@Gazza - I agree. Alex Higgins and Jimmy White started to play like this which helped the later players to start realizing what it is possible and practice even more
Amazing shots. My late Father introduced me and my two brothers to snooker years ago. What an incredibly difficult game of positioning. Great memories. Thanks for posting the vid.
A wonderful cross-section through the history of snooker. Unfortunately, the music spoils the fun of it. This is a sport of absolute calm and high concentration. Whoever mixed in this music did not understand anything! But okay, I'll just give the video a "Like".
@@terryshiells1527 Yeah he was hoping to get the cue ball on or as close to the baulk rail as possible, what makes the shot impressive though is Davis had to get a thin contact first and foremost and would have known the possibility of it running in behind the brown but to say he played the shot is totally wrong because the shot was not under full control. Still a good escape though.
When your opponent claps and smiles you know you've done something special. These guys spend so much time playing the percentages that when they go for something outrageous and it comes off you realise just how skilled they are.
It was indeed an amazing shot. However, I think the best shot is one I cant find on you tube anywhere, from Jimmy. He was totally snookered, white down bottom of table, object ball top of table along cushion. He simply couldn't get to it. Spent a while thinking about it. In end he worked his magic. He played it off the top right pocket jaws at speed, so that cue call wobbled in the jaws themselves, then came out along the top cushion and hit the object ball. It was amazing. If you remember or anyone finds a vid, send me a link!
I saw Alex play an exhibition against Mark Wildman once and he hit the pink so hard into the corner, it bounced onto the rail and ran up it into the middle pocket. The place erupted but somebody shouted do it again. "How much you want to bet?" Said Alex and did the same thing with the black. Afterwards, I asked Mark Wildman surely that couldn't be done and Mark shook his head and said "He's either the luckiest man alive or a genius."
Great video, but Mark Williams plant off the cushion is imho the single greatest snooker shot I have ever seen in over 40 years of both watching and playing the game. Not only was the shot inch perfect and, to my knowledge, unique, it was under the utmost pressure of a World Championship Semi Final, at 13-11, at the start of the 25th frame (i.e. not an exhibition match or crowd pleasing shot when the frame was already won). This shot should be at number 1 in all greatest shots list.
Dear Gareth, I think, imho too, your national bias may be miscuing your judgement. I like Mark Williams a lot and that shot by him was very nice, but it was not really much more than a "double" whilst leaving the white in a fairly safe (ish) position and I, as a very below average player, know if I had a few hundred goes I would make that shot, whereas some of the amazing spin shots from the likes of Alex, Jimmy and nowadays Judd, I could practice and train for a month of Sundays and never get anywhere like the incredible action on the balls that they do. What do you think?. Hope you feel the light-hearted sentiment this was sent with.
@@paulroberts7400 if we all had the same opinions it would be a boring world. Yes I take your comments with good humour. Judd, Jimmy, Ronnie, and Alex are all fantastic players and Judd for me is the most astonishing Potter I've ever seen, however, I have played snooker at County level, and can recreate almost any shot (including Williams's) as I too have the cue power (might take me an hour with some of Judd's!). I just thought that in the context of the match, whilst the frame was live, at a crucial point, that shot by Williams was both inventive, and played to perfection (and the reaction of Dennis Taylor in commentary tells me he agrees 🤣).
If you're looking for rare shots, Mark is the one to (still) deliver. I'm frequently entertained by his no-look, one-handed, backhanded or eyes-closed escape flukes. And his creativity, like the cushion first plant, is second to none. Of course you gotta equally appreciate the hurricane, trump and many others, but for me Mark is just something else. Always great to watch
@@garethrichards9572 Sorry not feeling it either . Ive pulled off marks shot without kudos a few times and im hopeless with a cue . The pace and weight behind davis snooker behind the brown was subline but it will always be jimmys voodoo shot that is beyond another league to everyone . Jud came close to a copycat once but ive yet to see it again in the last 45 years of watching . Mark is by the way my second fave player .
@@trollchong8017 I get that, but Ronnie is soooo good with his left hand, that's why I wouldn't place it so high, but it was a stupendous shot nevertheless.
@@knallpistolen I'm sorry if I disappointed you Jon🙏 He is the father of snooker who actually brought in the actual way of attempting the shots for a thorough development. Alas, I am also a big fan of Ronnie... However, Judd Trump is another player next to Alex Higgins who is bringing new ways for playing snooker with unique techniques of attempting the shots😀🙏😀
Break from life recreates difficult shots and explains how they work. this is a direct link to his jimmy white recreation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K2JdLuPD8WU.html but his whole channel is really cool
Here you can see why Alex Higgins made this sport so popular, some of those shots wouldn't even be thought of by the players of the time and he did them in big matches. Its one thing to try a shot, the other thing is you have to be creative enough to see it.....
No one has the caliber to recreate the shots of the hurricane.. unbelievable, unnatural, out of the box shots.. it seems like he has the power to play shot on one table and pot the ball on another table
Eeeehh... I'm not denying that he was a great player at that time, but to say that no one can recreate them is a bit of a stretch... Apart from the 2 thin cuts and the safety on the pink, the others are questionable. Shoot the black hard, goes onto the rail and ends up in the middle pocket? Fluke. Shoot the brown arround the table for no reason? By the way he jumped up it looks to me that he actually went for the top left pocket and totally misshited it. Shoot the black 3 rails? Also fluke, it was obvious he was going for the 1 rail to the top right, you can see it by his body language as well. And again, the safety on the pink was great, but to say that no one can recreate it is a bit much. I remember o'sullivan playing basically the same shot, so it has been done. The long red and straight into the reds? Yeah, great shot, no doubt about it, "can't be recreated" great? Definitely no, other players play into the pack as well. Again, I'm not taking anything away from him, great player no question, but to call them unnatural?... In a video that contains the famous Jimmy white extreme top spin shot on the pink and the white just stops dead in the middle of the table? Now that's an amazing shot that hasn't been recreated to the same level. Other players have played that shot, no one has played it so perfect that it looks like a video glitch.
it's amazing how "technically wrong" alex higgins seemed.. the stance the bridge the shot.. everything looks so different with that guy. yet still brilliant. what a legend..
I remember a shot I did in the year 1882. I was with the posse at the town sport center. I was shooting at the eight ball which was in front of the 9 ball with
Alex Higgins needed to be one of the best shot makers of all time, because it was the only thing that disguised how horrible a position player he was. The only thing he did more consistently than make freak shots was to lose control of the white and leave the next shot difficult.
I'm sorry, but I didn't see Alex Higgins do anything I couldn't do. Just a lot of cushions and pressission. Jimmy White's massé shot against Ronnie on the other hand was just so spot on. As was his top spin on cushion stop shot against Willie Thorne. And then there is Judd Trump making shots nobody else can. His cue power is in a league of its own.
