3 Biggest Cue Mistakes (Easy To Fix!) 

Just take this in for a second. Arguably the greatest player to have ever lived, giving you free coaching. Legend

Don't play snooker but I find these tips fascinating. It will allow me to watch the professional players on tv with more appreciation of what they are trying to do.

Don't know snooker at all...clicked on this out of pure curiosity. Then I researched Stephen Hendry and discovered he was an absolute legend within his sport, and the existence of this video made me happy. I may not be able to appreciate this particular one, but I really do love it when "the best" of anything take the time to impart their wisdom. Congrats and thanks for treating your fans so well with this channel! 👍

Love this guy. He's a gentleman's gentleman and without question one of the greatest of the greats to ever play the game. He's also a fabulous commentator now and I always enjoy the match more when he's providing the commentary. Can't say enough good things about this great man and champion.

Once I realized I was making that first mistake, I spent literally like a dozen practice sessions just working on my cue action and making sure I started following through. I didn't even worry so much about potting anything, it was just working on striking cleanly. Helped my game immensely, and when I played a friend (who I often played against ) afterwards, he immediately noticed the change in the way I was striking the ball. Absolutely the most important thing you can do to make your game better. Great video, Stephen!!

Finally world's greatest snooker professional gives us a RU-vid channel! Cheers Steve, you're one of the reasons I love Scotland and of course snooker.

Lovely stuff. A practical suggestion for the future tutorials, please consider getting a white ball with some dots or a stripe. It will emphasise the effect of playing with side, top and bottom spin more noticeable. Good start to the channel team, looking forward to seeing lots more.

Thanks so much, Stephen. You are a great teacher! I can't imagine an evening that would be better spent than with a pint here in your snooker room soaking up your wealth of snooker knowledge. I appreciate you sharing.

I‘m a amateur three-cushion billiards player, but I started to love watching snooker when I saw Steven Hendry on Eurosports. My eyes are not good enough for snooker and snooker tables are rare in Vienna, but it‘s really a great sport to watch. I’m still a big fan of Dennis Taylor, Steve Davis, Jimmy White and above all Steven Hendry.

Absolutely brilliant, thank you Stephen. I learned a lot and can’t wait to implement your advice into my game

What a treat. There are loads of channels giving snooker advice but only one from one of the GOATs of the sport.

ok, can i just say - as a business owner i'm always open to learn. i'm very good at what i do but will always go back to basics. I watched this video twice yesterday, really watched it. it's basics 101. I play 8 ball, no longer play snooker but last night at league, applying these BASIC principles to my game i didn't drop a match all night. It's bumped me up to 83% win rate for season. every shot i played, i slowed down and made sure my stroke was smooth - got down over my cue properly and essentially had a lot of fun including a couple of master breaks. Thank you for reminding us that practicing the basics is so vital. Cheers from down under mate, videos are great.

Time Stamps - 0:21 Going Through the Cue Ball Smoothly 2:31 Bridge Hand Technique 5:34 Unwanted Side On Cue Ball

I was working at Lillywhites in 1998 when you dropped by our outdoor/indoor games departments and we were able to play a few shots with you. I raced across the street to get a disposable camera to get a photo with you. Great memory. Thank you.

What makes Stephen the greatest is his honesty and loyalty to his fans and audience. Glad to live in a time to have such a great person

his impression of a club player over hitting it was hilarious 🤣

Yes steven, thanks very much for making this vid. Out of all the club potters you went over, i think looking over the top of the ball and digging is most comparable. Love the content love to see more.

I had no idea you had a RU-vid channel Stephen. Glad I found it tonight. I am one of the maybe 20 people from the U.S. that loves snooker. Haha. It's sad but it's true. Most pool players either don't like snooker at all, eventhough they've never played it or they just have never even heard of it. I was one of those up until three years ago. Never really heard of it. But once I started watching matches on RU-vid I was hooked. And have been ever since. The terrible part is there is not a snooker table within six hours of where I live. So I'm saving up to get one. I absolutely love the game. I think Americans are impatient for the most part. That's why they play 8 ball and 9 ball. You can finish a game I nteo minutes and on to the next game. Where as in snooker the games can be quite long and so much more strategy, and using your brain to think. I just laugh at Americans who say pool is harder than snooker. Lol. They've obviously never played snooker. The game is so so so hard but I love it. I got to play for six months last year every single day. I spent six months in California and the pool hall there had two snooker tables. So I really got a lot of good practice in. I really miss it. But hopefully here in the next couple years I will have enough to buy one. Thank you and sorry about the lengthy comment.

