I've been playing snooker for about 6 years now and noticed over time that for me at least, being confident and trusting your technique is quite a bit more important than perfecting every single part of your technique. Still love your videos, helping me improve a lot over the years :) Oscar from Berlin
I've been watching this channel for quite a while now, I believe I subscribed when there were only about 1000 members (including me) I want to say in all honesty I have learnt more from this channel than in the many years I've been trying to play! Just to add I am not a good player in fact I'm a long way below average but I do enjoy snooker having first started trying to play in the late 1960's had a few sessions with different coaches over the years but I just don't have much natural talent, funny thing is I started to improve after watching this channel, unfortunately it didn't last me for long but I keep watching in the hope one day I might find what I am doing wrong. Since I improved quite a bit when I started watching Break from life even though it didnt last I know the answer is here somewhere!!! Thanks for everything you do for the sport and thanks again for trying to help those of us that love snooker but don't have the skill to play it as we would like. P.S. Sorry for length of this post but PLEASE tell us your name and whereabouts you are from. Regards Barry (from Peterborough Cambs
No one just seems to improve everyone gets better and looses a bit again soon after. A lot of the time it has to do with focusing on something you want to do better. Learning how to do it naturally for a while. Forgetting about it and assuming you can play this way without ever having to think about it again. It’s probably doing the same things you did at the start that you may not be doing as well now.
I've been practicing recently. Just from watching your videos, I was capable to make a break of 51. (x6 Blacks + Reds, and x1 Yellow + Red) Thanks for all your videos so far, keep up the great work!
Well done. Just remember that you need to be playing well and to have a bit of fortune to get a break sometimes. Because in the future you may find you play just as well but the same chance isn’t there. It can be easy to think you are doing something wrong like this which can hold you back
Big fan of this channel. It has helped me massively in my game so thank you for the uploads ! i was just watching one of your older videos and just want to say the quality of the videos has improved !
A few years ago I copied Steve Davis stance cue rubbing under chin at first it was awkward but I swear It made my game better now it feels like the only way to play .
Hi, can you do a video tip about table speed, as most player out there they usually train in the club, when they go for tournament usually snooker table just got iron, and ball polished, and that really make the whole game completely harder to play as it become very reactive and sensitive to a player touch, is there a tips and trick on how you could do to improved them..
Hi I am Mohammed Saif from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. I'm a pool player and recently turned up my game to snooker I have watched your videos and practice my position and cue work but I'm struggling to improve my pots and breaks. It would be very useful for me if you make a different video between pool and snooker, and how to target accordingly. Thanks & regards
Thats really good but I found getting from 40 to 50 breaks incredibly challenging. It took me about 3 years. Hopefully you have less of a problem with it.
Love these videos ive been watching then for a while you can add Sydney Australia to your map. I found while practising earlier that i started holding my cue about 1-1/2” to 2 inches further forward than normal. Was playing really well ,potting and decision making became clearer, i was also getting more work out of the ball. But this is not my normal grip. If you want to integrate a new grip or practice a new grip. What is the best way to work on it? Should i take gradual steps before making the decision to change completely? Or is it best to fully commit to the change right away and persist with it? This could also be me adjusting to a slight back problem and maybe im not able to get as flat as normal right now so to compensate im holding it further forward? Im curious to hear what you think about it.
I change my technique and messed up my timing and destroy confidence, never really thought about what I was doing before so I don’t know how to go back to what did before because I’m thinking about it,
Hello from Viktor Almén in Västerås, Sweden! Could you please make a video about cueing over objects balls, with and without using different types of rests?
Sir i am ur big fan......love ur videos...i have learned so much from ur videos but i want to know when i pull back my cue in backswing it moves to right then back in position so i always give side and play across i dont have any coach can u give any tip to fix this
It’s probably the angle your wrist at. Or possibly your arm but more likely your wrist. You can try rotating your hand one way or another until you start cueing straighter. Just be aware that your wrist is probably the worst part of your technique to be messing around with as it can go horribly wrong if you don’t get it in the right place.
Any advice on getting cheaper access to a snooker table? I currently practice once a week at a pool/snooker Hall, but the £10 an hour means I can't afford to practice more than I do at the moment.
