Snooker Aiming SECRETS REVEALED! 

Of all (almost 200) videos you made this one certainly belongs in the top 5, awesome video mate.

Great video! Love the phrase ‘micro-adjusting’. Thank you for all you do to help us all to improve & enjoy this game even more.

Thanks so much for spending time to do these tutorials - they really DO help. 😊

Thank you for the tutorial. This really helps a lot

Best among video I’ve seen, thank you from making it.

This is one of the most practical lessons about aiming. Thanks a million for such valuable lessons. Make a video also about "tip" formation please as it has a high impact on pot success rate.

Great video, I've improve a lot since I don't have to worry about aiming spot, only need to find the line and make sure to have a proper shot

useful stuff, there are so many aiming and alignment stuff out there. ill be giving this a go and see if it helps me improve

Hi Steve , I been watching you for a long time. This video is one of the best 👌. Keep up the good work. Cheers Greg

This is the best video on snooker aiming. All of the techniques and gimmicks for aiming are there as a kind of introduction to how angles work, and they work in a very rough way for beginners, but they will never be precise or repeatable on every shot. Feel for the angle is what needs to be developed, and what allows players to play fluidly, without spending 5 minutes on every shot trying to work out where the "ghost ball" should go.

Thanks for your videos. Seriously..helps motivate me, and learn new stuff.. and gets me ready for local competitions. Top guy 👍

One small but important tip that really changed my game is the pause in the last backstroke! In that last pause you can give yourself a millisecond to microadjust the shot with your eyes only on the object ball! I went through a stage of my eyes going bonkers and looking at the white for a split second as I was addressing the shot then only looking at the object ball for the rest of the shot. This literally played havoc with my game and I was all over the shop. To rectify this and start potting more consistently again I incorporated a slight pause in my backstroke on the final feather. What a difference! "especially on long shots" If mindfully practice this procedure you will eventually start to do it organically without it even entering your mind. It's a beautiful feeling when the balls start dropping again! 👍🏼🎱👍🏼

Nailed it, love the way u teach, exact points needed for the beginners ❤

Great video, all this + "hit a million balls" 👏 I have a tip that might help someone. I love middle pocket shots for whatever reason so for every pot, I imagine it's into a middle pocket regardless of which pocket I'm aiming at. It seems to give me more confidence which is crucial for potting. Cheers mate 👍

Great honest video yet again. When I'm playing regularly, this is exactly the same method I end up doing, feeling the angles. When it's been a while, I revert back to ghost ball for, and when my rhythm is back, I go back unknowingly into feeling the angles again.

Great vid Steve, about a crucial basic subject. I'm finding that the more I practice the better my guessing is. Thanks.

Excellent tips. I always watch one of your videos before going into practice. Your videos have really improved my game. Thanks, Steve. 👍

brilliant the best aiming video i have seen and i have watched many, Thanks

This is actually working for me! Thank you. I like the aiming of the shot standing up. My accuracy has improved so much for most shots now. And if I miss, it's only by a little. Happy with that, getting to feel comfortable with more and more angles... more practice!

So effortless,and precise,what a thorough snooker player you are.👍👌

The problem with beginners and cut shots is that often they aren't delivering a straight cue anyways. So even if they are aiming correctly they still miss the shot due to unintended side spin. Which will lead them to believe their aiming is wrong when their aiming may have been correct but they just aren't delivering a straight cue. Beginners shouldn't even progress to cut shots until they are very consistent at straight in stop shots. After that the method that he describes in this video I believe is the best method for aiming. With cut shots you're just putting in repetition until your brain recognizes the shot line to make that particular shot. Best way to do this is a set-up one particular cut shot and shoot only that shot over and over until you can't miss. That locks that particular angle into your brain. You continue to do this with different cut angles. Overtime your brain will recognize the differences between each degree of angle and you will be able to see the shot line. And this is not even taking in consideration shots requiring left and right spin. But shots using left and right spin are just more shot pictures that your brain will recognize and know how to line up over time as well.

Great video as ever!

Great Barton you thought me a lot bro ,God bless u🥰

thanks again!!

Another fabulous video Steve ! Very interesting watch😊Best wishes to you!

Great job ❤

Another good video , would u do a video explaining about how stun shots can be played anywhere on the cue ball? One of your videos has the cue ball with stun and the red dot is just below centre obviously u can stun there but also so that people don't think that's the only place to stun the ball would u do a video about that... Even add in scenarios like when to stun to get on a certain ball or however u would want to do it. I am an amateur and my coach is Jim Donnelly from Scotland. Love how in depth u are with every video 👍

A very simple , yet masterful audio-visual coaching clip on the essence of the game of Snooker, aiming!

