4:47 I appreciate that you are humble enough to add annotations that draw attention to your flaws, such as they are. Yet another reason why you are one of my favourite channels. 🍻
@@justmenate The best way to improve in any sphere in my experience is clear-eyed critique. BFL does a good job at that and helps me do it for my snooker game.
After playing snooker recreationally for a few years, finally joined my local team and got my first win against top of the league after 3 weeks. Huge weight off the shoulders.
I love your videos mate, been watching them and practising at my local club for about a month and I can confidently say I've already improved from absolutely rubbish to terrible. It proves that even drones can play snooker! Cheers from Worthing, West Sussex
Haha it's so true. It's an insane difficulty curve to get good at snooker. Got a break of 85 about a year ago. Think I got anywhere close to that since, not a chance lol
I've always known you should follow through but I think what I was really doing was like you said just hitting the cueball. I tricked myself into thinking I was following through when I stopped dead. Seeing this explained properly and even just pushing my cue through the ball as little as an inch further helped massively. Went to my table and bam the screw back and top spin is massive. Thanks a lot from Essex
Very interesting. A well-struck backspin shot often just feels better. It feels effortless and I often associate that with a looser grip. Perhaps that looser grip is reducing rotation (like you mentioned) and giving a better timing, and so more backspin.
@@reczy in table tennis, arguably the spinniest of all ball sports, you slice under the ball, even looping under the ball, to give as much contact time as possible, with as much tangential speed as possible. When I try to relate that to snooker, I think the cue flexing down and under the white is advantageous, as well as the tip shape creating that "loop under" type affair (the angle changing as you go through the shot, in table tennis created by the angle of the bat, in snooker the size and shape of the tip). accelerating through the ball would also help, not sure how practical that is, but certainly maintaining a speed is better than a poke that slows down. So, I think being relaxed allows the cue to flex down more, maybe allowing a momentary slow down on impact (your hand flesh creating a soft bushing with the butt) which also helps maximize contact time of tip/ball
Id like to see you do this again now, youre cue power and ability to get into the cue ball has come on alot since you posted this video. Probably from trying to replicate long reds with a screw back to baulk 🤣
Hi fella, could you possibly create a tutorial were you play a frame using the red dotted cue ball, i think it would make great content showing us lesser mortals how you guys control the balls trajectory and see how you SLIDE the white around using FEEL to maintain possition.Many thanks for your continued content creation Ian
Great video, i learn a lot from you and your videos will definitely try this on practise table thank you for your time and effort you put in videos Hamzah-Islamabad, Pakistan
Great video as usual, mate! The way you described that feeling when your timing on a shot is perfect was so spot on. Like a liquid it is. Funny thou, I have noticed that little wobble or dip/lift-up of the cue when people play longdisatnce deepnscrew shots on professionals, others, and also on myself a lot, and to be honest, I don't think it is necceceraly a costy thing in execution of the shot. Might just have something to do with a naturally relaxed grip throughout the shot allowing the cue to be on it's way, depending on the shot and the players style, after it's over with contacting the cueball. Might just be me, but that but always felt natural with certain shots for me. Thanks for an other deep video on the game :D Keep it up, mate! Patrik, from Pécs, Hungary.
Very insightful Chris,very detailed and would love to see you cover the drag shot and soft stun which is hard to master and determines wether you go on to be a better player? Sort it boss 👍
Awesome videos in general and thanks for all the tips. Do you know if Android has a similar app? I looked but couldn't find any, but it might be a regional thing...
When I grab my cue tight to play a screw shot with power cue ball always jumps (miscues) While if I hold it loose and play really slow/softly the backspin is dramatic. Musa from KASHMIR
the thing is, at 0:57, your "long follow through" shot is striking the white about twice as far below the centre line than the "short follow through" shot. So yeah, you're gonna get more backspin. I get that follow through makes you hit the white differently, but after the white is no longer touching the cue, follow through has zero effect on the white. If you hit the white identically, if your cue was stopped by a brick wall after the white stops contacting the tip, the white would react identically to if there was no wall.
