Never played snooker in my life but enjoy watching it including this channel. I do however play alot of pool down the pub and I've been using alot of the techniques from this video on a game of pool and increase my game by quite a big margin, I thank you for your dedication and hard work. Though pool and snooker are different games alot of angles and techniques are similar or the same, one day I'll have a game of snooker just need someone who's willing to play it with me first.
@@divyamsharma1453 it's literally the same game on a bigger table, what are you on about? Angles and technique are identical, it's just harder in snooker.
I prefer pool to snooker but my dad loves snooker. Always play it with him for fun. I enjoy watching your videos, they’ve helped me a bunch with angles and cue ball control. I’ve still got a long way to go but I just find it so fun.
@@Stuckinthen9neties in 5 months I’ve improved a lot mate but I still prefer pool to snooker. I’m not the best at break building but I’m getting there. This guys videos helped me a lot starting out and still do now
I always liked cutting close to 90degrees. I asked for a pool cue for Christmas when I was ten and I'd spend hours getting the cut right. It's a very satisfying shot to make. I stopped playing when I got my kid, but I was looking for a hobby lately and this post got me thinking about pool again. 21 years after my last game. Thanks a lot. Good memories. Just not snooker's, there are NO tables anywhere around my place. Pool halls all but disappeared in my province since the 80s big revival. Only one or two of the dozen or so bowling alleys left in my mid-sized city either, even at 800,000pop with the suburbs... All of the fun corner bars turned into fancy wine bars too. Boring times.
Hello Brother... This is Rowland from Trichy, Tamilnadu, India.... I've been watching your channel for a long time now.... Still, Its always confusing to know the angles... Thanks for the video and also a big thanks to you for helping budding players like me in building up the game 🙌🏻 Cheers 🍻
practicing each shot and treating it like a serious challenge always always raises the mindset ability to pot and play the shot greetings from Doha, Qatar!
Gareth Jones from Merthyr Tydfil. Been watching for more than a year now and you really have helped my game. I play twice per week and nearly had a 100 break the other day - if only I had potted the opening red! :-) Seriously though I am now using the Cuesoul SS tip and this really has helped my game, would never have considered using such a massive pool cue tip if it wasn't for your channel. I always watch a couple of your Vids before playing.
Excellent advice. I have recently been studying the impact throw and trying to make my brain believe or trust that it is ok to slightly throw the shot off slightly. Thank you for your videos ❤
I had it taught to me like this. Literally pick the cue ball up. With it in your hand use the cue ball to tap the ball in to the pocket taking very good note of exactly where you hit the object ball. If you need to, put the cue ball right up to the object ball taking note of the exact contact point. Look at it from the angle of your shot. Now put the balls back and make sure the cue ball makes contact at that exact point. Note, and this is very important, the cue ball is a sphere and that means it may make contact before you think it will. So, just to be sure, drag the cue ball into the object ball with your hand so you can see the shot slowly before you shoot it. Is this illegal in a game, yes, so do this during practice.
Could you please explain, in some video, how pros scape from even difficult snooker so easily while amateurs struggle big time. Specially, two or three cousin escapes. What’s the right way to think about two or three cousin escapes, like finding the line of shot, etc. Thanks! :)
Cushion * escapes* ,not cousin scapes. The best way to understand cushion escapes is to know the angle of incidence is only roughly equal to the angle of deflection and it varies depending on how high or low you strike the cueball and the sliding effect of the cushions together.
I don't know why or how, I am absolutely amazing at these shots, using side and angles off the cushions, plus putting people in snookers. BUT I cannot pot for love nor money
Luv all your videos man, this one was particularly helpful - not missing my high angle blacks anymore and not trying to over compensate with anything more than a touch of side , thx!
Except for induced 'throw', when I played pool (decades ago) I found that hitting the spot on the object ball was done not by the center of the cue ball but by a spot on the cue ball equally far from the edge as the spot on the object ball. If you need to hit the object ball 1/4 from the edge, then it's hit by a spot 1/4 from the opposite edge on the cue ball. For thin shots, once you line these 2 spots up you can look and see where the center of the cue ball is now aiming and just aim the center of the cue ball for that spot. It works.
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Hi, I am Bálint from Budapest, Hungary Thank you so much the effort and the professionalism you put into these videos. I learnt a lot and improved my game significantly since I have been watching your content. Would be happy about getting into one of your map, though Cheers, Bálint
You are such a gem to the international snooker and pool community. Heck, to the cue sports community as a whole. I still remember when your cloth was so worn out when you started that there was a big triple-X running from the center of the table to all the pockets. And also lines running from the black spot to the pockets. How far you’ve come since then. Amazing to have experienced that journey with you! 🫡⚪️🔴
One of the main reasons the object ball deviates from your intended potting line in such shots is, it will have a spin on the ball when you cut from an angle. Imagine your cue ball is at 8 o clock and object ball is at the center of a clock and you want to pot it to 12 o clock(center pocket), when you hit the object ball, it will have a right english on it and hence it deviates (slightly) and catches the right jaw of the pocket. That's the reason you need to give slightly thinner cut to make it to center of the pocket. My theory to this: The cue ball is high in density, hence they act as high deflection cue sticks while hitting the object ball. If you play with a hollow maple wood cue ball(if one exists), it would act as a low deflection cue and doesn't create this deviation on the object ball.
