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Yeah Mike, you and 50,000 others, myself included. Sometimes I feel like just packing it up and walking out right then, but if you do, you never get any better.
Great practice routine. It should get me comfortable potting colours. I usually get swollen feet whenever I realise that I have to pot a colour and end up missing and messing.
I practice on a little 4ft table at the moment due to covid but i practice the colours by playing them in turn from the yellow and then playing from the black back up to the yellow to simulate the end of a frame, 4 clearances is my best to date
Hi man..from India..here we call this "Race"...where u play with colours we also put a red ball between pink and black ..if u pot it u will get 10 points and if misses deduction of 10 points from your score..so even if it is dead straight we feel nervous...but i am amazed by your potting skills...easliy made a 195 break..specialy around black ball..my highest is 50...will try to improve..thanks mate..👍👍
There is no end on your talent, you make it look so easy ;) i'll have to try this one, hopefully over at your club, some day...when travel is possible again.
Loving the videos Steve, so informative and lots of snooker knowledge, I'm currently working with one of your WPBSA colleagues to improve my game so hopefully after lockdown and after new year, we'll try this one and aim for the 50+ break :)
Great content as usual Steve. I was wondering if you could do a short tutorial on how to play shots when the balls are less than six inches apart. I always find it difficult to find the potting angle when there's barely any distance between the cue and object balls. Any help would be very welcome.
Hey Steve, I tried this exercise today. 5 attempts 1. 29 2. 14 3. 55 4. 80 5. 140 unfortunately ended with a kick on blue. nice exercise! 😉 Thanks for your great videos! Greetings from Germany 👍🏻
We in Afghanistan play with friends this way (4-5 guys) but with some rules, 1 : you can’t pot one ball more than 3 times in a row 2 : there is one red near the left black pocket if you pot it that’s 10 point but if you miss it, it’s -10 3 : table resets with potting yellow Would appreciate it if you add a red in the table and make a video on it with our rules. ( that one red is around 2-3 centimeter away from bulk cushion and 15-20 centimeter away from black’s left corner pocket )
Brother awesome video once again. We call this century break at our local clubs, usually 3 or more (upto 10-12 guys at a time) gather. All the colors at their spots, and a single red placed between pink and blue. The objective is to score 100 points. All colors have normal values, except red which is 10 points, but if you miss it, 10 points are deducted from your overall score. Our players are not as good as maybe intermediate players as well, so scoring 100 takes some time always. every one has their shots in a certain order which is repeated. We have a player at our club, his name is Umair. He is an excellent player, he usually makes a century break on one shot, so sometimes to up the challenge he says he is gonna score 300 or 400 and he still gets out. The last man remaining pays for the whole game, which is charged based on hours. Edit :- You can not take a color more than 3 times in a row, you have to move to another color within the break Also there is no rest, you have to make positions such that you dont have to rest. And also sometimes we make 2 groups and each group has to score 500 or more. Group may consist of 4-6 guys on each side.
@@PhatElvis7 we take a page out and note everyone's scores according to the order of the shots. The best part is when someone tries to pot a red and misses it, or fouls on any other color (white goes off, not hitting the ball they were supposed to, or hitting another ball than they were supposed to, you know, normal fouls), we shout, MINUS HIM.
The game you mentioned is being played at your club on regular basis except we set a number for the players to achieve. Intermediate players set for around 300 or more and there is usually more than 3 players in one game.
I'm lucky that my stepfather is quite well off, and has a snooker table in his house. He doesn't really use it so I can just go and practise... I managed about a 60 break with this routine, you made it look easy. It's not but it's a great way to practise, especially if you start on the yellow.
My coach let me play my first game last night and I made a 147 break, I am from Bangladesh. Along with my coach I'd like to thank you, Ronnie O'Sullivan,and Judd Trump
Hi Steve, from Australia. This looks like a fantastic practice routine... for developing both potting skill and cue ball control. Maybe you should limit yourself to only being able to pot each coloured ball no more than five times consecutively.
