Alex Lely en Rico Diks hebben in Moskou een 5-daagse clinic gegeven. Met de Russische jeugdselectie waren in totaal 24 deelnemers hard aan het werk, met temperaturen van 35 graden...een verslag in het Engels hieronder.
Former international champions Alex Lely and Rico Diks from Holland organized the third annual training camp for the Russian Junior selection in Poligon Billiard Club in Moscow. A number of ambitious amateur players joined the group thus totaling 24 players that worked hard for five days, with outside temperatures exceeding 35 Celsius.
The Russian billiard culture has always been dominated by Russian Piramid, but a shift towards Pool is gradually taking place. Hopefully it will not be long before the achievements of the Russian Pool Champions become recognized by the big audience in Russia. Outside Russia some names are sure to ring a bell with the Pool aficionado: Evgenji Stalev, Konstantin Stepanov, Ruslan Chinakhov.
A bronze medal in this years World Team Championships, the reigning Junior World Champion and many gold medals in recent European Junior Championships by Ruslan Chinakhov, Nastja Nechaeva and Roman Pruchay…Stalev, Stepanov, Chinakhov, they are the frontrunners of a generation of Russian Pool Champions. The parents and the children take the game very seriously and some are now even regular customers in Pool’s Walhalla: One Side in Manilla.
As the young guns practice their shot-making religiously, the two Dutch trainers decided to focus the attention on knowledge: kicks, banks and safeties as well as elements of the mental game. Every morning the group of 26 persons marveled onlookers as they collectively performed a blissfully silent session of Chi Kung in the park. Thereafter it was 7 hours of theory and practice only interrupted by a post-lunch break in the forest where in the shadow of the high trees a very laid-back game of soccer was played.
The European Junior Championships take place from the 29th of July until the 7th of August. Results and livestream can be found on www.epconline.eu. Here the Russian players can be seen battling it out. Other powerhouses in the championship are the Netherlands, Germany and Poland.
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