Snooker Practice Live

is wondering what's happening just as I was on the screen I'm not sure if it then came what was happening then so we're just going to I'm going to clear up from where I was again but um yeah it's uh I left the door off there's this bit you can remove on the camera I just took it off to save a little tiny bit of weight but I think the battery dropped out the camera and meant uh the camera obviously turned itself off I think we're on are we are we working now hi again I'm back hopefully a little bit more permanently now that was a bit much so was it that's pretty good right we can up the amount of Reds now then with a practice routine I was doing see if we can get see if we can do eight now manage six there to clear the table although I did have to completely get back into YouTube again Midway through cuz the battery dropped out the bottom of my camera which isn't which isn't good but I put the door on it now which does make the camera a little bit heavier which why why I wasn't doing it before but anyway it's not that heavy so right let's try eight oh thank you we I think we got a uh see what we actually do have over there when I get over there in a second could this hard enough there we go thanks for the Super Chat Kon I'm hoping I'm pronouncing that right I'm glad you love the videos right let's see what we can uh do with this hopefully everything's running good again seemed to be all right last time see I get to eight and I can't P them right the main reason as I was saying before I wanted to try this was that I'm struggling a little bit was the cube all controlled I was struggling to hit these shots harder when we were treding stuff yesterday just a bit like that that's not I want to be about another ball length higher than that so let's see if I can run run through a bit slower more people coming in I've gone through too far here haven't I yep so that's the thing with this you you can fail a lot just by running out of position there's no way of getting on a red there unless you just smash all the Reds open which kind of defeats purpose of the exercise right let's get back into it right glad everybody's back now because the hopefully the camera won't decide to turn itself off again I don't know I'm I'm pretty sure it was cuz um it dropped out the bottom the battery dropped out the bottom anyway right this is a little bit more like it good position now just drop up top side of this red yeah just just quitting on them a little bit and not getting far enough through if you play a run through shot like this you got to make sure you don't you got be very precise with where you leave the cuq because otherwise that could be too far that's just about right I think got to get into this well to get back on the Reds yeah was a little bit too close I could have I could have played that a bit better glad to see everybody come back right drop this in back for the black right be good if I can get through these so we're going to go top side again after a while I'll have to try the John Higgins one see if I can get a good enough to do that but uh right straight again so I want to be bit straigh on the black than I was last time and I think that's it that should be perfect but if I just queue it nicely I'm going to be on the red not doing too bad here I usually struggle with this a little bit more almost played it too well and held the cube all up too much I can just about run that through did think then I'd uh under hit it so it should be all okay now if I can just roll through leave about what angle it actually is I like to leave that it's a bit more than a quarter ball angle it probably is close to a half ball angle the black so you can I like playing these shots where um you just come back with little bit left hand side as I say that as I nearly mess it up oh that was a good shot wasn't it but uh I know not everybody likes playing that right I think we come off two cushions with a load of left hand side here we can just about hold for the black bit of a stretch though yeah that's this is making the shot hard it's right hand side now cut across the uh face of the black to uh that is just terrible see what I mean I'm quitting on them a little bit hopefully the stream is running okay going to have to get some better technology to sort it out I'm limited a bit on Wi-Fi down here so uh it is what is but it was running pretty nicely I was getting as fast as it ever gets down here before it started Let's uh I want to see if I'm going to try and see if we can do eight and then do 10 that's if I can do 10 I'll be happy with that today just going to have to just needed at these shots harder see what everybody's saying please break the C no I'm not splitting them up do you have a lot yeah going to um the new clo I will have a new cloth fairly soon if you can see all the stuff in front of me that we've got to sort out cuz I'm trying to get the uh wall sorted out over there so it's a little bit more soundproof because there's a road right outside and every time the car comes by it's pretty quiet at the moment but sometimes of the day you just you can't record anything so I'm trying to get the uh wall sorted out so it's a little bit quieter at least that you can't hear you know the quiet noises out there um and uh once that's done we only just got to basically attach the plaster Bard now the installation's done the um I'm going to be looking at a new cloth then and hopefully getting something a bit faster because the the most recent video I did it's very evident on a few shots that I just can't get you know with doing everything I can with them I can't get anywhere near it there was um the