Coaching with Ray Reardon

[itsnoteasy]

This is a nice video of Ray Reardon, talking his way through a century TC.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4bPl_oqsgOo

[Chappy5]

Found this one and it is very good with some great practice and training routines.

[Shockerz]

cant believe how short is cue was, around 56 inches long

for a tall man bit of a shock, today they play with at least 58 inch cues

His cue was also bent according to his book. Apparently he would roll his bent cue on exhibition tables and say out loud that the table isn't level and he can't play on it to everyone's horror.

[itsnoteasy]

Found this one and it is very good with some great practice and training routines.

That fella may live in a castle but he won't spend his money on some chalk, his tip has never seen a piece of chalk
Somebody has bought him a bit on day two.

[tetricky]

Like a banana, apparently. I heard him explain once that if you bridge on a straight bit of the shaft, in relation to the tip, it doesn't much matter if the cue is bent.

Reardon was my first snooker hero (I remember watching his tv series about how to play,as a young lad - on childrens telly. - that's how to get young people interested). I was hooked after the long red,topspin, to banana off the top cush, to hold on the black.

[MrRottweiler]

I'm also seeing the private notification. I was born in 77 so my interest in the game started as the Reardon/Spencer era was ending but I loved watching them play and the banter they would have with each other and the audience. I remember seeing one frame with Reardon v Virgo and John Virgo spent about 20 minutes doing impressions of Reardon to a delighted audience before they even broke off. There were people in the crowd howling and in tears of laughter. A wonderful era in the game which I would liked to have seen more of.

[Chappy5]

That fella may live in a castle but he won't spend his money on some chalk, his tip has never seen a piece of chalk
Somebody has bought him a bit on day two.

Yep and by Day 2 Ray was saying " Chalking your Cue after every shot is a great habit to get into " !!! Not hard to see who he was aiming that line at!

He makes that little 5 or so Red clean up look so easy at the very end even when he did not got perfect position on the Blue forcing him to take it long and not in the middle then in turn making the Pink a harder pot but he did it to perfection and Ray was a great player.

[itsnoteasy]

He was a great player, I bet his cue action would have got torn to shreds on here though with all his head movement lol.

[vmax4steve]

cant believe how short is cue was, around 56 inches long

for a tall man bit of a shock, today they play with at least 58 inch cues

His cue split at the end so was shortened and tapered back, might have been a very old billiard cue with no ferrule, many cues were back in the day.

I saw an exhibition match between Virgo and Reardon in '77, they played each other for £250, then a frame each against a couple of local players, then Reardon did a load of trick shots and hit every one of them first time, then Virgo did his snooker impressions, great night, still have my signed photo of me with Ray, and no I will not post it, embarrassing trousers and hair

[golferson123]

Coaching with Ray Reardon

ray had a burwat,had a look at it at pontins

[piper74]

links are not working for me

[alabadi]

God , I saw this a couple of years ago. Some nice tips on there . Especially the escaping from Snookers which I try and do

[Shockerz]

Like a banana, apparently. I heard him explain once that if you bridge on a straight bit of the shaft, in relation to the tip, it doesn't much matter if the cue is bent.

Reardon was my first snooker hero (I remember watching his tv series about how to play,as a young lad - on childrens telly. - that's how to get young people interested). I was hooked after the long red,topspin, to banana off the top cush, to hold on the black.

I wonder if he was taking the mick like he used to. If your hand is on a straight bit of butt and your bridge hand is on a straight piece of shaft and the tip was looking 90 degrees left then it's still gonna be pointing left.

He always was a micky taker though.

[golferson123]

I wonder if he was taking the mick like he used to. If your hand is on a straight bit of butt and your bridge hand is on a straight piece of shaft and the tip was looking 90 degrees left then it's still gonna be pointing left.

He always was a micky taker though.

Think he meant it was up or down,lol

[scarface]

sighs... host had made those videos private any idea how can i get access to it?