Wow, this is so brilliant. I went from admiring your skills over the years, but rather seeing you as a "le Chiffre" kinda guy (by his composure, not criminal record) , over seeing you on "Would I lie to you?" and realising how wrong my perseption was to witnessing you strap a go-pro to your head in order to teach people on RU-vid. This is a dream come true!

Steven is a real inspiration , the best player and the best teacher

Can't wait to see an episode with Ronnie like the one you did with Williams

I start to like this guy more than the rest. My utmost respect to Steven Hendry. No arrogance. Sharing with us from the bottom of his heart, showing his intense love for this game.

Mr Hendry I remember watching you on TV 30+ years ago when I was just a teenager and I loved watching you playing snooker. It's amazing that you're now sharing your experience with everyone. Thank you so much!

Thanks Champ. Great advice. I've been stabbing balls with the cue. Always ends badly. Will try.

Love the POV cam - that really helps and it would be even more helpful if we can show the red dots on the cue ball where where the cue can strike to produce the different shots in a later video. Really enjoying this channel. Thank you Stephen!

Although these hints are familiar to me I want to thank you very, very much, Mr. Hendry! It is so nice to hear you speak so calm and friendly with real concern for less experienced and less skillful snooker players. In my snooker room (yes, I have my own snooker table!) there's a big poster of you on the wall that's next to the black spot. You wear a sweater from "the sweater shop", you hold the World Championship trophy in your hands and you show a lovely, wonderful smile. So you guard every shot I do. Thank you! and greetings from Hungary!

I just found this channel. Big fan of yours, so I’m definitely subscribing. You are still #1 in my books.

Thank you Stephen. I never take any of the core basics for granted and always welcoming of hints and tips.

Big thanks on these tips. I play daily and getting on to 3 years now so got a reasonable game by now but you have improved my queuing immediately with your advise on smoothness , follow through and getting the que parallel to the table. MANY THANKS.

This is brilliant! There’s nothing like this on RU-vid

Very interesting to see a true master giving lessons. Not boring to listen to either. Look forward to seeing some more tips, although I think this is a game that requires a natural talent and ability to see angles instantly. To me that's something you are born with, like the ability to write music.

Absolutely delightful. Thanks Hendry for showing the world amateur snooker players on the proper delivery towards professionalism and awareness self check

Thank you Stephen! These are the most basic aspects of snooker, but often on the table we club players tend to forget them! Appreciate all your videos! *take a bow legend* :)

Love it Stephen. Just getting back into the game after a nearly 20 year hiatus and this makes so much sense. Fantastic channel!

I’ve adopted your bridge tips and found they have improved my cueing particularly with stun shots. Thanks for the tips and interviews and humour - a great snooker channel.

Mr Hendry I'm from Chennai India, you started my interest in snooker. Can't believe it was like yesterday watching you play in the 90s, I'm going to be 40 soon! You're a legend. Honour to learn from you Sir.

The fact that Stephen still wants people to improve at snooker at this stage of his career is just respectable!

I wouldn't mind all my body moving on the shot if I played half as good as Alex Higgins.

To start with, I've learned a lot from you 30 years ago - watching your play. Amazing you started this channel and help us improve

Absolutely loving this channel. My absolute favourite sporting hero of all time giving us all tips and advice! Genuinely gid banter in every interview too.

Brilliant! Liked, subscribed and saved! Loved watching you and of course Ronnie, play! The dedication and talent required to play at that level! Unimaginable! Wish you all the very best, Stephen! Thank you for taking the time to post and educate us! Much appreciated!

Thanks Stephen! These three tips are so fundamental, yet easily overlooked. There are so many things to think about when taking a shot - bridge hand, cue parallel, feet position, aiming, sighting, grip, potting, cue ball placement, etc.. Can you recommend a strategy on how to approach & consider all these things and execute successfully on a shot? (assuming the muscle memory has not been fully developed yet). E.g. is there a thinking sequence/routine you can share? Greetings from Australia!

I appreciate the simple instruction here that helps make the fundamentals more easily absorbed by the student, as opposed to other pedagogical approaches that tend toward too much emphasis on the details.

Yeah to have a 7 times World Champion showing us his art and skills is just amazing....some great tips here and next time I play will certainly try out Stephens advice.....the go pro really gives you another useful perspective too. Loved the reference to not trying be like Alex Higgins knocking ten bells out of the cue ball lol.