uh the standard short I think a few people have been playing it that like Jud Trump pting the pink in the middle pocket and then uh whoa whoa whoa pting the pink in the middle pocket and then playing around the seven cushions like you know if I hit that as hard as I can it just about goes in the middle pocket and only just get back to the black but nowhere near the seven cushions so yeah we're going to have to do something about it but it won't be long oh that's pretty good potting all right which is always a a good sign just got to get hold of this cube a little bit but that's the test of this practice routine because it makes you uh you know it's not easy to keep getting the right position high on the black every single shot see if we can just stay not high on the oh what I done high on the Reds but we are getting there right just want to get more consistent with the position I finish on the uh every time and stopp itting these shots so slowly that's slow I just can't hit them hard enough I don't know what it is I don't want to H them M hard please do a trick shot maybe later how did you get your table I just I bought it off somebody who was um that s sold tables at the time there was a few clubs that shot so he had an absolute you know he had a it was basically a barn he had a incredibly large barn full of tables and I could theoretically pick up out anything I wanted if if you could crawl through it and I just couldn't that's L I couldn't get through the barn far enough to pick anything but it you know it's at the end of the day it's just it's mostly the cloth and everything you put on it that makes the difference so the uh one slight problem I've got with these with the Slate here which isn't horrific the Hat slipping forward it was a bit um that is that uh the um Pockets W the pockets have got a very very round round Edge so when balls come towards the pockets they do drop in a little bit easy at a slow pace other than that it's not you know it's it's actually the cut of these pockets is pretty tight but the the fact that it can just so many things dropping down the cushions you wouldn't believe it even compared to some quite I'm not getting on the red from there am I even to compare with some quite big pocket Club tables I play on so yeah that's that's something I mean you can get that changed and I may look at it but at the same time it's easier it's easier to pop BS for the videos so right let's get back high up any hello yeah it can be difficult you know getting the timing right with the p P somebody was just mentioning there getting the pors right and like you know it feels good for some people when you get that right but sometimes I do find in a game you end up rushing the shot because you're just panicking about what's going to happen and as soon as you start taking a little bit longer just at that point before you hit the ball and you're confident doing that everything becomes a lot easier how I've ended up over here I don't know and how am I going to get out of this don't think I am pting right the just cubal control isn't there at the moment this will be good get around the angles for the red everything could go everywhere here someone who wanted the red SP yep right we were doing all right a second ago and but this is what happens it's all just about you know learning consistency of continuously getting the positional shots right right which I'm not doing I'm not quite getting through all the shots every time when you're playing them a little bit inconsistently that's why you struggle to judge the pace Al the lineup I'll show you one in a minute it's it's basically a good practice routine other than the lineup is um there's one you can do with just the red and the black which I do a huge amount it's it's just basically you put the uh you put the red about midway between the pink and the black spot and you just see how many Reds Reds followed by blacks you can play and you just replace the red replace the black and uh yeah you just you just see how long you can go with that without missing and you know start off with if you're making like a 24 32 break you'll be pretty happy but like after when you get used to that sort of thing you uh you just start seeing how many how many um what do I mean here how many how long you can go you lose count of how many you actually scored so you just see how long you can go that's gone too far hasn't it how long you can go without missing and I think you know I've done it for about half an hour I it it's not quite got hard enough it's a difficult one to control like you leaving that but yeah I've gone about half an hour before just continuously or was it an hour I don't know it didn't necessarily mean I was playing that well but I've gone about you know that sort of time with just pulling red to Black and hopefully I'll show you in a minute if we get through this this um but all these sort of things it's a good to practice um trying to think of another thing I've started doing a lot is um you can line up from one end of the table to the other a long straight pot but you you keep the um object B quite close to the QQ ball so it' be like from here with a with the object ball there sort of thing wow I've left this straight and um the purpose of it this could jump off the table see this a second yeah jumped out the pocket wasn't on the red anyway but the purpose of the routine is to just try and pop pop a straight ball and run through in off behind it and I found that really good for just just getting you know you to you to Q actually I was lining up a straight shot then possibly look at that in a minute as well but uh let's see if I can actually