Snooker Training Pre Shot Routine - Snooker Coaching - Snooker Lesson
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2024
- In this video we look at the Pre Shot Routine and break it down into three separate steps.
In snooker having a good Pre Shot Routine is very important so that we have a plan for each shot and know exactly what we're doing.
In this snooker coaching lesson, you will learn what you should be thinking about on every shot and how to approach all shots.
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I'm very glad I have discovered this channel. Great content & very well explained 👌
Great video and great content on this channel. Has massively helped to improve my technique.
Sir
I m from Pakistan
I m the big fan of u and ur vidios
Thank u so much
Thanks you so much for watching 🙂
awesome video! especially the recovery shots...
This tutorial has helped me so much thank you :)
Your all videos easy to understand sir.
Thanks Steve very appreciated 😃👍👋
Very useful video. Your game has come so far since you made this. Im currrently watching your entire library again before our session,
Ur teachings are excellent and apt thank you so much
Hi Dear
How Are you? I watch your videos repeatedly and learn a lot and daily practice on Snooker table with the Tips you provide in Training Videos and Finally i become from almost single ball poter to 50 break player and now i don't pay much to snooker clubs because loser pay the frame charges, Thanks So much
Thank you and well done!
Thanks and it was helpful
Thank you for the Great instructional video.
Thank you !
very helpful thank you
I’ve improved a lot by watching your videos especially angle shots,side spin and am working on long pots but anyways thanks coach
Brilliant explainition
barton , thanks a lot , i am hongkong fans.
Thank you 🙂
Brilliant
Thanx
Well explained 👍👌
Very important video. Thanks for this wonderful share.
Love your videos, very very helpful 👌👍
Thanks a lot for this rule (3 shots ahead)! Hello to UK from France ;)
Hello! Thanks for watching 🙂
I'm been a fan of Barry Stark & Nick Barrow for some time, but this guy does just keep it simple & gets straight to the point. Keep up the good work- excellent. Thanks.
Thank you so much. Really appreciate the positive comments!
I agree they are all excellent.
Nicely broken down mate
Good tutorial 👍
“Hope you found it useful” understated statement of the year 😁. Two questions for you mate. 1. do you think the first step should be in two parts; the first being work out where to strike the object ball in order to pot it, then work out the line of aim? Just a thought, I want to make sure I’m visualising it right. 2. why are we not seeing you on TV??? Maaan you’re good?
Hi!
Yes you could split step 1 if you find that easier.
Obviously, you have to stand behind the shot first so that you can start working out where to strike it. You don't want to just slide around into the shot. You want to get yourself behind the cue ball first, and then as you say, work out what you then think is the perfect line-of-aim.
Glad you're enjoying the videos. Thanks you 🙂
Love these tutorials - thanks very much. As a comparative novice I would really appreciate a video providing more guidance on assessing the angles
Hi. Thanks very much. Glad the videos are helpful. I have a video on 'Lining Up Shots' if you haven't seen that one. Lots more videos to come on the channel 🙂
Love these videos, I'm a competent player from learning at a young age, but I don't spend enough time at a table to actually hone my skills. Biggest downfall is hitting the ball too hard when I lose a bit of concentration.
Hi great tutorial I’m a bit confused about potting power how do you decide. What is a 4 out of 10 and so on
the 3 shots ahead thing is quite interesting.. very hard to keep consistent on thinking through every paramater (pace, side etc ) for every shot. maybe it's just about practicing and getting all those things instinctive so that the flow state becomes permanent while playing
Hi there. That's absolutely right. The professionals are doing these things on every shot they play. It's just that they are so used to doing it, then do it very quickly without having to stand and think about the shot.
The more you practice this, the easier you will find it.
@@BartonSnooker thank you for answering. i'm practicing on regular basis and trying to improve thanks to the golden knowledge i find on CZcams channels like yours . thank you sir !
After a few days practicing 3 shots ahead, you start thinking 4 shots, then later 5 shots ahead!
