Just wanna say I highly recommend Steve as a coach. I had a 4 hour coaching session with him a few months ago and it was great. Nice and relaxed environment, very encouraging. Our season has started now and I'm 3-1 and feeling confident.
These are the best pieces of advice you can get to improve your game. I've worked on my cue action for the past 6 months and I've gone from regular breaks of 10 to breaks of 30 now. My aim is to get to 50, which seems like a long way away, but I'll keep trying. Thanks Steve. You've helped me immensely.
Steve I can't thank u enough, u give all this advice for free which is so generous of u ,,,my game has improved so much with yr help .I can't thank u enough
Thanks for the coaching here. I recently changed my stance after seeing your video about misaligned shoulders. It's definitely helping me cue straighter, so thank you.
I’ve learned everything I know from watching snooker and pool never had a coach it’s all about memory and how bad you want to improve even pros have bad days how much you love it!
Great detailed and explained video Barton snooker. Would be great to see you on cue tips sometime. Also have a same set-up as Stephen hendry and do the tough table challenge. As always great video Barton snooker
Can you do a video on long potting with stun or screw? It’s much harder than just hitting centre ball. I’d like to know how your cue action changes in that situation.
Great advice as always! Perhaps you could also mention where you should be looking when you finish feathering. I switch to the part of the object ball I want to strike as I both draw back and follow through. What is your advice on this point, Steve?
Cue action is technique - eg Joe Davis, Steve Davis and almost every modern pro who followed them. Touch is talent - Alex Higgins, Thorne, Hendry, Brecel and a few others. Apparently Pat Houlihan had a superb touch in his 1960s heyday. However, hardly anyone has managed to combine both under pressure. The early (up to 1984) Jimmy White was a good example and Ronnie too is, on a good day. Most pros learned by copying other pros.
can u pls make a video on full swing of the elbow backwards...it happens that, when we stretch elbow backwards to bring the cuetip near the V, the elbow deviates from the straight line (although it does not deviate on shorter swing)...and the follow through does not hit the cueball on the right spot...Thank you for your help 🙏
Hi Barton - Thanks for this amazing video. I am facing difficulty in keeping my wrist and elbow straight and in line of the queue, Wrist bends and elbow is tilted towards the inside. Naturally I adopted this ugly looking stance. I tried to fix it myself, but it was a disaster. Your expert guidance is requested for addressing this problem as well - Thank you :)
I didn't know that you had to keep your elbow fixed. I've been dropping my arm and shoulder on shots for ages. Gonna try this on Thursday when I'm down the club. Genuinely helpful advice. I look forward to trying it out. Cheers mate
Try it. The elbow can drop after contact or not all but before contact it should be fixed to hit where you aimed. Ronnie: drop; Trump, Robertson: no drop. Ronnie doesn’t grip with the first but the middle finger. Trump, Robertson: first finger.
I am just starting my learning Journey after becoming interested in Snooker. I’ve been using the cues provided in my local club up until now but I’m ready to invest some funds into a cue for myself. I practice twice a week for about 1-2 hours each time and have made some good improvements by watching these vids, so thank you. What would you recommend for a first cue purchase, there are so many options. Obviously I want to get the best value I can and can’t spend hundreds. I have been looking at good brands but second hand but it’s a mine field in choosing one, any advice would be much appreciated
Sir do we grip the cue accordingly? Like tight grip for screw shot Loose for follow And medium tight for stun shots As theres an old video of ronie explaining screw shot with tight grip
The cue must start slowly to fast. If the cue is sent with the elbow, can the speed be controlled from slow to fast? I would like to teach how to send the cue with the elbow in detail. Thank you very much.
Is there any special reason as to why at the final cue delivery I saw many people deliberately strike lower, not at the point they aimed, when doing a screw back shot ? Is doing so will create a more back spin ? Hope some may help, thank you.
