How to EASILY Improve Your HIGH BREAK

How to EASILY Improve Your HIGH BREAK | Snooker Tips

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@Delphiwizard 11 ай бұрын

Both the breakbuilding and the video editing are of the highest level here, amazing, well done mate.

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Cheers Franky. Much appreciated 😀😀

@vxrdrummer 11 ай бұрын

These videos took me to 30, 40, and now I've broken 50 twice in the last 2 weeks. Thank you.

@onionskid 4 ай бұрын

You're break 60 yet.?

@vxrdrummer 4 ай бұрын

@onionskid no and it's annoying me! I keep getting lots of high 40s and getting into the 50s, but just can't get past 60. It will happen but I had a really bad 6 months playing where I have struggled with cueing straight and been bad. I have played better again recently and did a small 4 red lineup this week and cleared it all the way through including the colours...but missed the last black! What a wally.

@lilchris26 10 ай бұрын

Thanks again Steve, I could not wait to try this today. I instantly started to improve, I was getting out of position after getting about 16/17. But today trying this I am back into the twenties, the highest was 29. Yes I know not brilliant, years ago when I played every dinner time I was in the 40’s, highest was 50, that was years ago. Being a pensioner I can not afford to go everyday even though my club offers discount to us pensioners. Anyway thanks for this, at least I am improving again after the covid out break I kind of lost the plot. Chris.

@BartonSnooker 10 ай бұрын

Awesome. Great work 👍👍👍

@LIVERNIL723 11 ай бұрын

One of my fave snooker vids from this series; simple fact of the matter is that the shots on here were simplified to effectively drop shots and applying plain ball. There has been over time a lot of knowledge and learning gained, but the Pros out there make it look easy and investment in time and practice is essential to be able to figure what you play on the ball and where the cue ball will finish.

@alanhowell3646 6 ай бұрын

Superb video that is so useful. Thanks

@mhtashrif 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the video. Very insightful. Cheers.

@Musky147 5 ай бұрын

Suggestion Headcam for all videos a must !!! Thanks look forward to next

@amirnor9880 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve. Very interesting that how keeping it simple as much as possible and not going for lots of screws and side spins helps. Another wonderful lesson ❤❤❤

@shaymayo6 11 ай бұрын

best snooker coach on youtube!

@johnstagl5651 11 ай бұрын

I love the approach to keeping it simple. It affords some calmness to the process. We all need this i believe.

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Thanks. It really helped me a lot.

@lilchris26 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve, this video is brilliant, just what I need. Chris.

@weejim48 4 ай бұрын

Another great video Steve. I have used some of your video tips and they definitely help. I just don’t get to go for a game as often as I’d like to. Keep up the good work mate. 👍👍

@letslearnsomebasicphysics3757 11 ай бұрын

Thanks sir for the animations and changes❤

@andrewbrown8431 11 ай бұрын

Great tips Steve, been practicing the colours clearance and line up and has def helped improve my game

@leesalter2795 11 ай бұрын

Great video this Steve. I definitely need to take this into my own practice - using too many stuns and screws atm.

@6896mcand 4 ай бұрын

An absolutely fantastic video. 😊

@markstevens8407 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video, it'll be very useful the next time I practise this one !!

@MrMalbaghdady 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for wonderful video

@patrickcrowther9195 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video

@no.1bike 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video and I’m going to try this next time out 👍

@thecommission6662 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video again.

@PaulWalliswriter 11 ай бұрын

Great video, this will help my game.

@PM-fs2eg 11 ай бұрын

You definitely make the best snooker instruction vids on KZbin! "The cue ball" graphics where we can see where of hit the cue ball, your explanations etc. It's top shelf!! Suggestion: Could you consider doing a vid on how to predict where the cue ball will go after hitting the target ball? I find that to be extremely hard to do. Anyway...Thanks for uploading this vid...Greatly appreciated!

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. Thanks for the positive feedback. Yes I will do a video showing how you can try to predict the angle off the object ball. Thanks so much for watching 👍

@ObsessedWithPool 11 ай бұрын

@@BartonSnookergreat video. In the spirit of showing the graphic of where the tip hits the white, perhaps also a speed meter so we can see how hard relatively you hit it? Granted that it's possible to kind of estimate based on both balls travel after the hit...