@@mmafightcoach well that's good to know but i am far from that level. i need to secure my shots and work on my rituals and state of mind. i'm a perfectionnist so i take this shit very seriously :)
Excellent information and advice. Thank you. I’m in the West Midlands area, Any chance of some personal tutoring ? I think you will help me greatly?
Great videos nice to see a coach who can back his knowledge up with great play. Could you do a video on your system of using numbers for the power of a shot please and how you would gauge that I guess with differing backswing lengths?
Hi. Thanks for the kind comments! I will note this idea down and try and make a video. I have had lots of very good suggestions from people, so have lots more videos coming.
Regarding using numbers, you're exactly right about the backswing length. If you are doing a power 1, you only need a small backswing. I'd say once you're getting up to around a 6-7 in power, you are using a full backswing. You want your cueing to remain as smooth as possible.
Thanks for watching the videos!
Just to add to the tips BartonSnooker has given - it's worth noting that when you're in and around the black and reds (i.e. break building), the extreme majority of shots will fall between 3-5/10 power. So it's a good idea to get these stroke speeds dialled in so you can play them at will. Break building drills such as the line-up are great for this, but also as a warm-up before I play I like to place the white on the brown spot and cue the cue ball straight up the table (over the blue and pink spot) playing with different shot power.
So for example, I'll start with 3/10 speed, striking the cue ball so it stops somewhere between the black spot and the cushion below it, stopping it there 10 times total; then I'll move onto 4/10 speed, which is sending the cue ball over the blue, pink and black spots, then back over the black and pink spots and stopping the cue ball within a foot of the blue spot on either side of it, again 10 times total; then onto 5/10 power, which is straight up the table, then back down over the brown spot and stopping within about a foot of the baulk cushion. Really helps get my feel going and again reinforces the muscle memory for each type of shot power.
This seems like a large distance between each shot power as it's about 5-6 foot between each position, but you have to consider that a) a lot of cue ball momentum is lost upon contact with the object ball, and the difference between hitting centre ball on a 3/4 ball cut with 3/10 power and 4/10 power is a post-impact cue ball travel distance of about a couple of feet; and b) you can manipulate the cue ball distance off the object ball with different cue ball striking positions - for example, if 3/10 centre ball striking seems too soft, and 4/10 centre ball seems too hard, you can strike 3/10 very high on the cue ball to add a bit more momentum to it, and the same can be done with straight screwbacks manipulating the tip position on the object ball to determine how much screw is applied.
Do we keep the cue with chest as a pivot while making the feathers/moving the cue??
could you do a video about near cushion shooting? this is very hard.
Nice vid. You seem to raise the cue and keep it almost in your face as you assess the line..does this make it easier?
Great way of coaching sir please use head cam or cover the angle when u hit the cue ball which will more helpful to learn your precious snooker tips in a better way💖💖 thanks
Thank you! Yes I will try to use a head cam in the future 🙂
What brand table do you have or recommend ?
Hi..how to make a long pot?..within on how can i predict the wright potting angle while making the long shot and how can we judging it this is the right shot and 90% the object ball can pot on the long shot?
What are the thought processes happening when you swing the cue around onto the line of aim please?. I always thought it was to do with lining the butt hand onto line of aim first and then you swing the cue around onto the line of aim. Because I notice all pros and good amateurs have the same routine, but nothing is spoken about this anywhere. The swinging around is exaggerated and it always bugs me why, I never did this in my learning years (pre Internet) I just never had the swing around, and I was a decent pool player who could break and dish quite a lot. I did copy it in later years but I'm not sure why it is done, other than lining the butt up, I would love to clear this up. Thanks.
Hello sir your way to make us understand is too good and you are working hard for it. I request you to make a video with headcam and as you mentioned that whery the cue ball should go by using train track please use these lines over your playing game so it would be more easier to understand . And our minds can easily remember . Because I have the same problem for judging where the cue ball should be. By this we can learn much better. Thanks from India
Thanks you. I will try to do a video with headcam very soon 🙂
Hi Steve in this video correct me if I'm wrong when you say the line of aim say going to pot the pink as your showing if you aim directly at the contact point with the cue ball the pink won't go in the pocket, there is some part of the cue ball you have to use to pot the pink tell me if I'm wrong,after saying that I say can your videos are first class.
