Smaller table waste of time in practice?

[Tom Read]

Where's that you're playing, Darren? Looks like there's other tables in the background.

[DarrenReeder94]

Where's that you're playing, Darren? Looks like there's other tables in the background.

Thats down in hemsby last august..i stay in a holiday site and there is a snooker club just down the road...I played there every day last year, going to do it again this year

You can get a six foot slate bed table , or an eight and nine and ten foot .

Aint there anywhere near you where you can play on a full size .

Well i have got no space anywhere really. But i think i can probably get a few sizes up from my 6ft table. Im not quite sure what a slate bed table is? Would that mean that the balls are full size and cloth is better quality?

Edit: Oh you mean anywhere to go locally? Well at the moment i have no where i can go alone and practice every day. But id like to have a table for home use anyway because i love to play at home and have a nice relaxing time. so id really like to get a decent table for home, and play properly (on full-size) somewhere else.

[FOXMULDER]

Hello, I am 15..

I have had my small table up for the past 1-2 months and i practice abotu 3/4+ hours a day on it. But is it a "waste" of time getting good on my table? because its too small?

When i start going down to snooker clubs or places with bigger tables in them, will it be compeltely different to my table and i will be back to basicly,crap..and it will take ages to get good to a bigger table??

-thanks

edit:
Its 6Ft :S

Absolutely not a waste of time - the same techniques and principals apply to tables of all sizes.

In fact, I would always recommend a youngster learns on a smaller table first. I went from 6ft to 10ft to full size.

When you move to full size the training you've had on the half-size table will stand you in good stead for short-mid range pots, but you'll probably struggle for a while with long potting.

[tathan]

Unless you live up a tree in the Congo, I can't believe there's nowhere near you with a table. It doesn't necessarily have to be a snooker club, lots of sports and social clubs have tables (places like cricket clubs, sports centres etc, you may struggle getting in your local social clubs if you're only 15 though lol).

Have an ask about and you may very well find one.

[DarrenReeder94]

Unless you live up a tree in the Congo, I can't believe there's nowhere near you with a table. It doesn't necessarily have to be a snooker club, lots of sports and social clubs have tables (places like cricket clubs, sports centres etc, you may struggle getting in your local social clubs if you're only 15 though lol).

Have an ask about and you may very well find one.

Nah, there is places with a table locally but no where that i can go alone at my age (or for the next 3 years :S).

[tathan]

Bugger... Good luck anyway

[vucko117]

I have 9ft table at my home and it really helps me improving my game. Technique is the same so just play and enjoy. For example before I got my table my high break was 43 and now is 79.

[Tom Read]

How will the angles be different? A half-ball red into the corner pocket on a 6ft table is the same as a half-ball red into the pocket on a 12 ft table.

[tathan]

Today I've played snooker in the morning, a pool friendly in the evening, then a final frame of snooker before home. I'd say the angles are angles... the scale, judgement of pace and how forgiving position is are very different but since taking up snooker without a doubt pool shots that I would have considered difficult 3 months ago are pretty much unmissable, so (although from the opposite perspective) you can learn plenty on either size. The differences are indisputable, but the skills you learn are useful for both.

[aks_netherlands]

Sizes of table

What is the exact measurements of the table you have been playing on?
Is it 6ft by 3ft?