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

@@ObsessedWithPool I'll do it in the future. Thanks for the recommendation 👍😀

@leahhumphrey9600 10 ай бұрын

The line up is by far my favourite practice routine and I have made a few total clearances on the line up but I do tend to over complicate like you mention in the video. After this I think I’ll be able to it more often and more consistently. Thanks for the tips

@janali8777 11 ай бұрын

good job. thanks

@jh230377 10 ай бұрын

Great thank you 👍

@nickedmondson1583 10 ай бұрын

Love his video's - watch em, have em up in the club, but this one, the amount of 'yeah' in this video was like watching an NLP video, especially the second half of it, :-)

@johnmc3862 10 ай бұрын

Good man Steve!

@ihcfn 11 ай бұрын

I've just got to not miss the pots! 😂Great demonstration of your skills. 👏👏👏

@hohowan2012 11 ай бұрын

good show!

@terencefisher5170 11 ай бұрын

Hi Steve, I noticed you get the cue ball in a channel around 9 to 15 inches from the cushion avoiding too near the cushion and also not too near the middle of the table. I haven’t heard you talk about this in commentary. Are my observations correct. Yet again another simple but effective lesson, thanks Steve.

@bluesfanfromthegmbluenose9328 11 ай бұрын

Good video Steve. I’ve had a coaching session with Steve & he’s down to earth & definitely will improve ur game alot

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot. Massively appreciated 👍👍

@fifagameplayhk2006 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your video. I saw your demonstration of screwing back from brown to blue without running through the cushion, but still applying left-hand side spin. You also applied side spin when going from pink to black, but also not ran through the cushion. Why is that? Is that any effect from side spin even not run through the cusion?

@eddiewong1638 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Eddie 🙂🙂

@amirnor9880 11 ай бұрын

Please also make a short video about how to maintain the snooker table. How often ironing and brushing? How to clean it correctly? What brand and type of cloth you use and what are the differences between them based on your experience?

@cowcowcow5627 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve. You helped me to get to 30s

@karlwhite9181 10 ай бұрын

Hi could you do an explanation in your opinion when is the best or should I saybe the best time to change a snooker tip. As I carnt fined one and when I do its pool tips. Many thanks. I will look forward to hearing from you. Can I. Just say I need a visual. Karl.

@samhunt3201 11 ай бұрын

You make this game look very easy! Bu

@richlaszkowicz 5 ай бұрын

I need to try this. I'm still stuck on the mid teens , not been above 20s for years . Need to get some table time in me thinks.

@taylormedia1000 11 ай бұрын

Simple as it seems, I like the cue ball icon to show where you're positioning the shot. Thank you.

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

@ianwatkins6202 11 ай бұрын

Hi Steve 😊enjoyed this video lots! My highest break in a lineup is 100 but still looking for a century in a real frame 😊Looking well Steve and best wishes! Ian

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Hey Ian. You'll definitely get that 100+ frame break. You're easily good enough. I really appreciate your support as always. Keep up the practice and you'll do it Ian. I'm 100% confident 👍

@ianwatkins6202 11 ай бұрын

@@BartonSnooker Thank you Steve!😊

@johnmcguiness5816 9 ай бұрын

Excellent great video thank you as I'm constantly trying to learn as i call it a game of mm lol well I'm playing snooker a year now play for my local b team and average break 30 da 35 highest break is 48 i can pot a great ball stance is good but the consistany i had isn't there I'm struggling to pot 2 blacks in a row any advice tips greatly welcomed thanks again to Barton snooker very helpfull in all videos 🤜🤛

@johnmcguiness5816 9 ай бұрын

Thank you i was reading up in your website about some coaching is it possible to do online coaching as i live in Belfast thank you again Steve

@hassannawaz8953 11 ай бұрын

Make it look so easy wish I could play like this 😢 but really well played mate love ur video 👍👍

@workrestandplaysnooker 11 ай бұрын

It still amazes me how simple you can make it look. I'm yet to clear a full line up but i have had my one and only century this way, 108 and missed the yellow 😢. I'll be taking trying this approach on my clubs tables to see if it helps 👌🏻

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

108 is fantastic. It's great fun now to try and push yourself and get that total clearance. Honestly this rolling in was the biggest thing that helped me on my journey. Give it a go and let me know how you do 👍

@701JM 11 ай бұрын

I need to do this more, I mainly play UK 8 ball pool and I'm getting a good Potter however Ive started to try and make the white do too much which jn turn makes me miss the pot. Alot of the time there's no need and should just concentrate on the simple shots like on this video. Thanks again

@bbwnpat 11 ай бұрын

Hi Steve. Brilliant tutorial again. I am curious ... I did think side only came into effect after hitting a cushion but with some of the soft screws you played here you applied a little side without the cue ball coming into contact with a cushion. Have i been miss informed about side coming into effect ‘after’ coming off a cushion? Thanks.

