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!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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.
@@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. 🤷🏻♀️
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.
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.
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. 🔥👏🏽👍🏽
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 🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶👍☘️
You see grandmaster chess players do the same thing, look away from the board and up into the air. I think at an expert level it must be more useful to imagine things in your mind's eye rather than look at the table/chess board in front of you.
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.
This is how they should be filling the mid session intervals on televised snooker. Could watch all day. Always new McManus was great with getting around the table, but here the process and thinking is explained. Love it
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.
Bloody Fascinating! Love angles, he should start his own little tips and tricks channel, could listen to him for hours. Excellent on commentary as well.
There was something about Alan McManus that I always wanted him to win, unless he was playing a Welshman of course. Another great episode Stephen, and thanks for the absorbing content Alan, Top bloke..👍👍👍
It’s just a whole a different way of thinking about snookers 🤯 I don’t play any more but when I did it was always about how few cushions you could use to get out of a snooker - clearly one of the many reasons I was terrible at it!!!
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
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.
@@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.
Fantastic! Just shows how everybody has some secret sauce! I got the feeling that Stephen was looking at that and thinking Ahh…that’s how you do it….which is nuts!
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
Very interesting, thank you. Like Steve Davis, Angles has a snooker brain the size of planet. (One little criticism - when Alan was trying to show the 'banana', the camera angle needed to be from behind the top cushion/left-hand corner pocket - you couldn't see it from the side view)
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!!😄
🔴 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!! 🔴
Absolutely brilliant Angles!!!! thank you Stephen 'my hero' and hope there is a longer cut of this video with more advices from unselfish pro like Alan.
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 😂
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 😊
Of course there's a bit more to it than that, a lot of times it's not just getting out of the snooker, it's leaving it safe so that's more accuracy required;
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.
So off two cushions we jag it sooner than a banana will bend at the end of arc of regular banana but don’t use too much pace or it will out jag itself and miss by just a banana peel or two. Got 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 😅
Basically you tell yourself where you want to go and the your brain will work out the path, speed etc. Like walking, you dont think about how you walk but rather where you want to go
Video idea! If you don’t get a tour card for next season you should try go to a cue school tournament and use a go pro on ur table to record your reactions would be cool to see!
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.
That cut to the middle was actually so impressive
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
Could listen to these two talk snooker all day. Superb!
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.
Another absolute gem of a video , Keep em coming Stephen !
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. 🤷🏻♀️
Wow! I have played snooker for many many years and Alan is showing me and telling me stuff I had no idea about!! AMAZING!
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.
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.
I love Alan, he's been and remains, like yourself, a great ambassador of the game.
Alan is great to listen to, he knows his stuff for sure, great commentator as well, top man..
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. 🔥👏🏽👍🏽
What a great natural teacher !
brilliant.. would love to see Alan do his own channel of tips too.. what a legend
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
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 🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶👍☘️
The way Alan looked into the air to see the shot, that’s Devine intervention right there 😂 could watch and listen to these guys all day
You see grandmaster chess players do the same thing, look away from the board and up into the air. I think at an expert level it must be more useful to imagine things in your mind's eye rather than look at the table/chess board in front of you.
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.
This is how they should be filling the mid session intervals on televised snooker. Could watch all day. Always new McManus was great with getting around the table, but here the process and thinking is explained. Love it
Best instructional snooker video I have ever seen. Thanks guys!
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!....
Fascinating to see how the thought process behind a shot works for professionals! Very useful!
"I want to meet it at the end of the banana" - things I did not expect to hear today haha
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
Brilliant ,im glad im Scottish watching that one
Bloody Fascinating! Love angles, he should start his own little tips and tricks channel, could listen to him for hours. Excellent on commentary as well.
More Alan please. That was fascinating
There was something about Alan McManus that I always wanted him to win, unless he was playing a Welshman of course. Another great episode Stephen, and thanks for the absorbing content Alan, Top bloke..👍👍👍
such a great method of making shots more simple
Another fantastic insight into a horrendously difficult sport, 38 highest brake for me 👴🏼🏴…love to all 😘
Alan's the man.
