How to EASILY Improve Your HIGH BREAK | Snooker Tips
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Both the breakbuilding and the video editing are of the highest level here, amazing, well done mate.
Cheers Franky. Much appreciated 😀😀
These videos took me to 30, 40, and now I've broken 50 twice in the last 2 weeks. Thank you.
You're break 60 yet.?
@onionskid no and it's annoying me! I keep getting lots of high 40s and getting into the 50s, but just can't get past 60. It will happen but I had a really bad 6 months playing where I have struggled with cueing straight and been bad. I have played better again recently and did a small 4 red lineup this week and cleared it all the way through including the colours...but missed the last black! What a wally.
Thanks again Steve, I could not wait to try this today. I instantly started to improve, I was getting out of position after getting about 16/17. But today trying this I am back into the twenties, the highest was 29. Yes I know not brilliant, years ago when I played every dinner time I was in the 40’s, highest was 50, that was years ago. Being a pensioner I can not afford to go everyday even though my club offers discount to us pensioners. Anyway thanks for this, at least I am improving again after the covid out break I kind of lost the plot. Chris.
Awesome. Great work 👍👍👍
One of my fave snooker vids from this series; simple fact of the matter is that the shots on here were simplified to effectively drop shots and applying plain ball. There has been over time a lot of knowledge and learning gained, but the Pros out there make it look easy and investment in time and practice is essential to be able to figure what you play on the ball and where the cue ball will finish.
Suggestion Headcam for all videos a must !!! Thanks look forward to next
Thanks Steve. Very interesting that how keeping it simple as much as possible and not going for lots of screws and side spins helps.
Another wonderful lesson ❤❤❤
Great video this Steve. I definitely need to take this into my own practice - using too many stuns and screws atm.
Great tips Steve, been practicing the colours clearance and line up and has def helped improve my game
Thank you so much for the video.
Very insightful. Cheers.
Thanks sir for the animations and changes❤
Thanks for this video, it'll be very useful the next time I practise this one !!
Superb video that is so useful. Thanks
I love the approach to keeping it simple. It affords some calmness to the process. We all need this i believe.
Thanks. It really helped me a lot.
The line up is by far my favourite practice routine and I have made a few total clearances on the line up but I do tend to over complicate like you mention in the video. After this I think I’ll be able to it more often and more consistently. Thanks for the tips
Excellent video
Another great video Steve. I have used some of your video tips and they definitely help. I just don’t get to go for a game as often as I’d like to. Keep up the good work mate. 👍👍
Thanks Steve, this video is brilliant, just what I need. Chris.
An absolutely fantastic video. 😊
Excellent video and I’m going to try this next time out 👍
Thanks for wonderful video
Excellent video again.
best snooker coach on youtube!
Great video, this will help my game.
Hi Steve,
I noticed you get the cue ball in a channel around 9 to 15 inches from the cushion avoiding too near the cushion and also not too near the middle of the table. I haven’t heard you talk about this in commentary. Are my observations correct. Yet again another simple but effective lesson, thanks Steve.
good job. thanks
I've just got to not miss the pots! 😂Great demonstration of your skills. 👏👏👏
Love his video's - watch em, have em up in the club, but this one, the amount of 'yeah' in this video was like watching an NLP video, especially the second half of it, :-)
You definitely make the best snooker instruction vids on UA-cam! "The cue ball" graphics where we can see where of hit the cue ball, your explanations etc. It's top shelf!! Suggestion: Could you consider doing a vid on how to predict where the cue ball will go after hitting the target ball? I find that to be extremely hard to do. Anyway...Thanks for uploading this vid...Greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much. Thanks for the positive feedback. Yes I will do a video showing how you can try to predict the angle off the object ball.
Thanks so much for watching 👍
@@BartonSnookergreat video. In the spirit of showing the graphic of where the tip hits the white, perhaps also a speed meter so we can see how hard relatively you hit it? Granted that it's possible to kind of estimate based on both balls travel after the hit...
