getting out of snookers

[AKashyap]

What you can do is set up the shot in a practice session ... For a simple one rail snooker break, if you miss it short, hit it long on the cushion the next time and vice versa.. You can try various techniques such as visualizing a mirror image of the table, using formulae etc ..

[AKashyap]

Later on, if you like you can learn to break the snooker using 2, 3, 4 or even more rails !! For that, start with the diamond system, maybe even on a pool table !! Play 9 ball for a while if you feel like ! Try the following links



http://billiards.colostate.edu/threa...and_kicks.html

http://www3.sympatico.ca/eric.perrea...system_en.html

[davipp]

I have adopted the diamond system which is used in pool. On a pool table you will see the raised buttons on the cushion rail. Each button has a value and when you aim at one of the buttons, always using running side the cue ball will travel a certain path which when you practise this method it gives you a better appreciation of escaping snookers.
I divided the cushion rails of my full size table using silver stickers so I could practise this system. I find it very easy now to escape snookers and I find it better to use two or three cushions for a better success rate.
Practise the same snooker escape using different paces on the cue-ball and notice the different results.

[nrage]

I have adopted the diamond system which is used in pool. On a pool table you will see the raised buttons on the cushion rail. Each button has a value and when you aim at one of the buttons, always using running side the cue ball will travel a certain path which when you practise this method it gives you a better appreciation of escaping snookers.
I divided the cushion rails of my full size table using silver stickers so I could practise this system. I find it very easy now to escape snookers and I find it better to use two or three cushions for a better success rate.
Practise the same snooker escape using different paces on the cue-ball and notice the different results.

If Donald Duck can do it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM2LjQrwO6g

[Giggity1984]

In addition to Reardon's Rectangle method(very useful) I like to imagine there's a mirror on the cushion your playing off, if you play the shot as if the cushion didn't exist and you were hitting the object ball in the mirror as if the mirror wasn't there, you'll get somewhere handy each time.

[AKashyap]

I have adopted the diamond system which is used in pool. On a pool table you will see the raised buttons on the cushion rail. Each button has a value and when you aim at one of the buttons, always using running side the cue ball will travel a certain path which when you practise this method it gives you a better appreciation of escaping snookers.
I divided the cushion rails of my full size table using silver stickers so I could practise this system. I find it very easy now to escape snookers and I find it better to use two or three cushions for a better success rate.
Practise the same snooker escape using different paces on the cue-ball and notice the different results.

A similar thing has happened with my game, I sometimes prefer 2, 3 rail shots over a one rail shot which many times can become hard to make ...

[AKashyap]

I have adopted the diamond system which is used in pool. On a pool table you will see the raised buttons on the cushion rail. Each button has a value and when you aim at one of the buttons, always using running side the cue ball will travel a certain path which when you practise this method it gives you a better appreciation of escaping snookers.
I divided the cushion rails of my full size table using silver stickers so I could practise this system. I find it very easy now to escape snookers and I find it better to use two or three cushions for a better success rate.
Practise the same snooker escape using different paces on the cue-ball and notice the different results.

A similar thing has happened with my game, I sometimes prefer 2, 3 rail shots over a one rail shot which many times can become hard to make ...

[alabadi]

Hi Terry

I have tried this method, it sounds easy however firstly estimating the distance to the cushion exactly is hard enough but then to actually project that beyond the table and imagine a point in space is very difficult.

i sometimes try and line up something beyond the table like if there is a pillar or a table, chair, or corner of a window, at least i have something physical to aim at.

Alabbadi