The Les Edwards Snooker Challenge Thread

[alabadi]

Alabadi and Les, maybe it's just the way I'm made, and in a way it's not even about clearing things all the time, jeez we all muck up, me more than most, but it's more knowing why it went wrong, if Im trying to clear the colours and say I go in off in the middle from brown to blue, it's easily done, but I know I have hit to low on the White and stuned up to much, I know this because I have learned how the ball works , so in a way it can be better when you fail, so when I say do it twice or whatever it's to prove you understand how you have done it, not just got excited because you have done it, I'm not saying don't have pride in completing it, as that is an acheivement in itself, but once it's done ,then go and learn how it's done, instead of just being wrapped up in doing it, that's the best way I can explain how I try to learn things, but we are all different and learn things our own way. I'm sorry if I upset anyone and I do wish yous all the best, and I think it's a great thing for us all what Teds doing, I'm looking forward to see this develope.

yep i concur, i've never just competed an exercise and thought yupee thank god for that,now i can move on to the next one.
its just the beginning for me, and it tells me that i can do it, and gives me confidence to keep doing it, for me to say i can do something successfully i need to be able to achieve it 85% of the time.

well here is just one of my efforts. i wasn't totally pleased with every aspect of it, in particular the 3rd black. i thought the white came off the cushion a bit too fast, not sure if i got a big bounce, which made the last red trickier than it should have been.

anyways if anyone has any other comments it would be welcome, i am trying to learn all the time

and i do learn from every attempt, when i make a mistake either positional or a missed pot i try and figure out what went wrong and work on correcting it.

http://youtu.be/NFr-g2TU5Cc

[lesedwards]

It's not to bad getting snowed in when you have a full size snooker table in the house!

Yes. Going to back track tomorrow to the colour challenge and the four red line up. Get down to business and perfect them. I have did them in the past so I can do it again and again.

[tedisbill]

Very nice, Alabadi! Leaving yourself lovely angles on the black each time to just float up for the reds. Really good to see!

[Byrom]

Right that's it had enough these practice routines are too easy - here's my suggestions - if you lot can't do these easy ones time to quit - forget a week I give you all one hour to replicate everything that you see here - so chop chop

[alabadi]

Right that's it had enough these practice routines are too easy - here's my suggestions - if you lot can't do these easy ones time to quit - forget a week I give you all one hour to replicate everything that you see here - so chop chop

right i'll have this all done in the next 10 mins ...lol

i saw this guy when he came to Sheffield during the world championships, they had a table based at Sheffield's train station and he was doing these trick shots each day...Amazing talent

[cyberheater]

Good stuff Alabadi. I think that method to keep coming off the black cushions and leaving acute angles on reds looks quite hard. I'm not sure I would be accurate enough with the pace of the white.

One idea I keep thinking about is the possibility to complete the challenge without using any cushions at all. You'd have to be end up lowish on the black to screw/stun back up to land high on the red, stun/screw back down to the black and rinse and repeat.

[Byrom]

right i'll have this all done in the next 10 mins ...lol

i saw this guy when he came to Sheffield during the world championships, they had a table based at Sheffield's train station and he was doing these trick shots each day...Amazing talent

Yeah he getting there he used to play for our B team at the moment with his girlfriend - High break at snooker 28 but he got barred after ripping 7 cloths

[alabadi]

Good stuff Alabadi. I think that method to keep coming off the black cushions and leaving acute angles on reds looks quite hard. I'm not sure I would be accurate enough with the pace of the white.

One idea I keep thinking about is the possibility to complete the challenge without using any cushions at all. You'd have to be end up lowish on the black to screw/stun back up to land high on the red, stun/screw back down to the black and rinse and repeat.

it is tricky to get the pace right, and you have to have good control and that's what i am looking for. i do set myself different challenges and one i have been trying is to make a 50 break on the line up not using cushions, which has prooved a bit tricky. i've only got as far as 47 so far.

[GeordieDS]

Yes. Going to back track tomorrow to the colour challenge and the four red line up. Get down to business and perfect them. I have did them in the past so I can do it again and again.

Yes it's all about programming your brain to accept you can clear the colours every time and if you don't then it must be a bad contact, it's boring but repeat,repeat,repeat,repeat and then do it again.

