10 Shots You Must Know To Become A Better Snooker Player
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- These are the ten shots that are key to becoming a better snooker player. Let me know in the comments, which shots you think are the most important and if there are any shots that you'd add.
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Got to say, as a kid I absolutely hated you because you were too good😂. Now I have nothing but the upmost respect for how good you are/were. Winners win and your relentlessness is incredibly inspiring.
Yeah 2nd best player of all time who said he’d never commentate ( it’s boring & I’d rather play ) now has a UA-cam channel 😂
Turns out he's such a perfectionist that he learned his craft and became a great commentator and now he runs a great UA-cam channel and does a great podcast with Mark Watson!! Rubbish at match snooker now but he can play for fun and use the experience when commentating. Legend. End of.
I could watch and listen to you explain every conceivable shot on a snooker table, Stephen. So insightful and clear. By the way, I've pretty much always played that last shot with some side, just always felt easier to me - made me happy to hear I've been doing it like the pro's all this time 😁
I really do think Stephen and Ronnie should start a weekly podcast together and do exhibitions around the country a bit like the overlap on sky, that sort of idea anyway.
Ronnie is still a professional snooker player on the tour so would never have the time
Are you his agent??@@dreamcaster99
the snooker champion experience. nah lol
Love this channel so much. Always get giddy when I see a new upload 😁 came back from the snooker hall today with a 4-0 win after implementing the tips from the previous few vids Stephen has dropped! Thanks!!
Brilliant demonstration and explanation by a true legend 👍👍👍😀😀😀
Thanks for the video. Nice tips. This actually help improving the game.
It would be great if you add 'black to yellow', too.
Play from both side with different ways to play the shot.
I love the clarity on your explanations, and why deciding to use one shot or another. Amazing video, and amazing channel
Pretty much every shot you have covered here is one I need to work on. Great video!
Keep these brilliant videos coming so informative
Such a brilliant tutorial this 👌 you're a great mentor Stephen!
These videos are great! Loving them all. From 1 of the best!
Another lesson from the master 🙌
Superb tutorials ,made my game improve no end ,keep them coming champ x
Great video, thanks for taking the time to create this.
Such a great video! There are so many instruction videos out there that it can feel over whelming to know where to focus energy or make best use of available table time. This makes it seem so clear as to how to put all the pieces together to become an all around better player, once basic potting and technique is solid - Thanks Stephen! You are not only the most dominant player of all time, and arguably still the GOAT, but also a really great, and humble, teacher
I always think it's the sign of a master to explain it in simple terms.
The best episode so far! If only it was 30 years ago, there might be more than only 9 players worth watching today. Best wishes.
Yup. more of this please. Thanks @Steven.
after watching the world billiards last week, and having played the game 40 odd years ago when i played that and snooker in the league, im sure that having a top billiards player on would give a few tips to snooker players
Hi Stephen, how do you adjust your aiming for potting with side? I usually do 99% of my aiming before I get down on the shot, using the method of taking a look at the potting angle, and then keeping my eye on the spot as I walk to the line of the cue ball to the object ball. Should I be making the adjustment for side at this point? Or is it a gut feeling once you're down on the shot? Thanks for these invaluable videos, and long may the success of your channel continue!
Fantastic video, Mr. Hendry! If your channel has now over 32 million views since you began filming them, I think there are a lot more people interested in this classic game than the so called "sponsors" think! They need to pay attention as do the sports media stations and start getting a lot more coverage and interest worldwide in this wonderful game! Thanks for all you do.
Hi Stephen, can you do a video on the maths aspect of the game, how to do quick calculations in your head for points required, snookers needed etc… Thanks Jag
Thanks for sharing these shots man.
Great stuff as always! Thanks
Great video, you should do a video on all spin with the cueball, explaining check side and running side
One thing you never see on any snooker channels is advice on Cue Tips, i.e best shape to dome them, what players use what brands, differing reasons on why e.g soft & hard tips etc, probably more topics than ive thought off, would make a very informative video i think Stephen for your channel.
