Snooker Tips How to Play Snooker Using the Rest - Play Like Kyren Wilson!

snooker room ello and welcome back to the snooker shed and today we're going to look at how i use e rest is okay so what we're going to do is give you a few tips on using the res and tip number one is to make the shot as simple as possible Now you can look at Karen Wilson And try to imitate some of the shots he uses on the rest and it's almost impossible he's better with the rest than most professionals are with their hands so keep the shot nice and simple Looking at this shot I'm just going to pop the red and try and hold for the black tiniest b ce and simple nothing fancy I'm not adding any side all I'm doing is hitting it nice and sof I'm not in the best position on the black but I've still made the pop So tip number two is to strike the ball with the least amount of pace you possibly can Now this is a massive one because we all know that when you put the slightest bit of side on the Cue ball add some energy to your hand the cue ball is going to go wildly across the table so by reducing the amount of pace you use reduces that chance of getting cue ball deflection In a big way so tip number three and it's how I aim with the rest so if you think about the rest e way you hold it I'm right-handed as I always hold the rest of my left hand so if you I'm going to aim with the rest because it's the cross of the rest that dictates where the cue goes Hey people how you doing Some new additives to the snooker shed door Ronnie Rose who lives In Ohio is three thousand six hundred miles away I wonder if he's got a snooker table On the island then a wee bit closer to home I'm going to say hello a big hello to Paul From Peterborough which is 362 miles away by car so I'm looking at the shot I'm going to line this up Exactly the same as I would do with any other shot and all I'm doing is putting the rest On the line of aim once I've got that we're good to go Okay quickly moving on To tip number four now like we said in tip number three I'm using the rest to line the shot up good so now I'm going to put the cue in and if I've got the rest in the correct place then my They are lined up now this is where using the rest differs quite a bit from just playing the normal I could move the rest either side of my cue here but when I set my body up I have to keep my head in line with the cue and keeping that line and having that built into the The rest pre-shot routine makes it much easier I'll keep it nice and straight and now I've got pressure on the rest just before I deliver the cue So moving on to tip number five and this He is practicing using the rest and more importantly self-diagnosis on when things start going wrong It's going to be just like anything else using the rest is all about straight cue if we can cue Straight we're going to make this much much easier So start like you would do to learn to cue straight It's a straight pop get the rest line up for the straight pop do your pre-shot routine and you're going to hit the ball just above center and all I'm trying to do is put both So let's move on to when things go all wrong and we have to resort to self-diagnosis So all I'm going to do here is try and play the same shot again it's just a practice shot I'm Just running the cue ball straight in behind the red okay so the shot never went right So what I'm going to look at is first of all whether I hit the center ball so when you have the rest The cue as you can see here from the pictures in front of the cue ball obstructs your field of vision which makes it a bit more difficult to see you're striking center ball now for the Pictures and video here you can clearly see using Nick Barrow's ball it's very simple to see tha Line it straight up and down so now that I've got this ball on the table and I can see that I'm Going to hit the center ball what I can do to help me diagnose if it's going wrong is move the shape Of my body so this is where your stance comes into play: how I'm standing on the shot how I'm holding e cue with my grip and this is really important because this is where the chances are you're going to come across the cue ball and add that unwanted side that's going to stop you from cueing straig So working on your stance I do the same thing all the time I'm just going to stand in front of the Shot just like I would it's all exactly the same as the video for straight cueing and learning the straight cue I get into the stance and I get comfortable I do this pre-shot routine so as As I'm going to stop and just double check that I'm striking the cue ball where I wa Now we're going to look at the feathers and this is really obvious if you look at the tip against the marked ball you could actually see the tip going left to right or right to lef From the ball now I would suggest that looking at the grip that you've got here might help with that but there's also this thing the elbow the shoulder and how you build up your It's all about your personal preference it just has to strike the cue ball straight So here's another small gadget that I've got that I've used in the snooker shed And this is Nick Barlow's cue action trainer and this here helps see what's happening with the cue as it goes through and I'm using the trainer here in rest mode and as you can see it's Pretty self-explanatory I've got two small balls on there and if I twist the cue left or right the small balls will fall off Nick Barlow's cue action trainer does lots of other things It primarily helps you learn to cue straight with another set of legs on it Links in the description don't do the wee balls fall off so that's us done for another video Here at the snooker shed and I'm off for a rest This is Newt Wales in Kenton Michigan and I'll see you on the table