Great video here dude. You have said many times that changing [a particular part of] a technique can cause you to miss so dont change it or it should avoided. And I know you give advice based upon what you have found during your experiments and experiences, however, would you also say that changing something can be uncomfortable at first and we may miss but if we persist and retrain our brains, then we can find we unlock the potential that was previously unavailable. I say this because, for your example it (wrist turning) can affect spin/accuracy. So no change would mean a plateau.. right? Or would this be something to work on over time? Or after more experience is gained. You must have sorted it out yourself as I notice you have wayyyy better cue power now than ever. Sorry for the essay pal. Best way i could think to word it. Cheers
Okay smartie pants... any idea how can I cue straight! Any time I start increasing power and speed, my tip seems to move up and to the left!😠 So my long draw shots change to a stop shot, with the cue ball spinning at high RPM. GREAT VIDEOS!!!!! Sending in from Kelowna, B.C., Canada
Love all your vids, helped my game alot. this is off topic, but you gotta gotta gottta do a review of snooker on shooterspool, id love to hear your take on it or at least check it out
hi, great video as always, I would suggest a challenge that I use to see if my screw back timing is good: cue ball on the black spot, pink on the pink spot. hit the pink ball an screw back to the bottom cushion and see where the pink ends up. then you can compare your quality of the stroke. of course remove the cue ball after it hits the rail if the pink is going towards the cue ball. greetings from mario from schwerin,germany
@@snooker9773 sometimes you have to develope a good spin even if you are close to rail. its just a specific setup you can compare your screw back quality. you can setup anything else but the idea is to see how far the object ball runs. the shorter the better your screw back force is at lower speed
I have a question for you brother.... I am your fan... So question is i want to shift my hand from right to left in a game is it good.... I have been playing since from long time.. and now i dnt think i have enough power in my right hand .. and i am lefty by birth... I have more power in my left hand ... So i just want to ask you can i shift to left hand ... Plz answer my questions bro plz
I struggle with the distance shots and longer mid range with getting any backspin. The cueball just stuns and freezes. Top spin is much easier to play. I've been using a tallisman tip recently and it's so hard it doesn't feel like it grips the ball enough to generate the required spin. I might change tips.
I play pool and I'm always impressed how low good players can actually strike the cueball without miscueing...and they strike it with full power. My drawshot is ok for a beginner I guess but as soon as I try to go really low on the cueball I might miscue. And when I add more power I might kill a bystander. I drives me nuts that moving a wooden stick back and forth can be so difficult.
Why is it so we suddenly start playing bad after playing. Nicely for a time we start missing simple shots don't get position and just get lack of confidence from there on any tip for this phase was making 50s for a couple of weeks and now suddenly can't seem to got 30 even for this past week what to do Saqlain from Kolkata india
I have been practicing screw shots but have now found when i delivere the cue i keep cueing across the ball to the right i cant get it to go straight at all can this be because i have a back condition and cant get down on the shot like most people
There are a lot of reasons. Your bridge hand, bridge hand shoulder, eyes, chin, chest, grip hand shoulder, grip hand, pivot leg are all variables to straight cueing. They have to be properly aligned so that the cue stays on the aim line when you pull back and deliver your cue. Your need to adjust these variables and test again and again to ensure they remain unchanged even when you strike hard. This is a much tougher journey than people thought and unfortunately there is no shortcut to this.
@@snooker9773 thank you for replying i cue directly under my right eye and cheek i find the slower i play the more i cue across the ball i also find it extremely difficult to set the balls up straight to practice i dont want to give up i love snooker
@@reviewswithhughes No need to practise on a real snooker table. You can set up two cardboard dummies on a dinning table, one with a vertical line standing at the far end, and one with a hole standing at the near end. Pile up books to match the height of a snooker table. The size of the hole should be slightly bigger than the cuetip. The far one serves as the object ball, the near one serves as the cue ball. Aim at the vertical line and cue through the hole. Once the cue action is completed, use one eye to check if the cuetip points right at the vertical line. If it fails, adjust all the variables until you can accurately hit the vertical line even using much power. Practise it every day until it becomes a habit.
Uhhh @4:15, am I really seeing a warped cue for a guide or are my eyes playing tricks on me. I think so but I know that playing backspin with a warped cue isn’t easy lol. Please don’t think I’m being rude I just thought I saw it. Sorry man lol I play a lot of pool and I remember when I use to watch people be so mad at warped cues lol
4:47 I appreciate that you are humble enough to add annotations that draw attention to your flaws, such as they are. Yet another reason why you are one of my favourite channels. 🍻
I always figured creating these videos is actually just a low-key way of improving immensely yourself
@@justmenate The best way to improve in any sphere in my experience is clear-eyed critique. BFL does a good job at that and helps me do it for my snooker game.
