It's so important to correct what your mind thinks. So many shots are missed because we don't adjust from what we think is the right spot on the target ball. Thanks for reinforcing my own practice where I have been doing this.
This is something I have been working really hard on. It takes alot of mental strength to keep doing it. But I find it does work and I am seeing improvements. Great stuff mate keep it coming. I like that you put next week's subject up too 👍
I just wanna say to you Mr.Steve Barton , u have no idea how much i have improved in my game from all these videos!!! Hopefully one day im able to say a big thank you to you in person. LOVE from Malaysia!
Love this routine, such a common problem when you're new to the game or are restarting playing after years. A great extension to this routine is to mark a spot on the table and keep playing the same shot, so similar to what you did with the black spot at the start. Once you've dialed in the angle, start experimenting with pace and spin to start learning the way the white moves. Once you get used to the effects of spin and pace, start focussing on moving the white to specific locations around the black. Next see how many consecutive blacks you can pot from the spot. You can do this routine for every single colour spot and before you know it, you'll know how to manoeuvre the cue ball to almost anywhere on the table from a colour spot. Love the channel, learn so much. Thanks for the videos!
Thanks Steve, perfectly links to the yellows I couldn’t pot the other day! Need to make sure I mark where the cue ball is next time and hopefully will start feeling comfortable on those types of shots.
Great video, I used this process to learn angles and it works. It's more about training the brain to recognize if the line of the shot is too thick/thin or exactly right. And the good thing is even with missed pots, the brain is still learning.
Very useful indeed Steve I Will be practising this at the club on Saturday, thanks very much :) Im pleased to report i had a good session today, by slowing my game and just concentrating that little more on shots has improved things.
Great video. Aiming is something many beginners want to "perfect" straight away and think that's the magical route to success. But after all, like you show here, it's just practice and trial and error that's needed. Ghost ball theory is a viable strategy (more so for beginners, to understand how to pot a ball in theory) but very inconsistent to rely on in practice. It's all about making your brain adjust to finding the angles to pot the ball every time.
Such a great video, simple but fundamental. I find I get lazy and don’t want to take the time to do this and get on with a frame but my game needs it. This is definitely my next practice session. Thanks Steve 👍🏻
This is also a good way to correct old age. Years ago there was practically nothing I couldn't pot but now as the joints and eyes are not quite what they were I often play short. I rarely play now but for any older guys that still play regular it is a very good tip.
Great work steve ❤️ can u plz teach us that how professional players pot a long red in the start of a frame and get back to the bolk colors using different things on the cue ball. I will be very thankful for that
Good video again Steve ,I like sitting up practice sessions like this when the cueing sometimes goes off a bit .How’s the superfine cloth holding up wear wise. Just had my table recovered again Monday ,only ever used no 10 or 6811 ,but I’m thinking next year superfine might be getting a try as I’ve heard it’s very good ,very fast ,but grippy too .
Hi Mike, My cloth is already very worn in places where I use standard routines to help players. I do however coach 5 days a week, 4-5 hours every one of those days. So that's a lot more use than your average table. You're right, the Superfine is very grippy and I like it a lot. Also no problem for me as I'll be replacing the cloth in another couple of months. For normal use like you're getting, Superfine will be absolutely great.
A simple concept and method. Perhaps too easy to take for granted or neglect, but should not to be overlooked, and it's well worth talking about. High quality content as usual, Steve. Just got myself a set of balls as the ones at the club looked like they'd been in a car crash. Would be interested to hear your opinion on playing on poorly maintained tables.
It guess it helps "timing". No player consciously thinks about it. It just happens completely naturally. I have no idea I even do it until I watch a video back.
I have a question and I have not found any good video on it. The question is that how we can hit the cue balls with different powers (slow, medium, fast, etc). What is the main component behind this? Do we need to use arm power to control these types of power shots?
A Very good video, but I believe that there's a system of aiming as well, could you tell what system do you use, you usually see one point on object ball? Ghost ball, I really think that the pros use something better than ghost ball.
Hi again Steve. I replied to your answer with a new question. Could you please check it out? I would also like to know if speed impacts the line of aim in certain situations?
This video has actually made me realise that i should try and aim for the wider opening of the pocket (cutting the black from its spot as the example i always hit it too thick if it makes sense.
There must be a technical way (beyond trial and error) to know where the contact point is. A laser light can show where the object should be hit---but how do you account for the thickness of the white in hitting the spot?
No technical way unfortunately. We like to think there is, but as a human we are 'guessing' the potting angle. The more we do it, the better our guess becomes as we have more experience. The laser light shows a spot, but that's not where the middle of the white needs to go, that's why for humans, that is not a helpful way of aiming shots.
