CUE-BALL Control Is The KEY To BIGGER BREAKS
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00:00 Intro
00:42 Why is an angled shot harder?
02:30 Don't just play straight shots!
03:44 What could go wrong?
04:46 Learn by playing the same shot
06:23 Height and power make the difference
07:28 5 Red Line-Up
08:30 Cue-ball control is the key!
09:18 Practice your consistency
09:56 Outro
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Thanks for all your uploads. You have genuinely taught me loads and I’mproved my game and I’ve never even met you. I owe you a pint someday.
What's your top break now and what was it before u learnt more from steve
@@MampsUK 63 is my best.....It was mid 20’s for years and years before that. I’m too old to improve much more but I never thought I’d see the day I’d make a half century.
@29memyselfandi well done. Mine is abt 30 odd my ambition is still to make a break 40-60. So how old are u then I'm 47
@@MampsUK I’m 52 mate. Barton Snooker, Break From Life and Barry Stark Snooker are my go to channels. It’s just brilliant to see how you should be lining up the shot, where to hit the cue ball etc etc. Wish the internet had been around when I was young! Repetition is the key. A couple of times I spent my entire session just potting blacks off the spot. The more you do it the easier it gets. I still don’t know an awful lot but I’m better than I thought I’d ever be. I made 63 two years ago but haven’t passed 50 since ( though I’ve probably made a lot of forty odds). Maybe 63 was pinnacle for me! Anyway I’ll keep trying 🙂
@29memyselfandi well done I'm sure you can still reach the 100 mark before u stop playing. Just takes more practice and learning more harder positional shots. What area u from
Fantastic Steve. In 10 minutes you’ve distilled the essence of how important it is to control the white particularly in relation to the distance that you leave yourself from the object ball. I love the trial and error approach with cueball height and power.
Thanks steve ,great video👍
Another great video. Absolutely important to understand the combination of where to hit the CB + power/strength to get ideal position. Thank you Steve!
Steve thank you for your tipps and your effort . Very helpfull video.
A great exercise. I can't wait to try it. Thank you so much.........Sal : )
I think it is the best summary about the more impotant problem in Snooker moving the CB . Thanks a lot for your wide experiance Mr Stive
thanks young man !!
Thank you so much steve for these excellent videos which has improved my game alot
Very informative. Thanks Steve.👍
Absolutely amazing explanation! you explain perfectly in true sense of the word.The visualization makes it incredibly more understandable. Thank you Steve!
Very informative. The real key to all of this is smooth cueing. Yours is phenomenal!
Thanks Steve, I've been trying to focus on my positional play. I think potting angles somewhat take care of themselves with practice, but position is less intuitive, so breaking it down in this video is great!
Can't wait till next Thursday.
I m right on this level and trying to learn such shots and white ball control.
Very beneficial for me....
MANY THANKS
You are doing a great Job. I love your sessions.
Best tutorials on CZcams, cheers Steve 👌🏼
Great tutorial video, as it is more elaborate on how white ball & cue shot needs to be balanced for you to know where the white ball is going. It takes great practice to be able to know that by know the power of shot & where you gonna strike a cue ball. Let me just go back to the pool hall and try this until I am comfortable behind my shots.
Thanks again, Sir... 🙏
Thanks
And as usual - “top class” !
Top video Barton 😁
Brilliant!!!!
Love you bro amazing video thanks 🌺
Love your teaching techniques. You make it look childs play.
Thanks mate your videos encouraging me to return to my local snooker club and get playing again. Thomas
Thanks Steve, great video, I like that you show the different ways that the shot can go wrong so that we can understand better how to play the shot correctly 👍
Thanks Mike. Happy to help 👍👍
Best teacher on the 8nternet ever
Another Great video Steve you are by far the best online snooker coach ….thank you for taking the time to upload these they are really helping my game you make it look so easy but I aspire to do the five (foive) Red lineup clearance
Practice practice practice
Thank you so much Gary! Really great to help. You're doing incredibly well with your progress - it's great to see.
Thanks a lot for the support 🙂
Steve if we had a top 10 snooker video coaching videos, you'd definitely be number 1.Thanks
You are a Big Help sir Thanks for your quality Information and knowledge 💖🆒👍🏻
As always sir ❤️❤️❤️
Video number 129...or so, great stuff, love these weekly videos.
Thank you Franky. Always appreciate your support 😊
That was an awesome video Steve. You make it look so easy when in fact it is so difficult. So easy to over hit the shots and lose the cue ball. Just coming out of lockdown here in NZ.....but snooker club remains closed.
Hurry up L1!