Amazing video great tips Stephen 🎉 Golden ✨💯
I immediately subscribe when i watched this video. Very detail and useful tips from the best
Great lad Stephen
Thanks for the vid Stephen, one suggestion tho, when mention stuff like 4:25, it would really help if you could put a quick clip from a game or something so we could see it happen.
🙏 What a great channel that you created Stephen! Also whomever designed your CUE TIPS logo are so talented! Welcome done, I love your channel! Thank you!
I would love to see you play on a not so reactive club table just to see how much more effort someone needs to put in to get the spin right.
When I started to play I always thought I’m to dumb to play backspins, turns out it’s the cloth. Would be interesting to see how you play on one of these 😊
This advice is invaluable.
I'm confident that with the info in this video, I'll soon be getting breaks into double figures.
So glad I found this channel!! Thanks mate :-) Looking fwd to destroying my friends on the table
Brilliant again
Thanks Stephen, great introduction. Is it possible you can mark the cue point simultaneously. Sometimes althrogh I can figure it out whether its screw or fellow, but not that precisely.
Such a nice classy teaching steven.i am from India.
The new cue sounds sweet Stephen ⚡
Inspired me to take up snooker again.. used to play when I was around 15 but never carried on.. I’m now 43 and going to my club for first time in 25 years or so..
Brilliant Stephen, keep it up and we might let you join our team you’ll have to take your turn driving for the away matches of course 😊😊,
Legend ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Welldone Good job brother 👍🏻🤩👍🏻 Im a very lucky watching these Tips and learning day by day and soon I will become a Good Snooker Player, thanks For best Tips and tricks.
Msg From Dubai UAE 🤩👍🏻
Excellent..👍
Brilliant vid again Stephen, 1 question, when applying side to the cue ball do you have to make allowance on the target ball? Thanks
Hi Stephen, Excellent work , I have one request can you please make same video but please show the cue ball where you hit cue 🤗
Brilliant tips SH love from Pakistan ❤
Pure gold
Thanks for all your efforts legend. Please use the GoPro camera again so that we can see the exact potting point
Great video. We need a frame with John Higgins
Such an entertaining channel, love every episode that has come up. I wanna know wat happened @6:05 after the pot someone went awwwwhhhhh haha
Great stuff! Wouldn’t mind a wee cueball in the corner of the screen showing where you’d hit the ball 😅
Thank u sir
Great video. Silly mistake i do is putting too much side on it, with judging the right pace
That can be down to the cloth quality. Certainly any snooker cloth will give you more than a speed cloth on a pool table.
There’s a misconception that you need power for side or that you should be aiming at the edge of the circle of the ball, that’s not true either.
If you play with a dotted cue ball and you line up a dot as dead centre then you only need be a millimetre or so off to put side on the ball, the further off the more side but side works with grip and grip is more effective at a slower pace, for example if you hit the ball as hard as you can then you’re most likely to get a skid and then grip and that skid is out of control.
Practice on the table and use the same table if possible over different sessions, get to know the cloth and obviously the other variable is ball quality once you minimise as many variables as you can then the rest is just down to practice. The frustrating thing about snooker is the fact that you can practice a shot until you’re perfect, then you go on a different table, play the same shot and miss.
Brilliant video Stephen, could you this with the head cam or a white ball on the screen to demonstrate where you are hitting the ball, I think you remember me from Kirkcaldy, I have recommended your chanel to a youngish lad (in his early 20s) who wants to play league snooker, I spend a few hours with him on a Sunday running through your videos, it would help new comers, thanks Davey, when you next in Hull, where I live now
Hi there he explains side on this video hope this helps
ua-cam.com/video/Ab-xw7QxLJo/v-deo.htmlsi=puHSWxuhzTeZsIS1
Don’t follow many Snooker coaches as I am a Snooker coach for beginners but Stephen is a class act and knows the game inside out! 👍🏼🙏✅
Ofcourse he does , he's a 7 time World champion
Another great video. Any chance of a picture of the white ball with a dot as to where you strike it? Cheers
Hendry seems like a sound lad. Very impressed by his presenting skills.
big fan
10 🖐🖐 Good Tips 💥
There is no one near as good as you hitting that pink right on the button from the blue splitting the pack. You are a master at it my friend 👊🔥
1:58 Yeah, never thought of that before.