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Hi. Side spin has the biggest effect when the cue ball hits the cushion. Most professionals use a touch of 'helping side' on lots of shots. It does two things: 1) naturally feels good for a player to apply the side and 'kick' the ball towards the pocket. The side applied on the cue ball throws the object ball a little wider. 2) it's speeds up the travel on the cue ball very slightly. It doesn't change the direction, it just speeds it up a little bit. You don't have to do it, but lots of professionals do. So in summary, you are correct, without the cushion, it's only having a small benefit, so it is not compulsory that players do it. Hope that helps 👍

@bbwnpat 11 ай бұрын

@@BartonSnooker thank you very much for your reply. Yes that does make things a little clearer. Its a complicated process for sure but i think i get what you’re saying. It sounds like in a lot of cases a player will use a dab of side sometimes to help both cue ball and object ball on its merry way - as opposed to playing dead centre and risk putting unwanted side on. Is that right? It’s great you share you knowledge like this. Very helpful. Thanks. 👍

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

@@bbwnpat you're absolutely right. Instead of trying to be like a robot and be perfect, players just allow for that dab of helping side, and then it's already accounted for, and the behaviour of the cue ball is more predictable. Cheers, great to help 👍

@kfmctell 11 ай бұрын

A quick question if I may… with the stun from pink to black, the position on the pink showed a little bit of side spin?? Did you actually play with side, or was it a straight stun shot (which is what I think I would play?) Excellent video. Thanks.

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

@ShayArsenal 11 ай бұрын

I’m new to play snooker I’m learning to how play

@ShayArsenal 11 ай бұрын

For my birthday I got a snooker and pool cue in you snooker cue video you help me out

@chartrader4860 10 ай бұрын

Fabulous instruction….and I can play every one of those shots. But how do I move past the mental hurdle that builds, and makes the 20th shot so much more difficult than than first, or the fourth?

@BartonSnooker 10 ай бұрын

It's not about the shot, it's about the process that that player takes. I don't think about the break or that specific pot, only the process I go through every time.

@howlsy6388 11 ай бұрын

Ah great tip that, thanks Steve 👌🏻 when I do the line up I tend to play screw back shots most often, interested to see how I get on with more run through shots

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Let me know how you do.

@howlsy6388 11 ай бұрын

@@BartonSnooker will do

@howlsy6388 10 ай бұрын

@BartonSnooker I had a go this evening, I found I wasn’t able to get into position to play the run through often enough and still had to play screw shots and stuns, but when there was a chance to do it the run through helped with it being simpler - I was looking for those shots more and they helped 👍 I got a 75 in the line up first try which doesn’t beat my record (93) but I’ve never scored that high first try! Thanks again Steve, loads of your videos have helped me improve not just this one 🙂

@BartonSnooker 10 ай бұрын

@@howlsy6388 that's awesome. Very impressive and great to know this helped you as it did with my game. Thanks for the update 👍😎

@marksimpson2321 10 ай бұрын

I play pool 6-8 times a year but watch loads of snooker. I love this channrl. Came across it by mistake by thinking it wasBreak From Life ❤😂😂😂😊

@BartonSnooker 10 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks for watching 😀😀👍

@user-fi6vv5di2g 11 ай бұрын

Great video as always, how come you use side when stunning, Is side still effective when the cue ball is not hitting a cushion ?

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

It's feels better to pot the ball, but it also speeds the cue ball up VERY SLIGHTLY. So I can hit slightly softer and the side will help the cue ball on it's way. You don't have to play like that, but most professionals do.

@user-fi6vv5di2g 11 ай бұрын

@@BartonSnooker thanks ! Will give it a try! Love the vids btw keep up the good work

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

@@user-fi6vv5di2g thanks 👍

@samal8622 11 ай бұрын

I wish you could elaborate on some shots that you played with side spin.

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

What shot are you thinking? I can help on here 👍

@seanditch4419 11 ай бұрын

Hi Steve, how do you deal with the sticky cue scenario, you mentioned it was sticking to your hand yet you didn't wipe it at all, my cue wasn't cheap, but in the summer months especially i feel like i'm constantly wiping it after every shot almost, and if i dont i start to develop a blister/friction mark on my bridge finger. do you have a process you follow i.e sanding and oiling and if so how often so you can cope with these situations while you're playing? Thx

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Hi Sean, I would normally wipe the cue with a slightly damp towel, and then a dry why to remove and grease and dirt, that then helps it glide better. I would have normally wiped it, but obviously I was filming so I didn't want to stop. I put cue wax on my cue every few months to keep is smooth. But the general wiping with the damp and dry cloth is all I do mostly.

