How To Aim & Learn Potting Angles | Snooker Tips 

Now that is interesting. I have been agonising over how to best approach angles, struggled with pin pointing a spot on the target ball and have toyed with 'feeling' the angle. This video has enforced it for me, gaining the feel for the right angle seems the best approach by far, especially with the tips you just kindly gave. Thanks

I am an 8ball player, and used this technique after watching this video. This is by far the best instructional video on the internet. You develop a feel for most angles within an hour. Great video!!!

This really works well. Fantastic. My whole game and confidence to pot anything have improved immeasurably using this method

This all makes sense from my experience you can't underestimate how much just good old practise comes into it in terms of whether your 'feel' of the angle is actually equal to what the angle is.I've been working on my snooker from complete beginner standpoint over the last month and a half, putting in ~10 hours a week. Right now, my 'feel' for the angle is still really poor as soon as I get away from the basic shots that I have practised over and over in drills. In other words, im now quite good at slightly off-center shots on the colours (which i have practised a lot), but give me a line-up of reds (which i havent practised as much) and suddenly im missing shots that look quite easy because they are angles i havent practised. So basically, I think the best advice is not to go down the rabbit hole of trying to find the perfect 'theoretical' aiming method and just practise a ton using whatever works for you, and it'll start to come together.

That's a great detailed video Barton snooker. Definitely worth watching this video.

Well, finally someone admitted the potting angle is a guess work! No other way has ever worked for me better indeed. I always get back to my feeling and go on from there. 😊

Love the tips Steve very helpful, love to spend a day with you, thanks for helping an average player get better, great videos.

After all I've been watching, this really simplifies it for me. Thank you

Great video Steve on aiming. on some shots I regularly hit them to thin so I am going to try the tips in this video to see if I can remedy those shots.

Super helpful thank you. I’ve mainly been struggling with delivering the cue straight and point angles. Will give this a go rather than always standing behind the straight angle and holding the point on the ball!

Great video Steve.

Can see how your own belief in what is best has developed. I have been trying to sight completely before going down on the shot with that lean with eye. Thought that was your theory before. Just realised the importance of checking I'm hitting the white straight recently and you reiterated that there. Also you've completed my picture on what to look at when placing cue when going down on shot. Starting to get there when walking in. Will try a few more minor adjustments down on the shot as you say in other videos to take in feedback after it miss or if it goes in too. Thanks again for all your help.

Great lesson - taking these tips to my next practice session 😊

Thanks steve u r the best

8:28 well, use what works. People with very good visualisation ability in their head can use those methods to great effect. I try to visualize a "ghostball" and aim for that and it definitely works. In the end of course one needs to develop a feeling if where I am aiming right now is actually correct and then hit it, but as a more rough starting point there is nothing wrong with using whatever method works.

Video Excellent

I've been using your technique with your 2 reds and black and pink on their spots just got my 1st half century so goodness me it works, but I'm using a 3/4 table so I don't know if it counts really. But thanks Steve, you videos are very welcome for me.

Hello Steve.. your channel has been a great help in improving my game.. can't thank you enough.. Please make a video on playing side spin and the grip during spin shots.. my wrist sort of rotates when i play with side.. I'm struggling 😢

Hi Steve. Love your content. What do you think of the throw effect? What is it and what should we do about it?

Hello Barton I love your videos it is really helpful can you make a video or tell me where to hit in a cue ball for long ball pot

Hi Steve, great video as always👍 Even though I do the same aiming method you presented here, I still learned something. What do you think of moving the cue slightly up or down during delivery? I noticed that I'm pushing the cue down a little on most of my shots. Is that more of a bad habit or can a cue action work despite this movement? Greetings from Germany

Have you thought about doing a video of what new players should be looking for when looking for a new/first cue. I know personal preference and budget makes a difference but is there a recommend weight, length or wood type

Tnx

I'm exactly the same with working out my angles on an off straight shot. Just years of playing , learning and knowing where the angle is.

Yesterday i hit 55 break... 6 blacks and a pink... My first heighest till now.... Before it was 46....i use my cue as an aiming guide for angle recognition.

The most important thing is basic fundamentals like stance, dominant eye, contact points between body and cue and most of them all is the grip... If all above mentioned things are right, game will improve very fast.

Very informative as always. At the point you’ve pulled the cue back and just about to cue through, are you focused on the cue ball or object ball?

At the moment of striking the cue ball, which ball should I be looking at - cue ball or object ball?

Great video, I’ve realised that last tip to look at the cue ball as you approach the shot is something i am not doing. I keep looking at the object ball because I think my eyes will lose the potting angle if I take my off it. So my initial sighting is object ball and then cue ball. Also Steve, I notice you didn’t walk to your left and stand behind the black to look at it so it’s in line with the pocket. I do that for nearly all angled shots, is that a bad habit too?

Hi barton! When you look at the object ball you said you don’t look at a specific point on it. My question is the following, Is your vision at the object ball or is it a little bit shorter of the object ball ( so can sight better the cueball peripherally for aligning the shot/not completely at the objectball but an inch or two below it)? Thanks for your informative videos as always!

Great video Steve. Gee Im really struggling with this eye dominance thing and where to put your cue on your chin Steve...or is this all myth and overthink stuff?

Hmm new video from my favorite coach...but Ronnie is playing on tv...first Steve...hmm no first Ronnie hmm too difficult to choose! Ok ok it's decided, first Ronnie, i'll watch this after Ronnie but i'm sure it's amazingly good!

Isn’t this 1 year old video? Why again? Any difference? Best video on aiming though

Great instructive video - but it does assume the player using these techniques has the basics down too - i.e cueing straight, gripping correctly, bridging correctly. So many times you'll "feel" your angle is perfectly aligned only to deliver the cue at an angle and create either side or completely miss cue.

There are many good ways of ‘sighting’ the ball. At the top of the game, potting a ball is dead easy. There is very little thinking to do with the pot. But loads of energy is expended in positioning the white. The beautiful part of Sullivan game is how little energy is even expended in placing. Some energy is used to consider next few shots down in the frame. There are many things very enjoyable to understand in snooker. Mental stamina or energy or fortitude is something less explained. Personally, using angles is not enough to produce excellent results. It is far too slow , imprecise and consume loads of mental energy.

can we see a video of your latest game?

I pot a high percentage of blues into the middle from close range, far away, different angles, plain ball or with side, even cueing under the cushion, I somehow see a line where I get it spot on and hit blues straight in the middle of the pocket probably 8/10, but on corner pockets I’ll miss-aim the most ridiculous shots, they feel totally different where in reality the angles are no different to blues in the middle. I can’t get my head around it.

Can't wait to try this. What I'm doin is visualise the line after contact while being behind the white, no left-right to get in-between. Many times I pot, but idk how.

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So your ability to adjust the right way determines how good a potter you are? If so, is there any way to improve this 'sense' for potting or are you limited to your natural ability?

BartonSnooker, I notice none of this explanation involves where the cue tip is pointing relative to the object ball. I.e. what happens if the cue ball and object ball are in 100% perfect alignment in your vision on a straight shot but your cue is not pointing completely straight, i.e. you're shooting across the ball by 1mm or so. I don't think you can even correct that by looking at the spot on the cue ball, because your vision won't see the very minor slope that your cue is coming in at.

I think I have watched this video before

Re-upload?

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Old video ?

Good lord, long winded get on with it damn