Open Table Headcam & Table View | Cue Ball Control

[@swedishkev]

Glad you listened about the headcam. Now all is great. Well done Steve. Be nice to see you in a serious practice session with yourself, and don't explain anything, just get on with it a bit quicker and let us guess what shot your going to choose and whether you are going to put side screw back,run through etc.Also what I think would be good session,is where you purposely use side on the ball. There is still a lot of confusion, which side should be used sometimes, whether it should be left or right side.

[@BartonSnooker]

Thanks Kevin. Always trying to give people what they want to see. I really appreciate your feedback. I was thinking of doing a time-lapse of a 1-2 hour practice session. Showing the things I practice in a session.

[@Sholay48]

This new generation of young amateurs are very lucky to have tutorial of this high quality available on line in order to improve on their game, something which we did not have in the 90's when I played for over 15 yrs night in night out and never happened to learn on how to cue properly, and never able to make a 50 break. I am pretty sure that I would have improved a lot watching your video. Thank you Steve.

[@BartonSnooker]

Thanks a lot! Thanks for all your kind comments. Much appreciated.

[@terrycourt123]

I’ve had my best season in league snooker for thirty years and it’s mainly down to your videos which have helped me adjust my game,thank you Steve.

[@BartonSnooker]

Awesome. Cheers Terry 👍

[@barrymcgregor6233]

That was brilliant haven’t played snooker for years makes me want to play again 👍

[@jasonsolanki3696]

You are the perfect trainer steve, i implemented your skills and it worthed a lot. Thank you.

[@romac9516]

I appreciate talking through your thought processes as you go, very useful bits of info

[@BartonSnooker]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@brucebrown686]

Love these head cam views showing exactly where you’re hitting on the cue ball. Thank you.

[@kawinsurapanpitak3930]

Best online coach I've ever seen.

[@nyamjargalluvsannyam9750]

astonishing comprehensible guide of playing snooker art lesson i ever met,well done tuitor!

[@malikmalik-ny7tv]

Great video like always,made my first century break this week',i would never have made it without watching your videos and tips,thanks

[@BartonSnooker]

Awesome 😎. Well done 👍👍

[@LeeCogger]

This is a really useful video. Great job, the head cam with discussion is excellent

[@markgilmore2077]

Really enjoyed the tension on the last two reds!!

[@xerxestheii856]

Please make more of these pov videos! It's very helpful and thank you so much for your effort!

[@carltaphouse8939]

Thank you Steve, that headcam video has taken the tuition to a whole new level. Always excellent but this is brilliant, very helpful and worth watching several times. Btw looking at the views it’s a smash hit, congrats.

[@BartonSnooker]

Many thanks Carl!

[@bazs7669]

Very instructive video and very well played Steve! Will use your tips when I start playing again. Thank you,

[@dutchwog]

That was great to watch with your talk through. Thanks mate. Loved it.

[@lilchris26]

Thanks for this video too Steve, love how you show the shot and how you make the selection, Thanks again. Chris

[@uuici]

THIS IS THE SPECIFIC , EXACT AND PRECISE VIDEO I WAS LOOKING FOR ....GOOD JOB STEVE

[@kianiano]

You are changing online snooker tutorials. Thank you so much - Kian from IRAN❤️❤️❤️

[@BartonSnooker]

Thank you so much 🙂

[@ahsenkhan8506]

Watching this video after 3 years of posting and got a lot of knowledge. Will practice the same in light of this video. Thanks a lot for such a nice and knowledgeable tutorial.

[@thesnookerbarn7551]

Great video Steve very clear and precise thank you

[@totenkiller1]

Really calm clearence, well done!

[@jasperbarlow2582]

I,m watching more and more of steve lately and it is undoubtedly improving things at my end, still admittedly a long way to go though and a lot safer than my other hobby of motorcycling.

