I’m a Snooker Coach myself. Your videos are very well done. You have a very clear and concise way of presenting in front of camera. Super job, you should be proud of your channel and I hope it grows quickly.
I like the simplicity and each part explained in a simple and concise manner . I will be watching more of your videos . Living here in BC Canada I guess would be difficult to have you coach me personally lol
Great video! I have always been told by others that I use too much shoulder and had no idea what they meant. Now I do. Perfectly explained. Can’t wait to get back on the practice table now. Thanks, from Australia
I watched all of your video ,this channel is the best snooker coaching on youtube . Good explanation ,easy to understand , improve my skill thx a lot From Thailand By the way can you explain about screw shot
Any movement in the shoulder, can manipulate the cue off the "shot line", because the shoulder joint is a multi function joint. You do have the slightest Shoulder Movement, as you pull the cue back to the Pause. I do enjoy your videos, keep up the good work.
I really appreciate your videos. Every now and then I rewatch them when I feel I haven’t been doing the right thing and oh boy it clears the doubt instantly. Thank you very much Sir.
Big thank you for the pause advise, I paused with cue near to white rather than at the back swing and it has improved my accuracy immensely.Find all your tutorial videos a great help and well presented.
Hi, I want to thank you for explaining the pauses so clearly which helped me understand a mistake I was doing for years. I have been trying to imitate cue action of Lee(My Fav), and Murphy for years with pause at back which ruin my cue action and makes me couldn’t cue straight. I tried your cue action today and can follow through better and understand what I was doing wrong. I was forcing myself in doing what was not suitable for me. Thx and will practise more
hello mate just wanna sat ur videos are awsome I had no clue how to control the white until I started watching ur videos thanks alot dude keep up the good work ... I even cancelled my coaching session only cuz of you thanks 4 saving my money too
I've just started playing league snooker and am looking to improve my consistency. Found this very useful, thanks! Hoping I can achieve that 83 break like the comment below (my current highest is 62 from from quite a few years back now!)
Hello,Your videos helps me alot brother please keep going and make more videos.I am 15 years old and I like this game very much,I want to make a career with Snooker please keep helping me..♥️
Thanks so much Steve, your videos are really helping me out a lot! I am one of the only girls who plays at my local club and sometimes it's hard to find someone who is willing to practice with me or coach me, so these videos are a great help. I hope you will gain more subscribers in the future! :-)
In Steve we have a world class snooker coach for free!!! I hope you make a quid out of this Steve, you thoroughly deserve to! Even I get clarity when I watch your videos and that's saying something 😋
Aah!!! What I wouldn't give to play just one shot as perfectly as you do!!! That frustration just reminds me of that railway station ghost from the movie 'Ghost', who feels similarly for just one smoke.
Hi Steve - some grest points in there ! If you watch Anthony McGill's vid on cue action he talks about having three pauses in the action - i used to have no pause at the end of the backswing and i introduced one and ita been a gamechanger for me - i guess its about what feels right for individual - i used to have no pause at the end of the feathers and introduced one! Its been a real change! Keep up the great work mate!
Hi Chris. Thanks again for the positive comments. Yes, I have seen Anthony's McGill's video on the pauses. Really good video. As I say in this video, it's about finding out what best works for a player. You're getting on great with a pause at the end of your backswing, so don't stop doing that.
I enjoy your videos and have learned so much from you. If I ever make it to the UK to watch a live snooker event, I will plan to book a few sessions with you (should you offer a day crash course and be taking on any new clients that is).
I love your videos and have watched most of them. Great information, analysis and camera angles which help demonstrating what you are trying to explain. I'm very detail oriented and I like that. However, you contradicted yourself in a couple of videos. For example, in this video you are saying to hit from the elbow while In a lot of videos, you show how you drop your elbow in your delivery. I myself drop the elbow as I found it works best for my cue action. I used to throw my upper arm and elbow when I am hit from the elbow.
Hi! Thanks a lot for watching the videos. I really appreciate your support 🙂 I think whenever I talk about dropping the elbow, I'm very careful to talk about it happening AFTER the delivery. For a lot of players, they don't use a very long backswing, and then hit by purely using elbow drop, and that's not what good players are going. So hitting from the elbow.... AND THEN... dropping the elbow is acceptable and a technique used by a lot of players. What I'm trying to get across in a generic video, is that you don't want to hit using elbow drop. You hit from the elbow, and then drop it AFTER the strike (if that's you're natural tendency).
@@BartonSnooker I agree...I had that problem as well. Of all the different elements of technique and cue action, in my humble opinion and due to the difficulties I have experienced, I find that the grip and how it works with cue delivery is the most important. Most professionals like Steve Davis (whom I followed his advice religiously) and Sean Murphy, who are benchmarks as far as technique and cue action, don't stress much emphasis on how it works I believe it just came natural to them and that's why they assume everyone will get it naturally. Thank you again for your great in detail analysis of these elements of technique and cue action.