Do pros ever play side on long pots?
can you play on a very slow table? i want to know how much difference does it make eg sides, deep screws, long straight potting, long potting with side etc
Top Banana Stephen 🖖😉🏆
Absolutely fantastic Stephen.
Stephen can you talk us through the potting point and what you are looking and aiming at.
@Stephen Hendry there are a few android apps out there for snooker/pool but mainly gimmicks. Would you ever consider having one created of your own with training tips and realistic ball action to help train angles and techniques when away from the table? Cause I'd buy into it if you had oversight on it 😁
Stephen there's nothing about snooker you couldn't help me with except maybe my break, my cue action, my cue ball control, my shot planning, my.......... etc etc etc 🤣😂😅
can you please tell us where you are hitting the cue ball when you are splitting the pack off the blue etc.steve barton always puts a pic of the cue ball up to show where he is hitting and a scale to show power, this is a tremendous help for us amateurs.
it would be interesting Stephen to see what you think of a computer game called 'virtual pool 4' which is a 3D simulation of cue sports...they have all the pool games and they of course have a snooker table....the physics are very true to life, for instance the 'banana shot' you demonstrated in another video is perfectly doable...
You should try and get John Vergo on here, that would be cool
Seconded! Give JV his own special challenege...to pot as many balls as he can ❤
And bring back Big Break while they're at it! Just not with that whopper Jim Davidson. Imagine a new Big Break presented by Stephen Hendry and John Virgo. Or at the very least someone decent like Richard Osmand who loves his snooker.
He's not Scouse!! 😂
@@AD-kv9kj Richard Osmand 😂😂
Energie,artă si magie,evadare din sclavie.
What's your opinion in the new snooker900 format? Watched a few games last night, not sure how to feel about it if i am honest. But, it Got me watching snooker again which is a positive
Knows his stuff this guy, if he keeps practicing he could do well one day : )
I know it's not traditional in snooker. But would love to see you using a spotted white for these sort of videos. Really show people what the running side and check side is doing for you/them.
This guy can play snooker! Almost like he's a world champ of something!
Good to show where exactly you strike on the cue ball. I understand check side and running side, but I would understand it better if I see where exactly you strike it.
Does it make a difference as to the snooker balls that you use? I find the ones provided by the club are difficult to control
Hi Stephen, Running side is always Right hand side ? And Check side is always left hand side ? A screw shot is low on the cue ball for back spin ? I put question marks to make sure I'm speaking the right language...Roland (Canada).
Plan: Watch another great Stephen Hendry video, and figure out how to adapt the excellent information to pool...
this is the most relatable comment i've ever seen
The use of side to play the right lines (usually cur ball coming toward the next object ball, not paralell to it), is pretty much the same concept - and even more important in pool
@@spaceborycouldn’t agree more
I do the same when I watch videos on pool 🎱!
Do you play English or American?
@@paulriggall8370 American pool... with lots of English. 😁
Hey Stephen, can you please make a tutorial about running side vs check side? For example to know when it's a "running" side and when it's a "check" side and in what situations should I use each one. Really appreciate it. Thanks for the video.
Running side is when you put the same side as the direction the cue ball is running.
For example, if the cue ball is is moving to the right after hitting a cushion then right hand side would be running side. Playing running side would widen the angle and it actually speeds the cue ball up slightly after hitting the cushion.
In the same example, playing left side would be check side. It would narrow the angle and slow the cue ball slightly
Stephen Hendry seems like the nicest bloke. 🥂
Thanks for this! Stephen, at some point, could you please explain something that has always mystified me: cue power. For instance, how is it that Judd Trump has tons of CP, while Mark Wms doesn’t, yet neither is significantly more muscular than the other, and obv both are top notch players?