That’s a lot. Not sure where you are but near me all of the bigger clubs are similar. Smaller social clubs and the like are a lot cheaper if you can find one. Clubs I play at like this are between £1 to £1.20 an hour. Often the table are in better condition as well
Because they’d rather be playing the piano Seriously though it’s almost a nervous twitch more than anything where they are just concentrating on everything else and don’t notice
@@Breakfromlife woah that's big. I've never seen a real snooker table but ive seen a pool table. By the way I'm a big fan of your videos and keep the good work up. 😃
Tell me about it some days i cant seem to miss and others i can miss a straight pot by 3 inches i wish i could find someone to help me perfect what im doing with my specific capabilities New Zealand btw
I have problems when the cue ball is close to the cushion. I think my problem is putting the cue in the line of aim whenever the cushion is involved because I am wobbling around my bridgehand when I put it on the cushion trying to find a stable position for my hand and the cue. Also I have to take my vision away from the object ball to watch how I put my hand properly. Result is that most shots from the cushion I play too thin, even very simple shots . What can I do to improve this?
Unfortunately just practice these shots a lot really. Not that it’s easy to play these shots well. You can put a lot of sidespin on the CueBall without noticing it. Getting your hand in the right place subconscious is something you will have to get used to
While playing snooker I have noticed that when object ball is farther from cue ball its better to increase distance of bridge hand and cue ball while poting the ball it will give comfort? Is it?
The Grip, The Grip, The Grip! In a Barry Stark video he says "If you're having problems with your cueing, you can bet diamonds the problem's in your grip hand". Not clenching the cue on the forward stroke and not twisting your wrist, IMHO, are the two most important factors in having a straight stroke. Unfortunately they are also the two hardest habits to break.
You are right, it also goes with ,most people struggling, hit the ball far too hard, the secret is maximum reaction for minimum effort, cueing tempo is everything in snooker.
It’s books that I was storing for someone and they sold most of them. Was probably a year away from selling them all but unfortunately he died. Now I don’t know what to do with about 2,000 books and need a solution
Maybe this has been the most helpful video of all. Im still worrying about if I should have my cue under my dominant eye. Your stance from behind looks like youre twisting your body in quute an uncomfortable manner yet I see lots of top players do this. I was told if youre right handed and left eye dom you should take on a boxers stance. This feels comfortable but im just not consistent??
After I checked the other day I’m pretty sure that my Slightly inconsistent stance is probably one of the biggest problems in my game. I’m stood in a slight different position every time as it turns out. Definitely something worth putting effort in to be consistent with. The dominant eye thing can be One of the biggest red herrings in Snooker. Sighting under your dominant eye doesn’t usually change anything to help you see the shots. If you get it wrong it can make it difficult to even see the shots at all. It’s probably only something you should consider if you have your head on the cue in a position that already feels unnatural and you are correcting that.
I think that Break From Life underestimates how many different things can go wrong with cueing technique. The guy has basically fluked a lot of the things right from the beginning and so has never considered them. Things that can go wrong: Side-to-side head position, Left-right head tilt, up-down head tilt. Torso tilted too much / not enough. Shoulder not high enough. Moving the shoulder too much. Dropping the shoulder during the shot. Moving the cue side to side or up and down during the shot. Not drawing back far enough. Not following through enough. Not keeping the cue close enough to the body. Positioning the cue too low on the chest (which will cause the hand to hit the chest before enough follow through is achieved). Not keeping the cue sliding along the same part of the chest when following through. Sliding the cue along a curved part of the body causing the cue trajectory to curve. Any of these can cause a person to miss a straight shot by a mile. Somehow in his other video where he tried to cue as badly as possible he only missed by a centimetre. But if I try to cue even slightly worse than usual, I miss by like 20cm or more. I think his intuition is basically compensating and adjusting for his intentional bad cueing and thus not allowing him to cue as badly as many people can.
I had my cue and body in perfect alignment yet missed 95% of the pots.... the things that happen when a tasty blonde girl is playing on the next table......
