practice your safety game?

[craig147]

Hi there! i feel i have a pretty good safety game and usually quick at seeing the right safety shot to play but i never practice this part of my game but if i did it would naturally improve.Just wondering how many of you players out there actually put time aside at practice to work on your safety game?

[jrc750]

I do now and then, just refuse every pot and try and get cue ball tight to baulk cushion or even better tight behind a baulk colour.
Then of course carry on and try to get out of your snooker in the best possible way.

[checkSide]

I place the cue ball near or sometimes under the baulk cushion, and a red somewhere between the pink spot and the top cushion. Then I practice trying to hit the red as thin as I can.

This shot will get you out of trouble in almost any tough situation.

[snookdevon]

Use to pick up a set of billiard balls just keep playing long cannons an underestimated routine.

[willtyson]

I practice safety all the time, just set the balls up like normal and just keep playing safeties and when the reds go terrible or to one side just set them up again. I find this really helps me! :snooker:

[pottingpinks]

Yes its more natural to start going for the pots and breaks when in solo practice, but I do try to knuckle down in at least one setaside frame and try to outmanouvre myself!! Even in matches though with getting older I dont tend to have the same will to win which means you are less inclined to have really extended safety battles, or perhaps you try to hurry them along by playing a slightly riskier shot that will bring the bout to a swifter conclusion.

[vmax4steve]

I never practise safety but I do play billiards now and again and that helps a great deal.

[mattyshinobi22]

my practice for safety was when i started playing in a working mens club, being a young lad the old men found nothing better then to lay me in as many snookers as possible lol. so i learnt the safety side first and potting later.

shame not many around now, times change

[davisskeggsm]

practice your safety game?

Going to be honest i have only practised safety a couple of times, should definatly practise safety play a lot more

Matt

[nrage]

I find it best to make a game of it, i.e. start with the white/black on opposite end cushions and play safe, repeat until I leave myself a pot, then take it on. Remember how many shots it took before I left a pot, and try to make it take longer next time.

Also, billiards is excellent for learning carom angles (where the white goes off the object ball) and all the other cushion angles.

For shot power and similar I found this game really fun/useful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8lRrLVBUVs&feature=plcp

Until I tried this I really didn't have a good idea how hard to hit the white to make it travel a given distance, which is essential for good safety.

[AKashyap]

Honestly, I don't think I've ever practiced the safety game separately .. That said, I think one must practice the safeties, or atleast know how to play every safety shot possible from anywhere to the baulk .. Also the mastery of half ball safeties is a plus point as the CB and OB travel almost the same distance ... One must also know how to stun and produce a great safety .. Also, hitting the CB with reverse or running side with the OB initially near the black and the Cue ball finishing behind the black and the object ball finishing in the baulk is a great shot to master ...

[AKashyap]

What you can do is set up a game, break, and play safeties all by yourself for the next 500 (say) shots ...

[maxz]

Another way is to play against urself. like u are both A PLAYER AND B PLAYER. trying to make it as difficult as possible for urself. this way u will get all kind of situation. so u can train all safety, escape from snook, scoring etc..... but u got to be honest with urself. make it like a real tournament match. its works well if u dont have a sparring partner available. also can understand urself better.

[alabadi]

i sometimes practice safety by snookering myself behind the yellow , green or brown i then put a few reds behind the pink spot and leave the pink on its spot and try to get out of the snooker.

i place the white pretty close to the snookering ball and try different escape paths, i do this because i have a playing partner who is obsessed with snookers, he could be leading and still will try and put me in a snooker behind a baulk colour so i practice this type of shot from time to time

Alabbadi

[alabadi]

i sometimes practice safety by snookering myself behind the yellow , green or brown i then put a few reds behind the pink spot and leave the pink on its spot and try to get out of the snooker.

i place the white pretty close to the snookering ball and try different escape paths, i do this because i have a playing partner who is obsessed with snookers, he could be leading and still will try and put me in a snooker behind a baulk colour so i practice this type of shot from time to time

Alabbadi