Does anyone else like me, have to aim a little bit thicker potting the yellow and thinner on the green. (clearing the colours). I'm right handed and I feel it's different compensating on one side of the table than the other. That's actually with almost every ball I go for, especially long pots.
Yes I'd be interested in Steve's feedback on this. I find I aim thicker for a right to left pot and thinner for a left to right pot. I think that's because I'd be right eye dominant but my cue is more under my nose so you are looking at the pot from a slightly different angle if you are potting to the left or right.
Very instructive video Steve. Actually you recently posted a similar video a few weeks or months ago about repeating shots until your brain has learned the proper line of aim. I do like the way you explain it and I find this quite useful, but I have to get back to what you said at the beginning of it, when you talk about the fact that there's no need to practice every single angle all around the table. I would have liked for you to explain WHY it's not necessary, because when object balls are closer to cushions, the margin of error decreases, or the path to the pocket changes a bit right? Maybe I'm wrong here, so could you explain why exactly it's not necessary please? Thanks! :-)
Your brain is constantly gaining new information. It's all data that is being inputted into the computer (your brain). The more data the better. It means then that when you come to a slightly different angle, your brain isn't going from zero data... it's going from information based on other similar potting angles. You're not guessing to the same degree because your brain has other information to compare the angle to. So yes, the margin of error may decrease on certain shots, but you're not going in blind. You're going in with lots of data from lost of other shots. And that's why paying attention and building up that data really helps. Imagine reversing into a car parking space. You do it based on lots of previous data. It's not the same parking spot, but you'll manage to execute the manoeuvre based on lots of previous experience. Snooker is no different 🙂
@@BartonSnooker Ok I understand better now. Could you then just tell me where on the table are the key places to put an object ball and cue ball setup? In other words would I cover any situation that could occur in a game if I just put object balls on the coloured balls spots and just move the cue ball after a few reps to modify the angles? or I need to place object balls at more spots than that? Hope my question is clear enough!!
I always don't find a consistent method to aim a shot. Most of the times are visual memory , some blind pocket shots are ghost ball, some of them are finding the contact point on cue ball. I find it the most difficult to aim a in-between half ball to 1/4 ball shot.
Hi steve i have a question. Whenever i play without pausing the cue my shot doesn't miss. But whenever i pause before hiting the cue ball it gets offline and the cue hits somewhere left or right side of the cue ball and hence i miss the shot. What do you think im doing wrong?
I have a problem with my this angle whenever I have to hit it without side I miss it but when I play it with the touch of left hand side relaxing my both arm and grip then the black goes in , but it shouldn't happen can anyone of you tell what's wrong ?.
Only caveat with this method, is that if a player's straight shots aren't actually straight or they're compensating their aim for straight shots, then it means when they are adjusting for angles they will be correcting a flaw with another flaw. I think it's important to get 'what you see is what you get' as close as possible first. For example if a person is missing easy short range shots like this and having to make adjustments, I would be very suspicious. _Especially_ if the adjustment is different for left cuts vs right cuts.
@@BartonSnookerI was probably stating the obvious. You can run into some real doozies when first learning snooker. I had a problem where my straight shots were always missing to the right, but my cuts were always missing to the left. Because I wanted to trust my straight shots. I kept adjusting my head position so that my straight shots went in more consistently, which made my cuts miss by even more and then tried to compensate for my cuts by making adjustments. However the whole time I was actually adjusting my head position in the wrong direction and the real problem was that I was shooting across the ball on straight shots.
This video ignores the effects of CIT(cut induced through) and Spin induced through (SIT) on aiming. Will you please make a video about CIT and SIT as well
Having comeback to this video several times,, I now IMAGINE the object ballgoing into the pocket, ?,,,,.. It can help FEEDBACK to your Brain, I think anyway...lol.
That's ok as long as you make the compensation for where he needs to aim the middle of the white. Shining the spot at the back of the ball in line with the pocket, is not where the middle of the white needs to go to make the pot.
I used to play lots of snooker but in today’s world it’s hard to find places to play without having to travel miles and miles, and then the tables are in poor shape.
Not in this case. Obviously I am deliberately missing to show the point to my viewers. Your point is a good one though. We must cue straight and with authority otherwise we will miss the pot. So yes, making sure to cue straight is important.