You seem to be unaware of the importance of bridge hand placement as THE most crucial aspect of aligning for a shot. I doubt you're aware of the Effective Pivot Point also, which is a bridge length which cancels out most cueing errors (swiping to either side) via the squirt of the Cue Ball approximating the throw induced on the object ball.
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you're the best player
these tricks really helped me to improve
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Your videos are really valuable to me. Thank you
Recently took up snooker again..and stumbled across your channel...excellent turorials cheers m8 👏🏽👏🏽
Great video. I’m from Ghana 🇬🇭
Great video, thank you
I've been playing snooker for about 6 years now and noticed over time that for me at least, being confident and trusting your technique is quite a bit more important than perfecting every single part of your technique. Still love your videos, helping me improve a lot over the years :) Oscar from Berlin
Just gotta say brilliant editing and camera work and pace to the video, couldnt be much better of a lesson, cheers
Watching from Liverpool England 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
love your videos, please keep them coming
best snooker coaching channel love u from pakistan
I've been watching this channel for quite a while now, I believe I subscribed when there were only about 1000 members (including me) I want to say in all honesty I have learnt more from this channel than in the many years I've been trying to play! Just to add I am not a good player in fact I'm a long way below average but I do enjoy snooker having first started trying to play in the late 1960's had a few sessions with different coaches over the years but I just don't have much natural talent, funny thing is I started to improve after watching this channel, unfortunately it didn't last me for long but I keep watching in the hope one day I might find what I am doing wrong. Since I improved quite a bit when I started watching Break from life even though it didnt last I know the answer is here somewhere!!! Thanks for everything you do for the sport and thanks again for trying to help those of us that love snooker but don't have the skill to play it as we would like. P.S. Sorry for length of this post but PLEASE tell us your name and whereabouts you are from. Regards Barry (from Peterborough Cambs
No one just seems to improve everyone gets better and looses a bit again soon after. A lot of the time it has to do with focusing on something you want to do better. Learning how to do it naturally for a while. Forgetting about it and assuming you can play this way without ever having to think about it again. It’s probably doing the same things you did at the start that you may not be doing as well now.
I’m your biggest fan , great work and channel mate keep up the good work please keep the videos coming
I've been practicing recently. Just from watching your videos, I was capable to make a break of 51. (x6 Blacks + Reds, and x1 Yellow + Red)
Thanks for all your videos so far, keep up the great work!
Well done. Just remember that you need to be playing well and to have a bit of fortune to get a break sometimes. Because in the future you may find you play just as well but the same chance isn’t there. It can be easy to think you are doing something wrong like this which can hold you back
thanks for the free videos of snooker got better in pool and snooker. Nader from Morocco
Thank you for the great videos. Can you make a video on what tips and tricks you can use to get focus and get into the zone
Big fan of this channel. It has helped me massively in my game so thank you for the uploads ! i was just watching one of your older videos and just want to say the quality of the videos has improved !
Your video is helping.Arslan from Pakistan jhang.
started playing snooker few weeks ago , love the game , love your channel , anshul from India
That trickshot at the beginning is absolutely mad! Well done!
It’s worrying that I had to rewatch it to remember what it was though
@@Breakfromlife ola
A few years ago I copied Steve Davis stance cue rubbing under chin at first it was awkward but I swear It made my game better now it feels like the only way to play .
Hi, can you do a video tip about table speed, as most player out there they usually train in the club, when they go for tournament usually snooker table just got iron, and ball polished, and that really make the whole game completely harder to play as it become very reactive and sensitive to a player touch, is there a tips and trick on how you could do to improved them..
I always play with my cue arm too far forward and struggle keeping it perpendicular. Maybe the bridge arm elbow bend will help...
Iam Brian Mugagga from Uganda,Great work brother i like the way you play ,you improved my shots God bless you
Hi I am Mohammed Saif from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. I'm a pool player and recently turned up my game to snooker I have watched your videos and practice my position and cue work but I'm struggling to improve my pots and breaks. It would be very useful for me if you make a different video between pool and snooker, and how to target accordingly.
