Explaining the "T" Angle - Snooker Cue Ball Control & Position

hello and welcome back to the sneaker shed before we carry on to tonight's video i'm going to say a big hello to kendall troy and paul bamford been chat a lot to you guys lately and loads of other people that have come along to join us here at the snooker shed ladies and gents if you like what you're seeing at the snooker shed do us a big favor hit that subscribe button and hit the like button it really helps us out here at the channel and it makes great content so that we can share this across the globe and make everybody play just a little bit better snooker right back to tonight's video what we're starting to look at now is the positional side in that cue ball and tonight we're going to learn the tea angle [Music] i saw snooker on the tv and that was the end of it [Music] right so what is this t angle that i'm going to go on a bit it's the tangent angle and all you need to know it's the angle that the cue ball will come off the object ball when it's struck and it's 90 degrees now we're going to look at this putting the pink so i've potted the pink and the cue ball travels again 90 degrees towards the red and hits it full in the face the cue ball will always come off at 90 degrees from where the object bog's been struck unless or until there is a acting force top spin or screw back right so let's look at the same shot but a different position and this time we're going to go past that 90 degrees we're going to go more than the t angle what i'm looking for again is to get the cue ball nice and straight on the red so here i am picking my point in this table filling my brain with all the information now i've made this possible because i understand where the cue ball predicted path would go if i didn't play any screw or follow through once you've got that you could that then start to gauge where the angle is off that object ball as you're putting it so just another scenario here so i've got my cell on the black i've got a wee group of reds here i've got this red here so positionally i'm thinking if i can get the cue ball in this area i get this red back into the pocket i'm back on the black but for this position because i understand the t angle i know roughly what way the cue ball is coming off that black depending on how i personally strike the ball so what i'm going to look at is just playing just a wee screw shot so that i clip this red rather than the t angle red so now i'm guessing a wee bit more and i'm filling my head with a wee bit more information to where i want the cue ball to strike to open the reds up and hold for this red and that's just a wee bit knowledge in the direction of that cue ball so you've probably seen on the tv or you've done it in the clubs where you see the cue ball arc or a banana across the table how's it that works but it comes off the t angle with either top or bottom let's look at with bottom what happened there was i put loads of screw on the ball but the ball was moving forward because it struck off that 90 degrees and it struck in a forward direction but the spin catches the cloth and friction starts to happen and as the spin on the cue ball starts to react with the cloth it starts to want to pull it back hence giving it a nice big arc so now let's play it we'll load the top so i'll play off the cushion and what you'll see is the cue ball will come off the t angle from the black hit the cushion but bounce and bend all the way up and possibly even go into the middle pocket none of these shots are played with any sight whatsoever and if you want to learn how to play screw have a look at the card so we've smashed into the t angle there in the beginning of life positioning the cue ball so if you like what we're doing here smash that like button and hit the bell so you never miss the next video that's coming out what we're going to be doing really soon and i'm looking for volunteers for this for names is we're going to have a frame at the snooker shed a virtual frame at the snooker shed so once a week i'm gonna dedicate an hour and hopefully we'll get two or three guys to come on a zoom call or some sort of virtual call and we could all have a chat we could ask some questions and we could maybe knock some balls about the snooker shed table how would you like that if you're interested in that leave me a comment down below and we'll see what we can get started unless now i'll see you on the table [Music] what is it when