Brill thanks Steve will give this a try when the club reopens....can I ask your thoughts on the new chalk all the pros seem to be using? I still use the old stuff lol
@@BartonSnooker And another idea for a review...try out that new Titanium ferrule that i hear and read about please, you probably have a second cue laying somewhere where you can test it on.
@@Delphiwizard I see the difference chalk could make but not the ferrule - at least not to the actual mechanics involved... Of course it may look somewhat nicer and not tarnish like a brass one and if this is pleasing then it can instill a little extra confidence, which can make a difference, just like if you have a nice looking cue or set of golf clubs :)
I use Elk Master Pro Soft. But it all comes down to what you personally prefer. I like the feel a soft tip gives me. But other players prefer a harder more solid tip. My best advice is to try a few tips and settle on what you like the feel of.
Update. Got 177 this morning !!! First time ever making over 100 in any drill or lineup I do have a rule not to pot same ball more than 3 times in a row
Excellent video Steve. I work in a different country and don't want to travel back home to the UK with my cue (when I can). If I come see u for some sessions, do u have spare cues or can recommend where i could test and buy locally to you? Or would it be essential that I bring my old trusted cue?
I have a spare cue, yes. A handmade cue so it is very good quality. You would be more than welcome to use that in our session. Dean Jones Cues is the only one local to me. Google than name and his details will come up. It's not essential that you bring your own cue to a session, although it's always nice to use your on familiar cue.
in pakitan we play fifty century and 3-4 players or more can play the one left at last pays and the rule is to not use the rest and also cant pot the ball twice
Well we play century but with some different rules you can pot a ball maximum 3 times. And the top 2 players don't pay. And red have 10 points but if you misses the red there will be -10 lol. And you can reset the table after you pot yellow ball😂
20 or 30 if you're starting out? From my experience, if you are starting out and you're not an absolute natural, the best you can hope for in this drill is 2 and not even on a regular basis. Such a drill only makes sense if your potting is halfway decent, if you manage to push the cue where you are aiming most of the time. For a beginner (granted: we may not have the same definition for the term "beginner"), this drill is far more frustrating than beneficial, I believe. Nevertheless: It is a great drill. Keep it up! Great content.
I Saw the whole video u can hit 1 colour many times in our county u should hit only one colour at atime then u hit the next clour u cant hit same colour .make video
Hi! Very soft tip. It's a Elk Master Pro Soft. The softest one they do. It just sounds hard because I'm wearing a clip on microphone for the audio. So gives a strange sound to the tip 🙂
@@MrJdsenior it's difficult to tell on a video, and especially with microphones. Keep practicing John. All the routines I show in my videos I practiced and then improved and felt more comfortable with them.
@@BartonSnooker Here's a funny story for you. I have a guy I shoot with every now and again from down under that came within a smidgin (one ball, I think) of winning the Australian snooker open many many years back. I asked him one time if he could look at my shooting and maybe suggest a few things that I'm doing wrong that I could correct, and he, totally deadpan, shook his head, and quietly and flatly said "There's too much". I about fell out of my chair laughing. Didn't see that one coming. I hadn't had that good a belly laugh in a while. He's a great guy and still about 900X better than I am. And that's now, as he says he absolutely stinks compared to back then. He says pool in the States has ruined him and when he goes back and plays guys he used to easily beat, he usually gets a thorough trouncing. Thought you might enjoy that, I did. Thx again for the vids, if I ever get back to a table (lock down) I will re-watch and implement some of it. I actually have a fair amount of pool knowledge for a rank amateur, far more than my pathetic level of play would indicate. Come to think of it, at my level of play, that doesn't require much. Cheers.
@@MrJdsenior hehe! Nice sorry John. Snooker is a lot different to pool. The potting alone in snooke requires a very consistent and disciplined technique. I'm sure after following all my tips, you will see the improvements you want.
In our countries we should start break from 5 like blue colour u should start break from blue it would be very helpful hit like if any one agree with me
Just a bit of fun. Spell check raises its ugly head once again. Keep up the good work love your coaching.locked down in Ireland so no snooker for months.