Hi there. I think there is a chance if you aim the way you are saying, you might hit the ball too thick.
Have a look at my video on 'Lining up Shots'. I explain in that video how I go about aiming and what I'm looking at.
Hope that helps, and thanks a lot for the positive feedback.
Great video and please tell the long shots how to play a long shorts I am also a snooker player but street player I am from India please tell us how to play a long shorts
Barton, great video. How do v see part two of the video? Second question; what cue tip do you use and which cue is it? Of course your cueing is fantastic and that too is a factor, the sound when your cue strikes the cue ball is sweet music! Such a rich and solid feel is what that sound indicates. pl do reply and oblige. VishG
Hello! The second part of the video is called "Walking Into The Shot". Thanks for the kind comments. My tip is 'Century Cue Tips'. They have 4 different grades. I use grade 1 at the moment which is their softest tip. Thanks for watching 🙂
nice video sir...sir can you please do a video how to cue straight any drill or tips in this coach..still strugling how to deliver the cue straight on the shot
Yes I will try and do something on this in the near future. Thanks for watching!
@@BartonSnooker i love and like your video..the way you teach im 100 percent convinced that ypu can help me to level up my game bro
@@bencayago731 thanks very much. Lots more videos coming!
Good video what's your highest break ? Mine is 43 but I play a lot of pool and not much snooker . I find snooker frustrating as I'm nowhere near as good at it as pool
Hi. My highest break is 140 total clearance.
Snooker is a lot more about technique than pool. Potting balls on the snooker table requires more practice and a more consistent approach and technique.
hello coach barton..i love the way u taech..i ask you sir which do you prefer to use when you lining up the shot..do you prefered to line with your middle of of your body or u like to line up with your foot plant directly to the aiming line..hopefully u will visit philippines want to meet you bro..thanks
I'm right eye dominant so it's fine for me to line the shot up with my right foot on the line of aim. For left eye dominant players, they'll need to do it more with the centre of the body.
Would be good to meet you too 🙂
@@BartonSnooker nice info coach...i wish philippines would be one of your destination to teach..glad to meet you bro i think it will improve my technique..because u know here in philippines there is no snooker mostly the game here is pool or billiards..and some great player have a background in snooker like jayson shaw..garett potts eclent kaci and darren appleton they switch to pool and they are so good because of good technique fundamentals
@@BartonSnooker coach by the way i forgot to ask..when your right foot is on the line of aim may i ask you if your cue stick is on the line of aim too..unlike most pool players like me the cue is have air stroke pre stroke on up..if you watch billiards and pool player they do..i like your technique i want to learn more about good technique on snooker
Nice, but I think it would be great if you could show us where about to hit the white cue ball to get it ready for the next shot. Thanks ciao ciao 😃👍
Hi! I have a new video which shows exactly where I am hitting the white on every shot I play. The video is 'Beginner Break Building".
I'd like to know what cue tips are u using?
Century Cue Tips G1. That's their softest grade. It just sounds a bit hard on the video because I am wearing a clip on microphone.
Very helpful thankyou. Do you do any coaching in Nofolk / Norwich?
Hi. Thank you!
Unfortunately I am quite a long way from Norwich. I am based in the West Midlands.
I do offer video analysis for £40. I have lots of players that send me various different angles of them playing, and then I do a custom video response. It is presented in the same style as my CZcams tutorials, but obviously I am talking specifically about the student's technique.
Lots more videos coming on the channel! Thanks for watching 🙂
@@BartonSnooker I would definitely 've interested in your analysis. My only problem is I am quite a novice to be honest. I am better than my mates that are all novices like me, so to them I look good... but in the snooker world I am worse than a blind dog with one arm and no tail lol. Consistency is a big struggle for me so I think your analysis could help as it's likely to be my cue action at fault. One min I can make a long pot that silences the room.. then I immediately miss an easy black off the spot... REGULARLY lol hopefully I can get some local coaching but will also get your advice as I would like to support your channel in "some" way. Thanks again
@@mattstackwood3054 thanks Matt. Yes it sounds like there is probably some fundamental things with your setup and technique that you would need to get a bit more consistent with, and then go from there. You obviously have a natural eye for potting balls which is a good start! Then from there is about grooving in more consistency and discipline.
