Sports: Will Britain Ever Produce a 9 Ball World Champion?

Will Britain Ever Produce a 9 Ball World Champion?

Written by P. Williams

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Although for some time repparttar 146235 UK has had many talented players none of them have ever really stepped forward and put repparttar 146236 UK on repparttar 146237 9 ball map. What I mean by this is winning titles on repparttar 146238 world stage. Steve Knight did it in repparttar 146239 90's with his win in repparttar 146240 World Pool Masters and you would have thought that this would have brought in more sponsorship and media awareness for repparttar 146241 game, but it did not have that effect. Other than Steve Knight repparttar 146242 only other player to win a tournament of note is Lee Chenman when this year he won repparttar 146243 Weert Open in repparttar 146244 Netherlands. But taking nothing away from him in what was a fantastic result, this tournament was not world class, it is just a club tournament with some world names thrown in.

What does repparttar 146245 UK need to create a world champion? Many people already agree that we make repparttar 146246 best cueists in repparttar 146247 world but repparttar 146248 majority of them play snooker as it is far more lucrative. So repparttar 146249 first thing is more sponsorship and therefore bigger prize funds. With sexy looking prize money you will then attract better players which in turn means that repparttar 146250 standard in this country will escalate.

The next thing is support from repparttar 146251 professional body, repparttar 146252 BPPPA have done a wonderful job in promoting repparttar 146253 game in repparttar 146254 2 years that they have been repparttar 146255 governing body, but in my opinion enough is not being done to encourage players to take that next step. A professional sporting body should have a referee programme, it should also have a youth policy and a collection of National coaches that work with repparttar 146256 players that have been identified as repparttar 146257 best. These players should take part in training camps to focus them for an assault on repparttar 146258 world stage. Why not have a national cue sports academy? With this in place repparttar 146259 UK would then produce no end of talent that can compete on repparttar 146260 world stage. I am not trying to take anything away from Daryl Peach or Imran Majid who have done a stellar job overseas, it is just that they haven't quite gone that stage further and won a Eurotour or other international event.

Factors to consider when selecting a Fish Finder.

Written by Andrei L.

Select Fish Finder that right for you!

There are four facets to a good sonar unit:

* High power transmitter. * Efficient transducer. * Sensitive receiver. * High resolution/contrast display.

All of repparttar parts of this system must be designed to work together, under any weather condition and extreme temperatures.

High transmitter power increases repparttar 146186 probability that you will get a return echo in deep water or poor water conditions. It also lets you see fine detail, such as bait fish and structure.

The transducer must not only be able to withstand repparttar 146187 high power from repparttar 146188 transmitter, but it also has to convert repparttar 146189 electrical power into sound energy with little loss in signal strength. At repparttar 146190 other extreme, it has to be able to detect repparttar 146191 smallest of echoes returning from deep water or tiny bait fish.

The receiver also has an extremely wide range of signals it has to deal with. It must dampen repparttar 146192 extremely high transmit signal and amplify repparttar 146193 small signals returning from repparttar 146194 transducer. It also has to separate targets that are close together into distinct, separate impulses for repparttar 146195 display.

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