Helping Side: How Much Does it REALLY Help? Snooker Tips & Tricks

Help Inside how much does it really help Hello to Paul Bamford from the snooker shed I told you I wouldn't forget Tonight's video is all about the match about Help Inside and does it really help Let's get started and take a look So before we go o To help let's briefly look at the side itself and what that means So side is when you play the cue ball off the center line Now what does that do to the cue ball Well it causes a a thing called deflection and as you can see here I've exaggerated this shot but as you can see That the cue ball is thrown way over to the left side So that's the first thing deflection Because we experience that deflection we now have to readjust our aim so that we account for the cue ball To deflect and strike where you need to hit the object ball to place it where you want So let's look at this shot shot one and this one is aimed without taking deflection into account Watch how I play the ball and I'm going to aim to pop the center bag So you'd be right in thinking That I was going to miss that shot The reason I missed that shot was when I struck the cue ball At right two the cue ball then deflected to the left and struck the object ball which pushed the object ball to the bottom cushion So learning from the shot One here on shot two what I've done is I've considered the deflection I'm getting playing right two on the cue ball I adjusted my aim and hit the object ball So after a quic A wardrobe change that's us looked at the very basics of how to play sidespin shots Now moving on we're going to look at something called the squeeze So let's look at my understanding of the squeeze I have no idea where the word squeeze comes from but maybe we could ask Tim who's in Pakistan and not forgetting the postman boy just up the road in Aberdeen at 96 miles but the This man might give us the answer He's the break from life down in England somewhere but has no idea Where If you know where it comes from leave me a comment below Here's what I see the squeeze As the cue ball is struck it follows a path into the object ball and the impact isn't instantaneous So some of that energy and direction is transferred to the object ball So the object ball will move slightly in the same direction it was struck before it then moves off at the angle you struck it from and that I believe is what they call a kick The squeeze Now how does that help us with the side So side makes no difference for me o the squeeze So I've done a few tests here in the snooker shed playing the object ball at the Same place constantly I've added left side and right side The only difference I've noticed was my adjustment to account for the deflection on the side The squeeze itself was so minimal That even in slow motion we can't see it here at the snooker hall The further investigation with better cameras will have to show that there's a squeeze there Physics I'm sure and you guys can help me out there and leave some comments Physics says tha The momentum has to go slightly with the way the contact came in from the cue ball But for us in snooker certainly for me I've never thought about the squeeze at all while I'm aiming and I think that's because if there's that tiny amount your brain just accepts it's there eve He doesn't know it's there and just plays the shot where you've taught yourself the potting angle The video title is "Helping Side Helpful" and that's what we're going to examine right now So let's take a look at exactly what the helping side is To me the helping side would be adding sight to the cue ball that helps you line up the object ball or adding sight to the cue ball That assists you in taking a positional shot The side in my opinion doesn't really help because what you have to do is take into consideration all the parameters of that side You need when you're playing that shot We'll go into this in further videos but you have the e speed of the cue ball the weight of the cue ball the table the atmosphere all these other parameters at you have to get involved in order to play the shot correctly So in my opinion I don't You need a helping side I'm going to demonstrate the next shot and play in two shots off the blue One with side and one without sight What I want you to look at is the direction of the cue ball off this shot So what I'm demonstrating in that shot as you can see with the overlay there's a A slight difference in where I've been standing You can see that the cue ball path didn't really It changed as it crossed the cloth It went off the shot the same way so the side made no difference until it hit the bottom cushion and then you could clearly see which side it was It creates a different angle when coming off the cushion So based on that last video where we've struck the blue and the cue ball don't make a difference until it hits the cushion You can see that playing side on this shot which is something I used to do a lot all over the table makes no difference the side is unnecessary and therefore makes the pop much more difficult to Play Is helping side helpful Well in my opinion no it's actually the opposite for me I think it makes your game worse If you're using a side that isn't necessary you're playing shots That you're making it so much more difficult by using sides then it can't be considered helpful Looking at future videos we'll look at the pros and cons of side but going to the very good Players out there guys like the pros we see on TV and some of the top amateurs will be playing side constantly because they're good players and they've learned how to use side For players at my level I would always suggest learning ball striking and putting angles before we use side that'll make you a much better player player in the long run Okay so we're back at the snooker shed door and I'm just going to say ello to Joel Aubin who's in Flagstaff Arizona coming in at 4880 miles he's been a rece Subscribers just like a lot of you guys who have joined the channel and the 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