Snooker Break Off - Snooker Breaking Off - Snooker Lesson
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- In this snooker lesson I look at one of the most important shots in the game.
If you can get the break off shot right in snooker, it is on opportunity right at the start of the frame, to get you opponent in trouble and gain an advantage.
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The very BEST online snooker advice. Really appreciate you, Barton Snooks
The best break off tutorial iv'e seen. Thank you.
Explained everything succinctly, and nothing more. Perfect
Excellent explanation steve...keeps it really simple to understand👍👍
As always explained very well and very helpful.
Thank you, I never knew why closer to the brown or the amount of right hand side to use
THANK YOU,HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS DURING S/D,AND THINK MY GAME SHOULD INPROVE WHEN ALLOWED ON THE TABLES AGAIN.SHOULD HAVE TAKEN LESSONS IN 70s BUT WAS BRINGING UP THE FAMILY THING,RYE
Thank you
Great video Steve. Your a natural. Very high standard as usual. Happy new year.
Thanks you! Happy New Year 🙂
You're.*
Another great piece of work Steve. Coaching at its best. cheers
Thanks Scott!
Really good tutorial - thanks! It would be so good to be able to go to a table at my club to practice, but I guess it’s the same for countless others, and bless them all. Let’s hope for better times in the return to good companionship! 👍
Thanks David. Hopefully not too long now before we can all play again 🤞
Hi Steve. I just watched this video which I loved, like all the videos you've created so far, but I was hoping for you to explain how far on the side of the cue ball you hit it with the cue, + where you aim it at considering youu apply side to it + at which speed as well. Can you please answer me on all those questions? Thanks! :-)
Hi there. There is a graphic on screen that shows where I am hitting the cue ball. It's just above the middle and then about 1 tip over to the right hand side.
I cannot give you an exact amount of speed to play the shot. You need to get a feel for these shots yourself. Exactly where the white goes will be dictated by how hard you hit the shot, and exactly how much side spin you play.
The best thing to do, is set up a few break of shots, and have a practice trying different speeds while aiming where I show on screen. As a rough guide, the shot is something like a 6/10 in power.
Hope that helps 🙂
I’m a right handed player but I’ve found that playing the break from between the green and brown (a cue balls width from the brown and a couple of cm back from the baulk line) and putting a bit of screw and left side is very effective and also like you said just aiming for the last red, I also have a problem with my cue power, I’m just a casual player but take the game seriously and make regular breaks of 20/30 but I need some tips on how to control my cue power as I have a lot of it
I seem to use loads of right hand side on the break off without using any top and about 90% of the time manage to get behind or close enough to the green to make it awkward for my opponent. Watching this tho I’ll definitely try using less side and see how it goes.
Love the videos. Please can you put some videos together on safety and good safety drills to practice. Thanks
Hi. Thanks Tom! Yes I will try to get something up covering this 🙂
Hi Steve. Great video as usual. However, you didn’t really explain how thick the contact should be on the red. What are your thoughts on that? Thanks
Hi. Thanks! As I say in the video, you're looking for a 'glancing blow', which is coming at the red from an angle and hitting it thin. Have a play around with a few of these shots and see how you manage to achieve the best results 🙂
I'm a left handed player. I seem to achieve better results when I break off nearer the yellow. I get the logic behind why breaking off nearer the brown is better but whenever I try it the cue ball tends to collide with the blue on its return to baulk. Any ideas why?
Maybe you should do a video on the mark williams break off lol
Hi Steve. Love this video, very clear and useful. I feel that one thing is missing from this video though, so can you please explain how you adjust your aiming considering you're putting a bit of side to the cue ball? Thanks! :-)
Hi there!
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@@BartonSnooker Thanks for replying that quicky Steve. I actually watched that video right before this one. What I was hoping for is for you to kinda combine the two, in other words explain the behaviour of the cue ball prior to hitting the red in this specific scenario. Do you think you could do that in a future video?
Been watching your vids almost every day now. You make your shots look so easy. I have to say your videos made a better player out of me and definitely I look at the game from a different perspective thanks to you. Would you advise left hand players to break any different? White in between green and brown maybe swing the white the other way around? I know no pro players do it but out of curiosity will it make a difference?
Hi. Thank you. Really glad you're finding the videos useful!