@@arama0010 absolutely mate.
The timing of this video is perfect as I had a really terrible practice session today for pretty much this reason. I’ll give this a try tomorrow. It would be interesting if you could do a video of what to do when you’re playing a match and you’re finding it difficult to pot the simplest of balls
Hi Leah,
Great to help! Also thanks for the video idea. I'm talking to players a lot about that in my session, but it would be a good thing to get on a CZcams vid!
Thanks for watching 🙂
I'm the same leah I have issues with positional play
Muito bom
Hope has a new name. It is Steve.
I m feeling more confident with my touch and feel and for past 6 years i was not able to pot easy balls but now i m potting those with ease.
I m feeling my hand much more now than before.
Thank you Ashish. Great to help and I thank you for the support 🙂🙏
I consider myself a pretty decent player but one thing I sometimes struggle with is finding the absolute center of the white, both vertically and horizontally. It's annoying when you mess up a delicate stun run-through by hitting a bit too low or high or miss a long pot because you put on a trace of unwanted side.
Absolutely. Cueing consistently straight through a ball is a lot more difficult than it sounds. Even Ronnie O'Sullivan sometimes gets frustrated with his cue action and not delivering the cue straight through the ball.
@@MrShamed69 Yea, there are times when he looks like a normal human being, struggling on a snooker table 😁 What he very rarely has problems with is his break building, it's the long game or safety that sometimes gives away
It’s important to count how many times he says “incredibly important” :) great vid btw
Haha! I do have odd little habits 🙂. Thanks so much for watching 👍👍
Eric Morcambe was a great player 😄
He could pot all the balls but not necessarily in the right order.
Sir any home device which can improve my play with softer hand?
It will be good if you can tell where to hit the cue ball to bring the ball to position
sir im only able to make a break of 15 to 20 max.... what should i practice to improve my game
Absolutely exactly Steve..
You aint even playing till you master the white....
Step one,70% of beginners never learn this!! You see these shippers smashing balls about and flying allover the club? They are just clueless and stay like that,great insight Steve and hope the public listen?
Good luck with that!
Love from Pakistan ❤️
I struggle in making a bridge (hand bridge)
I've noticed for me it's not positional play at all, as I most of the time land where I want to, it's rather reading the angles that I lack the most. Guess that needs a little more time, as I have only been playing in a club for a month
U should bo on tour with the pros ,i bet u would win a world title
When you played the pink on 3:50 and screwed the cue ball near the side cushion, the graphics were illustrating hitting low on the cue ball at speed 5. However when you played the pink again on 6:00 and getting the correct intended position, the graphics were illustrating the same hitting low on the cue ball at speed 5.
Perhaps the illustration of the cue delivery speed on the 3:50 shot should be higher.
Yes, exactly right. I made an editing error and forgot to change to cue speed. Sorry about that. But you are right, the cue speed will be different giving the two different results 👍
saw u in golden cue yesterday mate thought u looked familiar lol
Ha! Nice one. What table were you playing on?
@@BartonSnooker table 3, not the best
Would have been great if you had explained the concept of the tangent line . Without that it’s a lot of talk first people need to learn to stun and move the ball along the tangent line . Then learning or understanding the rest becomes easier . Love ur videos though .
Here you go:
czcams.com/video/TR-T_ESXui0/video.html
Thanks a lot for watching 😀
what is the different between 03:56 and 05:56 of the chart?
Ah well spotted. Just an error in the editing. Sorry about that. The 05:56 shot is just about 4 on the power scale. It's a bit softer 👍
@@BartonSnooker thanks for explanation, i have learnt a lot from your video..
Thank you for the video. One thing I don't agree with: The reason people with inferior technique are better than others is because they have more talent and/or experience. It's not that I don't know about the importance of playing position or that I don't practice it. I'm simply not as talented and/or experienced as some of the other club members. Experience and TALENT especially will always trump technique, I'll bet my cue on it. Have you ever seen a bad player that, all of a sudden, got really good because he improved his technique? If bad players become mediocre it's because they've been practicing. In my personal experience and opinion, technique is highly overrated. And that's coming from someone who loves the technical aspects of the sport more than anything else and has spent hours upon hours upon hours thinking about and practicing technique.
Thanks for the comment. What was it I said that you don't agree with?
I said the reason people with inferior technique are sometimes better than players with a better technique, is because they control the cue ball better. They have a better understanding and execution when it comes to positioning the white where they want.
I think you're agreeing with that aren't you?