Thanks & regards
Love the videos helped me a lot Glasgow scotland👍
Love your videos, helped me a lot !! I'm from Dhaka, Bangladesh! :)
I'm a young snooker player, highest break is 47, from Dublin, Ireland
Thats really good but I found getting from 40 to 50 breaks incredibly challenging. It took me about 3 years. Hopefully you have less of a problem with it.
my highest break is match play is 47 but in training and on line ups it's is 71
@@Breakfromlife my highest break is match play is 47 but in training and on line ups it's is 71
@M T my highest break is match play is 47 but in training and on line ups it's is 71
I am finding it hard to figure out how much force to apply for each different shot… could you pls explain it I’n a video pls….. 🙏🏽thanks in advance
try using the second finger to hold the cue it will put your hand at the bottom of the arc
Love these videos ive been watching then for a while you can add Sydney Australia to your map.
I found while practising earlier that i started holding my cue about 1-1/2” to 2 inches further forward than normal. Was playing really well ,potting and decision making became clearer, i was also getting more work out of the ball. But this is not my normal grip. If you want to integrate a new grip or practice a new grip. What is the best way to work on it? Should i take gradual steps before making the decision to change completely? Or is it best to fully commit to the change right away and persist with it?
This could also be me adjusting to a slight back problem and maybe im not able to get as flat as normal right now so to compensate im holding it further forward?
Im curious to hear what you think about it.
Hi there any tips on stopping twisting your wrist when cueing?
Top tip: stop twisting your wrist when cueing
El Chaffinch well Doh! That’s not really helping 🤣🤣
Try to hang the cu by the first knuckle of your finger and for now, don't use the thumb
I change my technique and messed up my timing and destroy confidence, never really thought about what I was doing before so I don’t know how to go back to what did before because I’m thinking about it,
Love your videos! Entertaining and more importantly very informative! From California practicing 8 Ball but learning so much from Snooker as well! :)
Imran from london England
Hello from Viktor Almén in Västerås, Sweden!
Could you please make a video about cueing over objects balls, with and without using different types of rests?
just love your work. Would love to see if you ever make a video on recreating jimmy white masse snooker escape.
I can definitely say now that there is no way I can get that much spin on the CueBall
Hey bro i play snooker maybe 2 years i cannot make a break above 50 everytime i miss the easy pot i dont know what to do can i have some tips please
what cue are you using?
Frank Callen 100 Series. I’d never heard of it either until I got one
Sir i am ur big fan......love ur videos...i have learned so much from ur videos but i want to know when i pull back my cue in backswing it moves to right then back in position so i always give side and play across i dont have any coach can u give any tip to fix this
It’s probably the angle your wrist at. Or possibly your arm but more likely your wrist. You can try rotating your hand one way or another until you start cueing straighter. Just be aware that your wrist is probably the worst part of your technique to be messing around with as it can go horribly wrong if you don’t get it in the right place.
@@Breakfromlife Thankyou so much u replied me....thankss u made my day...
Any advice on getting cheaper access to a snooker table? I currently practice once a week at a pool/snooker Hall, but the £10 an hour means I can't afford to practice more than I do at the moment.
That’s a lot. Not sure where you are but near me all of the bigger clubs are similar. Smaller social clubs and the like are a lot cheaper if you can find one. Clubs I play at like this are between £1 to £1.20 an hour. Often the table are in better condition as well
Could you please tell me why nearly all professional players tap there finger up and down on there bridge hand?
Because they’d rather be playing the piano
Seriously though it’s almost a nervous twitch more than anything where they are just concentrating on everything else and don’t notice
@@Breakfromlife ha ha. Thanks for the reply. Love your videos having just taken up playing again they are a huge help.
What's the length and width of that table?
12ft by 6ft
@@Breakfromlife woah that's big. I've never seen a real snooker table but ive seen a pool table. By the way I'm a big fan of your videos and keep the good work up. 😃
this is difficult for me as i have cerebral palsy so i find the stance difficult which alters my technique alot and its very frustraiting
Yeah cause as it turns out standing in the right place is hard enough anyway
Tell me about it some days i cant seem to miss and others i can miss a straight pot by 3 inches i wish i could find someone to help me perfect what im doing with my specific capabilities
New Zealand btw
I have problems when the cue ball is close to the cushion. I think my problem is putting the cue in the line of aim whenever the cushion is involved because I am wobbling around my bridgehand when I put it on the cushion trying to find a stable position for my hand and the cue. Also I have to take my vision away from the object ball to watch how I put my hand properly. Result is that most shots from the cushion I play too thin, even very simple shots . What can I do to improve this?