One question regarding the neck/head position. If you were to stand up from a stance position without moving anything from the waist up, would your neck and head be pointing upwards at almost a 45 degree angle?
Just had a great session practising at my local club. I believe that now that I am hitting from the elbow and employing a second pause as you advocate that this will promote a better chance of hitting through the ball? Thanks again.
Hi Des! Yeah you're exactly right. Everything I talk about in my videos all adds up to an incremental improvement in lots of different areas, leading to higher consistency.
No 5 I’m hoping will help me greatly. I’ve tried (?) to play snooker for many years and never heard about that aspect of the action!? Thanks very much. I really enjoy your clear and informative tuition and have subscribed. Keep up the good work.
I’ve only just discovered your channel and videos. Thanks for the great tips! Can I ask a quick question regarding step 4? Is the power of the each shot determined by how far you pull the cue back when feathering the cue? Does speed of delivery come into play or do you always deliver the cue at the same speed and just pull the cue back less for a gentle shot and further back for a heavier shot? Hope that makes sense. I think this might be where I’m going wrong as I don’t always hit my chest when cuing. I’m a div 2, club league player and trying to make more consistent 20-30 breaks (my max is only 37) but I’m so inconsistent, I can’t even get to 16 a lot of the time as I miss ones I should be getting right after potting a few really good ones with fairly good position! I always address the table the same way and my stance is always the same with a straight back leg in line with the shot so I think I’m ok there. I don’t always hold my cue in the same place so that’s my main inconsistency. Can that make a big difference to cuing straight? Can you please explain how far back to hold the cue with the right hand? Thanks, Chris.
Great video and so much help. Thanks . But i have a question… How is it that i have seen Alex Higgins shift his whole body on shooting but yet it goes in? He seems to go against all this advice? Seriously I’m genuinely curious on how he has become a world champion by being so unorthodox.
Nice clear explanation for dummies like me 😊. The section after Range of Motion is named Heating from the elbow. Can this be edited out? It hurts my eyes 😭
Nice work mate give us some guide on potting angles and throw of cue ball i am a begginer with a break of 20 but i still didnot recognise the basic angles and miss simple shots
At 09:44 you should have given example of Ronnie as he plays with shoulder muscle not only from elbow. Thanks. I hope you will mention this thing in your next video.
Is there a guide line for the length of follow through? I was just thinking should it be around 16.5 cm, the circumference of a ball? To maximise the contact with the ball? Thank you very much for sharing your meticulous observations and you explain things very well. Just need to get down to the club and practice them. All the best.
I so much enjoy your instructions and find them extremely helpful. Well edited videos. You deserve so many thanks. HOW CAN I GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRIVATE TRAINING?! I hope to receive your response.
its interesting to note that John Higgins and other players at a good level that i've seen are 2-3 inches away from the CB at address but they don't have a problem. So I guess there is some leeway on this but its certainly not something id recommend from a coaching or players POV
today i spent hours in club and figured out that i bent my arm too much and my weight goes to my right leg and thats why my face is angling different. do you have any video on body weight? dont know what happend to my game but years ago a coach told me to flattern the cue to bed of the table and since then my body weight changed , i dont see much gap between table and cue although i feel my body weight is balanced, but i heard that lots of weight should be on left leg, but when i do that the butt of the cue comes offline to the right. can you help me? tnx
Great channel! Loving your videos so far. Wondering what you think of Kyren Wilsons cue action? I notice he pauses on the back swing, then starts to slowly stutter the cue forward and then plays the shot. Very unusual style!
I agree it is an unusual style Wilson has. It seems like a lot of effort to strike the ball but he's managed to get it to work. His new turned in stance is a bit odd too..
Thanks for the video, one question though i've always have this problem, i was told to lock my shoulder and play with the elbows and i've done that all my life but the problem is my stroke is making my cue move up and downwards instead of dead straight. for instance, when my arm is pointing straight down my cue is at the lowest position, and at the end of my backswing and after i play the shot at the end of the follow through my cue is lifted upwards. i feel it is natural if the shoulder is locked because the elbow is now moving at a sort of round circular motion. I try to look closely at how ronnie plays and he drops his shoulder considerably on his follow through and when i look more closely his shoulder isn't locked while feathering either, i believe thats what allows him to have a stroke thats dead straight, please advise. Thanks again and please keep this up. Subscribed!
Hi there. I'm really glad the video has helped you. What you need to do is relax your shoulder muscles slightly on the backswing. If you watch this video closely: can you see the way I allow my elbow to move down slightly on the backswing? This allows me to keep the cue nice and flat to the bed of the table. When I say 'hit from the elbow', it is really that you MOSTLY want to hit from the elbow. You don't want to use the shoulder muscles like I show in this video. But, when you hit from the elbow, if your elbow then drops very slightly after you make contact with this white ball, that is absolutely fine. Hope that helps. Thanks again.