@@ObsessedWithPool I'll do it in the future. Thanks for the recommendation 👍😀
Great thank you 👍
good show!
Please also make a short video about how to maintain the snooker table.
How often ironing and brushing?
How to clean it correctly?
What brand and type of cloth you use and what are the differences between them based on your experience?
Good man Steve!
Thank you for your video. I saw your demonstration of screwing back from brown to blue without running through the cushion, but still applying left-hand side spin. You also applied side spin when going from pink to black, but also not ran through the cushion. Why is that? Is that any effect from side spin even not run through the cusion?
Thanks Steve. You helped me to get to 30s
Good video Steve. I’ve had a coaching session with Steve & he’s down to earth & definitely will improve ur game alot
Thanks a lot. Massively appreciated 👍👍
Thanks!
Thanks so much Eddie 🙂🙂
I need to try this. I'm still stuck on the mid teens , not been above 20s for years . Need to get some table time in me thinks.
Simple as it seems, I like the cue ball icon to show where you're positioning the shot. Thank you.
Thank you 👍
Hi Steve 😊enjoyed this video lots! My highest break in a lineup is 100 but still looking for a century in a real frame 😊Looking well Steve and best wishes! Ian
Hey Ian. You'll definitely get that 100+ frame break. You're easily good enough. I really appreciate your support as always. Keep up the practice and you'll do it Ian. I'm 100% confident 👍
@@BartonSnooker Thank you Steve!😊
You make this game look very easy! Bu
Hi could you do an explanation in your opinion when is the best or should I saybe the best time to change a snooker tip. As I carnt fined one and when I do its pool tips. Many thanks. I will look forward to hearing from you. Can I. Just say I need a visual. Karl.
It still amazes me how simple you can make it look.
I'm yet to clear a full line up but i have had my one and only century this way, 108 and missed the yellow 😢.
I'll be taking trying this approach on my clubs tables to see if it helps 👌🏻
108 is fantastic. It's great fun now to try and push yourself and get that total clearance. Honestly this rolling in was the biggest thing that helped me on my journey. Give it a go and let me know how you do 👍
Ah great tip that, thanks Steve 👌🏻 when I do the line up I tend to play screw back shots most often, interested to see how I get on with more run through shots
Let me know how you do.
@@BartonSnooker will do
@BartonSnooker I had a go this evening, I found I wasn’t able to get into position to play the run through often enough and still had to play screw shots and stuns, but when there was a chance to do it the run through helped with it being simpler - I was looking for those shots more and they helped 👍 I got a 75 in the line up first try which doesn’t beat my record (93) but I’ve never scored that high first try! Thanks again Steve, loads of your videos have helped me improve not just this one 🙂
@@howlsy6388 that's awesome. Very impressive and great to know this helped you as it did with my game. Thanks for the update 👍😎
I need to do this more, I mainly play UK 8 ball pool and I'm getting a good Potter however Ive started to try and make the white do too much which jn turn makes me miss the pot. Alot of the time there's no need and should just concentrate on the simple shots like on this video.
Thanks again
Make it look so easy wish I could play like this 😢 but really well played mate love ur video 👍👍
Excellent great video thank you as I'm constantly trying to learn as i call it a game of mm lol well I'm playing snooker a year now play for my local b team and average break 30 da 35 highest break is 48 i can pot a great ball stance is good but the consistany i had isn't there I'm struggling to pot 2 blacks in a row any advice tips greatly welcomed thanks again to Barton snooker very helpfull in all videos 🤜🤛
Thank you i was reading up in your website about some coaching is it possible to do online coaching as i live in Belfast thank you again Steve
I’m new to play snooker I’m learning to how play
For my birthday I got a snooker and pool cue in you snooker cue video you help me out
Hi Steve. Brilliant tutorial again. I am curious ... I did think side only came into effect after hitting a cushion but with some of the soft screws you played here you applied a little side without the cue ball coming into contact with a cushion. Have i been miss informed about side coming into effect ‘after’ coming off a cushion? Thanks.