It’s just a whole a different way of thinking about snookers 🤯 I don’t play any more but when I did it was always about how few cushions you could use to get out of a snooker - clearly one of the many reasons I was terrible at it!!!
This is pure GOLD
Utterly incomprehensible but delicious. Thanks!
this is fascinating. unreal, these videos are unbelievable, the first hand knowledge
Another great video from the old pro's!!! Both still got it!!
That's crazy accuracy! Wow!
Hahah, what a video this is Stephen with Angles Macca, he's a diamond character, really enjoying these mate ;)
He was a great player.Watching this he had an inbuilt genius for the game.
That was Great! what a lovely human as well Alan!
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!
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
Very interesting approach...will try that myself
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.
Fantastic! Just shows how everybody has some secret sauce! I got the feeling that Stephen was looking at that and thinking Ahh…that’s how you do it….which is nuts!
What a gent , two great players
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
Best channel on UA-cam by far! Keep it up :)
Really enjoyed this - Brilliant how he works things out! - The best of the pundits to my mind and how he thinks about the game 👏👏
Just watched your 102 break from today , fantastic mate 👏👏👏
the last tip is really helpful
The snooker whisperer!!!
Alan McManus - top banana! 🍌
Very interesting, thank you. Like Steve Davis, Angles has a snooker brain the size of planet.
(One little criticism - when Alan was trying to show the 'banana', the camera angle needed to be from behind the top cushion/left-hand corner pocket - you couldn't see it from the side view)
hard to understand words but actions helps thank you mr.macmanus
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!!😄
Great lads Alan & Stephen
Incredible…very interesting, thanks Alan!
Alan seems such a sound guy.. would love a frame with him!
hang in there Stephen!
from germany
Alans got real passion for the game
Wow, THAT is impressive!
Great tips, very very useful!
🔴 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!! 🔴
another brilliant vid! Many thanks
Absolutely brilliant Angles!!!! thank you Stephen 'my hero' and hope there is a longer cut of this video with more advices from unselfish pro like Alan.
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 😂
Epic video. 💯⭐
Might not be a world champion in potting / break building but is one of best ever at multi cushion shots.
With so much experience and practice I believe he can actually see the imaginary lines clear as day
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 😊
"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"
Of course there's a bit more to it than that, a lot of times it's not just getting out of the snooker, it's leaving it safe so that's more accuracy required;
Good to see how to escape; could you please also do how to CREATE snookers?
very interesting tips
Love it!
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.
Awesome 👌 video
I am OK with one cushion escapes but I have trouble visualising 2 or 3 cushion escapes. Any tips?
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.
No idea what he was talking about the entire video but still enjoyed it
Think we need Alan part 2
So off two cushions we jag it sooner than a banana will bend at the end of arc of regular banana but don’t use too much pace or it will out jag itself and miss by just a banana peel or two. Got it.
Would love to hear what break from life thins about these tips and if its gonna work for his game.
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 😅
Superb 👍👍
6:29 "Aye!"
And 6:51 😂
@@davidgibson4186 😂
Love the local accents coming out out when 2 Scots talk!😂
This could have done with being about three hours longer! the bloke is a genius.
Alan McManus is the man. I'm going to put that thing into my game maybe it's the bit that's missing
Super video as always. 11:25 alan tells crucible king hendry pl don't worry 😂
Basically you tell yourself where you want to go and the your brain will work out the path, speed etc. Like walking, you dont think about how you walk but rather where you want to go
Stephen, when are you going to appear on Ultimate Pool? Would love to see you compete in there
Video idea! If you don’t get a tour card for next season you should try go to a cue school tournament and use a go pro on ur table to record your reactions would be cool to see!
Talk about a snooker brain!
Great video. No more guests like John Terry please Stephen.