Hi Steve, I would like to ask, if I get down to the shot, my eyes are looking at the white ball first and then to the object ball, and then I mainly focus on the object ball and not doing the eyes flicking between the two balls, is it absolutely fine? Or should I change it to have the checking between the two balls? Thanks 😊
I was like you and now I feather 2x SLOWLY, starting with my tip on the CB I look at the CB while drawing my cue and look at the OB while I'm throwing the cue it took a while I've went from getting 20s on a rare occasion to getting 30+ at least once every rime I play .
Barton snooker - i follow these tips on stance, cue action, pauses etc but my head is so full of checks and doubts, ive gone backwards. Not because of your guides/advice, but general lack of confidence and head full of doubt = total loss of flow. Really struggling with the game currently because of doubt/errors in technique
I have a question about touching red. If cue ball touches red ball and red ball is on, can he hit another colour ball and pot a red. Suppose a black is blocking a red near pocket and the cue ball is touching another red.
The cueball is touching the red so it is deemed to have played the red, therefore any intermediary ball’s type/value is irrelevant, as long as you pot the ball that is ‘on’, in this case, the other red. It is therefore a legal shot. You may not however nominate a free ball as a touching red in the same way as you cannot snooker behind a nominated free ball, so nominating say the touching yellow as a red (free ball) then playing a color to pot another red would be a foul and would incur the penalty of the color hit, the value of the touching ball, or the ball potted, whichever is the greater. It kinda seems logical that you cannot use a foul to your advantage. You may however pot a red using a free ball, or even both balls, as both balls are considered ‘on’. You may not however nominate a free ball as another color and use it to make that color, even though it is ‘on’, unless only pink and black remain.
@@Mrphilharmonic Thank you for replying, i have my doubts as i haven't seen a clip where this scenario is happening I'm very well versed in free ball rules though but i didnt know about the situation you mentioned above. Seems logical if you nominate (say) yellow as free ball and pot another red through black (example), will that be allowed. Moreover, if cue ball is touching a yellow and you nominate yellow as free ball and you hit a black (eg) and snookered him behind the black, is it not legal. The rule says you cannot snooker behind a nominated free ball (in this case yellow) but you snooker him behind a black. Can you show me a clip or link where this particular shot was played, i want to save it for clarifying future arguments.
I have to add another one (next to hit from the elbow, this is my nemesis): keep your head down. When I see the object ball consistently rattle in the jaws I know I am lifting my head.
I feel like the big take away is that you should have the knowledge of all the techniques, but find what works best for your own anatomy and style. I know players who drops the elbow and shoot incredibly straight. In pool there are also players on the highest level who uses the slip stroke technique, which is very hard to master, but if you can, you shoot objectively 100% straight, because a cue moving through the air must follow its trajectory. But no teacher would advise that technique. So it's all about finding what works for you.
Ive seen what definitely looks like a third pause in kyren wilsons action. Seems like a lot of hard work and not great on the eye but if its good enough to grab a world title i guess hes not bothered. Weird knock kneed stance he takes too. Whatever works i guess...
@@Gbonejohn1974 It's all tongue in cheek John. But personal feelings aside, Holt drops nuggets of useful information if you're attempting to improve your game.
@Gbonejohn1974 he is just flatout wrong about a lot of stuff too. I get what his point is, to simplify stuff. But he simplify to the point that he lacks knowledge of and/or ignores basic principles and physics that are crucial to all cue sports.
I’m not a coach, but here’s my experience with learning Snooker. Practice does not equal ability. After practice every day for at least one or two hours, sometimes up to 5 or 6 hours for the last 4 years, with very careful attention to every detail, more than one coach, and a systematic approach, I’ve come to the conclusion that you can only be a next level player if you have a talent for it. No matter how much practice you do, if you don’t have the talent- you are not going to perform consistently much over your base level. You might get occasional higher breaks on good days, but for most players a base level average break is a break between 20 and 40. Consistent breaks higher than that won’t just start to happen unless you you have the talent, so don’t imagine that you can practice your way to be a good player without it. If you ask me, it’s just a waste of time putting lots of hours practice in, because other players can demonstrate that they can pot balls and string a good break together without it. I’m a lower than average player and my base level break is only about 25 with a high break of 67. So after all the work I’ve put in, I would say that this game is 90% talent and 10% practice- because I do at least twice as much practice as anyone I know except another guy at our club who does almost as much, and still gets beat by people with an aptitude for it, who seem to be able to get better without much effort and no regular practice routine. It sucks, but that’s just the way it is for people without that magic ingredient.
