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!
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 will for sure. I tried to on fb earlier but seems like ppl cant hardly speak their mind without getting a 30 day ban these days but im definitely sharing it the 9th as soon as my fb restriction lifts back off lol i sent it to a couple friends through messager though my friend Dustin Crowe really likes ur game and fundamentals and preshot routine. So i sent him the video if he wasn't following on here im sure he is now. Hes a big fan of yours.
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!
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
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.😊👌
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.
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.
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!
Awesome, thank you! I have my own web shop with where you can order your Longoni cue today!! There's a 10% discount right now ;)💪 terminator-shop.com/ Please PM me if you have any questions or would like more info. I play with the graphite Luna Nera shaft and I enjoy it a lot 👌👌 I have a couple of different cues on stock right now, so just contact me if you're interested. Greetz, Niels 😎
If I may make a brief suggestion to your drill… if your skill level is such that you are missing way too many times, especially in a row, stop and repeat the same shot until you make it more than miss and only then, continue forward to the next position. I use two small coins to mark ball positions. Great drill. Never boring.
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 ...
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.
Hi there! 😊 Thanks for contacting me. Appreciate your support and nice feedback 👍👍 Please try to work with this great drill: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7-1h-IFftSI.html I can also recommend you to become a member of my new PATREON project! 🔥🔥 This way I can support you with "Personal Player Reviews", "Personal Training Plans", "Mental Training Courses" and much much more!!! Feel free to check it out here and send me a PM on Social Media if you have any questions. Thanks!!!👊👊 www.patreon.com/terminatortips TERMINATOR TIPS PATREON INCLUDES: ✅ Personal Player Reviews ✅ Personal Training Plans ✅ Mental Training Courses ✅ VIP access to videos ✅ LIVE Q&A sessions ✅ LIVE Zoom talks at the pool table ✅ And much more!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes only difference I find is the weight of the balls. The way the balls react is different from pool balls. But in general billiards is awesome for pool!
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.
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.
Have a go and start slow. Just try it 15 min or so a few times a week and build It up👍🏼👍🏼😄 also check out these series: ru-vid.com/group/PLzjzZn8Miek3t1cG8LHK2kg5ffpq0BAn9 ru-vid.com/group/PLzjzZn8Miek1gDQaNlkuB32AHRdwGZwJw
Think of it getting behind little walls of balls sometimes they’re on the line and sometimes even closer. So you need to hit that extra rail to get under them but without scratching 💪🏼😄
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.
@@NielsTheTerminatorFeijen No but I think there some in Tampa Fl which is 8hr away but I’m going to Vegas for APA 9 ball doubles August 5th n 6th after I come back from there I have to find a coach somewhere to help me adapt my playing to the game I like your videos over 4 other. I want to be a great player like you. I started this game late in my years 50yr
@@NielsTheTerminatorFeijen In the old days I would get to a tournament and I used to have trouble getting started in early morning matches ...... when I think back I realize that I never used to practice in mornings ..... we do have an inner clock ..... I think if I could do it over I might do some practice early in the day..... just a thought from an old man
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