[@jeffho5483]

Brilliant video!! Thank you for talking through the shots, extremely helpful for me to learn through your thinking & selection process

[@dermotshaw6775]

Fantastic mate. Can see why that's a good routine to get us used to playing again, and the head Cam vids are always excellent too ⚪🔴⚫

[@tonymarshall4164]

Great video Steve, the way you manoeuvre that cue ball is amazing. This view is so helpful in break building and seeing the subtle bit of side you put on the white, thank you.

[@BartonSnooker]

Thanks Tony. Great to help.

[@Taylor___]

Brilliant this, you get a lovely spin back from the cue ball with your screw shots. Very good timing.

[@kyotosal]

A wonderful video, thank you. It's great to see the cueing on the cue ball inset. I learned a lot........Sal : )

[@akshaykumarsinghpatial957]

Glad i found your channel. Thank you for all the amazing explanations. Now I need to practice what you have taught. regards

[@Vinny-ts8dq]

My biggest issue when playing is over-hitting the ball, need to learn to hit it slower. Great vid btw

[@MrJdsenior]

Me too, and I improved it by setting up small scale rotations with close blockers that required holding the cue then doing the drills center ball only. I also set up small rotations that required tiny cue ball travels throughout to run a specific pattern. One drill, not completely related, but I actually used to do a practice for touch with VERY gentle control where I would just place a ball a foot or so from the pocket and see how many times I could hit it successively with the cue before it fell, moving it in increments just enough to not leave them frozen. One of the best 'touch' tips I ever got was this drill, and setting up drills to freeze object balls to other balls at various distances is another good one. You've probably already thought of all these, but I found if I devoted a small part of my practice to these type drills for a while it also helped me think more about speed during my shots in regular play and eventually it just gets ingrained and then you don't have to. One thing I really figured out from them is you can regulate very low speeds very easily and accurately by just reducing your back swing to very small distances for very small hits, becomes easy to make very small/slow shots where severe regulation is required, like leaving very short distance safeties to the rail with both balls frozen and frozen to the rail. For me it works MUCH better than just trying to regulate cue speed from a longer length stroke. Likely you are eleven hundred times better than I am, but just something I found that worked for me. Ignore if you think I'm an idiot, but just something that helped get the idea through my thick, pointy head. Cheers.

[@xbesy]

Just try relaxing your hand and then you just feel on how to send it slower i hope it helps

[@Lionfire1]

@@MrJdsenior Brilliant tips here, many thanks!

[@mickieb74]

Have you tried taking a shorter run-up 🤔? This helped me immensely with my cue-ball control when I reduced my 6ft run-up to just 3ft and eventually over time I got rid of the run-up completely and now can 'sometimes' land the white in either half of the table give or take 6 or 7 ft 👍😉👌

[@S1DDIQUI]

loved learning the natural angle aspect of the game from this video - it brought improvement not only to the placing of the cue ball but it increased my visual of placing the cue ball in a snooker position for my opponent. this video also helped me learn how to plan for the next shot and heightened my sense of how hard or soft my shot should be. Thank You! I don’t know how far you are from America but I would love to be coached by you.

[@BartonSnooker]

Thanks for the comment! Great to help 👍 I am in England in the United Kingdom.

[@concretedan]

Cheers for all the vids Steve. You're so lucky to have a table! I miss the feel of the baize!

[@jeffbarker4067]

Please could you do more video in this style? They are immensely helpful. Really enjoy them.

[@SnookerNepal]

I want to meet and thank you Sir for your great tutorials always lets me learn something new ... you're a great teacher thank you

[@tamyoung69]

The 58 folk with the thumbs down must be champion snooker players to dislike this, well done Steve good job!

[@hohowan2012]

good show! learnt a lot of skills from that video!

[@mehranaslam375]

Sir you should make more head cam videos . especially discussing shot selection.❤️ And as always ❤️❤️❤️

[@TBmovies-1]

This video is very helpful for the beginner players they can learn so much from this,thanks for uploading such a beautiful and helpful video sir..💓

[@IftikharKhan-gn9xv]

Brilliant. I love the way you guide.