Bit of a pessimistic comment. You're right in saying practice does not equal ability but it depends what you're actually practicing, it has to be worthwhile to see any noticeable improvement. When I first started playing I would only have frames against my friends and people in my family. I would get the odd break of about 20 but the consistency was way off. I joined a different club where it cost less to play, started doing line-up routines, high blacks/low blacks, clearing the colours off their spots etc. Can say that my game has improved massively. Watching vids like this and knowing what to do with the white is critical. No one taking up the game later on in life is going to turn professional but you can definitely become a half decent player. I'm still in my 20s and play in a local league competitively.
first , never forget that we are amateurs , most of the time we play for fun, difficult game but still fun . as i can practice as much as i can ill never dunk in basketball as 7' player from the NBA. a well hidden "secret" to snooker , is that actually you need physical attributes that compatible with this game requirements, IE being cross dominance eye hand which is only 15% of the population , but they are in snooker top level the majority. not one coach ever mention that .
here is good example, in all the billion ppl in china , all of their top players are even sights or cross-dominance . ua-cam.com/video/Qzt8O_tCQtE/v-deo.html&pp=ygUMQ2hhbmcgQmluZ3l1 carbon copy players , for them to pot a ball is like NBA player got free dunk .
I kind of agree but I will say that watching tips from Steve and a few other channels has taken me from being a terrible player with a high break of 24 to a half decent player with a high break 63. He’s gives great advice that I’ve genuinely learned from and managed to put into practice. Wish channels like this were around when I was young but then again there wasn’t even the internet when I was young!! So I’m genuinely grateful for these free lessons.
Definitely incorrect in few ways; bridge is too long (look at most of the top players and you get the idea that it should be at least 2-3 inches shorter than what he professes- longer bridge do not equal to power); wrist grip should not be jutted out towards tip direction; this position is only upon completion after cueing through- additional push thru to get additional follow-thru speed); drawback should not be going upwards but to try to be as parallel as possible as always preached by the great Steve Davis- this to prevent miscue upon cue return to push thru.... and Ive only seen less than 3 minutes of this horrible vid...
I read a lot of people in comments campaigning to see Barton Snooker appear on an episode of CueTips. I'd love to see that happen
I'd love to see a holty barton joint vid
@@paulkerry69 That would be interesting to watch
Another great video. Helped my game so much
I really enjoy your instructional videos, your delivery is among the best ever!
Top man,at the top of his profession,thankyou Steve,another masterclass performance.
Just wanna say I highly recommend Steve as a coach. I had a 4 hour coaching session with him a few months ago and it was great. Nice and relaxed environment, very encouraging. Our season has started now and I'm 3-1 and feeling confident.
I hope you don't get old anytime, so that U can always teach me all this 😊😂 love this ❤
These are the best pieces of advice you can get to improve your game. I've worked on my cue action for the past 6 months and I've gone from regular breaks of 10 to breaks of 30 now. My aim is to get to 50, which seems like a long way away, but I'll keep trying. Thanks Steve. You've helped me immensely.
Steve I can't thank u enough, u give all this advice for free which is so generous of u ,,,my game has improved so much with yr help .I can't thank u enough
Fantastic video ! Thank you !
Thanks for the coaching here. I recently changed my stance after seeing your video about misaligned shoulders. It's definitely helping me cue straighter, so thank you.
Awesome, always good to think about the cue action, as Ronnie said, it's alllll about the cue action.
Fabulously explained & illustrated, as always. Thanks coach.
Excellent,fantastic,superb vídeo.Thanks my friend
Excellent stuff brother
Good work.. I learned a lot from ur videos and I think hitting from elbow is the main secret of good cue action or straight delivery...stay blessed
I’ve learned everything I know from watching snooker and pool never had a coach it’s all about memory and how bad you want to improve even pros have bad days how much you love it!