Great stuff Stephen H, really helping everyone with their own game, obviously we’ll never be as good as the professionals, but for our own standard and when we play people our level, it’s fun to use these tips that you’ve kindly shared with the club players. Thank you sir 🙏🏼

Brilliant! Learned a ton. Your production is world class. Give my appreciation to the crew!

Loving this channel. Stephen explains everything so clearly and he is so interesting to listen to and learn from.

The greatest player in the history of snooker IMO, what a treat this is.

That alex Higgins reference had me laughing so bad......I am fairly new to snooker, 4-5 months since I started playing and today I found this channel, stephen is a tremendous teacher tbh

Great Job. I have been looking for such tips from professionals and here The Legend is teaching us. It is an honor. Hope you will get far more than you are contributing. Kindly carry on. My prayers and best wishes for you.

Tip two was a little nugget of gold there for me. Thank you Stephen.

Thank you Stephen for taking the time to make these videos and sharing your knowledge. Very insightful.

You explain things so clearly, so concisely, that they seem obvious even when they are far from it. Loving this channel it's great work from a great of the game.

Excellent stuff. I can tell this is going to be a great channel to be subscribed to!

Another gem from a master. Thanks!

What an awesome channel to create, hopefully it takes off and becomes 1 of the more successful channels on RU-vid.

In my 20s I was making about 6 century breaks a year in matches. I stopped playing completely for 20-25 years when other interests took over. Now in my 50s I’ve been playing for 4 years and back to occasional century break form. It’s been hard work getting to a point where I can find the centre of the white most of the time when I need to and also making sense of potting angles. People don’t realise how hard this is. I’m still working on it every time I play.

Fantastic Stephen. It's about time to start a channel. We were waiting for it for a long time. Nice camera capture and nice room. Your content is marvelous and brilliantly explained. Please keep these videos coming. Thanks a million

I had the pleasure and good fortune to meet several of the 90s generation of players when I was heavily into the game myself during those days. Never had the opportunity to meet Mr H though. Have always admired his work, even more so in later years with his balanced but honest punditry on the BBC. This YT channel is a fantastic idea to learn from the master. Cheers.

Thanks Stephen! Been a fan for a long time and it's amazing to see you sharing tips here! Keep em coming!

I am excited to see this channel grow. I am playing Nationals soon, top 32 in my country, and this reminds me to never throw away your foundation, very important stuff!

Hi Stephen, could you please demonstrate what a good timing should be like and how to generate and control the cue power as much as possible? Really appreciate it.

To be in the flow: The flowing controlled power is order, the unflowing uncontrolled power is disorder. The bridge is a connection link in a straight line that span between two banks: The grip hand to bridge hand to the cueball to the pocket. Beware of the bends: Unwanted-unintentional side spin and hitting across the cueball is the biggest problem for the amateur (and for the professionals also) especially under pressure: The approach, the address, the aim, the sighting, the bridge hand, the grip hand, the cue action-the swing back-swing forward and fallow through all contributes to the bends. Thanks for your generous tips, Stephen you are a legend, I still watch and take pleasure of your old matches and your commentary is excellent, second to none.

Loving the content so far, I'm very excited to see and learn from more lessons, insights and interviews

This is a wonderful video! I've never seen anything like this, it's genuinely quite inspiring. I'm looking forward to watching the others, then confidently heading down to my local club and embarrassing myself :) Thanks to all involved

Besides head or body movement in the shot, I think a lot of unwanted side is caused by tension in the grip, either fingers or thumbs pushing the cue offline on it's path. At least this has improved my game a lot, practising the cue action with a slow motion and trying to find out what's pushing it offline. Keep a nice consistent medium grip pressure throughout the shot. Observing the position of the cue tip after the shot, and the pressure in the grip is really important to see if you are indeed squeezing or cueing across the ball.

Excellent videos Stephen! Off to play tomorrow with some direction of how to improve my game! Keep'em coming :) Cheers!

I'm happy that ytb pushed this channel to me, You were my most love snooker player when I was a child, 'The King of snooker', people called. and when I grown up, I saw you faded away from big matches, that made me sad. Now I founded that you are having new passion in teaching us by video, I'm been moved very much. Although I'm not young, not good at snooker at all event today, but I'm still love this, and admire you, that's my childhood. best wishes to you! Thanks for all you done.

Great tips. When cueing for me, I tend to really struggle with seeing the object ball, especially if it's at a distance, I feel like I'm having to take my chin off the cue, no matter how parallel the cue is to the table.