Hi. Side spin has the biggest effect when the cue ball hits the cushion.
Most professionals use a touch of 'helping side' on lots of shots.
It does two things:
1) naturally feels good for a player to apply the side and 'kick' the ball towards the pocket. The side applied on the cue ball throws the object ball a little wider.
2) it's speeds up the travel on the cue ball very slightly. It doesn't change the direction, it just speeds it up a little bit. You don't have to do it, but lots of professionals do.
So in summary, you are correct, without the cushion, it's only having a small benefit, so it is not compulsory that players do it.
Hope that helps 👍
@@BartonSnooker thank you very much for your reply. Yes that does make things a little clearer. Its a complicated process for sure but i think i get what you’re saying. It sounds like in a lot of cases a player will use a dab of side sometimes to help both cue ball and object ball on its merry way - as opposed to playing dead centre and risk putting unwanted side on. Is that right? It’s great you share you knowledge like this. Very helpful. Thanks. 👍
@@bbwnpat you're absolutely right. Instead of trying to be like a robot and be perfect, players just allow for that dab of helping side, and then it's already accounted for, and the behaviour of the cue ball is more predictable.
Cheers, great to help 👍
Fabulous instruction….and I can play every one of those shots. But how do I move past the mental hurdle that builds, and makes the 20th shot so much more difficult than than first, or the fourth?
It's not about the shot, it's about the process that that player takes.
I don't think about the break or that specific pot, only the process I go through every time.
A quick question if I may… with the stun from pink to black, the position on the pink showed a little bit of side spin?? Did you actually play with side, or was it a straight stun shot (which is what I think I would play?) Excellent video. Thanks.
Hi. Side spin has the biggest effect when the cue ball hits the cushion.
Most professionals use a touch of 'helping side' on lots of shots.
It does two things:
1) naturally feels good for a player to apply the side and 'kick' the ball towards the pocket. The side applied on the cue ball throws the object ball a little wider.
2) it's speeds up the travel on the cue ball very slightly. It doesn't change the direction, it just speeds it up a little bit. You don't have to do it, but lots of professionals do.
So in summary, you are correct, without the cushion, it's only having a small benefit, so it is not compulsory that players do it.
Hope that helps 👍
Great video as always, how come you use side when stunning, Is side still effective when the cue ball is not hitting a cushion ?
It's feels better to pot the ball, but it also speeds the cue ball up VERY SLIGHTLY. So I can hit slightly softer and the side will help the cue ball on it's way.
You don't have to play like that, but most professionals do.
@@BartonSnooker thanks ! Will give it a try! Love the vids btw keep up the good work
@@user-fi6vv5di2g thanks 👍
I wish you could elaborate on some shots that you played with side spin.
What shot are you thinking? I can help on here 👍
I have difficulty by using Roll in to pot balls because the table cloth is so slow, I lose the cue ball control 😢
Hi Steve, how do you deal with the sticky cue scenario, you mentioned it was sticking to your hand yet you didn't wipe it at all, my cue wasn't cheap, but in the summer months especially i feel like i'm constantly wiping it after every shot almost, and if i dont i start to develop a blister/friction mark on my bridge finger.
do you have a process you follow i.e sanding and oiling and if so how often so you can cope with these situations while you're playing?
Thx
Hi Sean,
I would normally wipe the cue with a slightly damp towel, and then a dry why to remove and grease and dirt, that then helps it glide better.
I would have normally wiped it, but obviously I was filming so I didn't want to stop.
I put cue wax on my cue every few months to keep is smooth. But the general wiping with the damp and dry cloth is all I do mostly.
@BartonSnooker brilliant thx Steve👍👍 is there a specific cue wax brand you use, do you sand the cue down before applying the cue wax?
@@seanditch4419 I use:
Craftsman Cues Cue Finishing Wax
👍
@@BartonSnooker do you sand the cue before applying?
@@seanditch4419 no. I never sand my cue. I don't even use wire wool on it. You'll be removing wood from the shaft and I don't want that.