Great greeting from For You snooker club Casablanca City Morocco. Thank you so much Mr Barton.
I see Barton video, I click, I like and leave a comment!
Another quality informative video . Cheers Steve. 👍👍
Great video! I have one more reason for doing the feathers: Making sure that I will hit the cue ball exactly on the intended point.
Great video Steve! Hoping all is well with you! 😊
Excellent as usual.
Great ….. thanks coach.
Top class 🎯
Got my lesson on the 30th can’t wait
Great detailed and explained video Barton snooker. Would be great to see you on cue tips sometime. Also have a same set-up as Stephen hendry and do the tough table challenge. As always great video Barton snooker
Thanks Steve! ❤👍😉
Great video. Steve have you heard about the impact throw thing? Very interesting.
Apparently the object ball gets thrown off?
Can you do a video on long potting with stun or screw? It’s much harder than just hitting centre ball. I’d like to know how your cue action changes in that situation.
Great advice as always! Perhaps you could also mention where you should be looking when you finish feathering. I switch to the part of the object ball I want to strike as I both draw back and follow through. What is your advice on this point, Steve?
Cue action is technique - eg Joe Davis, Steve Davis and almost every modern pro who followed them.
Touch is talent - Alex Higgins, Thorne, Hendry, Brecel and a few others.
Apparently Pat Houlihan had a superb touch in his 1960s heyday.
However, hardly anyone has managed to combine both under pressure.
The early (up to 1984) Jimmy White was a good example and Ronnie too is, on a good day.
Most pros learned by copying other pros.
Great video.
Excellent sir ❤
can u pls make a video on full swing of the elbow backwards...it happens that, when we stretch elbow backwards to bring the cuetip near the V, the elbow deviates from the straight line (although it does not deviate on shorter swing)...and the follow through does not hit the cueball on the right spot...Thank you for your help 🙏
Hi Barton - Thanks for this amazing video. I am facing difficulty in keeping my wrist and elbow straight and in line of the queue, Wrist bends and elbow is tilted towards the inside. Naturally I adopted this ugly looking stance. I tried to fix it myself, but it was a disaster. Your expert guidance is requested for addressing this problem as well - Thank you :)
Love ur channel Steve, how about some information on coaching certification as you have done and also a video on snooker rules.
Thanks
I didn't know that you had to keep your elbow fixed. I've been dropping my arm and shoulder on shots for ages. Gonna try this on Thursday when I'm down the club. Genuinely helpful advice. I look forward to trying it out. Cheers mate
Try it. The elbow can drop after contact or not all but before contact it should be fixed to hit where you aimed. Ronnie: drop; Trump, Robertson: no drop. Ronnie doesn’t grip with the first but the middle finger. Trump, Robertson: first finger.
I am just starting my learning Journey after becoming interested in Snooker. I’ve been using the cues provided in my local club up until now but I’m ready to invest some funds into a cue for myself. I practice twice a week for about 1-2 hours each time and have made some good improvements by watching these vids, so thank you. What would you recommend for a first cue purchase, there are so many options. Obviously I want to get the best value I can and can’t spend hundreds. I have been looking at good brands but second hand but it’s a mine field in choosing one, any advice would be much appreciated
great video, is it important to keep your cue hand at the same position on the cue where possible, or should i be saying how important is it? thanks
I've always loved this channel but the video editing has been taken to another level. Do you do it yourself?
Thanks coach ❤🙂💙
Big fan Steve ❤
Most useful
Superb
As always sir ❤
@@mehranaslam375 thank you! 🙂
Thank you sir love from India 🇮🇳✨❤️
Dankeschön
Awesome
Sir do we grip the cue accordingly?
Like tight grip for screw shot
Loose for follow
And medium tight for stun shots
As theres an old video of ronie explaining screw shot with tight grip
Try to do the same thing on every shot. And don't try to copy Ronnie, because he's a genius and we are not.
Barton, watch to cue ball or object ball???
The cue must start slowly to fast. If the cue is sent with the elbow, can the speed be controlled from slow to fast? I would like to teach how to send the cue with the elbow in detail. Thank you very much.