My snooker friend aims a shot for so long and he is so into the "complete pre-shot routine" and "aiming down a shot after looking at the objectball path and cueball path" emphasis, which makes him take about 30 seconds to take a simple and easy pot. I know the emphasis is good when you are out of consistency and hot hand. But it takes so long that sometimes I feel so angry on it and I just cannot handle it (in case I am a fast pace potter). I just don't feel like taking so long in a shot makes you more accurate in potting because he still misses a lot. Is there anything I can say to him ? as he will always return me with "all snooker channels tell me to do that"
Hi, i’m learning from you from asian country, your english accent is very hard, and please speak little slow with full word pronunciation. Thanks a lot.
I always learn so much from your channel; no wonder it's so popular. 😊
It's so important to correct what your mind thinks. So many shots are missed because we don't adjust from what we think is the right spot on the target ball. Thanks for reinforcing my own practice where I have been doing this.
We should stop "thinking" :)
Absolutely love how meticulously you explained everything. Will definitely give this routine a try. Brillian Video Steve! As always, ❤️ from India.
This is something I have been working really hard on. It takes alot of mental strength to keep doing it. But I find it does work and I am seeing improvements. Great stuff mate keep it coming. I like that you put next week's subject up too 👍
I just wanna say to you Mr.Steve Barton , u have no idea how much i have improved in my game from all these videos!!! Hopefully one day im able to say a big thank you to you in person. LOVE from Malaysia!
Love this routine, such a common problem when you're new to the game or are restarting playing after years. A great extension to this routine is to mark a spot on the table and keep playing the same shot, so similar to what you did with the black spot at the start. Once you've dialed in the angle, start experimenting with pace and spin to start learning the way the white moves. Once you get used to the effects of spin and pace, start focussing on moving the white to specific locations around the black. Next see how many consecutive blacks you can pot from the spot. You can do this routine for every single colour spot and before you know it, you'll know how to manoeuvre the cue ball to almost anywhere on the table from a colour spot. Love the channel, learn so much. Thanks for the videos!
Thanks Steve, perfectly links to the yellows I couldn’t pot the other day! Need to make sure I mark where the cue ball is next time and hopefully will start feeling comfortable on those types of shots.
Great video, I used this process to learn angles and it works. It's more about training the brain to recognize if the line of the shot is too thick/thin or exactly right. And the good thing is even with missed pots, the brain is still learning.
Exactly right. Even when we miss we are still learning. So don't see that as a disappointment. It's all valuable information the brain is using.
Very useful indeed Steve I Will be practising this at the club on Saturday, thanks very much :) Im pleased to report i had a good session today, by slowing my game and just concentrating that little more on shots has improved things.
Great video. Aiming is something many beginners want to "perfect" straight away and think that's the magical route to success. But after all, like you show here, it's just practice and trial and error that's needed. Ghost ball theory is a viable strategy (more so for beginners, to understand how to pot a ball in theory) but very inconsistent to rely on in practice. It's all about making your brain adjust to finding the angles to pot the ball every time.
I just stop playing the video in between n came to write that u r born to teach....outstanding content.
Thank you very much. I really appreciate your support 🙂
@@BartonSnooker u r at some diff level .....raised the bar sky high.....
@@123mailashish 🙏🙏
Keep them coming friend. You're my "go too guy"😃
My game haas improved remarkably since I started watching your videos
Thanks
Cheers Nick. Great to help!
Great video Steve. Easy to understand and should make practicing potting angles simpler and more purposeful.
Such a great video, simple but fundamental. I find I get lazy and don’t want to take the time to do this and get on with a frame but my game needs it. This is definitely my next practice session. Thanks Steve 👍🏻
Great job coach Steve, what a interesting way to learn angles. Thank you so much
This is also a good way to correct old age. Years ago there was practically nothing I couldn't pot but now as the joints and eyes are not quite what they were I often play short. I rarely play now but for any older guys that still play regular it is a very good tip.
Hey from New Zealand. This was great, thanks.
Thanks a lot for watching. Thanks for the support 🙂
Great work steve ❤️ can u plz teach us that how professional players pot a long red in the start of a frame and get back to the bolk colors using different things on the cue ball. I will be very thankful for that
You're the best Coach Brother 💯
Keep it up!
Thanks very good and clear
Good video again Steve ,I like sitting up practice sessions like this when the cueing sometimes goes off a bit .How’s the superfine cloth holding up wear wise. Just had my table recovered again Monday ,only ever used no 10 or 6811 ,but I’m thinking next year superfine might be getting a try as I’ve heard it’s very good ,very fast ,but grippy too .
Hi Mike,
My cloth is already very worn in places where I use standard routines to help players.
I do however coach 5 days a week, 4-5 hours every one of those days. So that's a lot more use than your average table.
