How to Get the Most Out of EVERY Snooker Practice - SUPER LEARNING

Let's practice practicing Hello and welcome back to The Snooker Shed And tonight's video is all about practice How to get the most out of every practice session And why we need to practice in a good structure It is the most important thing that we can do to enhance our skills at snooker So by practicing correctly We will get the maximum amount of learning from each session So what I've done in The Snooker Shed is two types of practice: specific practice and general practice But the steps I'm going to outline work for both So step one in The Snooker Shed's practice is identifying the problem It could be any shot on the table it could be a pop it could be a positional shot It could be anything at all that you're finding that you're missing or not getting right time and time again For the purposes of this video and keeping it nice and simple I'm just going to play this block So let's move on to step two Step two is the learning phase All we're going to do is play this shot over and over again And we'repeating it because We're teaching ourselves how to pop that block To make this possible we make sure that the cue ball is returned to the same place on the table each time It's a wee chalk mark on the table By doing that it makes my brain learn much much quicker because I've only got to learn one thing So the learning phase is just trying to pop the ball and observing what's happening and then changing where I hit the cue ball where I hit the object ball depending on those observations Okay so I' ve played two shots there The first one I missed And the second one I got correct It's a quick demonstration And it is really just a demonstration But that then suggests that the learning is over I now know how to pop the ball Before you move on to any other stage of practice you must make sure that you've learned the shot fully If you then move on to stage 3 where we' re going which is the Practice with goals stage If you haven't fully learned the shot and you're practicing during learning it will take so much longer to learn that shot So now we're going to move on to Stage 3 and that's practice with goals What I want to do is put the black into that pocket five times ten times a hundred times The goals set are by you It's up to you how much you practice this Until you feel confident that you can repeat it in a game time and time and time again So moving on to this group practice and what I've done is I've now taken that learning to pop the black and added it into the group practice and tonight the group practice I'm using This is the lineup We'll have further videos on the group practices that I' ve used to improve my game And there' s the shot there We practiced that one And I put it into the group practice Just recently last year I made a 1-4-7 on the lineup but it didn 't come from just playing lineups It came from practicing these simple shots and getting them right One of the things I practiced long and hard on was screw back shots Putting from the middle back and bringing e cue ball back in to a potable position so that I could maintain getting the 15 reds and the 15 blacks Once I perfected each sho I added it back into the group practice and practiced and practiced and practiced until I got it correct and made the 1-4-7 That is possible for anyone So let's look at one more thing It's the super learning And I think this is why here at the Snooker Shed my progression's been fairly quick It's not just been hundreds and hundreds of hours of aimless practice It's been dedicated practice When I'm practicing every sho I'm practicing I'm adding in the fundamentals of the game I'm not just practicing the shot that we've discussed tonight but I'm practicing the pre-shot routine I'm practicing how my cue is going through Is it straight I'm practicing observing the shot and learning So why not use that properly and help you practice That extra little bit And it just adds in that bit of super learning so that you're learning the fundamentals of the game on every single shot you play I've got to say a thank you to Michael Ross and Cinnamon Thank you very much for tuning in and watching the channel I want to say a big thanks to all The subscribers who have joined us here at the Snooker Shed lately Please hit the subscribe button and if you like the videos click that like button and hit the bell so you don't miss the next one Michael Sarah I'll see you on the table