cue flatter at your
chosen cue ball height:
Quickly improve your
positional play by hitting the
cue ball at the height you are
aiming.
Learn how it feels to have a
perfect bridge hand, address
the centre of the cue ball,
and be perfectly on the line of
aim:
Have no worry about line of
aim, centre cue ball striking, or
bridge hand stability – and feel
the certainty the pro’s feel.
To pot the ball, you now only
have to deliver the cue straight.
Force Mode
Feedback Mode
Mastery Mode
Mastery Mode (Eyes Closed)
Potting Mode
You will then be able to self
diagnose if you missed because
of aiming or cueing – which
man players find impossible.
Experiencing these benefits
alone is worth the investment
in the CAT for many buyers.
Learn how to deliver the cue
straight on all potting angles:
Improve your angled potting
quickly and easily.
Strike with the correct speed
more consistently.
Quickly learn the feel of hitting
the correct speed, so that you
stop losing position.
Learn the best technique for
you in normal play, cueing off
the cushion, and rest play.
Remove doubt and frustration
about your technique, and find
an optimum technique that is
quick and easy to learn.
Angled Potting Mode
Stimp Meter Mode
Backswing Mode
Tempo Mode
Technique Mode
Stealth Mode
Cushion Mode
Rest Play Mode
4. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. It is important to realise that everything you do in
your technique serves the Three Cueing Skills –
which in turn give you the Two Snooker Goals.
The Two
Snooker Goals:
The Three Cueing
Skills:
1.
Pot The
Object Ball
1. Deliver The Cue
On The Line Of Aim
2.
Position The
Cue Ball
2. Deliver The Cue
At The Correct
Height
(The CAT helps you
deliver STRAIGHT on
your desired line)
(The CAT helps you
deliver FLAT at your
desired cue ball height)
3. Deliver The Cue
At The Correct Speed
(The CAT helps you
deliver SMOOTHLY at
your desired speed)
5. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. What you get with the Cue Action Trainer:
 A lockable aluminium carry case
 The 1.7kg base unit
 Four legs with strong magnets for use with
Force Mode
 Four legs with weak magnets for use with
Feedback Mode
 Four Aramith black balls for use with
Mastery Mode
You also get:
 A 50 page in depth PDF guide explaining how to use
the 18 CAT modes.
 Exclusive access to The ‘TSGCatClub’ private
FaceBook group where we can all share:
o Feedback
o Questions
o New ways to use the CAT
o Picture and videos using the CAT
o Success stories
o Testimonials
o Latest developments and ideas
o News of exclusive CAT owner events
6. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. AIMING MODES 1/18: Eye Alignment Mode Confirm or correct your eye alignment and vision centre. 2/18: Centre Cue Ball Mode Confirm or correct your centre cue ball recognition. 3/18: Side Spin Mode Quickly learn and to play with, and compensate for, extreme side spin. 7. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. CUEING MODES 4/18: Force Mode: Using the legs with STRONG magnets The CAT forces your arm to feel perfect cueing. 5/18: Feedback Mode: Using the legs with WEAK magnets https://youtu.be/RVuXISBNATo The legs move very sensitively in response to the slightest cueing imperfection. This gives the perfect combination of RELEVANT, INSTANT, CLEAR feedback to give the fastest possible learning experience. This mode in particular helps players with ‘The Yips’ 6/18: Bridge Hand Mode Learn the feeling of the perfect bridge hand: having a good ‘V’ for the cue and being still SOUNDS obvious, but many professionals are not even perfect at this yet. 8. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. 7/18: Mastery Mode With balls by Aramith made to measure for the CAT, add another fun but demanding dimension to your cue action work outs.