concentrate enough to get through these for a second which isn't happening um I I have thought about Q SC I just honestly I haven't quite had the ability plus the amount of money is is a hell of a lot of money you know it's going to take I I know it'll take about two gos to get even get used to playing under those conditions which I haven't done for a huge amount of time now and uh I'm I'm really not used to playing on the tables I would need you know there's a couple of players near me one's just qualified actually he's gone on the tour but yeah I'd need to give them a have a bit more practice with them but uh yeah it's a it's a complete shock just it's not really even the pockets it's just just the way a star table plays in comparison to what I'm playing on here is just completely different and it's not necessarily once you get used to it it's not harder but it's just it's just so different it's like playing another game Ah that's not very good is it right let's see if I can get this two cushion shot right just finish just it over at there no shouldn't have missed it but never going to get on the Reds from there right but yeah it is something I want I want to work towards if if I know if I there's a there's people around where I live if I know I'm giving them a good game it's it's worth trying but and in the past when I was you know probably in in some ways playing at the best I've played um I I just didn't simply didn't have the money to know you know if I got if I got new I was that good I was going to get straight on I would have had the money but I I knew I was quite you know I'd be struggling to win a match for probably the first couple of times I did it I mean obviously depending on who you draw because you can draw absolutely anybody and that but I wouldn't like to even speculate i' beat anybody so come on is it right let's see uh but I am interested in getting back into things a bit more because like like I was saying in the podcast from last time I moved a bit quick on there um not did I say podcast half the time I don't know what I'm talking about either right on the live stream I did last I'm not doing podcast that's something that's not happen happening I'm going to be the only person in the country at some point who doesn't have a podcast right um yeah on the live live stream last time was kind of saying everything kind of closed down there was a lot of snooker clubs shot where I live just before Co and uh or even or even during it and there was a few competitions going and I was I was supposed to be going in up to one about um the beginning of 202 I I missed that I was supposed to be going up to one of the competitions in not too far from me in about 2020 and my car broke down that was basically the last one I got a chance to play on cuz there hasen't been any big ones near me since which is strange for a place that used to have one every week when I started playing it's just a completely different world you know your club would have a local tournament where you could win you quite a chunk of money each week if you if you want it they were obviously handicapped but there were a few that weren't and now it's a struggle to even play in like one or two of those a year you're traveling quite a way they still exist if you're in the right part of the country but I'm not so unless I move it's uh right I'm actually getting control of it a little bit better now to be fair I think that last red is the first silly shot I've missed so could be wrong everything else was a POS bad positional error right going height and I'm getting the weight a lot better now it just becomes so much easier this game when you got a shot like this when when you're not like bridging over the cushion having to do having to worry about the pot as well as worrying about where the Cub's going to go this hard enough and I I'm surprised I got away with that that is about as bad as I've played any shot today I think I'm on the red or I can do something with it nearly I don't think I'm on this I might be able to screw the blue in I haven't Tri a shot like this yet so if I go far enough I haven't got far enough be all right but the Red's over there right back to this shot so if we can get this right this time nope getting closer we'll have that next time all right want to get this done now we did I think I did six instantly and then uh that's why it's good to practice it's just you know if there was an easy positional shot every time it wouldn't be a problem right other my hat keeps drifting forward okay yeah that's a lot better weight was hello yeah I I had an issue I had an issue with a tinning well I still do it's my Q still does feel sound a bit tiny even though I got I'm not 100% sure on what it is because uh the uh ferals have all been fixed up and that's all all right the uh it's definitely in the front part the queue rather than the back of it because it does it if I you know it's a 3/4 piece queue and even if I play it sounds the same if the back isn't on the Queue if you see what I mean I've got a few so I'm not sure what's making it occasionally sound a bit you know used to sound very you know just have like a very solid feel or sound I should stop thinking about things when I'm playing shorts right how have I done that well let's get the right side of the blue this time no I still haven't done it have I pinched the pocket as much as I could right see if I'm any better at the sh going this way I'm closer to it so I should be there we go long our breath thankfully the Cold's nearly over cuz uh it's been annoying right let's knock this in just like every now and again there's a shot I don't see the angle