Practicing safety.

[liam14]

I was just wondering if there were any routines how to practice safety???

[vmax4steve]

Play some billiards m8, it will teach you all you need to know.

[tipes]

Play some billiards m8, it will teach you all you need to know.

This is certainly true as far as at least teaching you your angles off cushions etc.Most of the good pros were good billiards players - for example I believe Alex higgins was an excellent billiards player, and his safety game in snooker was recognised as being among the best.So yes try billiards to back up your learning of angles/throw off/side etc.

Mark

[Terry Davidson]

Courtesy of Nic Barrow and TheSnookerGym here is an exercise you can try in solitary practice.

Place a red somewhere between black and pink (doesn't have to be exactly in the centre of the table), all colours on spot and mark the red spot lightly with a piece of chalk. Cueball in hand within the 'D' and try and cannon the yellow, green and brown as in a 2-cushion safety shot.

Always place the red and cueball on the same spot for each attempt.

This will teach you (same as billiards will) how the cueball reacts using different contacts and power. Once you teach yourself how to hit the baulk colours you should be able to adjust your aim or power on how to miss them.

The second part of this exercise is to attempt to miss each baulk colour on each side and get the cueball as close to the baulk cushion as you can

Terry

[snookergr]

great practise routine Terry, thanks for sharing :-)

[gazza147]

I do similar but I use the Black as Object Ball for Safety and see if I can get behind Bulk Colours Great Routine.

[Acrowot]

Never heard of that Terry. Is a good way to learn safety play. We mostly played for the table or some money in our teens, so had to learn how to play safety.

I did also play some billiards as well. Used to knock up a few centuries also, but never could get the hang of playing "top of the table" billiards.

Now when Horace Lindrum came to our club, he could really play that game. It never took Horace long to get the balls into position for "top of the table" and he really could score from it ... talk about making it look easy!
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[vmax4steve]

Now when Horace Lindrum came to our club, he could really play that game. It never took Horace long to get the balls into position for "top of the table" and he really could score from it ... talk about making it look easy!
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I have a dvd copy of Horace Lindrum playing trick shots, his finger spins are fantastic.