Improve your game by watching competitions video?

[scarface]

say you are a constant performer with breaks beyond the 50 mark and could not perform any better or no longer have any breakthrough in shots. but deep inside u knew there is a lot more undiscovered potential and skills that could be further discovered and built.

i guess many would suggest that going for a coaching lesson, but given that there's no decent coach or facility around the region and even if there is, it would be quite a costly one.

so, in order not to stay stagnant, just wondering that what do u guys think on this. By watching videos, youtubes and observe how those professionals play in competitions, strategies, shots selection, cueing action, stance, pottings and etc etc.... watch tonnes and tonnes of it and then practice to see what sort of playing style suits u. and from thereon, explore within ur potential and get another breakthrough...

Possible?

[Ramon]

Good point !!
Mutch better than only talking about it !! If u can'nt visit a coach in person , then whing videos , is the best option imo !!

[svendh]

you wont get better watching something, you have to do it

[scarface]

Good point !!
Mutch better than only talking about it !! If u can'nt visit a coach in person , then whing videos , is the best option imo !!

which is quite hard to actually focus on the player's overall getting ready for shot to stance to feathering to cue action to delivering and after shot movement, rather than just watching them potting the balls so nice and sharp hahaha

[scarface]

you wont get better watching something, you have to do it

yeah i mean watch and learn and practice of coz.. if one can just play good by watching, man he'll be the next Ronnie O'Sullivan no doubt!!

[Leo]

There's no easy way to improve in snooker we all know that, pointless watching YouTube videos as you're watching someone completely different to yourself, different brain, etc etc. if you break down constantly on 50 breaks then it's either a physlogical problem or you ain't practiced enough, the latter I would say

[guernseygooner]

Leo beat me to it. The regular 50 breaker to regular 70s-80s is one of the hardest steps. Practice needs to be upped considerably, I would say you need to do at least 15 hours a week.

[scarface]

i mean u dont need to necessarily copy the players, maybe try to identify their distinctive style of playing, try it out, no harm right since you are already not breaking through lol.. who knows u might be able to try something that will be useful and gives u that final push to become the century breakers?

of coz nothing comes without constant practicing.

oh on the other note, say for u all regular players, maybe like 15 hours a week player, how many hours do u actually allocate to plain practice session? and how many to playing against another player?

[alabadi]

when I watch the pros on TV or youtube, I focus on the way the build the break rather than their technique. I am looking at shot selection and the patterns they are creating.

its quite difficult to actually see how the approach a shot most times on TV, the camera angles are deceptive, they switch from camera to camera, so you don't get a complete view. you will only get a good view by watching them live.

so for me its much more important to learn the break building patterns rather than trying to learn or copy a technique that is almost impossible to do.

[scarface]

yeap u are right, because of the cameras we dont get to see from A-Z. only certain shots yes.

their break building skills are really top of the class. its like just by one look of the balls placement on the table, they can get a WHOLE picture of all the shots to be played already. lol impressive but of coz those guys spend more time on the table than u sleeping.

[alabadi]

yeap u are right, because of the cameras we dont get to see from A-Z. only certain shots yes.

their break building skills are really top of the class. its like just by one look of the balls placement on the table, they can get a WHOLE picture of all the shots to be played already. lol impressive but of coz those guys spend more time on the table than u sleeping.

all that comes from experience, once you have played a shot hundreds or thousands of times you know what you can and can't do with it.

so yes spending hundreds of hours practicing will give you a better chance of building breaks as long as all the basics are in place. if the base is not solid then everything else will fall down

[jono*]

Yes, but it its difficult to spend that much time at the table if you have a say 9-5 job, and a family to look after. Never mind other interests and sports that people enjoy besides snooker. That's the worst thing about snooker. It just takes up so much time and requires so much to improve

[tetricky]

Exactly. I'm trying hard to be the best that I can be, playing a maximum of two or three hours, every two or three weeks (and accepting that the outcome to that is going to be - "not very good"). For someone like me...looking and learning from others, definitely can have positive impact that outstrips the progress made playing. Maybe if I played more I'd find those things by trial and error....but honestly that's not worked for me. I just don't have the time for getting on the table.

[j6uk]

Yes, but it its difficult to spend that much time at the table if you have a say 9-5 job, and a family to look after. Never mind other interests and sports that people enjoy besides snooker. That's the worst thing about snooker. It just takes up so much time and requires so much to improve

Exactly. I'm trying hard to be the best that I can be, playing a maximum of two or three hours, every two or three weeks (and accepting that the outcome to that is going to be - "not very good"). For someone like me...looking and learning from others, definitely can have positive impact that outstrips the progress made playing. Maybe if I played more I'd find those things by trial and error....but honestly that's not worked for me. I just don't have the time for getting on the table.

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[scarface]

all that comes from experience, once you have played a shot hundreds or thousands of times you know what you can and can't do with it.

so yes spending hundreds of hours practicing will give you a better chance of building breaks as long as all the basics are in place. if the base is not solid then everything else will fall down

yeap could not agree more. this is the difference between a club player and a professional.

Yes, but it its difficult to spend that much time at the table if you have a say 9-5 job, and a family to look after. Never mind other interests and sports that people enjoy besides snooker. That's the worst thing about snooker. It just takes up so much time and requires so much to improve

Exactly. I'm trying hard to be the best that I can be, playing a maximum of two or three hours, every two or three weeks (and accepting that the outcome to that is going to be - "not very good"). For someone like me...looking and learning from others, definitely can have positive impact that outstrips the progress made playing. Maybe if I played more I'd find those things by trial and error....but honestly that's not worked for me. I just don't have the time for getting on the table.

we all have a 9-5 job excluding the regular overtime worked. so how on earth could we spend even 3 hours a day at the minimum to just brush our skills eh? unless u had a snooker room at home i will definitely dedicate my time towards playing snooker lol..

and snooker also takes up lots of space if u were to have a table at home. needless to say the time that u have to commit to excel in whatever sports. that is why im the below average snooker player only

only lucky thing is that i am still single and available, therefore there's still a bit of spare time for snooker throughout the week, not much hours probably a visit to the club 3 days a week with 3-5hours session per day.

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