[lesedwards]

yep i concur, i've never just competed an exercise and thought yupee thank god for that,now i can move on to the next one.
its just the beginning for me, and it tells me that i can do it, and gives me confidence to keep doing it, for me to say i can do something successfully i need to be able to achieve it 85% of the time.

well here is just one of my efforts. i wasn't totally pleased with every aspect of it, in particular the 3rd black. i thought the white came off the cushion a bit too fast, not sure if i got a big bounce, which made the last red trickier than it should have been.

anyways if anyone has any other comments it would be welcome, i am trying to learn all the time

and i do learn from every attempt, when i make a mistake either positional or a missed pot i try and figure out what went wrong and work on correcting it.

http://youtu.be/NFr-g2TU5Cc

Some good pots there. You got it "figuring where you went wrong and correcting it" exactly what Nic Barrow pushes staying down on the shot and learning. Like we have said before we need to feed off each other like practice partners a million miles away.

[Leo]

yep i concur, i've never just competed an exercise and thought yupee thank god for that,now i can move on to the next one.
its just the beginning for me, and it tells me that i can do it, and gives me confidence to keep doing it, for me to say i can do something successfully i need to be able to achieve it 85% of the time.

well here is just one of my efforts. i wasn't totally pleased with every aspect of it, in particular the 3rd black. i thought the white came off the cushion a bit too fast, not sure if i got a big bounce, which made the last red trickier than it should have been.

anyways if anyone has any other comments it would be welcome, i am trying to learn all the time

and i do learn from every attempt, when i make a mistake either positional or a missed pot i try and figure out what went wrong and work on correcting it.

http://youtu.be/NFr-g2TU5Cc

Very good not sure why you were not pleased with your positional play on the 3rd black becasue in real time having a angle will allow you to stick that white more or less anywhere on the baize. Well Done! You don't see like a bad player fella. I think it's great to see you and Les, cyberheater and the Yank lad showing willingness to improve. With all your attitudes I can see all of you improving considerably.

[alabadi]

Very good not sure why you were not pleased with your positional play on the 3rd black becasue in real time having a angle will allow you to stick that white more or less anywhere on the baize. Well Done! You don't see like a bad player fella. I think it's great to see you and Les, cyberheater and the Yank lad showing willingness to improve. With all your attitudes I can see all of you improving considerably.

maybe not pleased wasn't the correct word, i guess i am looking for perfection and i thought the white could have been a little better positioned, we are talking only 3-4 inches here, but sometimes in a game that's the difference between having a pot or not

[cyberheater]

maybe not pleased wasn't the correct word, i guess i am looking for perfection and i thought the white could have been a little better positioned, we are talking only 3-4 inches here, but sometimes in a game that's the difference between having a pot or not

I was thinking a bit more about your approach to clearing 4 reds and 4 blacks. Although the positional side is tough and requires a lot of control of pace at least it gives you more options. If you are too soft then likely you'll still have a pot on. You have a good margin of error.
I think that is a good approach.

I find it tricky sometimes to play to a area so that I've got as many potting options as possible. I tend to try and get position on one ball. Not good.

[itsnoteasy]

yep i concur, i've never just competed an exercise and thought yupee thank god for that,now i can move on to the next one.
its just the beginning for me, and it tells me that i can do it, and gives me confidence to keep doing it, for me to say i can do something successfully i need to be able to achieve it 85% of the time.

well here is just one of my efforts. i wasn't totally pleased with every aspect of it, in particular the 3rd black. i thought the white came off the cushion a bit too fast, not sure if i got a big bounce, which made the last red trickier than it should have been.

anyways if anyone has any other comments it would be welcome, i am trying to learn all the time

and i do learn from every attempt, when i make a mistake either positional or a missed pot i try and figure out what went wrong and work on correcting it.

http://youtu.be/NFr-g2TU5Cc

Two things first, what was so interesting on the wall
Second, you haven't half come on, I can remember maybe six- ten months ago you tearing your hair out about half ball and quarter ball cuts on the black, now , no problem at all, well done Alabadi, a very real improvement, I'm so pleased for you. By the way that looks a very quick table.

[alabadi]

Two things first, what was so interesting on the wall
Second, you haven't half come on, I can remember maybe six- ten months ago you tearing your hair out about half ball and quarter ball cuts on the black, now , no problem at all, well done Alabadi, a very real improvement, I'm so pleased for you. By the way that looks a very quick table.

cheers Pal, i'm getting there, slowly but surely, yeah the cloth is quickish, its a new cloth only a month or so old, its very nice, no need to hit the balls hard.

can't work out what you spotted on the wall, it was pretty dark in the background