ESCAPING Snookers & Angles Masterclass w/ Alan McManus
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Are you struggling to work out the angle in order to escape from a snooker? Well, who better than Alan "Angles" McManus to demonstrate exactly what you need to know. From using multiple cushions to making tiny side adjustments to tricking your brain into seeing the line of an angle, Alan has you covered in this in-depth masterclass in escaping snookers.
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Could listen to Alan all day, his knowledge of the game is insane 👍
He is too clever to be able to explain it well. I might have became a worse player for trying to understand that haha
Genuinely one of the most fascinating videos I’ve ever watched on snooker! It’s unbelievable seeing a pros mind work out loud (if that makes sense) shows the hours a man can put into a game to have so much knowledge! Calling I’ll cut the pink in the middle” then the only reason he didn’t was pace! Unbelievable video!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
aye just what i was thinking.
outrageous that he's got the line to cut it in the middle off 3 cushions after 2 attempts 😂
absolutely insane to call it unmissable as well, after that 'clarification' of how he does it. makes no sense to me,
How did you?
Need a Scottish interpreter😂😂😂
@@starman9921 Thank you.
No wonder he won fuck all
That cut to the middle was actually so impressive
Wow! I have played snooker for many many years and Alan is showing me and telling me stuff I had no idea about!! AMAZING!
it's amazing cause its like a ghost ball you use for potting but instead it's getting out of snookers. very interesting stuff Alan
I know Alan didn’t win 94 titles like most greats have but the amount of snooker knowledge in this man’s head shits on everyone’s out there. His snooker knowledge is better than all the pro players out there put together. The man is a legend and I love watching him teach or commentating.
"I want to meet it at the end of the banana" - things I did not expect to hear today haha
🔴 Stephen Hendry must be one of the most humblest sportsman ever!! The guy is a former 7 time World Snooker Champion and a LEGEND of the game and anybody unfamiliar with this fact would think Stephen is probably just some guy with a Snooker channel that’s trying to learn off the Pros!! 🔴
Added bonus with that last tip. Love that idea!
That thing he said about escaping snookers, and deliberately aiming off, then adjusting as you guage it in your mind... i used to do that too and it really is the best way to do it. Escaping snookers is all about feel more than anything else. You already have a natural sense of the line, the rest is all in your head.
Listen, I'm no pro, and couldnt hold a candle to these guys, but did play in a league in Basildon years ago and regulary made 40s and 50s. And being able to escape snookers was definitely the strongest aspect of my game.
Obviously Steven's fav subject, getting out of snookers and grinding it out!....
That was awesome Stephen loved it thankyou! I've loved your tips soonmuch. Be great if you could keep picking brains of other pros, on their practice routines...technique mental approach any and all of it!! Amazing snooker channel you've invented...your total pro n natural at it. No way a big channel with producers etc would have created such a great channel! Thankyou! You already added another 8k to the 100,000 you only just reached! Love it keep up good work. Also we'll done on Ur century break in cruicle qualifier. You can still produce it beautifulky
Another fantastic insight into a horrendously difficult sport, 38 highest brake for me 👴🏼🏴…love to all 😘
This is hi tech stuff. Im not going to lie and say I understood it all but very interesting. Alan the man, the myth the legend!
such a great method of making shots more simple
This is pure GOLD
Really enjoyed this - Brilliant how he works things out! - The best of the pundits to my mind and how he thinks about the game 👏👏
Wish this was on when I was playing amateur (poorly) many years ago it’s really opened my mind and eyes as to how the pros approach the game, top notch Alan and Stephen
What the fack are they talking about 😂
Bananas , hit the end of the Banana 😂
Hendrys nodding and saying yea yeah yeah , I bet he hasn't even a clue himself 😂
Incredible…very interesting, thanks Alan!
Alans got real passion for the game
I couldn't make a lot of sense of it, except that he clearly pays a lot of attention to where the cue ball contacts the cushions on every shot. So when he's doing these multi-cushion shots, he likes to think about cushion aim points, rather than ones in the middle of the table. Then the next thing is he has multiple levels of precision that he stacks up. So the first might be an aim point on the cushion that's as thick as the width of a ball. But then he refines that to the left or right edge of that ball. Then if he needs to he starts making tiny tiny adjustments to that point. That's my interpretation anyway. What's interesting is that he focuses more on the end point rather than the first cushion he has to hit.
another brilliant vid! Many thanks
Super video as always. 11:25 alan tells crucible king hendry pl don't worry 😂
Great tips, very very useful!
hard to understand words but actions helps thank you mr.macmanus
Wow, THAT is impressive!
