Any good practise routines for getting out of snookers?

[vmax4steve]

This is exactly how i get out of snookers, and sometimes a lot easier using 2 cushions rather than just the one

Me too, I can hit a difficult snooker off four cushions but have a lot of trouble sometimes hitting easy ones off one cushion, but that's mostly to do with taking my eye off the point of the first cushion contact.

[Predator314/2]

I tend to escape out of snookers using a little bit of side depending on how thick or thin I want to hit the ball when I am kicking at it. One cushion escapes I won't use side unless I want to kill the cueball dead. Hard to explain without pictures or video.

[magicman]

The incorporation of the miss rule in all your practice frames helps immensely with snooker escapes. Most players want to get better at the game, yet seem reticent to include misses despite the fact that it's been a rule of the game for decades.

[ace man]

You can put just one ball over any corner pocket and try to pot it from anywhere using 1, 2, 3 or 5 cushions...

[vmax4steve]

hi my names chris small and im an ibsf coach. one routine to get you started is put the white on the green side cushion, but it must be in the baulk area and with a ball obstructing your path to the side cushion past the middle bag. Now put a red, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black on the side cushion past the middle bag and space them evenly down the cushion so as you are snookered on those balls. now pick out a spot on the yellow side cushion for your contact point for the white and predict where you think your white ball will finish. for example, will it rest on the yellow or the blue or the pink. Play the shot with centre ball striking and the same pace all the time so as you get the same reaction from the cue ball every shot you play and this will help you to work out the angles and your cue ball path. You can be even more precise when doing this exercise, as you can predict, will my cue ball rest on top of say the blue or will it rest just to the left or right of the blue, just for better predictions really, and remember to keep selecting different spots on the yellow side cushion for your cue ball to hit so as you are always selecting different angles. Dont panic if you get alot of your predictions wrong as i do this with a couple of pro's and they even struggle sometimes as its not an easy practice routine, it is a very good challenge for you to improve your snooker escapes.

thanks
chris

Hey Chris, how about using paragraphs in your posts to make them easier to read