Too teach is to learn
After playing snooker recreationally for a few years, finally joined my local team and got my first win against top of the league after 3 weeks. Huge weight off the shoulders.
Well done
Just reminded me to get working on my draw shots ... Thanks.. from Hamilton, New Zealand.
I love your videos mate, been watching them and practising at my local club for about a month and I can confidently say I've already improved from absolutely rubbish to terrible. It proves that even drones can play snooker!
Cheers from Worthing, West Sussex
Haha it's so true. It's an insane difficulty curve to get good at snooker. Got a break of 85 about a year ago. Think I got anywhere close to that since, not a chance lol
Wow that's brilliant! Far better than anything I've ever done so far haha I'm still at the point where I get excited when I build a > 1 break
Enjoy your videos, thank you. Anthony, from Fairlie, New Zealand.
Hamilton here... Bloody hot ain't it
Hi watching and learning A LOT from you from London, England
Thanks from Barrie, Canada
I haven't even tried snooker but looks fun. More of an 8/9ball guy at the moment.
Greetings from Klaipeda, Lithuania!
Your videos are so useful, thank you so much! - From Hamrun Malta :)
Very nice and informative video! Watching from Turku, Finland!
Ayy appreciate the vids. Game's got a lot better. Ali from Karachi, Pakistan 🇵🇰
Great tips, thanks. Brad from Winnipeg Canada
I love your videos. I dont play snooker but addicted to your videos. Hope you are well and love from Portsmouth.
Great tutorial for screw Back
Excellent video. Very insightful. From Heeran in Preston, Lancs UK. Home of the Guild Hall, snooker Uk Championship.
sadly i don't have access to snooker tables right now, but your videos have been incredibly helpful for pool! from Zagreb, Croatia
Your videos are superb and more importantly you seem like a really good bloke
Hey brother I have become your fan from Hyderabad, India, after watching your explanatory videos. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
I've always known you should follow through but I think what I was really doing was like you said just hitting the cueball. I tricked myself into thinking I was following through when I stopped dead. Seeing this explained properly and even just pushing my cue through the ball as little as an inch further helped massively. Went to my table and bam the screw back and top spin is massive. Thanks a lot from Essex
What helped you screwing back afterwards?
Your videos improved my game much more than Barry Stark's did, you're subscribers owe you a lot lot lot lot..
Mehdi from Isfahan Iran ❤️
Im your fan from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! Thank you for all tips sensei
Great video as usual !! .. from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India !!
Great video! Greetings from Cairo, Egypt
Dan the tube man in Santa Cruz California sez, that was a wicked googly!!
Proper screw shot 🥃.
Great video thanks
Have you seen 11 minutes video in @ minute?😳
I really like your videos. but it's a pity there's no translation! I don't understand anything you say
Really helped with my screw shots, something i've struggled with for a while!
Thanks from Preston in Wisbech, England
Well done brother, this video is very useful and after some practice we can learn the shots, excellent job 😍
Your video really helped me a lot.. thanks.. shout out from Penang malaysia..
Thanks for the usefull video. Maharashtra, India.
Very interesting. A well-struck backspin shot often just feels better. It feels effortless and I often associate that with a looser grip. Perhaps that looser grip is reducing rotation (like you mentioned) and giving a better timing, and so more backspin.
I agree. I always find the more I relax when cuing, the more backspin I get.
@@reczy in table tennis, arguably the spinniest of all ball sports, you slice under the ball, even looping under the ball, to give as much contact time as possible, with as much tangential speed as possible.
When I try to relate that to snooker, I think the cue flexing down and under the white is advantageous, as well as the tip shape creating that "loop under" type affair (the angle changing as you go through the shot, in table tennis created by the angle of the bat, in snooker the size and shape of the tip).
accelerating through the ball would also help, not sure how practical that is, but certainly maintaining a speed is better than a poke that slows down.
So, I think being relaxed allows the cue to flex down more, maybe allowing a momentary slow down on impact (your hand flesh creating a soft bushing with the butt) which also helps maximize contact time of tip/ball
Really enjoying your content!!
Greetings from Athens, Greece!🙂
Love your content, John from Romania
Hi mate im from Vlore,Albania love your videos.❤
Will practise this tonight! Peter, Guernsey 📌
Greetings from cork ireland
Love the videos man from Strabane Co. Tyrone Ireland 🙂
Love the vids. Theo Hitchin England
Id like to see you do this again now, youre cue power and ability to get into the cue ball has come on alot since you posted this video. Probably from trying to replicate long reds with a screw back to baulk 🤣
Hi fella, could you possibly create a tutorial were you play a frame using the red dotted cue ball, i think it would make great content showing us lesser mortals how you guys control the balls trajectory and see how you SLIDE the white around using FEEL to maintain possition.Many thanks for your continued content creation Ian
From Karachi, Pakistan.