I would say generally right handed players break from in between yellow and brown, and most left handers from in between green and brown. Although not all do this. It really doesn't make any difference. Sometimes players just tend to find getting the side spin on a little bit easier from one side of the table than the other. Just have a practice and see which you prefer 🙂
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Hi Steve thanks for this vid. We are italian so not every thing is clear to us: what is the difference to open with cue-ball from the middle of Yellow and Brown instead of cue-ball NEAR the Brown?
Hi! When I put the cue ball by the brown, I am trying to hit the red from the side. This will move fewer reds and also help the cue ball go around the corner.
In the middle is ok. By the brown is ok. Try both shots and see which one you find best.
Hope that helps!
Is it legal to break with power like in pool ?
Perfectly legal but I'm not convinced it's the best way to break 😆
Hi Steve, fantastic videos but could I ask you how much practice you put in to get from someone making say 20 breaks in 2011 to being able to make a century? Cheers!
I made my first century break after 2.5 years of taking it seriously. I would play about 3 times a week at the time. One night I would usually play a friend for 3 hours. Then the other two days would be either playing a friend again or playing on my own.
I would say one of the biggest things that separated me from the other people playing as much snooker as me, was that I was only interested in improving. If you are just playing to beat your friend, it is much harder to improve, because you are practicing the wrong things.
It's hard to explain. Obviously you need to try your best, but you also need practice sessions to improve. You don't want to use them to just do all the things you currently do and stay at the level you're already at.
So at times I didn't care if I won or lost. If I was working on keeping my grip loose for example, then that's exactly what I'd do for that entire session. I didn't care whether I missed lots of balls or not. I didn't care if I was losing. All I cared about was doing the right things, and getting it ingrained into my technique, and then overall, the big picture was, I was improving.
Hope that makes sense.
@@BartonSnooker Thanks Steve, when you've run out of videos on coaching it would be really interesting to hear the journey (in a video) that you went on and how you improved to the extent you have including the information above such as practice hours, motivation and milestones along the way.
@@charlesluke5788 yes, I may do something on this in a future video. I have old footage of me playing years ago before I improved. Then I have lots of footage all the way up 147s in the line-up and T Exercises and then century break in a proper frame. I may put something together with these videos if it would interest people.
BartonSnooker great answer. I totally agree with everything you said, it's the long term you look at, not beating your pal today, but improving for tomorrow.
Should I hit that red ball farer from the other red balls or closer?
Half ball
@@BartonSnooker But I often makes other red balls out even I hit that particular red ball.. Just can't reproduce the result of only two red balls moving like the professionals..
I tried these tips today but just couldn't get the white to swing round enough. It was coming back on a line either clipping the blue or between the green and brown. Thought I might not be getting through the white enough, so tried more but still no luck. Any advice please? Thank you
Hi there. Could be two things:
1) your contact on the last red is just very, very thin, so the cue ball is not getting close enough to the corner pocket when it hits the black cushion. Try hitting the last red slightly thicker.
2) you are not actually getting much right hand side on the cue ball. Try coming a little big lower on the white and play right hand side. This should help you get a little bit more side spin on.
Hi again Steve. I have a question for you that's not directly related to this video but that’s been bothering me recently. Let's assume you have perfect cue action + perfect aiming on a shot + you hit the cue ball anywhere DEAD CENTER on a vertical plane (stun, follow through or screw). Does the speed you hit the cue ball impact the object ball direction?
Hi!
If you were to do as you describe there, then no, the speed of cue delivery will not make any difference to the shot. The white will start travelling down the perfectly straight line as you describe, and always contact the object ball in exactly the same place. Various spins that you apply make no difference on the object ball.
@@BartonSnooker Ok and what about impact throw? You get more of that the slower or the faster you hit the cue ball?
@@MoiFidodido1966 this effect is very minimal. It happens more when you have very thin cut shots, but it is not really anything to do with the line the white takes.
On thin cuts the object ball tends to cut a bit wide initially and then straighten up. If you hit the white harder you will effect this initial throw very slightly and the object ball will go straighter.
But to be honest, this is something you do not need to worry about at all. All these effects are dictated by so many variables, that all a player will ever do is play these shots by feel. I am never down on a shot worrying about the throw of an object ball, I just know the potting angle for the speed, spin, distance etc involved in the shot.