[@wallytverstol8627]

just got done practicing some of steve's techniques

[@Delphiwizard]

I enjoyed this video, thanks Steve

[@superhero9150]

Excellent video! Thanks

[@hassanalsowaidi7643]

Thank you. steve

[@mazfarnadeem1846]

How tf can he pot so effortlessly? 😳

[@hrna8913]

Such a great video! Thank you.

[@vd-eh8nm]

Thank you very much for showing us how to pot professionally and most of all how to control the cue ball, which is always a pain!lol, thnx Steve, keep up the good work, godbless,Dan👍

[@Nugeslight]

I love this , you’ve been the best online coach 😊ever

[@sharazakhtar5887]

Awesome video, thanks Steve

[@tameemmohamad148]

Your best video, thanks

[@John-cw6yr]

Beautifully edited

[@MursalinAkram]

Reminds me of my break last week, I was on my way to a 147, missed the second red....

[@mzzzzz2179]

WOW PERFECTION! I wish you was my coach, if only I had the money.

[@BashaBill5]

I found this video useful. Thanks.

[@jairambalkaran4964]

Excellent video.

[@SnookerNepal]

Sir I just realised that for the players above beginner level such videos can be too much helpful. Please upload such more videos with different perspective as you always teaches this way like no others ever can. Your way of teaching is out of this world. I have little query sir, from your video I learned that while potting angle balls to right pockets, Left hand side is the "Helping Side" but which side is helping side while playing a angle pot to left pockets ? May the God Bless you Thank you

[@liamg9846]

I’m having coaching sessions but also watching your vids is giving me extra tips and pointers. Enjoy watching so keep them coming 👍🏻.

[@95harshjoshi]

great work mate

[@rabinpro9515]

Good work coach

[@studioronen]

Wow love the way you play and explain. 🥇🥇🥇

[@BartonSnooker]

Cheers 😃

[@fahad5166]

You are best Barton

[@zmileyman]

That was interestingly entertaining to watch... So that's how to do it.. simples.. now where's my broomstick

[@MrJdsenior]

Brromstick? I find an old branch fallen from a nearby tree is more than adequate. :-)

[@jssosa8814]

Nice to see you game..👍👍👍

[@kingmnjzx9298]

So good

[@MrJdsenior]

Man, that head cam REALLY shows whether you are staying down and still. I think I'm going to grab that 'idea' as a practice mode occasionally until I get this licked. I figure if I watch them afterward a few times it will piss me off enough. I'll catch all kinds of ribbing and crap from it in the hall, but I'll give them one of my patented stupid answers like "I'm intending to place them into the library of congress as my gift to the world". If you saw how I play you would FULLY understand the joke. :-/ I liked your showing odd shaped targets and the reasoning for them, too. I will try to think more in that manner, rather than just regular circles, squares, whatever. I also liked the 'last thing I want to do" thinking. Sometimes knowing what you don't want to happen is important, critical anti targets if you will. Any future videos you'd like to do on short and extended (next several balls) patterning positions, and why, would be most appreciated, too. Seems to be one main aspect that really separates the men from the boys, so to speak. I know one of my big weaknesses is not planning far enough ahead, and another is choosing patterns that make it more difficult to achieve completion. I sometimes get "you shouldas" when I leave the table, and they are often very right. I get the idea that these mantras, like 'nice and still' probably run in your self commentary at least sometimes during play. Is that correct? I also suspect teaching has greatly improved your own play. I always say if you really want to know a subject, try to 'fully' understand it, then teach it for a while. Clubs reopening. YAHOOO sir, your lips to god's ears!

[@electrogamerz226]

THANKS FOR THE TIPS, i play with computer at the moment and not in real

[@seankelly1472]

great video helped me a lot :)

[@ufcfights6466]

Great video

[@markmascollful]

Great video from POV, the main camera is shaky, excellent coaching though great video as always 👍🏻

[@BartonSnooker]

The main camera is fault. New one on the way 👍

[@garysoulsby207]

Great video 👍 I practice like this all the time and also the line up. It's fantastic the confidence you can gain from good shot planning and just taking your time. I've been searching within myself also on a cue action that suits me and a pre shot routine that works. Unfortunately while I found this all coming together and clicking but lockdown hit in December, but I can't wait because I believe I have my own fundamentals right in my shot routine ,timing etc and so looking forward to improving even more as I want my first century this year. My highest break is 83 so not far off. Your videos have been an inspiration and I can't wait for the 17th May

[@xuepengliao9002]

great video! thank you!