Is there any special reason as to why at the final cue delivery I saw many people deliberately strike lower, not at the point they aimed, when doing a screw back shot ? Is doing so will create a more back spin ? Hope some may help, thank you.
Tnx
Tony Knowles has always had very very quick feathers! Really quick 😯
@@ianwatkins6202 yes!
He ne never really took off though
Hi Steve, I would like to ask, if I get down to the shot, my eyes are looking at the white ball first and then to the object ball, and then I mainly focus on the object ball and not doing the eyes flicking between the two balls, is it absolutely fine? Or should I change it to have the checking between the two balls? Thanks 😊
I was like you and now I feather 2x SLOWLY, starting with my tip on the CB I look at the CB while drawing my cue and look at the OB while I'm throwing the cue it took a while I've went from getting 20s on a rare occasion to getting 30+ at least once every rime I play .
Barton snooker - i follow these tips on stance, cue action, pauses etc but my head is so full of checks and doubts, ive gone backwards.
Not because of your guides/advice, but general lack of confidence and head full of doubt = total loss of flow.
Really struggling with the game currently because of doubt/errors in technique
I have a question about touching red. If cue ball touches red ball and red ball is on, can he hit another colour ball and pot a red. Suppose a black is blocking a red near pocket and the cue ball is touching another red.
The cueball is touching the red so it is deemed to have played the red, therefore any intermediary ball’s type/value is irrelevant, as long as you pot the ball that is ‘on’, in this case, the other red. It is therefore a legal shot.
You may not however nominate a free ball as a touching red in the same way as you cannot snooker behind a nominated free ball, so nominating say the touching yellow as a red (free ball) then playing a color to pot another red would be a foul and would incur the penalty of the color hit, the value of the touching ball, or the ball potted, whichever is the greater. It kinda seems logical that you cannot use a foul to your advantage.
You may however pot a red using a free ball, or even both balls, as both balls are considered ‘on’.
You may not however nominate a free ball as another color and use it to make that color, even though it is ‘on’, unless only pink and black remain.
@@Mrphilharmonic Thank you for replying, i have my doubts as i haven't seen a clip where this scenario is happening I'm very well versed in free ball rules though but i didnt know about the situation you mentioned above. Seems logical if you nominate (say) yellow as free ball and pot another red through black (example), will that be allowed. Moreover, if cue ball is touching a yellow and you nominate yellow as free ball and you hit a black (eg) and snookered him behind the black, is it not legal. The rule says you cannot snooker behind a nominated free ball (in this case yellow) but you snooker him behind a black. Can you show me a clip or link where this particular shot was played, i want to save it for clarifying future arguments.
I have to add another one (next to hit from the elbow, this is my nemesis): keep your head down. When I see the object ball consistently rattle in the jaws I know I am lifting my head.
Faça outro vídeo sobre onde olhar na hora da tacada.Olhar na bola branca ou na bola objeto.Isso é muito importante.😮
Even when you hit from the elbow while going through the ball litlle bit elbow and shoulder still drop
@@HamzaKhan-zg9zw yes, that's right.
❤❤❤
Today i lost the match..😭 i missed the very simple shot..i alwys follow your instruction..than also i missed the easy shors...why??
Work on your grip
I'm sure Ronnie and other pros drop their elbow, at least on power shots.
@@DM-kv9kj correct!
I wouldn't bet on that
I feel like the big take away is that you should have the knowledge of all the techniques, but find what works best for your own anatomy and style. I know players who drops the elbow and shoot incredibly straight. In pool there are also players on the highest level who uses the slip stroke technique, which is very hard to master, but if you can, you shoot objectively 100% straight, because a cue moving through the air must follow its trajectory. But no teacher would advise that technique. So it's all about finding what works for you.
Grip
Ive seen what definitely looks like a third pause in kyren wilsons action.
Seems like a lot of hard work and not great on the eye but if its good enough to grab a world title i guess hes not bothered.
Weird knock kneed stance he takes too.
Whatever works i guess...