While watching this video now I understand why my back spin short is not have same power because of my follow up of th short.👍
Love all your videos! I had a question for you and sent you an email, thanks so much!
Great video, i learn a lot from you and your videos will definitely try this on practise table
thank you for your time and effort you put in videos
Hamzah-Islamabad, Pakistan
Great video as usual, mate! The way you described that feeling when your timing on a shot is perfect was so spot on. Like a liquid it is. Funny thou, I have noticed that little wobble or dip/lift-up of the cue when people play longdisatnce deepnscrew shots on professionals, others, and also on myself a lot, and to be honest, I don't think it is necceceraly a costy thing in execution of the shot. Might just have something to do with a naturally relaxed grip throughout the shot allowing the cue to be on it's way, depending on the shot and the players style, after it's over with contacting the cueball. Might just be me, but that but always felt natural with certain shots for me.
Thanks for an other deep video on the game :D
Keep it up, mate!
Patrik, from Pécs, Hungary.
Very insightful Chris,very detailed and would love to see you cover the drag shot and soft stun which is hard to master and determines wether you go on to be a better player? Sort it boss 👍
Great video! Can you make a video or a short on cue tip maintenance?
Thoughts on screw on tips vs glue?
Get Sligo Ireland on that map 👌🏽 Thanks for the video
Hello from Baku, Azerbaijan
Awesome videos in general and thanks for all the tips. Do you know if Android has a similar app? I looked but couldn't find any, but it might be a regional thing...
From Bangkok Thailand
I've always found it's all in your wrist. If your wrist is relaxed it feels almost elastic you can get some insane action
Hi from Turkey 🇹🇷
When I grab my cue tight to play a screw shot with power cue ball always jumps (miscues)
While if I hold it loose and play really slow/softly the backspin is dramatic.
Musa from KASHMIR
Some people dont realise how hard snooker is... lots of practice, adjusting, thinking and precision involved.
the thing is, at 0:57, your "long follow through" shot is striking the white about twice as far below the centre line than the "short follow through" shot. So yeah, you're gonna get more backspin.
I get that follow through makes you hit the white differently, but after the white is no longer touching the cue, follow through has zero effect on the white. If you hit the white identically, if your cue was stopped by a brick wall after the white stops contacting the tip, the white would react identically to if there was no wall.
Great video here dude. You have said many times that changing [a particular part of] a technique can cause you to miss so dont change it or it should avoided. And I know you give advice based upon what you have found during your experiments and experiences, however, would you also say that changing something can be uncomfortable at first and we may miss but if we persist and retrain our brains, then we can find we unlock the potential that was previously unavailable. I say this because, for your example it (wrist turning) can affect spin/accuracy. So no change would mean a plateau.. right? Or would this be something to work on over time? Or after more experience is gained. You must have sorted it out yourself as I notice you have wayyyy better cue power now than ever. Sorry for the essay pal. Best way i could think to word it. Cheers
I was wondering what type of billiard table are you using and if u can put a link to it!!!
Okay smartie pants... any idea how can I cue straight! Any time I start increasing power and speed, my tip seems to move up and to the left!😠 So my long draw shots change to a stop shot, with the cue ball spinning at high RPM.
GREAT VIDEOS!!!!!
Sending in from Kelowna, B.C., Canada
Love all your vids, helped my game alot. this is off topic, but you gotta gotta gottta do a review of snooker on shooterspool, id love to hear your take on it or at least check it out
hi, great video as always, I would suggest a challenge that I use to see if my screw back timing is good: cue ball on the black spot, pink on the pink spot. hit the pink ball an screw back to the bottom cushion and see where the pink ends up. then you can compare your quality of the stroke. of course remove the cue ball after it hits the rail if the pink is going towards the cue ball. greetings from mario from schwerin,germany
Not a good test as the cue ball is too close to the cushion, where the cue is too sloped to develop quality backspin.
@@snooker9773 sometimes you have to develope a good spin even if you are close to rail. its just a specific setup you can compare your screw back quality. you can setup anything else but the idea is to see how far the object ball runs. the shorter the better your screw back force is at lower speed
maybe break from life can setup a challenge to see who has the most queue power?