for that was really one of them you queue it smooth it isn't a problem but you just rush it because you're a bit worried you haven't got the angle right right let's see what we can do never going to clear this at this rate that's good if I'm getting playing them right that's the hardest one of lot to keep position yeah I've seen yeah I've seen the nine balls in in Saudi Arabia now I haven't seen a huge amount of it to be I did watch all bits of it but I couldn't tell you what was going on but um I see they're talking about moving the world championship darts as well oh good God right after I I shouldn't have said I'm not missing anything straightforward after since then I've seen they've um mov the world championship start well they were talking about moving it there as well so I don't know what's going to happen with that but so I don't obviously follow that that closely but yeah we'll we'll see what happens with all of it there'll be a few years yet but I expect it to slowly go that way right see if we can get the keep the position right trouble is I think I've talked about this routine all I can now there's nothing more to say about it I think just I need to pop the balls a bit better getting position more maybe just make sure I get high like that rather than leave it short all right keybo control is going to be essential here can't afford to that to go too far and it hasn't keep all the white that was well dragged I'm playing all these shots quite nicely so can't really complain about anything just going to have to come back a bit to leave the shot across it's a little bit short short across the the right hand side is easier this time because I'm really close to the black could have been done with a bit more side right oh yeah stop stop stop that's a lot better all right St it up okay this is going good all of a sudden you know I'm seeing the angles right the uh that that does come in and out sometimes I play a game I'll not be able to make more of a 20 break and then you know knocking 70 plus to 100 sort of thing that's the only break I all day sometimes so it's really really is strange at some point it's all looking good the black so the yellow is going to be the shot want to make sure I get good position again if not I suppose I got the pain this time but we don't really want to be thinking about that oh God right time for something else probably too much position and I played it horribly wrong right on to one that somebody was talk well I was saying I do a lot earlier see how long we can go with this one this is a lot easier thing I'm doing here just got the Reds in the right place don't need that many there right I do this a lot Al though it's a lot D to look at it's just red to Back to Black you just see how long you can keep going for sometimes it's a couple of minutes sometimes about half an hour it just depends how well you're playing them there's no point doing it too much if you are doing that cuz it's not going to really help you too much I will come on to another one I was doing in a minute because uh that helps more with the sort of average shots you get in the game because this is brilliant so once you get in in around the black you learn all the shots there's about four different ways to get from the black to the red in a normal way and you learn all of those shots yeah you learn how to get get them perfect and when this situation comes up in a game it's ideal but if the black comes off it spot in the game everything goes a little bit safe for you it's amazing how quickly you struggle if if this is all you're doing so that's how it is basically that's rear just feel the hats going all over the place don't usually have on for this long I'm doing a uh longer headcam video right the last one we did was basically cuz I went away trouble with those is finding a you now we've kind of done all the brakes with them it's difficult to know what to do with them next that's probably where the Life's good see what's happening all right after the last thing I don't really think I needed to practice this next who but it's good having someone to talk to when you're practicing really and it PS you it's good it's good this cuz it puts you under a little bit more pressure to play the shots right I remember the first one I did I started missing everything was I was like don't miss everything um yeah and I can't get any more out of position than have here happens every now and again that's a good recovery drop this in Black yeah practicing that shot on the last thing earlier on these sometimes you get so badly out of position you end up smashing B around the table and uh you end up somehow end up back in position again you can't believe you're still going or going another 10 minutes of this but uh it's usually one that you do feel like you're practicing for longer than you actually are at the same time you it's just good to get the confidence you get the position I probably should have done it before the last one rather than after it but that's what happened so just to make sure don't over hit this because it's going that way leave it straighter right I see my hat's going a bit that way let's do that a bit right right hand side up wow I hit that hard I'm definitely doing this all right I think we need to try something else yeah I wish I had someone to play with right now I need to some long screw shorts yeah that's that is what I need to practice that's that's that is what I'm terrified to practice live on the on the camera we we'll pretty much get to that in a minute but uh yeah that's when things start not looking so good cuz um as it when on the longer Parts if I'm just rolling it in