Snooker Potting the Black tips and practice routines,beginners tips ,snooker tutorials

I saw snooker on the TV and that was the end of it. Hello and welcome back to the snooker shed bite-sized snooker shop and today we're going to look at the most important ball on the table to get good at putting and that's the blap. So why is it that the blap is such an important ball to learn how to put? Well the first thing it's the highest scoring ball on the table and the second thing it's normally parked right next to where all the reds are hanging around. So let's enjoy and I say enjoy three practice routines that I've knocked up to help you get much more confident in putting the blap ball. So the first routine is really simple. What I've done here is I've made a triangle with the black, the pink and the white. What I'll do is I'll mark the position on the table that the whites can return to after each shot and all I'm going to do is simply pop the blap striking the cue ball dead in the centre. I'm going to do it until I can pop the blap 10 times from that position. All I'm doing is popping the blap for you. Then once I've done 10 times on that side I'm going to come across, change sides, reposition it to the exact same place as I had it before, mark the table and do 10 times there. So remember we've got to play this 10 times from either side of the table. Let's not make one side more favourable than the other. Take a note on where I'm looking as I strike that blap. I'm following the blap all the way to the pocket. The shot is played at a very slow pace. Now that's really important for the learning part of putting this blap. The more information you can give your brain about the shot the much better it is for learning. If you want to see a video on staying down on the shot and how to gather all that information have a look here. So hopefully you were feeling a lot more confident about putting the blap off its spot. Let's move on to practice number two. So in practice number two we're going to start the cue ball off on this side of the table or this. It's entirely up to you but the rules of this one is you've to pop the blap constantly from one visit which means you have to get positioned back on the blap. Now you're going to have a good laugh with your mates when you challenge them and let's just see how many you can get without missing or indeed losing that position. Hey people we're back at the snooker shed door so let's just see who's getting on the door this time. So we're going to start off with I think it's Burendi and he's from Mongolia 4200 miles away that's absolutely crazy. Then we're going to move to Rashid who's in Kabul Afghanistan at 3630 miles away. Moving up to Paul Tarlington. How we doing Paul? I met Paul when I was at the British Open he's one of the engineers that was doing his lights and he happened to notice the channel and he thought he would come on and say hello. Hi Paul thank you very much for that. Right where are we? We are going to move to Benji from Aberdeen just up the road at 97 miles. Thank you very much for watching buddy and Flynn who's living down in Bolton at 243 miles. Thank you Flynn for coming on the channel and thank you very much for watching. Is that all we've got for this week? No what we've got is Jamie. Now Jamie was sending this picture in to us and when you want to get yourself on the door I'd love to see who you are. I'd love to communicate with you so send me a wee picture you'll find the email in the description that you can send the pictures to and you can also get us on the Facebook page. So just look up the snooker shed on Facebook, join the page and you can communicate with all the people there. Listen people it's absolutely fabulous to have you all on board. If you like the channel remember to hit that like button, tell your friends to subscribe so the channel can get bigger and we can get more professionals on the channel. Coming soon is a wee review from Mark Williams ball cleaning spray that'll be coming on soon. We've also got stuff from Ross Muir, Stephen Hallworth also coming on the channel. We might have Barry Stark as well you never know. Thank you very much for watching. So well done if you've got this far and by now you should be able to pot 10 blacks off either side of the table from those fixed positions. Then after that you would have potted at least 20 blacks off the spot continuously in one visit and that is pretty tricky. Next one is practice number three and we're going to take it another stage further on potting this black. So this time I've created a Start with those fixed points, you pot the black, you cannon each red one after the other and once you've completed the six you take the cue ball and you start for the other side of the table and reset and do it again. Again this is a great challenge for you and your mates to see how much you can do after each other and it's all about the learning of playing it with side and different speeds with different combinations this side that will help you learn how to move that cue ball around this area on the table and successfully pot the black. So there it is a wee video just helping you out get that wee bit more confidence in potting the black and a wee bit more practice in gaining position when the black's on its spot. Thank you, thank you very much for watching and listen, I'll see you on the table. I saw snooker on the tv and that was the end of it