I play pool 6-8 times a year but watch loads of snooker. I love this channrl. Came across it by mistake by thinking it wasBreak From Life
❤😂😂😂😊
Awesome. Thanks for watching 😀😀👍
i managed my best so far 14 reds and 13 colours , just landed awkward on the Pink , and had to play with an extended cue from the baulk, making the angle difficult to see with the white so close.
Awesome. Well done Yusef 👍
Hello barton i can't screw back i practice but couldn't do please help
Is the "roller in" word as same as "follow"? and the position of the tip must be "A" only?
Yes. Follow
@@BartonSnooker Thank you krub...
Love from India🇮🇳
thanks a lot steve can you make a same video with a real break not a line up maybe open table ... thank you
Yes I will 👍👍
@@BartonSnooker thank you
im guilty of always thinking i need to add something to the ball usually screwing down to the next red or colour ,im gonna try this "simpler" run through technique more ,no idea why but i feel constantly trying to manipulate the ball is what will make me better and it isnt because i miss so many pots i shouldnt because im trying to manipulate the cueball too much 😂😂
4:27 - I notice the graphic shows bottom left on the cue ball, but you're not playing a swerve shot and the white is not contacting a cushion. Why the side?
That's a mistake in the editing. It should be bottom right. The right just helps to speed the cue ball up very slightly as I'm forcing a bit more of an angle 👍
😊
Always find it a bit negative to roll balls Henry don't use cushions much but this video is good fo begginer to up his highest break
You're exactly right. You don't want to hit balls too carefully and Hendry was a great example of that.
Too many club players hit everything with stun of screw (like I did). Then when I learned to find the natural angle, it improved my game out of sight.
But isn't it better to not put to much mileage on cue ball which Kieran Wilson does or did ? Alan McManus kept going on about it ,Williams rolls nearly every if he can I find this ruins my game if I try to play like this I understand it's not always necessary to play with screw or stun but find it more natural maybe it was because my 6 ft table wasn't level when I was young so had to play like that
@@johndean8295 you're absolutely right about mileage. I don't want the cue ball moving big distances.
But if you can roll a ball, there is no timing involved in that at all. Whereas a screw or stun requires extra timing (it's not JUST a judgement of pace).
If you can keep the shots as simple as possible, you'll see better results.
As you say, not as great test on a smaller table without a slate bed, as things will roll off a lot on those types of tables. It's not like 'real' snooker.
I knocked a few big breaks in when I was 13 or 14 ..60s and 70s well quite big ..the manager of the club Ron Sunderland was a good billiard and snooker player he said he wanted to play me and said wasn't playing enough shots with top around the black and pink so I know where your coming from ..the world billiard champion used to play in my club fella from.india geet his first name I used to love watching him ...also Nigel Gilbert I used to love watching and playing if I was lucky ..
So I can show you my table and video of me playing
my lineup highest break is 147, how do i improve? 😛
Please use always headcam
How to quickly play a century break 😊
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I think you should have every angle on the cueball your far away on shots and we cant ecatly see where your aiming.
What you’re email
In the description 👍
Excellent video
A quick question if I may… with the stun from pink to black, the position on the pink showed a little bit of side spin?? Did you actually play with side, or was it a straight stun shot (which is what I think I would play?) Excellent video. Thanks.
Hi. Side spin has the biggest effect when the cue ball hits the cushion.
Most professionals use a touch of 'helping side' on lots of shots.
It does two things:
1) naturally feels good for a player to apply the side and 'kick' the ball towards the pocket. The side applied on the cue ball throws the object ball a little wider.
2) it's speeds up the travel on the cue ball very slightly. It doesn't change the direction, it just speeds it up a little bit. You don't have to do it, but lots of professionals do.
So in summary, you are correct, without the cushion, it's only having a small benefit, so it is not compulsory that players do it.
Hope that helps 👍
@@BartonSnooker What a great answer, thanks! I had exactly the same question and now it makes sense.