Give me and email on: steve@bartonsnooker.co.uk
I can then give you some more details if you were interested.
@@BartonSnooker I have emailed. Thanks again 👍
*147th* comment!!!! Top advice 👌🏆
Hey steve, in this video the last red which u played can also be played for pink or not?? Or u played blue coz it's easier than pink to reach yellow?? The question here is that pink should be taken or not after that last red??
Hi! Yes could have played Pink or Black, but Blue is so much easier to get to the Yellow 👍
@@BartonSnooker Thnx steve...thnk u so much....love your videos..keep posting great stuff!! Love from INDIA 🙏👍😊
What if you pick the wrong line of aim. I get down to the ball, I'm happy then miss. I'm getting frustrated.
Check when you're down that it feels good. If it doesn't. Tweak it if it just needs a tiny adjustment, otherwise start again if it feels a long way off.
Love your video BTW everytime you cue only in the middle?
I use top, stun, screw, side-spin. Whatever the shot needs 🙂
@@BartonSnooker thank you very much for reply me
@@BartonSnooker hope got tutorial on this cue
Không hiểu tiếng.nhung rất hay.thaks
Surely step one is to stand directly behind the object ball pocket line to pick out the contact point . Then move on to the shot line.
I don't look at the pocket line unless it's a very thin pot. You won't see professional players stand behind that pocket line on 70% of shots, they are just standing behind the line that the cue ball is going to take.
In my latest video I show the cue call "overlapping" the object ball. This is what I imagine as I stand behind the shot, so I don't need to look at a separate pocket to object ball line.
Hope that helps!
Hi Steve the only way i knew you were showing your coaching videos was when I looked up the results of the West Midlands Snooker league and seen your advert. so what I'm saying is a lot of snooker players don't no they exist which is a shame.
Hi. Hopefully as the channel grows a bit, CZcams will recommend the videos to other people, and it should get a bit more popular.
dont know why but as soon as i get down the butt of the cue is always offline towards left side.
i bridge down my body towards the cue and the grip , but some how when i get down my butt of the cue is always always offline
how to hold the grip hand on line of aim while standing and until down?
How do you know it's off-line?
@@BartonSnooker i used laser to check , and cue is offline. used baulk line too. also put 2 chalks inbetween the cue
thank you
You have a great way of simpleizing a tutorial. 147 out of 10 for this one mate. Thank you.
Many thanks David. Much appreciated 🙂
Sir, my cue has bend a little can you help me with how can I straighten it again.
Hi. You will need to take your cue to a professional cue maker and see if they are able to sort the problem for you. It may be that they cannot get the bend out so possibly buying a new cue would be the best thing to do.
BartonSnooker can u please suggest a nice pocket friendly cue sir.
@@kaustubhtarge7551 if you want a cheap cue that plays well, look at some of the cues from Thailand. Omin is one make I know of. It is not too important what cue you use as long as it is straight. All the improvements in your game will come from working on your technique.
i am training since 2 years but getting problem till now the proper cue ball and object ball contact and always misses the pockets what i should do?
Hello. You must learn your potting angles. You need to play a shot, and if it misses, you must see where it misses. Then set the same shot up again, and try to change your aiming.
It sounds like you are struggling with lining up the shots. So you must practice the more difficult shots and try to watch and learn where the balls go.
Don't just set up straight pots. Set up pots that are more difficult and teach yourself to recognise the angles.
Good luck 🙂
@@BartonSnooker thanks i will do the same and will let you know
@@xeorexgoalstv6457 thank you. Good luck 🙂
Hi, I have problem when I play a shot and my cue doesn't go through.... Specially while playing a screw shot I can't even touch the cue ball with cue my hand gets struck and doesn't go through I'm in big problem please help
Hi there. It sounds like you might have a problem with the way you are setup on the shot. It sounds like you have not got room to push the cue through enough because your chest is in the way.
