Snooker Best Shots Of All Timeless Snooker Shots Recreated

Recently I've been looking at timeless snooker shots and found some incredibly tough pots from completely different eras of the game but as usual I'm going to be finding out which of these shots is best by recreating them as accurately as possible and then playing them in the fewest possible attempts. So where better to start than with Ronnie O'Sullivan who in this timeless shot not only manages to pot this difficult brown but make the cue ball arc Because you have to play this shot so hard I wasn't even expecting to get anywhere near the brown on my first attempt let alone pot it but having done so I felt a little bit unlucky to catch the edge of the blue when the cue ball seemed to be on the right line. However after this I started to realise how difficult the shot really was. I was just playing this with topspin and hoping that would create the right angle to get into the pink but I wasn't sure if I needed a trace of side. Eventually I found out I didn't and I just needed topspin to get into the pink. Alex Higgins now with a shot on the brown that I'm not sure I'm going to be able to play because I doubt I have the cue power to spin the cue ball back round three cushions and get topside for the blue. Another incredibly tough shot but as I already explained at the beginning of this video they all are and you wouldn't normally expect me to be able to screw back as far as you can on a professional table however this is a table from the 80s so you would have thought I'd have a chance with this one but it was proving harder than I expected and ended up chipping the ball off the table which cost me a bit of confidence on the next few shots as I couldn't quite get into the white as much as I needed to and I'm playing this with backspin and right hand side to make the cue ball move around the cushions however I just couldn't quite get enough on it to get to the third cushion even though I was using every single trick I know to get more backspin on the cue ball however I hadn't quite hit one perfectly yet of the correct angle and when I did it still wasn't good enough to get the cue ball any further around the table than this I couldn't even make it to the cushion but unfortunately that's the limit of my cue power. Mark Selby isn't just potting a difficult blue he also manages to get the perfect cannon to leave him on the next red. I wasn't 100% sure what to do with this one except play it with topspin and punch it a little bit to just widen the angle and somehow that managed to work perfectly and I ended up nicely on a red. Tony Mio isn't rolling the pink down the cushion now this thing's going in at real speed and this is going to be incredibly tough to recreate. I worked out from the angle that I didn't really have to do anything with the cue ball to get it to go three times across the table and down for the black all I had to do was hit it hard enough and as you can see it's the speed that makes this shot really challenging with the object ball being really close to the cushion I had to be unbelievably accurate to get it to go in the pocket and as we've already seen even if I play it as well as I can the pocket's still very unlikely to accept it so I'm going to need a little bit of luck with this which I will eventually get the question just is how many shots I'm going to have to play before the pink eventually drops in the pocket. Well it was better than I thought and I got the cue ball in roughly the right area. Stephen Maguire is powering his way onto the black next to complete a century break. Again this is a really tough pot but this time I have to get enough backspin on the cue ball to get down for the black at the same time and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do that but after a few shots I worked out that I probably was going to be okay to get the ball back far enough but unfortunately on my third attempt when I finally potted it I didn't quite generate enough spin and it took me a few more goes to properly get through the underside of the cue ball which can be a challenge when you're close to the cushion like this. Eventually I did it but I got a bit too close to the cushion so I wanted to give it another go and a couple of attempts later I got the line a lot better however I was just a little bit short of pace but not too bad. Alex Higgins looks out of position until he finds a double this one's going to be tough because of the power he played it at. Normally I get a shot like this within about three attempts however as I was explaining because I have to hit it so hard that's become a lot less likely and I found on quite a few of these attempts because of the power I was injecting into the cue ball that I didn't end up hitting the red anywhere near where I wanted to and it was a number of attempts before I started to get near the pocket so I was pretty pleased that when I finally did it went in fairly quickly. And to rival that on the other table albeit a few years later Jamie Cope uses this shot to find his way out of trouble. This is a really clever shot because it attempts to either pot or remove the reds that are close to the pocket and at the same time maneuver the cue ball into a position where they're covered. One of the main reasons this shot's incredibly difficult is because you have to get very close to the pink in order for the shot to work and it's very easy to just catch the edge of it and also as we've already seen even if you make contact with the red it's not guaranteed to end up in the pocket. Because of all of this I wasn't sure this shot was even going to be possible so I was delighted when it actually went in but what was the cheekiest double this or the previous one? Cue the music. I think both of these are great examples of a cheeky double but I'm giving 4 cheerleaders to Jamie Cope and 5 to Alex Higgins so he's this week's winner. Jimmy White's also using the jaws of the middle pocket now to help him escape from a snooker. This is a clever shot but once again one that you need a little bit of luck with because as I've found out just hitting roughly the right place on the jaw doesn't necessarily mean you're going to hit the blue and it looked to me like I was hitting exactly the same place on the jaw each time and it kept missing in slightly different places but I still didn't make contact with the blue. Eventually I got it but it took me a little bit too long. Not only does Hossein Vafai pop the pink from a tight angle here, he also finds a way to get on the next red. This is another one that I was a little bit disappointed with because as soon as I started playing it I quickly realised it wasn't as difficult as I thought it was and I didn't really have to strike the pink as hard as I thought I'd have to. That said I really did struggle with this one considering how hard the shot was I should have got it a lot quicker than this and I was just relieved it finally went in. We've got an Anthony McGill shot coming up but first we've just got to find Kyling in Oslo Norway which is there. The next shot is Anthony McGill finding a cannon to knock a red that's close to the pocket. This one requires a lot of stun and side spin and it's tough because you have to stun the cue ball very wide on quite a tight angle. When I played the shot somehow I knocked into the other red and potted the ball and also doubled it so I just stuck with that. But the next player powering a ball down the cushion is Martin Gould with this red. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get off the jaw here to make the split on the red and the pink but I should at least be able to avoid going in off. That's the plan anyway but yet again this is another powerful shot down the cushion where I've got to make the pocket accept the ball. However this will be a little bit easier this time because I'm closer to the red and it's a little further off the cushion. But I was still pleased to get it this quickly even though I didn't quite get a cue ball far enough across the table to hit the pink. If you're interested in playing shots like that don't forget to check out the rocket method by going to www.snooker.online and don't forget you'll be eligible for a 5% discount by using the promo code BREAK. Where better to complete this strange and unusual list with than with a classic Judd Trump shot. Judd uses backspin to arc the cue ball down the cushion and find the right place on the cushion and then uses sidespin to make the angle into the reds. To start off with I was putting way too much sidespin on the cue ball and then tried to back it off a little bit which caused me to miss and go a bit closer to the pocket. My third attempt looked a little bit wide but I got the perfect cannon and end up in position on a red which was all I was trying to do. So for the results third place goes to Tony Mio with the pink down the cushion there wasn't any point to this shot but it was incredibly difficult. Second goes to Ronnie O'Sullivan because it was incredibly difficult hot on the brown but it was just as tough to get the cannon on the pink and the red. But first place definitely goes to Alex Higgins even though I used every trick I knew and hit the ball about as well as I could I didn't get anywhere near this one. Well that was quite the selection of random shots but if you want to see shots from a specific tournament like the world championships or even the masters then have a look at these two videos and remember don't just watch play and make the commitment to becoming a better player by subscribing to the channel and visit the website. See you later!