Why You Don't Improve At Snooker | Common Mistakes 

Excellent again Steve, a 'mantra' to follow from Graeme Fowler"s book, if you train Sloppy then you play Sloppy. As you say, you ain't learning if you ain't focused & playing with purpose.

Hey Steve great video as always! Would love to see you make a video regarding power. For some reasons we amateurs can’t find the sweet spot of smooth strike and a powered shot, we either hit too soft that doesn’t generate enough spin or too hard that makes us miss the pot altogether or if we do pot, we barely generate spin. Thanks in advance ❤️

Headcam a must for new players thanks

A master class as usual. It's really helpful & appreciated. Thanks coach.

Useful, as always, thank you 🙏🏻

Thankyou Mr Barton. Nice stuff.

Great video as always ❤

nice video Steve... it's good to understand the reasoning behind why we should or shouldn't do things... I think I noticed a comment stemming from one of our discussions in there lol. Great video my friend.

Superb teaching

Awesome video, really amazing 👍

Hello 😊Thanks for the update 😌😌

Great video as usual Steve. 👍

Thanks!

Great coach... I am trying to correct that.... I have to practice more

I'm not sure if misses are caused mostly by cue action, or from bad sighting. My coach tells me it's mostly cue action, but I can take a simple shot and miss it anyway because of bad sighting. When I concentrate too much I start to miss because I see shadows and lighting on the balls that confuse me. If I play faster, my intuition for potting angles is better and I don't get problems with lighting and shadows, but I make more mistakes in the cue action which also results in misses. The best days are the ones where I can play at a tempo that allows me to cue OK and not concentrate too much on the balls.

Get rid of bad habits first before you doing long sessions, otherwise you will just ingrain the bad ones and make it harder to undo them. Practice makes perfect yes, but it's a double edged sword..

Another top class video Steve! Best wishes to you Steve😊😊

Your videos have proved very helpful for me. As I have told you before, upload new videos as soon as possible. Today was my final of my tournament and I won it. The full credit for which goes to you and your videos, thank you very much ❤

Hey mate thanks for sharing amazing learning snooker skills. Wondering if you could also teach how to play an arc shoot, I mean lets say how to pot brown ball in the center pocket on the screw back shoot hitting the cushion behind the yellow/green/brown making an arc and taking the cue ball towards the blue/pink. Thanks

The best advice ever heard, play with plan and perpuse to improve in yr game 🙏🙏 thnx S. Barton

Thnx guru

Steve,you is the best.Thanks!

Great video Steve. I've just come across your channel and I like the way you debunk some common myths. Your one on the aiming method and how stuff like the ghost ball is a load of nonsense was excellent

Nice video Steve I have started to improve every week now with your tips, I seem to be getting more consistent. Only problem, at the moment I am recovering from a major operation on my abdomen which will stop me bending over for a while. Maybe I will go in and just practice using the rest for a while, being only 5' tall I am usually not too bad but any tips you can provide may come useful. Chris

Another great video Steve! One question if you don't mind?... I've been trying to stay consistent with the thought process, walk in, straight cueing and keeping my head still etc, and it's really helped so thank you. One thing I have noticed though is that I sometimes have a dip in my cueing. It's a slight dip on my back swing and then strike the cue ball as normal. For some reason it feels like I'm able to get a bit more action on the cue ball and also feels a bit less rigid if that makes any sense? Is this a bad habit and should I steer away from doing it?

Hendry was at the John Parris cue factory last week, and the tip they put on the cue ended up with a great dome and looked great, of course my tip looks nothing like that, would you get more action on the cue ball with the bigger dome, also the point on the fine cloth they also have heated tables now, don't they?

As always sir ❤

Love it.

Amazing

Pls make a video on " Using different sticks on different tables" N also difference between premium balls and 1g balls and it's impact

The approach is the one for me, seems every coach has a different technique

Sorry if this has been asked a hundred times before, what camera is that you use on the table?

I’ve become a better player since switching my sight from object ball to cue ball in shots. Is this a bad habit? Or is it okay?

Is it possible to book online and remote lessons?

🙏👍

I noticed that there were 2 occasions, forgot the first one, the second one happened at 8.40 minutes in which you basically aimed just slight below centre to do the screw back shot but in real action you actually hit way below the point you aimed. Is there a particular reason for it ? More spin ? Thank you.

Love the British accent

Unless the cue ball is struck at your chosen point every time then you will always introduce an error in how the white behaves. you will always have an uncontrolled variable in that the white does not travel where you expect which is primary reason for no improvement. This is key and Joes Davis book stated this clearly, the hardest thing in snooker is striking cue ball where intended. Only then can you clearly blame hitting object ball to thick or thin when you miss so down to only one variable . Unless you can get to one variable then zero improvement. The game is that hard and so precise whit striking the white. No secrets or magic about this just sound control of the cue

Hi Steve,great video as always. Ps. Why don’t I see any snooker players using carbon fiber cue shafts?

I can’t understand how I can smash in 2 or 3 long blues then miss the exact same shot 2 or 3 times despite doing everything the same. It’s maddening. 😢

Hello Barton i always miss the long balls 😢 and I can't play screw back as well play a lot of foul how can I improve

I need to get to a state where I don't care who's watching. It's kinda embarrassing going to the club and practising a lineup or other drills when you are just an average player. I imagine the other people are thinking "look at this dude with his John Parris cue, who does he think he is...Ronnie?!". When nobody is around I play so much better! I'm in Cape Town and you never see people just practising alone. They only play matches against other people. Plus, I'm always the only white dude in the club so I think they are wondering what I'm doing there. Right...tomorrow I'm gonna go to the club and blank everybody else out and just do some quality solo practice.

Is feathering 100% necessary? Marco Fu for example doesn't feather. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r8x7oN5vq88.html

Great cue tips

Pls translate your language in hindi