🙂 it might take you a few tries but be very interesting to see. Love the channel, part of my Saturday religion. Best wishes jeff from Bournemouth. Give us a pin please 🙏
I've played snooker for about 50 years and if you imagine there is no cue ball and line up where you would need to hit the object ball with your tip to pot it that point is the point where the white needs to hit it in order to pot it. You see the pro players do this sometimes on TV too
Hey up. Well it's about time you evolved I think. Maybe go to some events and try to get quick tips off the pro's or something like that. I think your channel would explode if you did something along those line. What does everybody else think? Anyway, that's Jonny in Aberdeen just in case you are passing your map in the near future. 🤣
Your videos are the best out there. Just my opinion, but I think you're spot on. Question though, how does sight right work - are you able to explain that without getting into a copyright row?
The tip about snooker impact throw really help me. I always thought I had bad eyesight when aiming for the thinest shots. Thank you and best regards from Curitiba, Brazil!
Most top pros learn to use Gearing Outside English (side) to counteract Contact Induced Throw. The description of the cause given in this video is wrong btw. If it were right, CIT would occur with speed, which it doesn't. It's merely the relative influence of friction between ball surfaces, which decreases with relative speed. Snooker terminology and understanding of these physics aspects is about 20 years behind US pool knowledge.
@@mikebest634 Small brain Mike, I'm talking about developing an intelligent terminology for which to comprehend the physics involved. e.g. Snooker has used THROW to describe CB tip deflection and other CB to OB deflection, now using Impact Throw as it relates to OB deflection via friction. It's a mess, they are way behind US physics descriptors.
How do I consistently make sure my viewing angle is dead in line? Is it to do with stance, having my dominant eye over the cue, focusing my vision on what I'm aiming at or some combination of the three? I really struggle with being consistent and don't know if my stance is off line or how to improve it without paying for a coach.
I'm a pretty fair player if I say so myself I've been playing for 50 years I've mostly gone by feel I do aim but mostly it's about the feel and when I'm in my groove I really play well this is basic aiming technique and it's all correct but feel is half the game in my humble opinion
A good trick is to line your shot up backwards using the pocket to the colour ball as the cue ball and lining it up with real cue ball.. simple and works every time 😅
I have no problem with angles in pool but have a very hard time with them in snooker. I believe it could be due to the effect you talked about where the ball moves in a straight line initially and that effect is exaggerated due to the heavier balls. I could be wrong tho, that’s just my theory.
Nice... but, of course, not one of instructive videos like this can answer the crucial question: how do I judge WHEN to aim half ball, or a quarter, and so on. For instance: if your cue ball is at a 45 degree angle in regard to the line from object ball to pocket, would that require a half ball shot? I guess one just has to see it, and if you don't, why don't you try chess instead.
Once I could cue straight (most of the time) I realised there are really only seven angles to learn. Almost straight, 3/4 ball, thick 1/2 ball, 1/2 ball, thin 1/2 ball, 1/4 ball, cut. Maybe eight if you count extreme cut (thin as possible) Still 1000's of hours of practice req tho
Try railing the cue ball on a corner pocket angle shot with a color ball. Especially if the red balls are grouped together. You may miss the color shot. But you'll place the cue ball in and around the group of red balls and screwing up your opponents next shot Snooker is beautiful But you definitely want to be trapping your opponent in to giving you the shots to sink while they are setting them up for you
Simple, grade-level trigonometry Determine where you would hit the target ball with your cue to pot it, hit the white to make contact at that spot. Most kids learn this when they play marbles in the school yard :/
At an angle, center my cue ball will not hit the object ball where I aim for, it is so because the balls are round. So we have to slightly increase the angle of collission. How much? It depends upon the the number of angle. If the number is higher, say 60°, you may have to exagerate the angle of cueball more. If the angle between cueball and objectball is 0°, then you dont have to exagerate the angle at all. Just plsy straight.
This is missing also one more very important aspect, and that's power, in addition to aiming, power is most important, especially for angled shoots where deflection is so important. And that's one of the main reasons for missing shoots
I always try to imagine the ‘ghost ball’. This is where the cue ball needs to be exactly so that it, along with the object ball, forms a direct line to the pocket. Then as I play the shot I am trying to push the cue ball in a straight line to the ghost ball
Not sure if anyone knows but I've recently began playing american 15 ball rather than snooker anyone know what cat 5 and cat 6 in terms of standard means?
Potting is confusing, but there is a technique, except for some shots... In that case use this other technique, except for these shots... When that happens do this, except for... 😅🤣
