Draw (screw) Dill

[forcefollow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOOmqFkheU

I included a full disclaimer regarding American tables in the video.

[Terry Davidson]

forcefollow:

Hmmm...I hope that exercise was meant for the Pool players on here. Although it can be set up on a snooker table I do have some issues with the strength of your bridge (very weak and not sufficient for snooker power shots) and how you are approaching each shot.

For a similar snooker exercise I believe I would set it up around the pint spot and have the student play red - pink series with six reds or even red - black. Something like this would teach the student to start thinking 2 shots ahead whereas your exercise has the student thinking only one shot ahead (perhaps you could say 2 shots if we consider he has to get the right angle on the next ball in order to screw for the following ball).

Terry

[DandyA]

forcefollow:

Hmmm...I hope that exercise was meant for the Pool players on here. Although it can be set up on a snooker table I do have some issues with the strength of your bridge (very weak and not sufficient for snooker power shots) and how you are approaching each shot.

For a similar snooker exercise I believe I would set it up around the pint spot and have the student play red - pink series with six reds or even red - black. Something like this would teach the student to start thinking 2 shots ahead whereas your exercise has the student thinking only one shot ahead (perhaps you could say 2 shots if we consider he has to get the right angle on the next ball in order to screw for the following ball).

Terry

sorry Terry but I don't quite understand - from the pink spot, are you talking about into a specific pocket as in the video or into any of the six pockets ... either way I think that would be a really tough ask for a pro using screw only let alone any of us "students" ...

we all have seen pro's potting six reds and pinks from around the pink spot but I'm pretty certain, I've never seen one using screw only - they use a combination of screw, stun, stun-run and top/plain ball into any of the pockets ... perhaps you could post a video of you doing it so we can learn ...

in the meanwhile, I think that's a very good exercise from ForceFollow ... the point of it is practicing screw (aka draw) precisely which surely must be of benefit whether you play American pool, UK pool or snooker ... even though, by preference, we should play for areas, sometimes precision is required!

so thank you ForceFollow for another fine video

[Terry Davidson]

DandyA:

If you look at the opening diagram you can see that the 1 ball and 5 ball would be a little of a stretch on a snooker table and therefore this exercise needs to be modified for snooker so the student has a hand-on-the-table shot all the time. However the 1 and 5 would still be fairly difficult so I think the object balls would have to be moved a little closer together to avoid stretching. With modifications it would work with snooker but I would rather see something that has the player going for a different sequence. Perhaps this exercise with the blue on spot, potting the blue into any pocket or something similar.

In snooker, the line-up is a good exercise to help the student learn screw as it will be used on 80%+ of the shots when there are reds on the table and in addition there would be different amounts of soft/power screw required. If you placed pink on spot with 3 reds on either side of it (centre-line of table as in the line-up) and had the student only use screw to get position, but have the pink pottable into any pocket I think it would work. Same goes for blue although the blue into the corner pockets is a difficult pot and using either pink or brown would keep the exercise simple, which is what you would want if the target is just to learn soft screw shots. I would use the pink spot as the centre of the exercise since the brown to the middle is very difficult on some tables.

Terry