You're right, the Superfine is very grippy and I like it a lot. Also no problem for me as I'll be replacing the cloth in another couple of months.
For normal use like you're getting, Superfine will be absolutely great.
When you are using side, do you use the same angles when hitting the object ball, or do you need to correct? Thank you. Great video......Sal : )
Good lesson Steve. I will be giving it a go as soon as I can. 👍👍
Very helpful and grateful 🙏
Another Brilliant Video Steve,
Have you been reading the Break From Life comments? 🤔
Great video Mr Barton, cheers! 😁
Thanks Paul 👍
Always shares nice snooker tips. Love from India…
ALOTS OF RESPECT AND LOVE FOR YOU SIR
A simple concept and method. Perhaps too easy to take for granted or neglect, but should not to be overlooked, and it's well worth talking about. High quality content as usual, Steve. Just got myself a set of balls as the ones at the club looked like they'd been in a car crash.
Would be interested to hear your opinion on playing on poorly maintained tables.
how does finger tapping on the table help benefit you? and why do u do it?
It guess it helps "timing". No player consciously thinks about it. It just happens completely naturally. I have no idea I even do it until I watch a video back.
I have a question and I have not found any good video on it. The question is that how we can hit the cue balls with different powers (slow, medium, fast, etc). What is the main component behind this? Do we need to use arm power to control these types of power shots?
I’m here in USA n it’s difficult to find a good snooker cue here. Is there any good website and any brand you recommend to buy snooker cue.
As always great video Steve 👍
Great stuff Steve thanks a ton
wow very encouraging sir.
A Very good video, but I believe that there's a system of aiming as well, could you tell what system do you use, you usually see one point on object ball? Ghost ball, I really think that the pros use something better than ghost ball.
Hi again Steve. I replied to your answer with a new question. Could you please check it out? I would also like to know if speed impacts the line of aim in certain situations?
Great video, really valuable content!
This video has actually made me realise that i should try and aim for the wider opening of the pocket (cutting the black from its spot as the example i always hit it too thick if it makes sense.
Makes perfect sense. That's the best part of the pocket that gives the biggest margin for error.
Can you please make a video on the balls by chris henry
Are they good should we purchase them?
this is A class coaching.
Which manufacturer is your table ?
Great video once again
very good thanks ❤❤❤❤
There must be a technical way (beyond trial and error) to know where the contact point is. A laser light can show where the object should be hit---but how do you account for the thickness of the white in hitting the spot?
No technical way unfortunately. We like to think there is, but as a human we are 'guessing' the potting angle. The more we do it, the better our guess becomes as we have more experience.
The laser light shows a spot, but that's not where the middle of the white needs to go, that's why for humans, that is not a helpful way of aiming shots.
Does anyone else like me, have to aim a little bit thicker potting the yellow and thinner on the green. (clearing the colours). I'm right handed and I feel it's different compensating on one side of the table than the other. That's actually with almost every ball I go for, especially long pots.
Yes I'd be interested in Steve's feedback on this. I find I aim thicker for a right to left pot and thinner for a left to right pot. I think that's because I'd be right eye dominant but my cue is more under my nose so you are looking at the pot from a slightly different angle if you are potting to the left or right.
Thanks!
Very instructive video Steve. Actually you recently posted a similar video a few weeks or months ago about repeating shots until your brain has learned the proper line of aim. I do like the way you explain it and I find this quite useful, but I have to get back to what you said at the beginning of it, when you talk about the fact that there's no need to practice every single angle all around the table. I would have liked for you to explain WHY it's not necessary, because when object balls are closer to cushions, the margin of error decreases, or the path to the pocket changes a bit right? Maybe I'm wrong here, so could you explain why exactly it's not necessary please? Thanks! :-)
Your brain is constantly gaining new information. It's all data that is being inputted into the computer (your brain). The more data the better.
It means then that when you come to a slightly different angle, your brain isn't going from zero data... it's going from information based on other similar potting angles. You're not guessing to the same degree because your brain has other information to compare the angle to.
So yes, the margin of error may decrease on certain shots, but you're not going in blind. You're going in with lots of data from lost of other shots. And that's why paying attention and building up that data really helps.
Imagine reversing into a car parking space. You do it based on lots of previous data. It's not the same parking spot, but you'll manage to execute the manoeuvre based on lots of previous experience.
Snooker is no different 🙂
@@BartonSnooker Ok I understand better now. Could you then just tell me where on the table are the key places to put an object ball and cue ball setup? In other words would I cover any situation that could occur in a game if I just put object balls on the coloured balls spots and just move the cue ball after a few reps to modify the angles? or I need to place object balls at more spots than that? Hope my question is clear enough!!