See next page for the Mastery Mode test…
https://youtu.be/bXeLEldGF0o
8/18: Tempo Mode https://youtu.be/SSOyosCJPuo The gentle sound given out by the legs is similar to using the rest. Use this to monitor the tempo and professionalism of your cue action. 9. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. 9/18: Backswing Mode Learn how to control the backswing to different lengths according to the ten reference marks on the base. This makes playing the shot at the correct speed much easier. 10/18: Shot Approach Mode Learn how to approach the shot like professionals – with the cue on the line. Especially in Mastery Mode, the balls on top of the legs reveal to most players that the cue is way off line when approaching. 10. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. 11/18: Technique Mode Use the Cue Action Trainer to optimise all aspects of your technique according to whether the CUE IS MOVING STRAIGHT, rather than according to some outdated coaching dogma from the 1980’s 11. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. POTTING MODES 12/18: Potting Mode https://youtu.be/mRqZ2xVYDVY Line up the Cue Action Trainer on a straight pot. This makes sure you remove three key variables in potting:  Not being on the line of aim  Not having a perfect bridge hand  Not addressing the centre of the cue ball You are then free to concentrate on what the pro’s concentrate on at the table: moving the cue in a straight line, and then pulling the trigger. 12. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Potting mode also works on angled pots, greatly decreasing learning time. 13. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. BONUS MODES
13/18: Stimp Meter Mode Learn the relationship of a longer backswing to more power. Learn how nap affects the speed of the cue ball in different ways. Compare the speed of balls, tables and different conditions from a consistent starting point. 14/18: Cushion Mode The dreaded cushion! Learn the perfect bridge hand from the cushion, and how to guide the cue straight, whether using the ‘open’ or ‘loop’ bridge. 14. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. 15/18: Screw Back Mode & Top Spin Mode Lose the fear of screw shots forever with our unique ‘stabiliser’ system which guides you to the correct part of the cue ball for screw shots which the professionals use. This mode reveals the three crucial errors in screw shots that cause most players to land the cue ball short of where they are capable. 15. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. 16/18: Rest Play Mode The dreaded rest! Quickly and easily learn the perfect cueing technique when using the rest, and give Shaun Murphy a run for his money! 17/18: Safety Play Mode Devastate your opponents with your new found ability to bring the cue ball back to the correct part of the baulk are. Even professionals make cueing errors when playing safety shots in an attempt to ‘steer’ the cue ball into the correct path. Lose this habit forever and learn perfect safety play for more quickly than you ever thought possible. 16. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. 18/18: Stealth Mode https://youtu.be/vubp55VPOw4
Away from the prying eyes of your stiffest competition and closest friends… You can now ingrain the muscle memory for perfect cueing in the comfort of your own home. 5‐10 minutes a day is all you need to ‘iron out’ your imperfections in straight, horizontal cueing of the correct tempo. 17. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. CUE ACTION TRAINER TESTIMONIALS 18. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Testimonial video interview with World Pool Masters Champion and Mosconi Cup Winner Alex Lely from the Netherlands after using the CAT in a one day training: https://youtu.be/25zBe8nvLrY 19. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Testimonial video interview with Itaro Santos – Brazilian Professional Snooker Player https://youtu.be/zNILgHTQWWk 20. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Testimonial video interview with Clive B, who made his first century break within two weeks of using the Cue Action Trainer: Video Part 1: https://youtu.be/pHcNck62duM 10min Video Part 2: https://youtu.be/Q_9RXMt_Zow 10min 
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4 years of coaching / 2 weeks of using the CAT did the trick! Looking back at your main problems. How the CAT helped to get the feeling of straight cueing. The problems that melted away after using the CAT. Two options: Improve aiming first then your cueing improves, OR is it vice versa?!  Diagnosis = enjoyment.  It is more meaningful you enjoy the game, than have a ton. 21. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Testimonial from Peter De Ryck – Sales Director for Acuerate Cues in Belgium: “I have used the Cue Action Trainer (CAT) during the summer of 2015. Instantly it showed me and let me feel the issues I had to correct to produce a good straight cue action. It helped me develop a better technique that still shows now in my game. Six months after using the CAT for the first time my action is still better in everyday games and training. In the back of my mind I still remember how the action felt with the CAT and this allows me train more effectively than I ever did before. The CAT is also be available at our Acuerate centre for all our clients and I would advise all clubs to have a CAT for their members if you want your players to improve!” Peter De Ryck, Belgium. 22. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Testimonial from Dennett Netterville – IBSF Master Coach, Canada. “The Cue Action Trainer is the best device I have ever seen for cue‐sport training :‐) The CAT’s great contribution to cue sports is to let the user actually feel and savour the sensation of stroking the cue in a professionally perfect straight line, time after time, slow or fast, with good backswing and follow‐through, and with their vision centre properly aligned over the cue. Novices (and even good intermediate players) do not know what this feels like. It normally takes time and dedication to learn, and most recreational players rarely get there without one‐on‐one coaching. That is, until the student tries the Cue Action Trainer. Then it is as if the scales fall from their eyes, and suddenly they know what their coach has been talking about. The CAT forces the player’s muscles and joints to move along the path of a good stroke no matter how much their brain protests, and gradually they get used to the sensation. They come to know what a good stroke feels like, and this greatly improves their ability to reproduce a good action when they stroke freehand without the CAT. Nic, you are the world’s most creative and inventive snooker expert, with a unique gift as rare as that of Ronnie O’Sullivan. But where Ronnie uses his gifts to benefit himself, you answer to a higher calling and use your skill set and gifts to benefit the rest of us. Your Cue Action Trainer is a perfect example of this, where you put the needs of students first and risk a reduction of coaching revenue by dramatically speeding up their learning process.” Dennett Netterville, Canada. 23. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Testimonial from Nic Barrow, founder of The Snooker Gym. This is the first time I have written a ‘testimonial’ for one of my own products but I feel I have to let you know the benefits I and my client’s have got from using the CAT, and the benefits I feel in my own game. The CAT has put my coaching skills completely into the shade. The quality, and speed, of the results I have seen with my students using the CAT (ranging from 8 years upwards!) is almost magical and I often get goosebumps at the progress players make with it. It teaches often in minutes (particularly in feedback mode) what I have been sometimes unable to impart in days, months or years to a player. They go away recharged, excited and eager to come back for more. In my own game, I have rediscovered (particularly from potting mode) the tremendous cueing confidence I had during my competing years in the 1990’s. During the five year design and testing process, I had no idea that players would benefit so much, so quickly from it – and it feels slightly surreal to have my name on the tool I wish I had as a teenager when I was learning the game. 24. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. A Brief History Of Nic Barrow’s Cue Action Trainer. In the machine shop… Supplies arriving… 25. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Kitchen table assembly line with my mum and fiancée… Final packing… 26. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. The finished article…  With aviation grade aluminium base unit  4 leg / roller units with strong magnets  4 leg / roller units with weak magnets  4 Aramith Mastery Mode balls  Lockable carry case Ready for action… 27. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Launch day with 16 VIP clients… “The benefits are…” 28. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Presenting your individually numbered 1‐99 CAT certificate… A birthday gift… 29. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Starting them young with coach John Gillard and niece Margot… Eight year old Ahmed learning to play… 30. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. A group training day at New York Athletic Club in New York, USA… Caroline did a great job at her first attempt… 31. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Will you be one of the lucky first 99 CAT owners?... 32. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. As a reminder, here is what you get after you
have purchased your Cue Action Trainer:
Your limited edition Cue Action Trainer with a numbered and signed certificate
(only 99 are being made on this first production run
before we evaluate whether to make any more).
