About Me

I'm Mayur. I've been playing snooker for over 15 years and coaching for more than 10. I run Snooker Delight — this site, the blog, the coaching. All of it.

If you've read any of my writing, you'll know I don't think like most coaches. I take a contrarian view on a lot of what gets taught in this game. Not to be difficult. Because I genuinely believe most of the conventional wisdom around technique is either no value or actively harmful.

What I Don't Do

I don't do lineups. I think most of them are useless — and the ones that aren't useless are often damaging. A coach stands behind you, tells you your elbow is two inches too far left, adjusts your grip, moves your bridge hand, and sends you off to practice a stance that feels completely foreign. You spend the next three weeks fighting your own body. Your potting gets worse. Your confidence drops. And then you go back for another lineup.

I don't "hack" strokes. Adding an artificial pause to your backswing. Shortening your follow-through. Changing your grip pressure on certain shots. These are all tinkering. Patches on top of patches. I've seen players turn a minor inconsistency into a full-blown mechanical crisis because someone told them to add a pause they didn't need. The pause didn't fix the problem. It introduced three new ones.

I don't believe your cue action is broken. I believe it's yours. And the worst thing anyone can do is take it apart and try to rebuild it from a textbook.

What I Actually Do

I think of the cue action like a violin. It's a delicate instrument. It's personal. It's been shaped by thousands of hours of your hands doing what they do. And the goal isn't to replace it with someone else's idea of what it should look like. The goal is to tune it. Gently. Over time. So it plays the way you need it to.

My main aim is to get you into flow state. Playing naturally. Trusting your hand. Trusting the stroke. Not thinking about seventeen mechanical checkpoints before every shot.

How do we get there? Through the smallest possible set of technical constraints — discovered together. Self-evaluation. Video evidence. Conversation about what's happening in your mind and body when you play. Working with me isn't about me telling you what to change. It's about us figuring out what matters and what doesn't. What's real and what's noise.

Sometimes the answer is something mechanical — a genuine flaw that's been hiding in plain sight. Sometimes it's mental — a habit of second-guessing that's crept in over years of bad advice. Sometimes it's strategic — you're playing the wrong shots and blaming your technique for the results.

Whatever it is, we find it through observation, conversation, and honest assessment. Not through a checklist.

Why I Coach This Way

Because I've been the player who tinkered. I've been the player who added the pause, changed the grip, moved the bridge hand, shortened the backswing — all because someone told me to. And every single time, it made things worse before it made things better. And most of the time, it just made things worse.

I've also been the player who stopped tinkering. Who went back to trusting the stroke. Who focused on feel instead of mechanics. And that's when the game opened up.

Every player I've coached who has made a real, lasting improvement has done it the same way. Not by overhauling their technique. By understanding it. By learning what their body is already doing right — and doing less of what it's doing wrong. By self-correcting through awareness rather than through force.

Your cue action is finely tuned by you, over time, as you discover how to play and how to win — for you. My job is to help you see what's already there.

Get in Touch

If any of this resonates — or if you just want to talk snooker — reach out. Email me at mayur@snookerdelight.com or find me on X at @snookerdelight (DMs open).