Snooker Impossible Shots How To Play

this is called a m shot and until I started making trick shot videos it's something I didn't even realize you could play on a snooker table although very similar the M shot isn't the same as playing a shot with side spin or even playing a swerve shot like this instead of making the cubble change direction the mass a shot is more about making it spin back on itself to play this shot you need a raise Loop Bridge you place your queue in between your index and middle finger rotate your hand around wrap your index finger around the queue and tuck your thumb underneath this provides a hole to queue through and it means you can strike down the white but it's not very stable if so if I play the shot like that I'm moving all over the place so what I can do is bring my body in and put my hand against the side of my leg and that makes it a lot more stable so I can play the shot the next thing to consider is the Q angle I've just got the screen there so I can see what I'm actually looking at so if I have a lot of angle away from vertical that'll actually make the cubble slow down but won't stop it whereas if I go completely vertical with it I might actually be able to make it go back but that didn't move because I haven't hit it out so you got to get that angle right you've also got to hit the right amount of the cuq ball if you hear a thud noise that sounds like you're hitting the cable through the cube that's because you're hitting too much of it you you want to hit about half of your tip on the Cub to play this shot properly so if we get the angle right and we can give it a go well that was nearly it but I just didn't quite get through the white enough so let's just play this with a little bit more angle and hit the edge a little bit better there we go got it just be very careful you're not striking the table with the tip of your queue on this shot otherwise you could damage it this is a shot I do occasionally use in a game but only when it's the easiest way of getting out of what is usually a relatively close snooker like that but I don't ever try anything like the Jimmy white shot as an exhibition I wouldn't be able to do anything near that good I've worked out there's about 10 techniques you need to know in order to play the trick shots I attempt in my YouTube videos so here's everything you need to know in order to play these shots [Music] here's a good one when you're really queuing well and you're just the wrong side of the blue it's possible to use Top Spin and right hand side to make the cube will come back down the table and finish on a red like that here's how it works the trick to this shot is Top Spin because people think you have to play it with a lot of side but if you play it with twoo much side you'll stun it and that'll stop the white reaching the cushion and make it break wider make it harder to come back in the direction we want it to go so you got to make sure we strike it high enough and we're getting the side on it at the same time that should look like that I've actually overdone it let's have another go that's a bit better you see we got the side to take there and we gauged the speed right so we're on the red I do use this shot every now and again in a game but I have to be queuing really well otherwise it's just a waste of time because you don't want to risk missing the blue this one comes up quite a lot in trick shots as a way of potting a ball that doesn't actually go but is usually played as an exhibition shot on the final Black by a player who's already won the frame it's just about knowing how to play the shot around four cushions this is almost a natural angle where all you need to do is set the ball fall off on the correct path if you think about where the center of the top cushion is you want the black to strike the cushion about a foot to the side let's see what happens and if the Black Goes roughly across the brown spot that's probably pretty close this all looks good yep and we got it not guaranteed but that's roughly where you want to hit you can then adjust to play this shot from other positions as long as you avoid all the other balls on the way round this isn't something that I'd ever tried in the game because I usually want to pop the black off its spot when it usually comes up more than I actually want to play an exhibition shot when the object BS close to the cushion or a pocket you can in fact use Top Spin to slow the cube down or even make it banana in this example ding Junu uses Top Spin to maneuver the cube bable down the table for the black so this is what you need to know in order to play it with this type of shot you don't just want to be striking the top of the cuq you want to be striking up at the top of the cuq ball so you're making sure you're not putting enough spin on the ball often players strike the object ball too thin as well so you want to make sure you're hitting it thick enough to control the speed otherwise the white will run away then we just got to get the power right to angle the cube W around the pink let's see if we can give this a go there we go it's gone round the pink nicely ran away a little bit but we're still on it [Music] nicely a shot like that is something that I wouldn't have believed actually worked when I first saw it but now I've worked out how to play it I realize you just have to put a lot of side spin on the Q ball to hit the cushion just before the ball the spin then pots the ball cushion first and that allows you to Pop the ball down the cushion the wrong way essentially here's how you play it I used to struggle to play this short with any consistency because I didn't realize you need to strike the cushion with a little Gap to the ball you want to knock down it so about that much and that actually gives space to hit the red in this case at the right angle so let's see if we can get that there we go just about got it didn't quite leave enough space but I just got away with it with the size of my pockets I don't remember this one ever coming up as a chance in a game to play it but as I'm getting it about one in three now I'd probably give it a go if it comes up or just missed it yes it just about dropped in I'd probably give it a go if it came up because it's not actually that difficult especially if the pockets are a little bit bigger players don't usually attempt to cut the black ball in on a re-spotted black because it's an incredibly thin cut I mean if I put