@seanditch4419 11 ай бұрын

@BartonSnooker brilliant thx Steve👍👍 is there a specific cue wax brand you use, do you sand the cue down before applying the cue wax?

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

@@seanditch4419 I use: Craftsman Cues Cue Finishing Wax 👍

@seanditch4419 11 ай бұрын

@@BartonSnooker do you sand the cue before applying?

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

@@seanditch4419 no. I never sand my cue. I don't even use wire wool on it. You'll be removing wood from the shaft and I don't want that.

@Ferrarimenf50 9 ай бұрын

I have difficulty by using Roll in to pot balls because the table cloth is so slow, I lose the cue ball control 😢

@WHAT-gm1xm 11 ай бұрын

Hello barton i can't screw back i practice but couldn't do please help

@AarifShaikh8087 10 ай бұрын

Love from India🇮🇳

@alabbadi 10 ай бұрын

i managed my best so far 14 reds and 13 colours , just landed awkward on the Pink , and had to play with an extended cue from the baulk, making the angle difficult to see with the white so close.

@BartonSnooker 10 ай бұрын

Awesome. Well done Yusef 👍

@user-ip6zu6sb7f 11 ай бұрын

Is the "roller in" word as same as "follow"? and the position of the tip must be "A" only?

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Yes. Follow

@user-ip6zu6sb7f 11 ай бұрын

@@BartonSnooker Thank you krub...

@123mailashish 11 ай бұрын

😊

@matt926uk1 11 ай бұрын

my lineup highest break is 147, how do i improve? 😛

@iano7265 10 ай бұрын

4:27 - I notice the graphic shows bottom left on the cue ball, but you're not playing a swerve shot and the white is not contacting a cushion. Why the side?

@BartonSnooker 10 ай бұрын

That's a mistake in the editing. It should be bottom right. The right just helps to speed the cue ball up very slightly as I'm forcing a bit more of an angle 👍

@dynmow7426 11 ай бұрын

thanks a lot steve can you make a same video with a real break not a line up maybe open table ... thank you

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

Yes I will 👍👍

@dynmow7426 11 ай бұрын

@@BartonSnooker thank you

@Gbonejohn1974 11 ай бұрын

im guilty of always thinking i need to add something to the ball usually screwing down to the next red or colour ,im gonna try this "simpler" run through technique more ,no idea why but i feel constantly trying to manipulate the ball is what will make me better and it isnt because i miss so many pots i shouldnt because im trying to manipulate the cueball too much 😂😂

@nikimoloney2874 11 ай бұрын

So I can show you my table and video of me playing

@ahsaanali6362 Ай бұрын

Please use always headcam

@johndean8295 11 ай бұрын

Always find it a bit negative to roll balls Henry don't use cushions much but this video is good fo begginer to up his highest break

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

You're exactly right. You don't want to hit balls too carefully and Hendry was a great example of that. Too many club players hit everything with stun of screw (like I did). Then when I learned to find the natural angle, it improved my game out of sight.

@johndean8295 11 ай бұрын

But isn't it better to not put to much mileage on cue ball which Kieran Wilson does or did ? Alan McManus kept going on about it ,Williams rolls nearly every if he can I find this ruins my game if I try to play like this I understand it's not always necessary to play with screw or stun but find it more natural maybe it was because my 6 ft table wasn't level when I was young so had to play like that

@BartonSnooker 11 ай бұрын

@@johndean8295 you're absolutely right about mileage. I don't want the cue ball moving big distances. But if you can roll a ball, there is no timing involved in that at all. Whereas a screw or stun requires extra timing (it's not JUST a judgement of pace). If you can keep the shots as simple as possible, you'll see better results. As you say, not as great test on a smaller table without a slate bed, as things will roll off a lot on those types of tables. It's not like 'real' snooker.

@johndean8295 11 ай бұрын

I knocked a few big breaks in when I was 13 or 14 ..60s and 70s well quite big ..the manager of the club Ron Sunderland was a good billiard and snooker player he said he wanted to play me and said wasn't playing enough shots with top around the black and pink so I know where your coming from ..the world billiard champion used to play in my club fella from.india geet his first name I used to love watching him ...also Nigel Gilbert I used to love watching and playing if I was lucky ..