[@abdessamadde8260]

great cleaning sir

[@deepustad7943]

Well played well follow i like

[@kaushalkoshersinha5365]

Consistency is my biggest issue ,sometime I play like a pro but in the same game I became noob too.

[@itsmrbison7773]

Brilliant. You make it look so easy. :)

[@Agriculturesolutionsooty]

Excellent control I hope I will perform better here onwards thank you

[@Agriculturesolutionsooty]

Sir I'm from ooty india snooker birth place in British periods

[@slchandrusan4623]

Excellent sir congratulations 😍😍😍💐💐💐💐💐👏👏👏

[@zeeshanahmed3999]

Thank u soo much ....video very interesting n informative.......love form pakistan

[@BartonSnooker]

Thank you! Hello to Pakistan 👋

[@lordangel9563]

nice I never been this quick to your video xD

[@malife9670]

You play difficult shots easily ❤️❤️

[@vxrdrummer]

Made it look so easy! Awesome stuff. I still dont know how you pot everything with the feathering so far left. It's very impressive.

[@BartonSnooker]

It's left or right hand side depending on which way the cue ball is moving. Left if the white is moving to the left, right if it's moving to the right.

[@saadiiqbal]

Really frustrates me when you play the last black with peace, there should be a little flamboyance with that shot :D

[@BartonSnooker]

😁

[@Finlandia207]

Then you slam the black when doing a 147 and end up missing...

[@douglaswilson3978]

Great show .good lesson..thx..❤😎

[@officialachey8593]

Thank you ❤️

[@1beloski]

Liked that one Steve, I think I myself have a feeling of trying to play shots far to quickly, rather than just taking that little bit of extra time to properly plan the shot out. As the modern game has speeded up a lot, it’s far to easy to try to emulate what you see on the tv.

[@shehryarmalik963]

Should we consider center ball striking on priority?

[@AhmedAli-ei3rp]

I wish i could get training from you love and respect from pakistan your a fantastic coach i am following you from the start.

[@BartonSnooker]

Thank you Ahmed Ali. Hello to Pakistan 👋

[@AhmedAli-ei3rp]

Thanks Steve sir its a pleasure watching you daily and learning one day i wish i could meet you in person. Can you please suggest me if one peace cue is best or 2 peace now a days most of the players using one peace.

[@BartonSnooker]

@@AhmedAli-ei3rp not really much difference. 3/4 much easier to transport. All cues are made so well now that both will be good 👍

[@AhmedAli-ei3rp]

Thank you so much Steve your awesome 👌

[@billubilli5247]

Nice

[@UsmanGhani-jt3rt]

I want to purchase stick.kindly help me in this.

[@kevinmahboobi5256]

Good day Steve, Would you please kindly make a clip for check and running sides? Thank you Sir😘😘😘😘😘

[@MJSTAR.]

You are the best trainer.

[@chrisjohnson4165]

Well done!!

[@wasiq05]

Good teach love u sir

[@waqasmaqbool3356]

oh wao nice...thnks....................want to also watch your standing positions on all shorts thns

[@labradormcgraw]

You make it look so easy. It would have taken me twenty takes just to get on the second red.

[@sundu21]

You’re goooood.

[@saschatexsommer723]

Nice 👍

[@syedaijaz4835]

Wow 👌✌️

[@1GrecianUrn]

This was great! Nice video quality, and not too much fisheye curvature. Is that a GoPro Hero 8?

[@BartonSnooker]

It sure is! Thanks so much for watching 🙂

[@keithfagan9250]

Nicely done 👍 I just wish it was that easy....

[@hamzaviews35]

Good video 👍😊