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1. COPYRIGHT © NIC BARROW & TSG LTD MARCH 2016 – CUE ACTION TRAINER.

Nic Barrow’s Cue Action Trainer The Fastest & Easiest Way

To Perfect Your Aiming, Cueing, And Potting

The Cue Action Trainer Has Only 2 Units Remaining For Sale As At June 2018.

When these are sold, we will take expressions of interest, and offer CATs to these names in sequence when we have

enough buyers to make the next production run.

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.


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…)


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: The Modes You Use

How Your Game Improves…

Confirm or correct your eye alignment and vision centre: Eye Alignment Mode Force Mode Potting Mode Centre Cue Ball Mode

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: Screw Back Mode Side Spin Mode Top Spin Mode

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: Force Mode Feedback Mode Mastery Mode Mastery Mode (Eyes Closed)

Quickly improve your potting by feeling how to consistently hit the cue ball on the line of aim you have selected.


Deliver the cue flatter at your chosen cue ball height: Force Mode Feedback Mode Mastery Mode Mastery Mode (Eyes Closed)

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: Potting Mode

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.

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: Angled Potting Mode

Improve your angled potting quickly and easily.

Strike with the correct speed more consistently. Stimp Meter Mode Backswing Mode Tempo Mode

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. Technique Mode Stealth Mode Cushion Mode Rest Play Mode

Remove doubt and frustration about your technique, and find an optimum technique that is quick and easy to learn.


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 (The CAT helps you deliver STRAIGHT on your desired line)

2. Position The Cue Ball

2. Deliver The Cue At The Correct Height (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)


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


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.


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.


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.


9/18: 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.


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


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.


Potting mode also works on angled pots, greatly decreasing learning time.


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.


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.


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 area. 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 far more quickly than you ever thought possible.


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.


CUE ACTION TRAINER

TESTIMONIALS


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


Testimonial video interview with Itaro Santos – Brazilian Professional Snooker Player

https://youtu.be/zNILgHTQWWk


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

• 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.


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.


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.


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.


A Brief History Of Nic Barrow’s Cue Action Trainer. In the machine shop…

Supplies arriving…


Kitchen table assembly line with my mum and wife…

Final packing…


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…


Launch day with 16 VIP clients…

“The benefits are…”


Presenting your individually numbered 1-99 CAT certificate…

A birthday gift…


Starting them young with coach John Gillard and niece Margot…

Eight year old Ahmed learning to play…


A group training day at New York Athletic Club in New York, USA…

Caroline did a great job at her first attempt…


Will you be one of the few lucky CAT owners whilst we are still in production?...


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 (production runs are based on demand only).

An individual, lockable case for all the components.

A 50 page PDF explanatory guide of all the 18 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 • 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


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 limited run Cue Action Trainers and use it every day in your own home to get incredible results.


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…


GUARANTEE:

If you don’t think the CAT is the

best money you have ever spent

on your game after using the

18 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.


• After you have decided to purchase one of the limited

production and individually certified 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 August 10th.

Some clients told me they felt the price of a single

Cue Action Trainer would be £995…

The current price for the CAT is: £595 incl’ worldwide postage & packing,

incl’ CAT Master Class videos.

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 £1095 for both including world wide shipping.


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]

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