you know the sort of thin safety shot sort of shot to nothing things I'm really good at those it's it's kind of the straighter ones where you got to you know stun it in or you I I line them up I hope for the best basically is what happens I miss one yeah on to the next thing I want to try then that's not that's obviously you know I'm pulling around the black or right uh let's put that over there yeah this was this next thing I wanted I was saying about I've been trying this for a little bit and it's it's just good to get probably again another one to do at the start but to get your queueing going whereby you just try and run through it off didn't it that very nice but it's not too bad yeah that's lined up a bit better with my hat now but yeah I I found I do every now and again I think I did a few yesterday where I was stunning it rather than running it through doing it a little bit there I'm not really getting the Top Spin the line's pretty good just rolled off at the end there but again if this was me just starting to play because I've because I've been playing a few shots already I'd struggle with the pot and the position or pot and the cube or getting close really but as I've been playing a little bit it's it's a tiny bit easier to get it right that's going absolutely dead center that'll roll in just not quite but it's good cuz I'm not quite getting through the cube yet and hitting it hard enough but I really like this is um kind of the sort of thing that uh Terry Griffith was saying he practiced a lot before he won the World Championships back in 1979 moving a little bit on them trying to Ed it hard enough that's a bit odd I don't usually have a problem hting these hard enough I see to today that's a couple of things I'm struggling to push the que through hard enough maybe try pulling the queue back a bit further I'm not sure how much I am pulling the queue back yeah as soon as I do that it's missed I could just tell I was on the limit this is obviously good you get anything's good you where you get to play a lot of shots over and over again without it being too difficult to set up or anything see what I'm doing here good God right I'm ending them hard enough now just not playing very straight anymore it's just cuz I was I was if I was tickling them it was going right and I've just was the pace it's thrown me off a bit so all of a sudden now we've got to line it up again get the angle right find the angle look at that yes I do need to practice some don't miss one for first five 10 shots I wouldn't normally miss a lot of these but they should start going in there no that did feel a lot better I'm just heading across them a bit all it is I'm not lining them up right got pop again pace is good right straighten up with a bit more power then yeah just feels like my Q's coming across a bit which obviously won't help will get there it's getting closer I'm just adjusting the Hat left the temperature a bit lower in here today so it's okay right right apparently it's nearly lunchtime so uh yeah you see I I feel like I H that perfect but just hasn't run on that is odd just didn't I don't know what to say with that maybe I'm poking it in a little bit just don't want to queue it anymore that's a bit more like it just want to get one some days you you do this easy every time but it this is the other good thing of just just finding the things you're struggling with in a particular day CU that's what you kind of gain the most from right run this through and off n that way right that's okay we're poting them all right I'll give up on that and go for the next thing but I've been just stick those over there a bit so get way I've been trying this a lot recently because this kind of this kind of helps with everything everything in the right place balls to take out in the right places right you got to play a different red every single shot let's go through over there that wasn't necessarily the best of starts was it there we go so I'm not allowed to play the one on the brown spot next I can play for it after this this one of some blue spots though this is just this is just a quite good way cuz you always end up with um especially if the position's this bad these kind of mid-range shots that you don't kind of practice any other way they don't come up a huge amount if you can get these right it really helps you get oh dear snatch see how quickly I hit that had it right just got the que through the ball too quick just want to see if I can do this for a couple of minutes try a few longer pots how many people we got on at the moment anyway hopefully hasn't broken it we're up to a fair few people watching right let's get back to the right literally right hand side any questions to Big exam I've got game today but it's a yeah it it is good to play different places though because the the you know someone was saying about playing want to play at home as well as Club it is good to do is good to do both because uh sometimes you go to another table it just feels like a different different thing this is definitely something I should have practiced more earlier because this is something I'm struggling with these kind of mid-range shots you just keep practicing this you'll end up with giving yourself sort of shots you never think of struggling with a cuq wall as much as I am with them at the moment anyway let's go there in theory this is very very simple right let's get back for this red right let's get down for that one now okay see what I mean I just I've left the cube all short doesn't feel like it's a problem but now I'm quite a long way away from the red which again I'd expect to be put let's have another go with this