The EASY Way To Escape The Most CHALLENGING Snookers 

Maybe your editors could put a cue ball on the screen showing a marker where you hit each time? Would be great for us begginers. Keep up the great videos 👍🏻

Having a 7-time world champion make mistakes whilst giving tips shows just how impressive players are and how easy they make it look. Especially when you know all tables are different and you have to adapt to them. Makes all the mistakes us amateurs make less demoralising.

Steve your a fantastic natural presenter. Thanks.

I really appreciate leaving in the misses. Very authentic and honest

Glad I have a little bit more of an understanding how to get out of snookers now. Amazing how players just know the angle so well.

Great video, Stephen. As a vfx artist I think this video could really do with some graphic overlays like some dotted lines or some arrows to indicate the spin and angles. I know it costs a bit of money but with a static camera it's relatively easy to create some simple overlays to help explain what's going on. Message me if you want to know more. Keep it up, love the channel!

I would like Stephen to chat with Ray Reardon .Reardon was very well for six time world champion approaching a different type of century. The 2 players careers perhaps only briefly overlapped and the conversation would be interesting because of the different circumstances of the game and different obstacles in achieving a successful snooker careers.

Your mistakes are what makes this for me. If a player of your calibre makes them so unashamedly regularly then it really highlights what a difficult skill it is. Your delivery is great. Plenty of other channels have graphics showing where to strike, just keep doing what your doing 😊

How do you do a double? Where do you hit? How do you work out the angle? Especially if it's tight on the cushion, thanks

Yet another fantastic video Stephen , i have watched every one so far and i have not seen a bad one yet , keep them coming !!!!!

I really wish I had this channel 20 yrs ago to learn from... I remember from early 00's BBC commentary saying all pro's mainly play shots plain ball... they never spoke or taught about side.

When there is a ball in the natural way to escape a snooker as you put the red one we should go to the other side of the table to escape from snooker Steven ...😊 Just for fun Steven 😂 Pretty much knowledgeable , love from Pakistan ❤

Learning from the best, is truly a privilege , thank you Stephen, great videos.

Very informative video, you speak of bulk lines on the cue ball, any chance you could explain what you mean? Love the channel.

Great content! I really appreciate how you include misses in your videos.

Stephen hendry is becomming my favorite snooker chanell and do a video with ronnie o'sullivan !!!!!!!!

Great stuff! In Canada we usually refer to 'clock' positions for right or left spin, like 2 o'clock for a little top right and 7 o'clock for low left spin.

Love this channel Stephen.

Shows he is only human and doesn’t make every shot. Not the edited junk you get now a days making everyone look amazing first time every time after 100 tries 😂 I used to hate watching him when he was pro… how wrong I was he is genuinely a great guy

Top of the pops channel! 👍🏼

Solid work stephen

Great tips as always.

I'm a simple man. I see a Hendry video, I watch it.

What an absolute legend you are

I just came from watching Hendry vs Hallett | 1991 Masters Final what a match to watch I wish Stephen could go over what was going through his mind and how did he keep his cool

Great stuff I'm just amazed you use your cue to move the balls around

Stephen. You are a seven time world champion and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time in a sport that is LITERALLY all about angles. You cannot say you are bad at geometry. Ever. 😂

Great tip again Stephen

Top tier channel

As always enjoyed it Cheers

One point to remember here also is "cueball SPEED" the speed you play the shot also effects how the cueball will come off the cushion. Set the white up for a "double" to the middle pocket. No object ball....just the white. Place a little bit of chalk on the table so you can keep hitting from the same spot. Now try to pocket the white ball via a simple double. The harder you hit the white the more the angle will close....try it.

love the chanel. Thinking camera filming bit more square on to the table would be handy for showing angles sometimes, I would never have guessed the blue spot was level with the black if you hadn't said. intresting though, would never have thought side was a good shout for two cusions.

I'm not a seven time world champion, but I once made a break of 26 and I can give you a que tip.... at 1.20 in the video come around this side of the table and play off the other cushion... thanks for coming ;-D

Pov would be great, just too see exactly where u hit on the cueball. Still great videos as always

One comment you made on commentary is let the cue do the work not the arm , potted 10x better the day after . So thank you 🙏

Stephen is very much a 'feel'' player in this area, whereas if you go look up American Pool you'll find a number of systems (no diamonds on a snooker table of course) that translate well to snoooker, i.e. 2-rail escapes.

Nice lad Stephen

Practice off the baulk line. Start with the white on the brown spot, running along the baulk line ,using side to double the white into corner & side pockets. Follow it with moving aim above & below the baulk line using running or check side.

have a chat with the nugget as i remember him explaining a theory he was given that found the aiming point for escapes everytime i remember him being amazed by it something to do with imagining a line extending beyond the cushion and were two points crossed but it was awhile ago

Once games / practice time falls away, it is natural that the instinct for how much running / check side is required on a snooker on a specific table fades.

