How To Improve Your Safety Game FAST! Episode 1: “4 Squares” 

Love the drill! Niels should get an oscar for his "aw shucks" acting when "missing" the example shots in the beginning. Lol Love it!

I do this drill 15 mins a session. It paid off huge!!! I enjoy that the drills you show are designed to keep the player engaged. You do 8 in a row, then you want to beat it, then you hit 9... 13.... then your wife is complaining because you just wasted your Saturday pushing just 2 balls around the pool table. Lol. You are doing great things for the game Niels!!! Thank you!

The very last thing you said is probably the best thing I’ve heard about learning pool… “The game is the teacher.”

I like this hardcore drill! I hope my requested video will be out soon. Thanks for the informations!

This drill is the real deal folks. Adding this to my routine has upped my safety game exponentially after just a couple weeks. I’m seeing so many more safeties and executing them so much better now. Combined with the other video’s “big brother little brother” game is just perfect.

Finally a pro that seems to wanna see younger and players in general improve. Thank you for posting this Niels my safety game is miserable and has costed me several sets and games I leagues and tournaments.

I have enjoyed your instructional style and marvel at how you motivate us to avoid boredom doing ...ugh...drills!

I like how he uses the infomercial black and white "Has this ever happened to you?" clips.

Here on a recc from a team 9-ball teammate (thanks Rob!) Neils IMHO you're the best online instructor I've seen. Not talking too much - not wasting time, just dropping knowledge and I really appreciate it! Can't wait to do this drill and others I've seen of yours! Subscribed and liked!

This drill is fantastic! Thanks Neils. I can start practicing my safety plays.

Tremendous stuff, as always, Niels! I will be incorporating these drills into my practice sessions, since I'm now playing APA Masters, and MUST have the defensive game to compete. Thank you! - Adam from Dallas

i love it when i’m playing in a match and i pull a “ Niels”! Thank you

Great video Niels!but I admit,I've got some hard time making a safety shot when you're playing on a Brunswick table.it's very slick and you're absolutely right...cue ball control is very essential.playing on that kind of table is very satisfying.😊👌

Exceptionally valuable exercise, thank you, Niels! Definitely this is the best drill on safeties in youtube. Gonna include it in my routine.

I've got a million drills to pick from and I have exactly zero drills for working on my safety play. Now I do! Nice, and fun with a few options I can throw in with easy to track progress. I really like this one.

Really loving all of your lessons Niels! So great of you to share your knowledge with us mere mortals!

Thanks again for sharing your invaluable drills! I always look forward to your drills and positive attitude Niels. Greetings from Hong Kong!

I love your teaching of safety so much.

Tks for sharing have to try this

thank you Niels.

Dude, Niels, you rock. I love your videos. Have literally made me a better player. Thank you for what you do. It makes a difference. 👍🏼

My safety play was non-existent. I'd take low percentage shots I always felt like I had to try to make something and never wanted to play safe I was a very aggressive player. Alot of make it and look amazing or miss it and be ran off the table moments. Thanks to some old timers (who ALWAYS used to beat me) giving me a hard time. I began working on my safeties and moving into my lines and shot choices have changed too. Alll of your videos have elevated my game. It's 50/50 now against them. Took a while but it paid off quicker than I thought. Keep up the great content the drills are hard but work well. And honestly it was worth the work when they went from thinking it's an auto win playing me to them racking more often. Amazing content keep up the good work and thank you.

Thank you Niels

Watching this on a bus going to a 9ball tournament. Great drill Niels! Can't wait to try it out!

Thanks for the great video. I love your acting at the beginning of the video when you make mistakes and get angry, that's totally hilarious please keep doing that!! :)

I keep coming back to your channel, and guiding others to it as well. Thanks!! Also, you mention sponsor Longoni. I do not see a link to longoni on your site. Keep the SPARK hot!

I am definitely going to give this BOWERFUL drill a go, cheers buddy 👍🎱

Good speed control

Love your videos Niels!

I always learn something new from you! Thanks champion, many greetings from Serbia.

Nice. I will try it. Been doing the 6 ball safety/two rail kick drill ever since I saw it on here.

Thanks Niels, in my opinion this lesson´s very helpful in the offensive part of game as well, great lesson

fantastic love your tips

Thank you.. will do.

Awesome cb control champ 👍 Powerful drill...

Bro, I've made all those errors and look just like that afterward. I'll use these tips.

Nice safety practice drill. Cheers

You have become the new Bert Kinester :) Hello from Cleveland -The original Terminator ;)

I tried this for the first time today. I scratched many times on that first shot lol. I need a lot of practice

Thank you niels. Thank you for all that you do

What a video. So many players can relate to this. Thanks.

Your drills are always top notch!! Thanks again Neil's ✌️

Great info Great application. I 👀 lots of these situations. So awesome you do these videos. With the cue ball strike location. I like the "experiment with" comment. Making stronger olayers with every video. Now im rambling. Stay strong shoot straight ...

Interesting and seems to be useful

Nice effective drills Niels. Thank you.👍

Hey Terminator, I can't thank you enough for sharing such informative videos, I have learned a lot from you. Do you also have a video on how to get out of hooked positions? like knowing the angles better, and is there any productive drill for that, I can put it into my daily practice routine? Again I appreciate all your efforts.