"I want to meet the red at the end of the banana" is a sentence that was produced in this video
Remember to let it jag that way
I'm going to be world champ next year after this. Never picked up a cue in my life.
@@GTiR23 I was recently banned from my local club after lying several bananas on the table, they dragged me out as I screamed "but Angles said"
hang in there Stephen!
from germany
Great insight to angles Mc, but i think you have to be a certain standard to know when cushions are sliding. Great vlog as always though.
Great lads Alan & Stephen
When watching Snooker the commentators talk about how much practice Professionals do day to day but listening to someone like Alan it still boils down to a high chunk of natural ability 😊
With so much experience and practice I believe he can actually see the imaginary lines clear as day
Love it!
Impressive. Imagining a red further along the line is something I reckon will help. Don't think this was one for the beginners though! Especially with two Scots leading the dialect 😅
Awesome 👌 video
after watching twice, still understood zilch
Try get lisowski on before the worlds 💪🏼🎱
"eye ut plai i' dare" he says...coot ye get tha' scots any thicha sirrah :)
This could have done with being about three hours longer! the bloke is a genius.
Clear as mud Alan....😅
Awesome
The ‘Skaughtisch’ accent is strong in this one. 😂😂😂
Amazing feel
It’s super interesting (and honestly a bit disheartening lol) that Alan says it’s not a measure he angles thing but more of a feel thing. So ie, if you dont have the feel… you don’t have the feel, good luck!
Hit it at the end of the banana? Makes perfect sense😂😂😂
"it's not complicated"....lol
But the bit at the end about tricking your mind is pretty neat.
Really need Ronnie on this, I know it's slim chance.
Would love to see a video of Alan working with Stephen on his safety game. You'd win a lot more matches!
Loved the banter and the video… Top drawer stuff the lot. If i had to be critical of any part it’s the camera person.. When he/she is moving around and up and down with the camera it makes it very hard to watch…. Maybe it’s just me but it almost makes me dizzy
TA
Can you translate what he said?
Thing is, he's a natural he's almost savant
Funny watching them trying to explain the ZEN of snooker😂
Aye
Running side narrows the angle,slow tables then running side is your friend
AM is describing for example - akin to a mathematics equation that has one correct answer - although the answer is arrived at by different methods.
The objective is to pot the relevant ball and have perfect position - AM describes his preferred method in achieving this as opposed to another player who achieves the same result by an entirely different method - namely one player may screw off the cushion and AM just imagines he is potting the same ball again but they both exact the same result.
SH seemed thoroughly bamboozled - but I thought AM made complete sense and is absolutely correct.
I find one cushion with a trace of side I think my preference but it is dependent on just a sense and often multi cushion escapes from snookers very often depends on how the table is playing - a club table is usually very variable, as opposed to a very decent proffesional cloth etc.
Surely Alan would be a great coach? Nice to have him commentating, but I think he could help some young players, that badly need some of the dark arts.
Alan 'banana' McManus.
so basically use your magical unhuman senses. got it haha
Alans Bananas🤣
Play the effing shot
it looked like alan was a medium receiving messages from beyond the grave while getting out of snookers
Ha!
Two scots passionatley discuss putting their balls at the end of bananas.
Eye 👀👀👀👀 🤣
Alan is my favourite snooker personality, but I do worry about him sometimes 😩😅 seems his thoughtprocess for EVERY shot in the book is to just gaslight himself, by pretending the shot is something else entirely or that other random balls are involved for no reason whatsoever 😂😂
Can you guys do this same video in english?
Before Alan actually hit the ball, Stephen looked like he was thinking "what is this goofball babbling about?". Then Alan actually managed to hit the ball on the second try but started to babble about hitting the pink with the tip of his banana, and all went south.
I speak English very well but his accent is really hard to be understood
Like Stephen , I haven’t a clue what he’s talking about .
Alan sounds like Billy Connolly & Ali G at the same time.
Aye
Alan ‘I could cut this in off 3 cushions, but I won’t’ McManus
I used to beat this fella regularly but within 9 months we had went full swing from me beating him 5-0 to him beating me 5-0, he could be 50 in front with only pink & black left if he couldn't pot the pink he'd snooker you, he was always going to make it, got lessons from Jim Donnelly in Wishaw
Almac is still a great! He thinks like a real scot.
Cam someone translate to English what Mcmanus is saying
It's amazing that McManus doesn't seem to age...
Another absolute gem of a video , Keep em coming Stephen !
Way too complicated for a beginner like me to understand. All I know is that a plain ball will come off the cushion at the same angle it hit it. But cannot fail to be impressed with the skill of Angles Alan.