Stephen i play right handed, my daughter plays left handed. She has just started to play but struggles to get her feet and body in the correct position when getting down on the table. Can you show a video of how to set up for each shot, stance, bridge etc? I'm sure even some of us that have been playing for years on and off would still learn something from a back to basic tutorial. Thank you

I hope he makes a few quid from this channel, he certainly deserves it. What a nice guy, giving up his time to show us all how to become world champ (or not).

We need this. Please. More. More. More. Brilliant content. Thanks

You know a man's done well in life when he's got a thick Scottish accent and a thick, golden tan....

The wisest thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on the govt. Especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a good time to invest in Gold, silver and digital currencies(BTC, ETH..).

It’s great to have advice like this , before you tube and the internet I used to watch the older players to learn their techniques, good or bad as it seemed , now ,what a difference with online tips and from one of the best players ever

Who saw Ronnie cue action at the Champion of Champions 2022, absolutely phenomenal stuff. Thanks for this RU-vid channel Stephen.

Love this stuff,between cooking snooker and cocktails you're a natural Stefano.

Finally some proper tips that can help me out. ive been trying to find some help online and they all say the most basic and obvious stuff but these were really applicable to my game. always had wondered why my cue action was off and im excited to implement this into my practice. thank you

Thank you for many entertaining hours on tv and now continuing on YT. You are a legend!

I fell in love with Snooker in the 90´s because of Stephen and how he played the game. Although I never attempt to play snooker (I considered it to be to difficult for my range of skills so I stick to pool) I do love and appreciate all these lessons as they are valuable to improve techniques in pool billiard as well. His way to teach is just great and every word sticks so I do remember them at the table. Sadly there where no lessons by Stephen when I was young and had more time to play. Keep up the good work for all enthusiast.

Fantastic. Learnt so much in10 mins. All errors I have made ever since I first picked up a cue.

6:39 - Stephen says "That is quite impressive, I am impressed myself" haha loved it.

What a great video to show up randomly. Awesome down to Earth lesson from one of snookers greats!

Taken snooker back up after a few years away and this coaching is unreal.

How have I only just found this channel! I definitely need all the help I can get, so to get tips from the greatest of all time (or second greatest for the ROS fans 😊) is pure gold.

Great job, thanks for sharing.

Great vid! I'm not a huge snooker fan, but there's something very very satisfying about the shine on the balls, the sound of the cue and balls striking and the colours....very nice to watch!

With these tips I have now knocked in a 1, 4 and a 7 break. Thanks a lot Stephen 👍

Thanks for these videos Stephen!! ive admired snooker and watched it all my life, finally wanting to make time to play and you've already made me better! 🙏🙏🙏

Excellent tutorial, thank you so much Stephen for advice, I was doing everyone of the those mistakes.

What a world we live in. I’m able to get lessons from the comfort of my basement from this legend who I spent hours watching on TV over a decade or two ago. And he seems like a genuine beauty too. Unreal.

I don’t even play snooker but this is great now I want to give it a go!!

Some great tips there. I've just started playing snooker and this channel is a goldmine of useful information.

Watching Stephen giving the heave ho action at the start was priceless. Who knew I would ever see that demoed, when we watched him in the 90s. These videos are priceless. Keep it up Stephen

Sir, your a Legend. This is probably the most helpful video and tips you have put up.... right at the heart of club players issues.... Pls make more elementary stuff for us - the viewership is with us normal players....

Thank you! I have always enjoyed and given great weight to your commentary in the matches. I do look forward to more input of the utmost value.👍

Great practical advice from a great teacher. Thanks so much.

You was my hero when I was growing up. I loved snooker but watching it on tv was like, it’s all old men. I was a kid myself. 10 years younger than yourself, but I was obsessed with snooker. But it seemed like it was all old men then you hit the scene. This aggressive playing spikey blonde haired kid, n I thought this guy is amazing. Someone who younger players could connect with. You was amazing mate. I was a fully paid up member of cuemasters and had my shaking stevens signed photo which I loved, but lost in later years due to a house move. Love the channel your doing. Looking forward to the videos.

I absolutely had no idea that sir Stephen Hendry opened RU-vid channel! I just saw this video recommended on my RU-vid main page. Mr. Stephen - it's fantastic iniciative. Your videos are definitely great help to many snooker players all around the world. I play snooker from long time already. Eventhought this video is about basic mistakes mostly make by beginners - I watched it with great pleasure because of calm, detailed and clear explanation by mr. Stephen. Thank you very much mr. Stephen! I already subscribed to your channel and I will watch rest of your videos.

So appreciative of these tips Stephen,thank you