Cue power is not to do with muscles and strength. It comes from more and more subtle timing in the acceleration of the cue delivery - a long and properly accelerated, smooth and accurate cue action. The key is not to try and hit the cueball as hard as you can (this won't work as well and will tend to stun the ball) but to accelerate the tip through the cueball as smoothly and rapidly as possible.
With back and top spin in particular, it's smoothly accelerating through the ball that really grips it and spins it fully - whacking it harder without the timing and fluidity doesn't grip the ball as much and tends to make it stun more.
@@AD-kv9kj Thanks! I guess I get that part. I used to play volleyball against a 100lb 5-2 skinny kid who could serve the ball anywhere and blindingly fast. It was all coördination. But what I don’t understand is why can’t someone like Mark Williams develop that skill? You either have it or you don’t? (Maybe he had to compensate and became awesome that way?) Again, thanks for taking the time. Stephen hasn’t! ;-)
I Stephen. This is a definition I find confusing : Running is when the spin is turning with the angle of incidence, Check is when the spin is turning against the angle of incidence of collision with the rail. I'm having a hard time grasping the concept. Roland.
PLEASE HELP!! I'm a total beginner ( I've always loved watching snooker) but I've only just started playing, I used to play a lot of English 8 ball ( 25 years ago ) played every day down the local and even played for the team. I had a good eye and could make a lot of shots but I never really played any snooker. As I got older life got in the way,Mrs ,kids,job,mortgage etc etc BUT now the kids are grown,two of them live away from home with their partners and the youngest has just gone off to university .
So I've joined the local club with a couple of mates and have started going once a week and these videos/tips are very useful.
My question is,how do you know when running side is left or right hand side. I've seen it where the shot needs running side and it's right hand side but watching that there was a black that needed running side and it was said " in this case it's left hand side.
What is it that tells you if running side is left or right and what exactly does running side mean?
I can play reasonably well but I just do,I kind of know what side to play but I don't know if I'm playing check side or running side.
Can anyone help, much appreciated thanks
I want to see the outtakes 😉
So have i got this right.. when playing the blue to go up into baulk and back down, running side is lefthand side when playing above centre (round yellow) , and running side is righthand side when stunning up and down around green? 🤔
It would be wonderful if we have a visual image where to hit exactly on the cue ball
Love these.... But I'm still rubbish at snooker.
What's your highest score and biggest break
For me personally, I would've liked the go pro or cue ball with dot to see exactly where you're hitting. The explanation was amazing but I struggle to visualise things.
Holty has one he will do it for you!
Stephen, blue into the pack, plain ball or with running side?
I never thought I'd be riveted to Steven Hendry. Him and Steve Davis make the perfect Laurel and Hardy/Hendry.
In the past, John Higgins reminded me of Stan Laurel. ‘That’s another fine snooker you got me into Stanley’ : )
Thank you Stephen ❤ A cameraman could stand above you and show the side you're applying
Cheers
I think Stephen has done some videos (I’ve definitely seen one) where he wears a go-pro on a headband to give a pov.
Should have a cue ball on screen to show where you are hitting the white. You say left hand side but how far left from the centre. Also how high or low on the ball? It would really help
Repotoir - Boiling point GR
Hendry is turning on the Tap!
Want to know about deep screw please.
An hour a day on a straight blue... this is why he's the GOAT 👏
Watched your game against Matthew stevens last week, crap result but you actually played some really nice shots
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I've always think that a shot to nothing was named that way because you're playing for the security of the baulk cushion, therefore with high possibility of leaving you with no easy color, therefore on nothing but a safety.
It seem even more relevant back in the days when players would rarely take on baulk color from behind.
But that's only my interpretation....
Yeah you're spot on mate
@@jackbuff_I Yes, I remember Willie Thorne in commentary used to talk of a "shot to something" when players left the cue ball short of the baulk line and had a choice of yellow/green/brown to go for. It's one of those terms whose meaning has often got distorted over the years, perhaps to some extent a consequence of the more attacking styles that have prevailed since Stephen dominated the 1990s.
How to pot ball with side spin pls teach us what is aming point in it when apply side spin pls tech us 😊❤