Cheers,
Steve 🙂
@@BartonSnooker Thank you for replying to my post. I suppose that deep down, I have an issue with the general idea that by analyzing and understanding the game (positioning, technique, tactical elements etc.) you reach a point where it sort of 'clicks' and you start being significantly better, i.e. better than naturally gifted players with bad technique that don't know half as much (they simply execute). Do you know what I mean? I do agree that the more talented players execute better, but it's not because they know what they are doing. They have an intuitive grasp of the game that you cannot really teach. And that intuitive grasp is, really, the holy grail.
@@UrielJanoach I not really a believer in "talent" or "naturally gifted". We're just poking a little sphere into another one with a wooden stick.
I'd say some people naturally have a tendency to do things right, or have more of a feel for it when they start off, but with the right training and understanding, the other players can just catch them up.
So yeah, someone like Jimmy white couldn't really put into words what he's doing, he just "feels" it, and he executes.
If you work hard at something, and want to improve, you can. In my opinion the idea that you couldn't get good is very restrictive and limiting in all areas of life.
I'm not 'naturally' good at maths, so I won't even bother trying. That's very defeatist. Just gives someone a way of saying "I'm not as talented so there's no point in trying". I must admit, I'm not a fan of that mindset at all.
At the very, very top level of things - so between the top players in the world, certain mindset, execution and character traits will come into it. BUT for the average player that wants to improve, you can reach a very high standard before any of that comes into it.
It's an interesting topic. But I generally think the idea of 'talent' is a myth. Although people will disagree with me 😁
@@BartonSnooker Wow, that's quite the statement. While - same as you - I am totally opposed to the idea of "not even trying", I very much believe that there is 'talent', which I'd define as A. our level of success when we first attempt 'X' and B. the amount of improvement we get out of 'Y' hours of practicing 'X'. And I'd further argue that the physical and mental factors/operations that determine 'A' and 'B' are so complex that we usually fail to see what they are or how they influence one another. Still, one pretty obvious physical factor that partially determines 'B' in basketball would be 'height'. I'm 6 foot 3 and have been playing for decades :D
If talent didn't exist, everyone could be as good as Ronnie if they'd started playing at 8, practiced hard enough and got sufficient support. Boy, there'd be many Ronnies! While I love your attitude, the reality of what I see on the table contradicts it. And I don't think poking a ball with a stick is any different from martial arts. Heck, think about how straightforward the task of a ski jumper SEEMS.
Man, I really wish you were right. Thank you for taking the time to exchange opinions.
@@UrielJanoach it's an interesting topic isn't is. And as I say, not everyone can be Ronnie as I do believe some factors come into it at that elite level (mindset, reaction to stress, work ethic etc).
But it's always a difficult conversation to have because we have no data on it.
Maybe absolutely everyone could be as good as Ronnie, but we'll never know because that's the whole point, people don't start at 8, they don't play 10 hours a day, so how would we ever know?
What I'm saying is that if we all start at 8, and we play 10 hours a day, we can all get very, very good at snooker. But nobody does that. If there's any natural talent it's the propensity to play snooker 10 hours a day, with proper focussed practice. Almost everyone that picks up a cue won't do anywhere near that. They play for a bit, get bored, start knocking balls about.
The reality of what I see on the table is exactly what I'm talking about. There are lots of good players, plenty of lower ranked pros, but they just don't put the work in. They get to a really high level, and then play for 3-4 hours a day and think that's enough. It isn't. You've got to do it so much it becomes as easy as walking. And very few people do that.
I fully agree with you that things come into it, like your example with the basket ball. I'm never gonna be any good because I'm 5' 9". That's the same reason I'll never beat Usain Bolt in a race 😁
I think my main point is just that we can all become so good, that it's only worth worrying about 'talent' when it comes to the top 0.0001% of people that are doing any given discipline.
Great to discuss though. Always a fun topic for me 👍👍
An angle for a angle, you hear alot with pool players, you always need an angle to get onto your next ball😃
sounds great Steve,but why can that,club player with poor tech,still get the pots?????
Because the pot isn't that tough if the white is so close to the next ball.
As I say in the video, it's the potting angle that stops most people. They want to be straight on every ball. But if you force yourself to judge potting angles, once you're comfortable with that, the cueing part of it isn't that difficult, it's the angle recognition.
So they are happy with a bit of angle, and then control the white well for the next shot.
Players get stuck trying to leave the white as straight as possible on every shot, and that is not how you play good snooker.
Thanks,,Steve as usual it makes a lot of sense,great vids,please keep making them,Tony.
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Why does Trump hold cue with right when he use rest?
Just the way he learnt to do it when he was younger. Mark Allen does the same thing.
@@BartonSnooker thanks is really amazing