I've missed too many of these that felt absolutely spot on really but yeah I'll be all right next time I'm just doubting myself a little bit on them that's what happens yeah this this is what I find I don't practice this enough really but I probably should because like I said even that I've left myself a harder shot than I should have it's incredibly easy in theory but it's amazing how many bad mistakes you can sort of make on it right let's get back for the one on the blue spot so that's a bit hard but it's all all the time you're playing a sort of mid distance positional shot so it's nothing you can't just stun the cube hold it so you have to keep in a way keep playing a good positional shot keep potting this and playing around the cushions the red on The Pink Spot I'm too close to the so get any right hand side on the CU no right I want trying before we go so I just clear those uh do something simple before I go I think it's time for lunch thanks for everybody joining there's 5,000 of you been on by look at it I don't know how many were on the one that I was doing when the camera decided it was going to turn itself off so done it twice today let's just see if we can finish these off quickly what I've been doing is help with anything I'm feeling pretty confident that was the other thing I should have probably practiced with the colors I just work out now I realize that's the one thing that's going to stop me clearing up it's uh it's weird cuz once you get really used to playing clearing the colors the um it becomes you know straightforward thing to do but once it's uh yeah playing those shots a lot better um I'm trying to play more tournaments there just not a lot round near me and I could do with something you know I can't go straight to Pros I'm nowhere near as I hope this has been evident in showing today that I'm nowhere near that standard but o didn't want to hit that right we're going to get this before we finish don't worry even if it takes about 20 minutes right other thing I haven't practiced today yet is a rest shot I think this is the first one or did I have another one earlier feels like I had another one earlier it went in but let's see about this that's bad must have fluked it didn't H it hard enough I'd have taken that that's how desperate things go right let's do this it's okay I can stick around a bit longer we got right in general we think we're gain a lot from today cuz uh so far the Cube's a lot better feel like I got a hold of it feeling a lot more confident on majority of shorts that's not good thanks yeah no I've I'm enjoying doing these cuz it actually gives me a chance anything I actually get the chance to play snooker at the moment cuz I know the the last video I did a lot of people like but the amount of shots played in that were about five and they were all completely unnecessary I could have made the entire video without hitting the ball once and it's uh you know it's it's not helping with anything so anything I can do where I I actually have to play a bit more makes a big difference um right let's uh actually try and get on the yellow shall we oh where we were before bit better this time right second pressure sh I say pressure sure trouble is I just don't know where it's going to go last one I didn't quite get the side right but that's it I usually fine with them you either get it absolutely spot on or something a bit unusual happens which means it's about a foot ow it actually looks embarrassingly bad speaking of which is about the range I think I got this but it's just one of those at the range yeah 100% confident on that that's probably some of more sort of distance shots as she'll be practicing not 100% confident on them see can do better than the clearance doing that lineup yesterday already looking better so I think I can hold this Famous Last Word we' done it right thanks for everybody for watching because this has been brilliant and we're definitely going to do this again I'm not doing it every day but uh it's been so good to actually get some practice for a change I've got to finish off recording um next week's video which is uh all about um exhibition shots we doing all the big exhibition shots so that's coming up Saturday right that's playing a lot better now hopefully thanks for everyone for watching cuz there's a lot of you here oh my camera slipped well I'm s somebody should should have said like I don't know if you could have seen any of the last bit well thanks for everyone for coming along and we're going to be uh yeah we're going to be doing more of these soon oh thanks for the Super Chat it's not my first ever live stream I've been testing it this is the first one I think I've got everything right other than my camera looked like it was it was slipping at the end there can I go back to see how bad that was someone should have said am I I'm not looking at the top of the screen it's all right yeah so yeah um you see the thing with predictions I'm not even going to I'm not even going to go there I'm so bad at making predictions like the world championships this year I thought Ronny was going to win it so it was you know I didn't have a clue no thanks for everybody for coming I'm and thanks for the Super Chat is I mean I wasn't even thinking about that really I got two today I think which is brilliant so um reviews on T tournament amendments yeah we're going to be doing that something like that soon I think again CU see see what happens with uh going to have to probably wait a month or so to see what happens but we'll be doing that soon so uh thanks for everybody for chatting and coming by and we'll do this again at some point see you later