Man I can’t thank you enough for these drills. Great stuff. Tell Alex thanks for me 😎

Love it awesome drill

Thanks

In football they say “the best way to defend is to attack “ but I oftenly say in billiards games the best way to attack is to defend:since you get that extra shot or ball in hand or even a point 🤞🏽thanks Boss for another incredible video

awesome as always

Hi, Niels! Those examples you gave at the beginning cut too close to the bone - Ouch! All of those and more I've made. I'm going to follow this whole series with great eagerness.

tks!! ❤️❤️🔥🔥

This is terrific content. It has helped me a lot. Thanks Niels!

Great video! Hard for me is not scratching!!!

ohhhh this is exactly what I've been waiting for!

Thanks Niels. Good luck in WPC!

Hope the channel explodes

Bueno consejo Ala hora de jugar una defensa

Another great drill.

Thanks for the Great drills

I can't wait to try this. I lost so many matches due to my safety play. Keep the videos coming. New Sub :)

Nice 1

What do you think of Fargo as a training aid? Not the handicapping system, the practice game which is much like Equal Offense. You break them up and shoot anything until you reach a point where you choose to switch to shooting in rotation, in Equal Offense the switch point is mandated. 1 point per ball in the random phase, 2 points per ball in the rotation phase. Of course when you miss the rake is over.

Good luck Neils ..in the World pool championship !

I don't know if you shot those shots specifically for this video, but your responses to messing them up were funny. They sure appeared legitimate, good job. I suspect your real responses to these shots would be to set them up a half dozen more times and leave your subconscious thinking "I got this sucker" rather than "I missed this last time". I see Efren do that all the time on a missed shot just after a match end, and I suspect he may go do it more, afterward, and for all the shots he should have made, but didn't. Just guessing here, though. I heard Jeremy Jones make a comment while commentating a match the other day that amateurs set up a shot to practice until they MAKE it, pros set up that same shot many more times, until they don't MISS it. Love your 'character' sign. Subconscious training? That is a very good drill, I will incorporate it.

awesome info, thanks

When I play someone who typically plays in bars or just occasionally-like the 4 people who disliked this vid-and they mention that a safety is a “dirty” shot. I ask them if they’re playing basketball and the other team has the ball, do you run around the court with your hands down at your sides? If you do that, you aren’t playing defense, and you’re going to lose, even if you’re a good shooter. So if you don’t play defense, it’ll be the same here-you’ll lose. After that, I offer a couple of tips for playing EASY safeties vs. handing me the game. The day they roll the cue ball tight against the back of another ball-then they really get it. You’ve got to be able to play safe, or you’re only playing half of the game. Controlling two or more balls requires practice and creativity. (And watching how and when the pros do it. They’ll sometimes play safe on a shot that every amateur would take, and you need to know why.) A good safety battle is a dimension of pool which is kind of rare, but really satisfying.

Terminator - "are you, are you, are you, are you?" Me - "yep.... yep.... yep... yep..." 😂 great upload, this is quality stuff.

Great stuff Niels. Will this series cover any kicking drills?

Billiards playing cannons a great game to practice this type of thing where instead of aiming for an area you're aiming for a ball after contact. Think it's called carom in Europe.

Hi Niels, I love watching how you demo,coach and explained. Very systematic and also accurate sequence..U watch alot of your video. Am from Singapore..just started learning on my own (a few months only)..Am a elderly person .can you advice me or recommend something so that my performance can be improved. I Need to start from basic.. Thanking you in advance.

Come someone explain how the scoring points works to? I've watched over and over and can't figure it out.

Niels - really loved this video and found myself coming back to it for a refresher. For an amateur player like myself, do you think there is any benefit to going into the negative when trying to get to a certain number ahead? Or should I just stop at 0? Thanks!!

Hey Niels. I love your videos; they are having some of the most impact on my game improvement. My neighbor lets me practice on his table, but he has really slow cloth. When I play in league we play on 7' diamonds with really fast cloth. Is it a waste of time for me to try to practice this drill on my neighbors table? It seems like the friction of the cloth doesn't even provide the same ratios for distance of the cue ball and object ball stopping because so much speed is lost during the longer distances.

Thanks for this, Niels! I love and need safety drills. As a 3 in the APA, I'm not a good shotmaker. But, I wonder if this one is too advanced for a beginner like me? I know nothing about english. And table-length shots are really difficult for me.

goeie video. alweer.

First one here, Thanks Niels

Why would I want to put the OB near a corner pocket? Doesn't seem like a good safety

Is this something you spend an hour or so on a couple times a week ?

I have a question on the practice swing. I shoot left hand but I have a disability I’m missing 5 inches of my arm so I have to adapt on my stroke it’s hard for me to do in 3 parts I have to do it in 2 parts any ideas for me to use.

Do you recommend any mobile apps that can instantly calculate the diamonds? Like laser beam.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins titles

Honestly, first time I've ever heard of Longoni ...

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Copy.. I will take your advices..

And practice the "32" drill ..... there are 32 squares

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Tnx for watching! Here are some other videos that might be interesting for you! 😀 - 5 Killer Kick Shots For Your Pool Game - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JFcdnwXej90.html - PLAYLIST: SAFETY FIRST ru-vid.com/group/PLzjzZn8Miek2zPMxt4qm2wUe7K7nKo3ii - STROKE LESSONS: ru-vid.com/group/PLzjzZn8Miek3t1cG8LHK2kg5ffpq0BAn9