Hope that helps!
Steve
@@BartonSnooker In other words Steve what you're saying is to just learn the potting angles and forget about that right?
@@MoiFidodido1966 yes! If you were just programming a machine, you could input the things you are talking about. For us as humans, we have to learn to do these things by a lot of experience, and a lot of trial and error. The more we play and see and experience different shots, the better we become at understanding how the balls behave.
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Hello Mate
i need to ask you a question
My mate was playing the red very close to the pink and he miscued and cue ball jumps over the pink without hitting it
so can you tell me that should be the foul of 4 or 6 ? as the cue ball jumps over the pink
kind regards
This would be a foul 4. So the red is the ball on, and he has jumped over a ball which was in the way, so foul 4.
Why isit so many hit the blue? Do they hit that red too full?
Bit too thin and not enough side spin on the white.
@@BartonSnooker ahhh I see thanks mate
Hi Barton, love your videos. I'm an amateur player that plays in an amateur league in Belgium. I make breaks of 15-20 which is alright in my eyes (only playing since 2 years). I was lucky enough that someone that plays in the highest amateur league teached me how to get a good stance, grip, etc. I would like to improve even more so that I could become an ever better player. When I start practicing, I will mostly do the lineup. It's a great exercise to learn cue ball control but I think it's still to hard for me so my question is, what exercises could a starting player do? Maybe you have some schemes that starting players could follow? Thanks in advance and keep up the great videos!
Hi! You need to do basic exercises to start with.
Instead of the full line up, just start with 4 reds in between the pink and the black. See how far you can get with this. Also, just start off with the yellow, green and brown on their spots and see if you can clear them.
With anything you do, try and keep track of your progress. Even if you make a note on your phone, write down what you managed in each practice session. So if you do the 4 reds between pink and black and manage 16, note that down and next time try to improve on that. This helps to keep you motivated and also you can see your progress.
Good luck 🙂
@@BartonSnooker Great, thanks for the tip and the reply!
But I assume I should do other exercises as well? Or should I only do these type of practice routines when I'm practicing?
@@MathiasVanHoutte hi! Yes you can do other exercises. Set yourself some targets at first that are not too difficult. You can invent some of your own routines and try to then improve on them.
Maybe put 4 or 5 reds randomly around the pink and black spot, and make the best break you can. Again, write down your results and try again next time.
Practice some long blue shots to help improve your cue action. Write the results down and try to improve.
Just vary it up, have fun, track your progress and you should see improvements 🙂
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Hiya Steve thx for the upload, my question is, you say:- "Plain ball with side."
Was with you right up until you said that, then thought wait....what...plain ball with side...!!!??
Hi. Yes I see the confusion.
No top-spin. No back-spin. Just a natural ball roll shot with no extra top or back-spin, just right-hand-side.
@@BartonSnooker ahhh ok i get you, brilliant, thx Steve keep em coming. 👍👍👍
Sir tell us when we have only 10 reds instead of 15 ??? What to do??
Use the bottom red of the triangle again, and play the shot in exactly the same way. You are just looking to get the cue ball safe and not disturb too many reds.
The professionals even apply the same break off technique in six-red-snooker!
So nice of you to replying your views.... Your videos are very helpful nd also define eveything in very simple manner THANKYOU
How r u sir?sir here play 6 red plz tell me how do break of six red i shall do wait ur answer.
There are several ways with 6 reds. So players clip the last red thin and come off two cushions.
I actually prefer to play it like a normal break-off. Hit the last red with side, bring the white off 3 cushions and somewhere behind the green. If you can get this right, it tends to free up the reds nicely and puts your opponent under pressure straight away.
Thank you very much sir
Is there some disadvantages by making diagonal break off? Barely never seen this in games. Picture about diagonal: i.ibb.co/gSN62BY/Screenshot-20200201-201333-01.jpg
Why were absolutely none of the breakoffs in this year's World Championship like this? Every single one spread half the pack across the table to some degree or another.
Super fast tables, brand new cloth giving more slide allowing the reds to move more. When the cue balls hits cushions it slides much more than on club tables, which means you catch the last red a touch thicker to make sure it swings around the angles without hitting the blue.
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