Great video something I need to work on. Also can you do a video when you stretch to take a shot please or using a extension but no rest

Great video....The process of learning to aim properly is invaluable.

Hi Steve Definitely the best aiming video I have seen! I have watched many aiming videos and this is the best! I have contributed to you on Patreon for ages and thank you for all your help. I have tried it tonight and definitely stops me cueing round corners

cheers from brazil mate thanks for your help!

Great video, Steve - this is just the very thing I am working with at the moment, getting that 'feel' for the aim and then doing my best to achieve consistent, repeatable routine from shot-to-shot.

Thanks very much Steve, great video. I played against Nigel Bond 100,s of times when I was first starting. I,m 60 now and just starting to play again with my 16yr son . I wish we had access to your channel in those days. Bondy was ace, I wouldnt say natural but properly coached. Thanks again. Steve Birds

"the best way to get the angle is to feel it" nice technique, got my pot ratio to 120%

very good explanation not exactly the same as mine but it will help me fine-tune. thank you!

Cheers Joey!

As always sir ❤

Great video, I think most can see an angle or when somethings in line, but i think its what you do with the cue, where people struggle, if you don't use ghost ball, contact point or the centre to side method, where do you point it, what are you pointing it at, how do you know that you're still in the correct place when you get down on the shot as the view and your body goes through a massive movement from when standing to being down on the shot and will your cue be in the correct place? I've never known anyone that can explain this part of aiming. thx

Thanks for the useful information. Does the memory remember also the mirrors positions for the specific driver ? Thanks

Really good video, mate. Would you say then that practicing with ghost ball and other techniques like that should really be more of a stepping stone to honing your more natural angle recognition? Perhaps still using some extra rigorous technique on tougher shots or under pressure?

Great video man, finally it’s working for me…

Good video.

Would love to see your views on titanium ferrules.

hey bartonn pleasr can u make a video about the swerve shot and how to play it thanks

That's how I do my aiming. My biggest issue is shots like black to yellow ect I get the rattles but perfect position on the yellow. Table I play on has got unforgiving pockets if it's not centre of the pocket it won't go in.

Wath do you looking when you walking in to the shot to keep the line of aim? you do some chin lock or other method?this is a part I struggle the most, getting down on the correct line I have selected from stand up position. Thanks

The hard part of aiming is the optics in which we have to adjust one straight path (the cue line) to establish the object ball path. After a while it becomes natural to lock into one point/slice of the cue ball. The human eye can be very precise feels like your shaving off millimetres here and there.

Love your videos. Have you noticed any difference in traffic since Stephen Hendry's channel started to get popular?

Hey, good video. I have a question. Do you have any advice for if you get down, align the cue ball and object ball in your vision, but then your cue is not pointing exactly where you think it's pointing? This is a common problem for me. The alignment looks right, and my cue tip is in the center of the cue ball, but if I examine the slope of the cue, I find it's actually aiming a little to the left or right (i.e. shooting across the ball). Do good players check for this when down on the shot, or is there stance just so perfect that it's always correct automatically? Do you have any tips for how I can train it so that my cue direction is in perfect alignment with my head position when I get down on the shot?

Sir I’m big fan of you I’ve learnt more then a lot from you, from one red to 50 60 break daily I’m little confused about my grip it’s ronnie o sollovan type cue grip with middle finger n ring finger how to master that grip please explain me thankyou♥️

Awesome video!! Where do you think is the line between fine tuning and aiming when down on the shot?

Thanks!

Thanks

kindly demonstrate the same theory and practical with a blind pocket shot too. Thanks

gonna come up for half a day with you soon steve

Wait, you are supposed to look at the cue ball on the way down? I’ve never tried that in almost 20 years of playing lol. I’ll give it a go.

can you please tell me do you look at pocket during featuring or in the final backswing or before delivery ? or the pocket should be in the background or prepheral vision at all the time? tnx alot for your nice videos

thx

Best tip every good player gives me... "Take your time". If u wanna play well, don't care if someone is rushing you, in a hurry, drunk, etc. Take your time, take your shot.

Thank you so much for the lesson! This is really helpful. One issue I have observed with my game is that I'm able to pot a relatively tough red ball and then miss a so much easier color ball. This happens a lot with me. Any tips to overcome this?

this is the way

Please do teach us about hard shot Love from small country Bhutan

Still love ur channel than other .....

The aiming is one thing, but delivering the cue straight would help most amateurs. I can see the pot and angle all I want but my cue sometimes doesn't deliver straight so I'm done for before hand.

That is the method i practice with.