Should have played it one handed like Williams! 😂

I remember a third year physics homework problem about figuring out the proportional height of the point of the cushion to get the "plain ball" bounce angle to equal the incoming angle. I think it's 3/5 of the height of the cue ball

Perhaps when your talking about running side and check side what not you could specify why in this certain scenario with the black and the red that right hand side is running side. I understand it but often when I’m playing and trying to think about which is which it gets a little confusing

Hi Stephen when you come to China, I m your fans for 30 years, Im from Harbin you were in the city we all miss you hope you back to china home to fight black 8 ))

3:43 me when I try to impress a girl with my skills on the table.

Must have been recorded a while ago! Stephen is currently sat in the winter Gardens analysing the snooker for the BBC! 😅

I tried a 3-cushion escape the other day, almost jokingly, and hit the object ball perfectly. I was so happy. I saw Ronnie do a 5 cushion escape and was amazed. Are multi-cushion hits just something you have to feel, or are there guidelines based on complex math?

Thanks for the cue tips. Have heard other professional players say that 2 or even 3 cushions shots increase the odds of striking the object ball. Always enjoy your videos.

I'd like to also see how side is affected by pace: you hit the first shots softly, but what would have happened with pace? For example, the "two baulk line check side" miss, would that have hit the pink if you had used more pace?

I just wanted to know what is your opinion about the conversation that wbetween Ronnie O'Sullivan and Hossein Vafaei?

Really Stephen? I'm flabbergasted all I can say is have a look at some of the 8 Ball pool tutorials like Tor Lowry or even American pool coach Dr.Cue, there's great info there, I'm amazed that a great player like you messes around like that in this video, please show more of the hard table videos sorry this video was a little too oopsidaisy for me

I feel this is something you almost can't teach....you can learn tye techniques from a good coach but you really need to practise a lot and learn the feel of how side/check side works. A lot of practice for this one.

Single cushion escapes are more difficult than two or three cushions and players miss in games all the time, sometimes two or three times in a row which is why we often get to hear “foul and a miss” in Snooker

Easier said than done, personally I’ve played snooker since I was 7yrs old and still struggle from time to time. I think practice makes perfect cuz sidespin just can’t be taught

would do a jump shot !!!!

I am no snooker genius, but I would have just hit the pink off the other cushion! :D

Would Pythagoras have been a good snooker player? Knowing angles and feeling angles are totally different. Ronnie is no Einstein but he feels the angles.

So running side widens the angle, or narrows it depending on how you look at it. That's cleared that up. #clearupandwintheframe

Please get Jimmy white on while your all in Sheffield or John Virgo or Dennis Taylor but Jimmy would be great

what happened in that last shot? I got that running side widened it off the first cushion, but then was Stephen saying that off the second cushion it narrowed the angle?

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Mmmm! Best answer is pot the cue ball in that situation and let muggins have a difficult long pot! 😂😂

You need to make a video with Jack Lisowski some day :)

To be honest on the second shot I would have played off the other cushion 😎

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Get Ronnie on this week while you’re at the crucible 🎉

Check side is the devil 😆

What is a 'boalk line worth' of side?

Surely the running side widens the angle on the first cushion but narrows it off the second custom

I'd have just come off the cushion he was cueing over!

Whats a baulk line?

Regarding this video, 2 cushion esacpe, in your sense, there is only one first point of contact, because this is your experience, but for beginners, even in parallel online, there are infinite. eg. "X" point is the first contact point, why not move it to the right by 3 inches, and it is also a 2 parallel line. If 1 inch is used as a gap, dozens of lines will be generated. Now the problem is actually how to find the first contact point. For example this tutorial ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z1f5lQBh1iU.html It does point out how to find the first point, but I don't think all pros use this method, because they never find any middle point based on their line of sight thanks Master

I do wonder how much variation there is between tables. As an integral part of the game it must make it quite difficult for the player.

Yeah, some graphics would have been better here. Fun anyway.

You got outta enough Stephen in your career

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Love your series even as a none snooker player, but to call this 'Escape the Most CHALLENGING Snookers' is a bit of a stretch.

IN a match you only get one go at it there must be a better way.

If Mr Ian Doyle was still with us, what would his opinion be on you're half arsed, wild carded effort last week? Honestly would love to know.. I think you've got too many 'stephen can turn up in his undercrackers if he wants' and not enough doyles.. First you've got to fall in love with the game again, cue tips looks like it's in a unit? You're not going to practise there... Get Binghams setup at home, get yourself down to local clubs, watch old fellas who play for the love, not the glory. Its better than hitting a ping with Terry, you've just forgot.. Your 18/1 for the seniors, before I waste a pound again, can you at least let us know you've been practising between commentary, it's rained the past fortnight, so you can't of played friggin golf!

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Why isnt jimmy white came to the channel .?

Is it me or there is something funny about a seven times world campion missing single cushion escape twice in a row lol. 😂😂😂

Just use the other cushion Stephen 🙄

I'm not a fan of a snooker frame ending when a player gets so far in front and the other player nods to concede the frame. So how about a new format that makes all the balls and points relevant. Frame 1 Play until the final black with the difference of the end score being added to the player. Example Final score player A 28 v player B 98. Differnce of 70 so player B gets 70 points at the end of the frame. First player to reach X (300 or 500 or whatever). This would force playing right down to the final black every game because every point on the table would be worth fighting for.

Stephen, i think Mr McManus should feature more on your channel :)

Are you allowed to chalk the table though. Not sure if that's in the rules or not