Unfortunately just practice these shots a lot really. Not that it’s easy to play these shots well. You can put a lot of sidespin on the CueBall without noticing it. Getting your hand in the right place subconscious is something you will have to get used to
While playing snooker I have noticed that when object ball is farther from cue ball its better to increase distance of bridge hand and cue ball while poting the ball it will give comfort? Is it?
It can do
Hi I'm Caiden I'm from Peterborough
Aaron and my buddies Dexter and Joaquim from Singapore
The Grip, The Grip, The Grip! In a Barry Stark video he says "If you're having problems with your cueing, you can bet diamonds the problem's in your grip hand". Not clenching the cue on the forward stroke and not twisting your wrist, IMHO, are the two most important factors in having a straight stroke. Unfortunately they are also the two hardest habits to break.
rames1974 so true. Can’t agree more!!
You are right, it also goes with ,most people struggling, hit the ball far too hard, the secret is maximum reaction for minimum effort, cueing tempo is everything in snooker.
Great video as usual, always wondered what you have in those boxes on the racks though? ... Barry from Singapore, GIVE ME A PIN....
It’s books that I was storing for someone and they sold most of them. Was probably a year away from selling them all but unfortunately he died. Now I don’t know what to do with about 2,000 books and need a solution
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I've been watching your videos since day 1. Congratulations on your growth on youtube. Pin me on your map near London Ontario Canada.
Maybe this has been the most helpful video of all. Im still worrying about if I should have my cue under my dominant eye.
Your stance from behind looks like youre twisting your body in quute an uncomfortable manner yet I see lots of top players do this. I was told if youre right handed and left eye dom you should take on a boxers stance. This feels comfortable but im just not consistent??
After I checked the other day I’m pretty sure that my Slightly inconsistent stance is probably one of the biggest problems in my game. I’m stood in a slight different position every time as it turns out. Definitely something worth putting effort in to be consistent with.
The dominant eye thing can be One of the biggest red herrings in Snooker. Sighting under your dominant eye doesn’t usually change anything to help you see the shots. If you get it wrong it can make it difficult to even see the shots at all. It’s probably only something you should consider if you have your head on the cue in a position that already feels unnatural and you are correcting that.
@@Breakfromlife thanks for the reply
I think your table got a new cloth~
it looks new
It has been on about a year now but is fairly new
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I think that Break From Life underestimates how many different things can go wrong with cueing technique. The guy has basically fluked a lot of the things right from the beginning and so has never considered them.
Things that can go wrong: Side-to-side head position, Left-right head tilt, up-down head tilt. Torso tilted too much / not enough. Shoulder not high enough. Moving the shoulder too much. Dropping the shoulder during the shot. Moving the cue side to side or up and down during the shot. Not drawing back far enough. Not following through enough. Not keeping the cue close enough to the body. Positioning the cue too low on the chest (which will cause the hand to hit the chest before enough follow through is achieved). Not keeping the cue sliding along the same part of the chest when following through. Sliding the cue along a curved part of the body causing the cue trajectory to curve.
Any of these can cause a person to miss a straight shot by a mile. Somehow in his other video where he tried to cue as badly as possible he only missed by a centimetre. But if I try to cue even slightly worse than usual, I miss by like 20cm or more. I think his intuition is basically compensating and adjusting for his intentional bad cueing and thus not allowing him to cue as badly as many people can.
I had my cue and body in perfect alignment yet missed 95% of the pots.... the things that happen when a tasty blonde girl is playing on the next table......
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You seem to be unaware of the importance of bridge hand placement as THE most crucial aspect of aligning for a shot. I doubt you're aware of the Effective Pivot Point also, which is a bridge length which cancels out most cueing errors (swiping to either side) via the squirt of the Cue Ball approximating the throw induced on the object ball.
Colin Colenso
You sound like a know it all??
But there is one thing, if you cannot see well, you'll fail most of the times
Stop show you sef
Glad he's not showing me