Great video. Especially when you talking about angle shots. There is no "Golden technique and all professionals hates him for revealing their secret". It's all about guessing and feeling you aiming right and that comes with practice aiming ratine and self discipline. Btw today I had my best session ever. First time I made over 20 points break and I think your videos are helping me to improve my play.

Brilliant Steve, we covered this in my lesson with you last Thursday 👍👍

Please tell me something about middle pocket potting as hit the near jaw every time and if adjust only a tiny bit it hits the far jaw. I have seen your video of middle potting too but no luck Please help as this is the only shot I just can't get

Hi Steve. I’m a rank beginner. I think I follow all you are saying here except where are looking when you actually pull the trigger after a pause on the back stroke? Object ball or cue ball? Thanks.

This is perfect 4 beginers snooker is allabout repitition like learning chords on a guitar and eventualy it comes to u ,cant understand the comment from tangman14

Bro i have one question... I am lefty but when i started the game i start playing righty bcoz when i started he taught me right handed... So now after so many years can i change me hand from right to left... Bcoz i dnt feel any power in my right hand .... Plz reply

Nice

How to aiming ball after watch angle please make video

The angle is one thing cue delivery is the other . People my pick the correct angle but not cue straight or jab at the ball or add spin it such a technical game that so many things contribute to the ball eventually going in . But i agree here in your mind the more simple you keep it the better you are going to get basically the top players dont over complicate the just trust their gut and play .

@BartonSnooker Hi Steve, great vid. One question. Do you look at the white on walk in for just long shots or do you do it on all shots??

This is the way I've tried for years. Some days it's good some days terrible. Are there training methods other than just playing repetition to improve the brain's ability to microadjust for more consistency day to day?

Thank you sir but my question - - Why are you not using headcam to be clarifier while standing behind the while ball for this course?

I wish there was a mechanical cue that could aim and fire the cue ball. That would be cool to use in a club match LOL

We are a player short in our team !! Think he would help us out !!

I aim with the line of aim(distance btw cb and OB) instead of the contact point on OB , weird?

Nicely edited, but kinda a clickbaity title tbh lol.

BartonSnooker. Why not attach a rifle laser sight to a cue stick, it would take all the guess work out?

Need a new comprehensive video on cue delivery and straight cueing please please please !

Key word in all this aiming is feedback. Unless your brain (controller) has some feedback from the sensor (your eyes) how can errors be corrected? The same goes for straight cue action. No feedback loop to your brain you will never correct those errors and therefore never improve. Its all about control. To control anything you need some feedback to take out any errors, Hitting the cue ball at the correct point is the hardest thing in the whole game and most important. If you cant do this and repeat it, forget about aiming. Also the correct point is very rarely centre cue ball as if centre of cue ball actually exists - can this be measured? Pick out point on cue ball and make sure you can hit this point and repeat it, then aiming will just happen.

So basically your method is look at the pot, line it up and deliver the cue... This only works when you've had thousands of hours of practice. Beginners need an actual method to learn how to see the potting angle. Attempting the pot at the angle that "feels" right to me has like a 5% success rate. Attempting pots using an actual method like drawing a line from the pocket through the object ball and aiming to strike that point brought the success rate up to more like 20 or 30%.

In my opinion, you just need to practice and play a lot, earn experience, and aiming becomes automatic. But great video, as usual.

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Would you believe i dnt look at the cue ball i play position on feel n it works out like hell yeah 🤥

Watch a video of Jimmy White circa 1981 - 1984. Watch closely. You'll never see a better potter.

Digressing slightly, but what clubs do you recommend in the black country? I'm 99% sure you're from where I am anyway!

Basically practice to hit the right angles

You have to remember..a lot of us are trying to learn..we don't have enough experience to aim the same way you do.

Hi Mate. Here Goes. I do as you are saying almost to T, But the 2 balls are Round. So if the contact between the 2 Balls has to Hit the exact point on the Object Ball. This where I would assume ,like I do,,Fine Tuning the Shot.. If the Line to the Centre of the Pocket has been Judged Correctly on the Object Ball,,,Then I Focus on the Point of the Object Ball.... (Make Sense).? Here is a Question,,,Why Do Professionals Seem to hit the Edge of the Pocket to GUIDE Them in.. Are they intentionally doing that, Ronnie is a Prime Example of Doing this.????. Colin.UK.

Is this the Peter Ebdon method? Just joking;

What’s your thought on the lights on the object ball

when i am down, the shot looks offline, and my cue butt is offline all the time, but my right leg is online and i bring the chest to the cue what should i do?

Nice video, any chance of a version in English please or subtitles? .... Lol😂

Quick question. Why do you keep the lights on for the other 2 tables? What a waste of electricity

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