The problem is, no it doesn't! Depending on how hard you hit it and how much side, it normally straightens up when it hits the cush.
@@iainamurray he said plain ball, that means no side. A plain ball hit at a reasonable pace (ie not ludicrously slow or ludicrously fast) will come off at the same angle it hits
@@toziassmitt the fact that by his own admission he was a beginner the chances of him hitting center ball are pretty slim.. Beginners always tend to impart unwanted side
@@toziassmitt Aye but in the video he also said that plain ball in a club table will often square up, whilst on a tournament standard table the cushions will slide, and widen the angle.
Yes have always liked Alan. A great commentator and a far better player than his record suggests. Top man👍
Always felt Alan's career kinda flattered to deceive. A phenomenal player in his prime but he had the misfortune of being up against it during Hendry's reign.
Pretty sure Alan's been smoking something....lmao
That was some century break against Cahill.. Including 2 doubles 😮 was really rooting for Stephen to get to the Crucible again.. Maybe a road to the Crucible series on the channel next year 🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶👍☘️
Brillant content. Alan is the professor of safety wow fantastic. You have to do more episode with Alan. It was fascinating. Keep up good work and lookforward to next guest. Wish you could release more videos. I find myself waiting to long which show how great your channel is. 🔥👏🏽👍🏽
brilliant.. would love to see Alan do his own channel of tips too.. what a legend
Steve Davis used to call it 'trickonometry' (for obvious reasons), and I kind of get where he is coming from. I mean, its basic trig, with a little bit of trickery involved with 'side and slide'.
I also love what Alan said about using two cushions as the parallel to find the line, and then just halve it to find the single. That's just genius.
Hendo, come on pal, I grew up, along with many my age in Scotland, watching you mercilessly wipe the floor with anyone you played. It was amazing to see a fellow Scotsman be the greatest in the world at something, Not just the greatest in that period but of ALL TIME! I didn't think you would ever be beaten. Flash forward to now and you seem to talk about yourself like you can hardly hit a ball!! PLEASE Stephen, get back to basics, get the practice in, shift a couple of pounds, get your head focused and go and win another title!!😄
Could listen to these two talk snooker all day. Superb!
The snooker whisperer!!!
Alan McManus - top banana! 🍌
6:29 "Aye!"
And 6:51 😂
@@davidgibson4186 😂
McManus should coach Lesowski
Alan's the man.
cracked
Most of these explanations are fine, but at the end of the day you need to simply have experience and intuition, to know the table and how the cushions react and a bit of luck.
Brilliant ,im glad im Scottish watching that one
I love the way McManus has his natural accent and way of speaking, rather than his TV voice. Great video and channel👍
They differ???🤔🤔🤔I genuinely don’t even notice the difference…. Ya learn something new every day
@@nobodyspecial6436 you must be a native then and you don't realise it because you understand either way? For me it's very hard to understand his "non-formal" talk. In commentary his diction is more careful, and overall less accent. Other non-native speakers feel the same, there were many funny comments about not understanding much in the first video he was on. 😃
@@tarastreasure Native what?? Scottish… nope i’m about 1200 miles west… There’s a great big ocean between me and Scotland… You would land where i’m from if you jumped in a boat and headed west…Closest point of land
@@nobodyspecial6436 Canada then? Well, maybe being immersed in English on a regular basis helps. Or some ears are just wired differently. I can tell you I easily understand American English and 'formal' British English, but I have difficulties with the more peculiar accents. 🤷🏻♀️
This is the kind of insight that this channel provides in abundance. It's absolutely fantastic, and I wish that this kind of thing existed when I was 30-ish years younger! I hope that lots of aspiring young players are watching, enjoying and subscribing to this channel... I'm hooked.
Stephen out of the all the coaches u've had & now stay clear from Alan's got to be one guy that really could help u get bk we'd all love to see u Bk
Just watched your 102 break from today , fantastic mate 👏👏👏
I am certain AM knows his stuff but he just doesn't know how to explain it, so this just turned out to be a load of waffle... . for 2 cushion escapes there is one guaranteed way to hit the ball - I call it splitting the pocket.... 1) imagine a line between the cue ball and the object ball 2) find the midway point along that line 3) imagine a line from the midway point to the corner pocket... this is now your dummy aim line (you can physically point your cue down this line if you want)... 4) your actual aim line will be parallel to the dummy aim line, but from the white to the cushion. In most cases doing this plain ball will get you some kind of contact on the object ball, but if you are hitting the cushion close to the corner you may need a touch of running side. Let me know how you all get on.