Any snooker players watching, give Michael Holts page some love. Some great snooker advice over there as well
Nah that guy is clueless. The only Snooker channel I would not recommend taking advice from.
great player just comes across as a smug turd ...Barton is far more likeable and presents so much better as holt would say hes perf 😂😂
@@Gbonejohn1974 It's all tongue in cheek John. But personal feelings aside, Holt drops nuggets of useful information if you're attempting to improve your game.
Hi from Australia Michael , Perf pal
@Gbonejohn1974 he is just flatout wrong about a lot of stuff too. I get what his point is, to simplify stuff. But he simplify to the point that he lacks knowledge of and/or ignores basic principles and physics that are crucial to all cue sports.
Dropping the shoulder/elbow at contact, prevents pupils from having a short follow through, and decelerating.
Like 147 ehhh 148 :)
I hv improved a bit..... But still missing silly shots...though the percentage is low now.... ...
I’m not a coach, but here’s my experience with learning Snooker. Practice does not equal ability. After practice every day for at least one or two hours, sometimes up to 5 or 6 hours for the last 4 years, with very careful attention to every detail, more than one coach, and a systematic approach, I’ve come to the conclusion that you can only be a next level player if you have a talent for it. No matter how much practice you do, if you don’t have the talent- you are not going to perform consistently much over your base level. You might get occasional higher breaks on good days, but for most players a base level average break is a break between 20 and 40. Consistent breaks higher than that won’t just start to happen unless you you have the talent, so don’t imagine that you can practice your way to be a good player without it. If you ask me, it’s just a waste of time putting lots of hours practice in, because other players can demonstrate that they can pot balls and string a good break together without it. I’m a lower than average player and my base level break is only about 25 with a high break of 67. So after all the work I’ve put in, I would say that this game is 90% talent and 10% practice- because I do at least twice as much practice as anyone I know except another guy at our club who does almost as much, and still gets beat by people with an aptitude for it, who seem to be able to get better without much effort and no regular practice routine. It sucks, but that’s just the way it is for people without that magic ingredient.
Bit of a pessimistic comment. You're right in saying practice does not equal ability but it depends what you're actually practicing, it has to be worthwhile to see any noticeable improvement. When I first started playing I would only have frames against my friends and people in my family. I would get the odd break of about 20 but the consistency was way off. I joined a different club where it cost less to play, started doing line-up routines, high blacks/low blacks, clearing the colours off their spots etc. Can say that my game has improved massively. Watching vids like this and knowing what to do with the white is critical. No one taking up the game later on in life is going to turn professional but you can definitely become a half decent player. I'm still in my 20s and play in a local league competitively.
first , never forget that we are amateurs , most of the time we play for fun, difficult game but still fun .
as i can practice as much as i can ill never dunk in basketball as 7' player from the NBA.
a well hidden "secret" to snooker , is that actually you need physical attributes that compatible with this game requirements, IE being cross dominance eye hand which is only 15% of the population , but they are in snooker top level the majority.
not one coach ever mention that .
here is good example, in all the billion ppl in china , all of their top players are even sights or cross-dominance .
ua-cam.com/video/Qzt8O_tCQtE/v-deo.html&pp=ygUMQ2hhbmcgQmluZ3l1
carbon copy players , for them to pot a ball is like NBA player got free dunk .
I think that's the case for any skill - music, sport, academia, whatever.
I kind of agree but I will say that watching tips from Steve and a few other channels has taken me from being a terrible player with a high break of 24 to a half decent player with a high break 63. He’s gives great advice that I’ve genuinely learned from and managed to put into practice. Wish channels like this were around when I was young but then again there wasn’t even the internet when I was young!! So I’m genuinely grateful for these free lessons.
Definitely incorrect in few ways; bridge is too long (look at most of the top players and you get the idea that it should be at least 2-3 inches shorter than what he professes- longer bridge do not equal to power); wrist grip should not be jutted out towards tip direction; this position is only upon completion after cueing through- additional push thru to get additional follow-thru speed); drawback should not be going upwards but to try to be as parallel as possible as always preached by the great Steve Davis- this to prevent miscue upon cue return to push thru.... and Ive only seen less than 3 minutes of this horrible vid...