An individual, lockable case for all the components.
A 50 page PDF explanatory guide of all the 15 modes.
Exclusive access to ‘The CAT Club’ FaceBook group
with the chance to interact with other CAT users and
Nic. Here you will be able to learn and share:
 Feedback
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Questions
New ways to use the CAT
Picture and videos using the CAT
Success stories
Testimonials
Latest developments and ideas
News of exclusive CAT owner events
33. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. For less than the price of:
 A smart phone…
 A golf driver (which won’t teach you
how to hit the ball straight)…
 A good cue (which is all Ronnie
O’Sullivan uses – it is his cue action skill
which does the rest)…
 40 hours practice in a decent club
(which you could save within two hours
of using the CAT because every hour
using the CAT saves up to 20 hours
practice time)…
 Or a day’s coaching with me (which will
give you less results than using the CAT
because of the immediate, accurate,
relevant, visible feedback of the CAT)
meaning our coaching time can be used
for break building knowledge etc…
…you can reserve one of the initial run of 99
Cue Action Trainers and use it every day in
your own home to get incredible results.
(Note: Production may not exceed 99 units)
34. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Our buyers are enthusiasts (some of whom
split the cost between themselves and a
playing partner), loved ones who want to
buy a special gift, coaches, clubs, and
academies in all cue sports.
 Players will get up to 20 hours practice
time benefit (£200 in a decent club) for
each hour they use the CAT.
 Coaches will develop repeat business
with clients who will improve very
quickly and want to use the CAT with
them regularly – most coaches say the
CAT is worth over £2,000 to them in
repeat business and client loyalty.
 Academies will have a new feature that
gives players a reason to visit and
practice.
You can use the Cue Action Trainer with
any cue, on any table, in any cue sport…
35. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. GUARANTEE:
If you don’t think the CAT is the
best money you have ever spent
on your game after using the
15 CAT modes over three months,
please send your CAT back to me
in good condition.
I will refund you in full
and offer it to someone
on the waiting list –
No hard feelings, no quibbles.
36. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER.  After you have decided to purchase one of the first 99
individually numbered Cue Action Trainers you can pay with
the details on the next page.
 Or send me an email to reserve your CAT, and I will send
you a payment link for Visa/Master card.
 I will then pack your CAT up with your individually
numbered, signed certificate and get both sent by tracked
courier by the production completion date of May 10th.
Some clients told me they felt the price of the
Cue Action Trainer would be £795…
(We have sold 85 of the 99 CAT’s as at April 26th 2016)
The current price for CAT numbers is:
£395 plus worldwide postage & packing.
(£15 UK, £25 Europe,
£35 Asia, £45 Australasia/Americas)
If you want 2 CATs (eg if you are a coaching groups,
run an academy, or if a friend of yours would also like one),
the cost is £750 for both plus the single shipping fee above.
37. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER. Ways To Pay:
PayPal:
ID: [email protected]
(select to pay as ‘to a friend’ to save a 5% fee)
Skrill (formerly MoneyBookers):
ID: [email protected]
Customer ID: 24170076
The Bank Details Are:
Account Name: The Snooker Gym Ltd
Bank: Natwest Bank, Hornchurch Branch
120 - 122 High Street, Hornchurch, RM12 4UL,
England, UK.
Sort Code: 60.24.77
Account Number: 19221002
BIC: NWBK GB 2L
IBAN: GB90 NWBK 6024 7719 2210 02
If you have reached this far, thank you for your
interest – and hope to see you in ‘The CAT Club’!
Please email me if you have any questions:
[email protected]
38. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER.