Snooker Tips And Techniques New Improvements 2024

over the last year I've been looking to improve my snooker technique and solve five underlying problems that I thought I'd never get rid of not only am I queuing the ball straighter I'm striking the cuq bable with less effort so it's finally time to show you how it works the first problem I've highlighted involves power shots striking the C wet speed caused unwanted body movement and for my queue to jump up in the air just like that both of these can result in Mish hitting the cuq ball a lack of control and ultimately missing the pot and my first thought on how to deal with this wasn't necessarily the best I initially tried to keep my head completely still and prevent my queue from jumping up on the air by forcing my chin down on it so I had nowhere to go yeah that that didn't work after this I actually did some proper research and came up with a surprising solution that miraculously solved every problem the real solution to this problem is back swing length the amount you pull your queue back before striking the ball if this is too short then your queue is accelerating too quickly and it can cause you to jump up off the shot or your queue to jump up in the air this occasionally requires you to bring your Bridge hand a little little bit further back but the extra distance mean the queue doesn't jump up in the air at all when you play the shot because it's accelerating a lot more smoothly this also prevents body movement and I found I can now play shots with about 90% power without any risk of me moving on them increasing the distance gives the queue more time to accelerate and reduces unwanted body motion it's also possible to have a back swing length that's too long and makes the slower shots difficult to control but as a general rule if your que's jumping up in the air or you're moving on the shot and you can't prevent this then I'd say try a longer back swing the second problem I wanted to highlight was reading the angles sometimes I was getting this ever so slightly wrong and I kept doing it repeatedly this just means not lining up to the right part of the object ball so when you play the shot even if you queue it correctly you'll still going to miss and if this is the problem the best thing you can do is just walk around the table so you can look straight down the line of the shot see where the white needs to hit the object B in order to pot it and make your way back keeping your focus on where that point is on the red in this case so I'm just focusing on where the white needs to hit the red it hasn't changed since I had to look down the line of the shot and I know if I queue it straight the Red's going to enter the pocket I picked this up from the rocket method which just happens to be today sponsor as we've reached the World Championships I've got a special offer for you that includes a full 30% off Rono salivan snooker masterclass 12 hours of coaching from Ron O Sullivan himself just use the promo code break 30 and follow the link through to the website as well as a 30% discount everybody who subscribes before the 9th of May will be entered into a prize draw with a Chance of meeting Ronnie in person I look forward to teaching you everything I know on my ultimate snooker course looking along the line of the sh obviously isn't a complete solution to the problem because you do still need to see the right place on the object Ball but it makes you slightly more likely to get it right so it's a partial solution at least another problem I've highlighted is awkward shots you really don't like the look of and I found I kept tensing up on these shots and I wasn't able to queue through the ball properly especially when you're feeling the pressure to PO the ball so you wouldn't think you'd be able to do anything about this but you'd be wrong because I genuinely believe this uncomfortable feeling is down to the wrist action or a lack of a wrist action on each individual shot it felt like I looked into almost everything before I realized my wrist simply wasn't moving on the shot and if your wrist stays static then your arm can't go through properly and you end up sometimes hitting at an angle with your arm popping out sideways like that all that need need to happen with this one is your wrist flicks back like that somewhere on your back swing because as long as it's done that it'll automatically go through on you follow through and the right bits of your arm will move the next problem is not quite lining the shot up properly when you initially Get down on it causing a very slight error when you play the shot this will mean you haven't quite lined up the shot properly or possibly you're putting some unwanted side on the cube without noticing this one had the simplest solution and it's when you get down on the shot here to just take an extra second to make sure you're striking the Q ball in the center and look along the line of your que and see where you're pointing towards the object ball and if that's in the right place so you know you can play the shot with a little bit more confidence what this means is just taking an extra second here to make sure you're in the right position it's not going to guarantee you pot every single ball but it will make you a lot more consistent the final problem I've had for the longest but I think I've finally fixed it and it evolves timing and more importantly snatching at the shot now this just means when I pull the queue back I very suddenly hit it like that without really pulling back pausing giving myself the time to hit through the ball with a smooth action luckily I already had about 90% of the answer for this one because once again slightly lengthening my back swing has helped again because it's meant that I can't actually snatch at the ball with a longer back swing I also noticed on a lot of shots I was snatching out my bridge arm was a little bit too straight possibly because I'm now further away from the cuq B than I normally would be but it meant I just kept snatching at the ball a little bit and when I bent this qarm in and got a little bit closer to the cuq ball this started becoming less of a problem again at one stage last year it felt like I was snatching it almost every shot I played and it's amazing how much of a difference it can make just to put more of a bend in your elbow so you get closer to the QQ ball having a longer back swing on firmer shots you're playing so you strike through the ball smoother in fact it feels like I'm hardly ever going to snatch at the ball ever again so this year I've heavily reduced although not completely eliminated body movement and the amount my Q jumps up in the air off the shot by slightly increasing the length of my back swing on the firmer shots I found the right angle more consistently by looking along the lines of the shots I don't like the look of and keep fixating on this point till I get back to the CU ball I've reduced the amount my Q action is tensing up on Shots by making sure my wrist is moving on each and every one of those shots I've avoided some of the consistency errors I was having by giving myself just an extra second to make sure I'm in the right place when I initially get down on the shot and I've also completely eliminated snatching at the ball which is impressive cuz I was doing it more or less every shot about a year ago and I've done this by making sure I've got a slightly increased elbow bend on every shot I play but mostly Again by making sure that I'm using enough back swing if you want to know how I discovered these problems in the first place and have a look at this video and the other video shows you what I did about these problems on the previous year 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 for the rocket method see you later