the cube bable there it's going to be very thin going for that pocket but did you know it's actually possible to still Pop the ball in that pocket if you position the cuq ball over here it just requires a huge amount of side Spin and the thinnest Edge possible yeah that was a little bit too much let's just give that another go if you moments later got it okay that took a a few more goes than I wanted but it's gone in in the end the way that works is all the side spin on the cuq ball actually makes the black cut thinner than it should actually go there's really not much to this one you just need to aim for the thinnest possible Edge on the left side of the black and to put as much left hand side on the cubble as possible and simply hit the black in that position yep and you just got to hit it hard enough really that's all there is to it obviously I've never played this in a real match but I have cut a black in just like that on a resp spot I remember my coach afterwards though saying what on Earth were you trying that for that was genuinely first time with that though so you [Music] know what you might not be aware of though is by striking down at the a little bit you can use side spin to make the cuq screw back sideways here's how this works to play this shot you want to strike the side of the cuq Striking down at about a 45° angle I want this one to go left and that's why I'm aiming for the bottom of the left of the cuq ball if I wanted to go to the right I'd aim for the right side of the cuq ball but if you hit higher on the CU it will still go left but it'll go forwards at the same time and if you hit it very close to the bottom it'll come a long way back as well as going left so the main part of this shot is actually just making sure you pot it because striking down and hitting the side of the ball makes it very difficult so you want to make sure you're getting the pace right but let's give this a go and there we go we went a long way left probably come back a little bit too far would have lik to been there so I should have hit it slightly higher but that's how you screw back sideways this is one I'm pretty confident I've never tried in a game and there's a couple of reasons for it firstly if I attempted it from this sort of a distance it probably wouldn't work that well and I'm incredibly likely to miss secondly even if I wanted to screw back down here for the black and I was close enough the re the question is then why because I could simply roll the cube ball through for the black I could stun for the pink there's usually a lot easier options and this shot really a lot of the time isn't very helpful [Music] because the cloth of a snooker table is smooth in one direction towards the top cushion this creates a bizarre effect of side reversing when the Cub was played in the opposite direction this one's relatively simple the right hand side is going to make the cube or go left but first it's going to go right speed is key here because you got to hit it absolutely dead weight otherwise it won't really work work so it's going right it's coming back left just missed the yellow and I've landed right on top of the red might even be touching now I just rocked off it a little bit despite this effect having the potential to be quite helpful it's something I don't think I've ever used in an actual game of snooker although it is something you need to be aware of when you're playing a shot towards the bulk end of the table to stop it ruining that shot in any way before our next shot let's just find Joe who's in momouth South Wales which is right in the middle of there wow this is awkward got it there it is if you've seen my short videos you probably seen me play a shot like this quite a bit where you jump the object ball over the pack of Reds or some form of obstacle like that it's not actually a foul unless the cuq would to jump over the black there so here's how you play it it helps if you got a large area for the balls to land in so there's less chance of them jumping off the table which does mean you're going to be closer to the cushion that'll help as well because if you got your hand on the cushion you can just strike down at it at a 45° angle that makes the jump a lot easier I've just got to play through this firm and confidently here and it'll go in and I just about held on to the white I've only tried this a few times in practice games sometimes successfully but the reason for it is it doesn't really come up that much for example if I was trying to jump the red over the black here I wouldn't be able to do it because there was too much angle even if the cubble is in the correct position I don't think striking down I'm going to be able to knock that red over the black so it would need to be about that distance away and I don't have my hand on the cushion here so striking down is going to be a problem and even if I do manage to get that red over the top of the black the White's going to jump off the table it's very rare this actually lands in the right position to be able to play so it's almost not worth knowing escaping from a snooker is an interesting one because it's something I wouldn't have even considered before I started doing these type of trick shots although the specific shot does actually play around with a difficulty and the Shawn Murphy shot sort of opened our eyes up to what was was possible with this and there's a big difference between using the draws of the corner pocket and using the draws of the middle pocket like this there's no trick to this one unfortunately on my table if you aim for where the edge of the pocket is the edge of the drop then you're going to be roughly in the right place for the Cub going down the cushion from this position but it won't be right from any other position and let's see might need another go there a few moments later there we go second try see that was uh that was fairly easy wasn't it it was nothing like second try I have used this shot in the past like this to help me escape from Snookers like that one but I haven't really been able to do anything trick shoty with it just basic snooker escapes when they came up so although these shots won't help you out too much in an actual game they are quite fun to know as trick shots but if you want to know some shots that will help you out in a game including understanding Sid spin 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 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