Thankyou
Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhh 🤣🙌🏻 jokes aside very good video and an issue for lots of people 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I always don't find a consistent method to aim a shot. Most of the times are visual memory , some blind pocket shots are ghost ball, some of them are finding the contact point on cue ball. I find it the most difficult to aim a in-between half ball to 1/4 ball shot.
Hi steve i have a question.
Whenever i play without pausing the cue my shot doesn't miss.
But whenever i pause before hiting the cue ball it gets offline and the cue hits somewhere left or right side of the cue ball and hence i miss the shot.
What do you think im doing wrong?
Thanks sir ♥️
May I know your tip size n the brand ?
Coaching from Barry Hawkins love child can't go wrong
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Excellent Steve...now I understand why us club players are always missing pots on the thick side, rarely thin.
Thank you very much from Pakistan
I have a problem with my this angle whenever I have to hit it without side I miss it but when I play it with the touch of left hand side relaxing my both arm and grip then the black goes in , but it shouldn't happen can anyone of you tell what's wrong ?.
Only caveat with this method, is that if a player's straight shots aren't actually straight or they're compensating their aim for straight shots, then it means when they are adjusting for angles they will be correcting a flaw with another flaw. I think it's important to get 'what you see is what you get' as close as possible first. For example if a person is missing easy short range shots like this and having to make adjustments, I would be very suspicious. _Especially_ if the adjustment is different for left cuts vs right cuts.
That's right. That's why this is the second part to the first video that I link at the beginning... which is all about straight cueing 👍👍
@@BartonSnookerI was probably stating the obvious. You can run into some real doozies when first learning snooker. I had a problem where my straight shots were always missing to the right, but my cuts were always missing to the left. Because I wanted to trust my straight shots. I kept adjusting my head position so that my straight shots went in more consistently, which made my cuts miss by even more and then tried to compensate for my cuts by making adjustments. However the whole time I was actually adjusting my head position in the wrong direction and the real problem was that I was shooting across the ball on straight shots.
This video ignores the effects of CIT(cut induced through) and Spin induced through (SIT) on aiming. Will you please make a video about CIT and SIT as well
As always sir ❤️❤️❤️
yes.. this is always my mistake... when i go down.. i dont trust my aim and start adjusting. and it always miss on the side wher i adjusted.
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Perfect
Top class 🎗
Great
Having comeback to this video several times,, I now IMAGINE the object ballgoing into the pocket, ?,,,,.. It can help FEEDBACK to your Brain, I think anyway...lol.
I use a Lazer spirit level to show my son the exact point on the object ball where he needs to strike
That's ok as long as you make the compensation for where he needs to aim the middle of the white. Shining the spot at the back of the ball in line with the pocket, is not where the middle of the white needs to go to make the pot.
@@BartonSnooker yes I get but we also do shadow ball were I line up a straight cannon and then remove the ball.
Nice
I used to play lots of snooker but in today’s world it’s hard to find places to play without having to travel miles and miles, and then the tables are in poor shape.
Yes, it's a shame there aren't always great places to play.
Thanks again, dont you think you misses your first balls because of slow speed inducing throw ?
Not in this case. Obviously I am deliberately missing to show the point to my viewers.
Your point is a good one though. We must cue straight and with authority otherwise we will miss the pot. So yes, making sure to cue straight is important.
My snooker friend aims a shot for so long and he is so into the "complete pre-shot routine" and "aiming down a shot after looking at the objectball path and cueball path" emphasis, which makes him take about 30 seconds to take a simple and easy pot. I know the emphasis is good when you are out of consistency and hot hand. But it takes so long that sometimes I feel so angry on it and I just cannot handle it (in case I am a fast pace potter). I just don't feel like taking so long in a shot makes you more accurate in potting because he still misses a lot. Is there anything I can say to him ? as he will always return me with "all snooker channels tell me to do that"
how about you don't lose control and stay playing the whole time? problem solved
Maybe he misses even more if not doing so…
It's H...from line of duty
Best
As always its brilliant work done by you Steve
How can I contact you on whatsapp plz
Love from Pakistan
Shan Mahi, contact details are here: www.bartonsnooker.co.uk/
@@Delphiwizard thanks bro
I managed to correct what my mind was thinking..
Watching this video I've learnt nothing
Thanks!
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Hi, i’m learning from you from asian country, your english accent is very hard, and please speak little slow with full word pronunciation. Thanks a lot.