I have a question for you brother.... I am your fan...
So question is i want to shift my hand from right to left in a game is it good.... I have been playing since from long time.. and now i dnt think i have enough power in my right hand .. and i am lefty by birth... I have more power in my left hand ... So i just want to ask you can i shift to left hand ... Plz answer my questions bro plz
What's the cue that you are using and the tip size and weight?
If I want to get the cueball go a little bit back should I put a little backspin or use a slower speed?
Depends on how you want to play it both can work in different situations. Players usually favour one or the other though
When cueing, does the hand at the rear of the cue have to grip tight or fairly loose?
Tight enough to keep control but loose enough for someone to potential come behind and be able to slide it out of the hand
I struggle with the distance shots and longer mid range with getting any backspin. The cueball just stuns and freezes. Top spin is much easier to play. I've been using a tallisman tip recently and it's so hard it doesn't feel like it grips the ball enough to generate the required spin. I might change tips.
I need a suggestion.
When i try large top spin, the cue will jump up off the top of the ball.
What tips have you got to stop this from happening?
kinzy from belgium, Ostend
you should be on Tour !! move over Ronnie
Love all your videos! Alfred from India give me a pin 📌 thanks🙏
I play pool and I'm always impressed how low good players can actually strike the cueball without miscueing...and they strike it with full power.
My drawshot is ok for a beginner I guess but as soon as I try to go really low on the cueball I might miscue. And when I add more power I might kill a bystander.
I drives me nuts that moving a wooden stick back and forth can be so difficult.
heloo from serbia cacak
Why is it so we suddenly start playing bad after playing. Nicely for a time we start missing simple shots don't get position and just get lack of confidence from there on any tip for this phase was making 50s for a couple of weeks and now suddenly can't seem to got 30 even for this past week what to do
Saqlain from Kolkata india
I have been practicing screw shots but have now found when i delivere the cue i keep cueing across the ball to the right i cant get it to go straight at all can this be because i have a back condition and cant get down on the shot like most people
There are a lot of reasons. Your bridge hand, bridge hand shoulder, eyes, chin, chest, grip hand shoulder, grip hand, pivot leg are all variables to straight cueing. They have to be properly aligned so that the cue stays on the aim line when you pull back and deliver your cue. Your need to adjust these variables and test again and again to ensure they remain unchanged even when you strike hard. This is a much tougher journey than people thought and unfortunately there is no shortcut to this.
@@snooker9773 thank you for replying i cue directly under my right eye and cheek i find the slower i play the more i cue across the ball i also find it extremely difficult to set the balls up straight to practice i dont want to give up i love snooker
@@reviewswithhughes No need to practise on a real snooker table. You can set up two cardboard dummies on a dinning table, one with a vertical line standing at the far end, and one with a hole standing at the near end. Pile up books to match the height of a snooker table. The size of the hole should be slightly bigger than the cuetip. The far one serves as the object ball, the near one serves as the cue ball. Aim at the vertical line and cue through the hole. Once the cue action is completed, use one eye to check if the cuetip points right at the vertical line. If it fails, adjust all the variables until you can accurately hit the vertical line even using much power. Practise it every day until it becomes a habit.
"Stretch out your fingers on your backswing..."...This is very clear to see if you look at Mark Allens technique.
I from Brasil...you oi a profissional?
Uhhh @4:15, am I really seeing a warped cue for a guide or are my eyes playing tricks on me. I think so but I know that playing backspin with a warped cue isn’t easy lol. Please don’t think I’m being rude I just thought I saw it. Sorry man lol I play a lot of pool and I remember when I use to watch people be so mad at warped cues lol
Is the app available on Android?
0:48
I remember there was a time u had trouble screwing back a quarter of the table now u can nearly all the table 😂👌
wow johor
Jimmy white best
Snooker clubs up and down the country are gonna have a lot of ripped cloths this weekend 😬
Your way of teaching is very good😍
Please add me on map 🗺️
I am from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Change your cushions please
Can you show me In map? From- Lahore , Pakistan
love from Pakistan add on map plz
Find me on the map if you can Uzbekistan
In español please
Mention me on map
Your game is brilliant
Love from Karachi Pakistan ❤️
Please for the sake of snooker, sort that room out looks like your playing is unfinished garage project
Haha, lip-synching!!!!! Not, lip-sinking.......