But unfortunately it is hard for me to diagnose the problem without seeing you play.
@@BartonSnooker please email your email address to shashi.r62@gmail.com so that I can share you the video clip
@@chinnu528 hi. My email is in the description of this video.
SG.
Shouldn't we do Step 2 first, then Step 3, then Step 1?
You have to stand behind the shot so that you can work out where the white is going to go. You cannot see the natural angles or path of balls until you are standing behind the shot. So you must do this before you actually make your plan.
ah... Good Point.
My 3 shot plan keeps failing when I miss the pot!
hey man great videos.
I think the problem you have is that your thumbnails are bad. And it's even hard to see them between other videos. You should change to simply a shots with a snooker table that would be much more visible.
Ah ok. I will get some more feedback on that and see what people think. Thank you!
If you subscribe to the channel and click the bell, you will get notifications of any new uploads I make.
Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback. I think you are right about the thumbnail! Thank you!
@@BartonSnooker thanks for nice videos mate.
Can you make videos about what inside you mind when you break buildings.
I have a video about the thought process. If you type 'snooker break building how to score' you will find my video. Let me know what you think!
Like why you do this and Explain them. THANK SO MUCH SIR
Thank A Lots. By the way I'm sry for english im from asia so my english is bad. LOL
@@MonkeyboyCH no problem. Your English is very good!
THANKS
2:25 actually for a beginner it would be vice to just focus on a single pot. That's my thinking. If you get good at this you could take the 2 and 3 shot planning.
This video isn't aimed at rank beginners who are still learning how to pot basic balls - those types of players should head to other videos on the basics such as grip, stance, bridge etc. that Barton has. Learning the things in this video before learning the basics would be like trying to learn to run before you can walk.
@@Zombies8MyPizza I've learnt all of those things but this game is not a gimmy like pool. You do not have to be a beginner to not make 20-30 breaks. Some play 2-3 years before they can actually make a bigger break than 30. But the real problem is that people watch professional snooker and think that this is how the game really works- you win the frame in a single visit. It is actually not so. People who do that have played it for many years maybe starting as a young child and do that 8-10-12 hours a day and every day of the week. if you are a hobby player there is a good chance that you never win a frame in one visit.
@@moviemaster00000 This still doesn't get around the fact that if you're a beginner struggling to make 20-30 breaks, this isn't the video for you - your time would be better spent working on your fundamentals and learning some basics about cue ball control. This video is aimed at those with some decent fundamentals who want to become more consistent and improve their break building.
Besides all this, I don't think most club players are expecting to make frame winning breaks all the time and get frustrated when they can't - it becomes abundantly clear when you first play snooker that it's a very tough game, which is why people watch snooker because they're in awe of how good the pro's are. I also think it shouldn't be taking you 2-3 years to make regular 20-30 breaks if you're at all serious about getting better. You don't have to play all day every day to get to that level in 6 months - problem is, people don't put in enough work to improve, they just get on the table and play frames or knock balls about with no thought given to their fundamentals, or learning anything about cue ball control physics or basic shot selection. More time at the table =/= better player - more time practising efficiently = better player. A player who spends 100 hours studying the game away from the table and 1000 hours working on the basics, is going to be a much, much better player than someone who spends 10,000 hours at the table and 0 hours studying the game away from the table.
@@Zombies8MyPizza some people just want to come to the table and just have fun, not to think too much, not to get too frustrated about his game, just enjoy it. you have to know the difference before a hobby player and a professional. and I see many hobby players come here to comment stuff as well so I'm talking on their half as well. if you are a club player you do not want to crush your joy by thinking too much about the theoretical stuff rather than just focus and play.
@@moviemaster00000 Which is totally fair, but then those sorts of players wouldn't be seeking out videos like this. The type of player you're referring to would be a casual player, though - a hobby player in my view is something I describe myself as, someone who takes the game and his practice quite seriously (though enjoying every minute of it), but has no aspirations to go pro. Otherwise, what comes between a hobby player and a professional?
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