I have significantly improved my potting since using this technique. But my positional play and ball control is poor. Any type of routine to improve this?
Hello Steve how are you , I am from Pakistan. Snooker is my life I love snooker, I want to be good player but my cue action is just same as Marco fu , I can't my cue back and forward in action ,when ever I pull back my cue ball just stop I can't make reverse because of my cue action plz help me how can i change my cue action
Hello! It just sounds like you need to practice this new cue action some more. Start off with some easier shots, where is not much distance between the cue ball and the object ball. Then work up to some more difficult shots. So maybe put some more distance between the white ball and the object ball. You need to make sure you really are hitting the bottom of the cue ball when you strike. A lot of people dip the cue and then they don't actually hit where they are aiming. So make sure you hit the cue ball nice and low. Then make sure you push all the way through the cue ball. This is not easy and it takes practice just like anything else you have to learn. Good luck and I hope that helps 🙂
@@BartonSnooker thanks Steve I sure it will help which you told me but Steve you don't tell me what I do with my cue action which just same like Marco fu, I can't take my cue backward and forward
Sir, what is your opinion about slip strokes/skip shots (someone suggested transitioning optimally if can - as forces proper backswing & follow thru..as well as overcomes “tightening” under pressure
Hello there! Could you please explain to me why, in some cases for pro players it might be useful to put more distance between the tip and the cueball when addressing position? See e.g. John Higgins - he's been bridging somewhat (an inch or so?) further away from the cueball for a couple of seasons now. I'm certain he knows what he's doing; I'm just curious, why it could be beneficial to do that. More cue power? Better timing?
Hello. l have a question about O'Sulivan's elbow. When he delivers the shot, he lowers his elbow very low to continue the shot. He's one of the rare players to play like this. Could you considerate this as a mistake and you would recommand to keep the elbow high ? or is it just a way to play and it doesn't affect the shot ?
Some players lower the elbow, others do not. Ronnie, Mark Williams, Shaun Murphy, Mark Selby..... All these players drop the elbow after the strike to allow them to smoothly accelerate through the ball. Ding, Trump, Robertson.... These players don't drop their elbow. It purely comes down to the player and whether or not the elbow drop is causing a problem in the striking the ball. The problems can occur when the elbow is dropping BEFORE or DURING the strike of the cue ball. So for some players it may cause a problem. But this is purely down to individual technique. So, dropping the elbow is not a problem as long as the player is hitting the ball correctly. It's very individual.
help... my head position is different while standing but when i am down my head is abit facing towards 1 o clock and line would look offline. feels like i sight with right eye while standing but when down i use left eye how do i fix this problem? tnx
Sir I've asked you about my stance position that i feel it very painful to make textbook stance, so you've recommended me to bend my lineup leg a little bit, thank god it worked for me and now i am looking at the angles very clearly, but the only issue i face is when i bend my lineup leg, than my stance is not very stable, i shake alot while bending my leg. Can you please recommend me something
Make sure you are still standing with the feet in the correct position. Have the feet shoulder width apart. Then all you can do is try to stay as still as you can on the shot. There are a few professional players that stand this way: Kyren Wilson, Ricky Walden, Mark King, Peter Ebdon. Just try to have your feet in a solid position like I explain in my 'Walking Into The Shot' video. Good luck!
Thank you for the quality video. I wonder if I should stick the cue to my rib cage while feathering. I'm currently doing it, the pivot point guides the cue and makes me feather straighter. However, when I'm actually playing the shot, my wrist will pump into my rib cage when I'm trying to cue through the cue ball, throwing my follow-through slightly off-line, especially when I'm playing power shots. Should I keep doing it?
That's a good question. I find I do the same thing on the follow though. I e my grip hits my rib cage and moves the cue off line slightly. Presumably, this can impart side on the ball especially with more power in the shot. I've watched lots of coaches videos and no one has mentioned this issue. Like you, I like my cue close to my side for control. I've tried experimenting with my stance in such a way as to move my body further a way from the cue line but lose control on the cue action.
i cannot lineup shots ? when i am standing up and i put my right leg on line of aim (my foot is pointing straight ) i tried turning 45 degree too but, i always lineup object ball to the left of pocket, no matter how best i try. dont know somehow due to my right eye dominant while standing up i am already facing 1 oclock and that is why the object goes to left of pocket and my cue butt is always offline. the only way that sometimes it works is if i turn my right leg (right handed player) inwards but feels uncomfortable....i have been playing with this problem for 6 years now. cant fix it , any tip? tnx
