Snooker Best Shot 2026 Season Recreated

These are the best shots from every single tournament this season, as chosen by the viewers of this channel. And despite these shots being unbelievably difficult to play, I'm still going to find the shot of the season by attempting to recreate all of the shots as accurately as possible, before playing them in the fewest possible attempts. So let's travel all the way back to the beginning of the season and the Championship League, where the best shot was this one from Long Zhuang. After getting out of position, he finds the only way to get on the red is to screw the cue ball around the table and get all the way back down for the top cushion. He gets an awful lot of arc in the cue ball while doing this, and it's a really impressive looking shot. I'm going to struggle here both to get the spin right, pot the black, and indeed hit it hard enough. In fact, when I first attempted this shot in a video, which would have been nearly a year ago now, I don't think I was able to get anywhere near the red, or at least not good enough on the red in order to pot it. So I want to do better with this one, and here it's looking close. I've got near the top cushion, I just needed a couple rolls more on the cue ball, and I would have made it. So I just need to find some power from somewhere, and as we've already seen, it's not very much power. If I get the shot right, I'm really not too far away with this one. It just needs a little bit more. However, I've just started getting a little bit into the cue ball too much, and that's made it a bit harder. I've hit this one with more pace, but too much backspin, so I'm going to have to try again. This looks better, I might have got it this time. The cue ball's coming down on the right line, but does it have the speed? No, I've landed right on top of the red, so I'm going to have to try again. Now this looks really good, and I've got a little bit more spin on the cue ball. That's increased the speed and the angle, and this looks absolutely perfect. A fraction short of pace, but if I can pot it, then it's definitely good enough, and I have. What a great way to start the video. A tough start there, but in this video, of course, everything is going to be difficult as we move on to the Shanghai Masters now, and Kyron Wilson, who's playing a very straightforward shot in the fact that he's just powering a red down the cushion, and there's not too much more to it than that, but that in itself is incredibly tough, especially at that angle down the cushion. It might take me a while to get this one, so with this and every other shot in this video, I reserve the right to speed things up. Consider all the shots potential danger shots. Although with this one, I should be okay because the shot doesn't take too long, and I probably should have got it already. It's just a little bit of an awkward angle, and I'm struggling to judge it properly. However, it's finally gone in, and the only negative is I just missed the cannon on the black. On to the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters now, and a particularly clever shot from Mark Williams, who can't see the red over the corner pocket as it's blocked by the black, so decides to play a cannon onto it, but it's cleverer than that because he doesn't just hit the red over the corner pocket because a direct hit would leave the white in the jaws and leave him a tough next shot. Instead, he plays the cube onto the top cushion and then the red, allowing him to get it out in the middle of the table in perfect position as it turns out on the pink. On to the Wuhan Open, and how about this for a double from Mark Selby? The red itself only just goes past the green into the corner pocket, and even if you took the green away, it would still be a really tough shot to get anywhere near this. However, Mark manages to drill this into the middle of the pocket before going on to clear up, and I think as I'm about to discover, this is a lot tougher than Mark makes it look. And for a minute, I'm quite simply struggling to find the correct angle. I'm finding the green ever so slightly in the way every now and again, and I keep rubbing the edge of it, although if I hit this right, it should go into the pocket without the green being in the way altogether. However, I keep getting close or miss hitting it to the other side of the pocket, so hopefully in a minute, I'm going to work all of this out and just knock it in. I know roughly where the cue ball needs to go, so if I can get that in the correct place, which is roughly there, it should go in. Should have tried that earlier. Moving on to the English Open and this long red from Elliot Selesa, who's essentially potting his way out of trouble, but not only that, he's also screwing the cue ball back all the way down the table into bulk. This is going to be one of those shots that I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to be able to get on my table because I'm not sure my table is reactive enough, but I'm going to give it a go and see just how far back down the table I'm able to get the white at the same time as potting the red. I've actually got the red a little bit quicker than I expected and I've cued it really well, but unfortunately, that's about all I can do on my table. Out of the British Open, we've got another shot that requires a lot of cue power, this time from Joe O'Connor, who needs to get the cue ball back down the table onto the black if he wants to go on to win the frame and doing so is going to be tough because the red itself is in bulk. He manages to get far enough back down the table in order to pot the black and would go on to win this frame from here. So let's see if I can do the same and get anywhere near this one. The pot's in and I've cued it fairly well, although it's not quite enough to get back down the table in position on the black and I know I can definitely cue it a lot better than this this time. So I'm going to give it a few more tries and see if I can pot it and just get through the ball a little bit better. That's technically worse. I haven't gone back as far and I just about potted the red. This is a little bit better and it's coming all the way back down the table. I definitely can't cue this one any better and I'm just about on the black, just not perfect, but it's all I can do. The shot chosen from the Zion Grand Prix is another well judged shot from Mark Williams as he's noticed these two reds together on the top cushion could be made into a sort of plant if he hits off the right hand side of them. He manages to get this perfect at the same time as getting the cue ball back down the table. This is going to be a tough one to judge and essentially set up, but I think if I set up the balls in exactly the right position I should be able to make this with no trouble whatsoever. I've got it, although I've just caught the first red a little bit too thick, but the pot went in easy and that was the main part of the shot there. Over in Belfast now for the Northern Ireland Open as Jack Lasowski is doing this. Yeah, so I think what he was actually trying to do there is top spin the cue ball off the top cushion and go into the top of the pack of reds so he'd be in position on the black. However, he just scrapes by them for the pink. That's going to make things a little bit harder for me to get the cue ball roughly in the same position and have a shot at the pink and in fact the shot itself is going to be tough enough to manage to top spin it off the side cushion through that narrow gap and then onto the top cushion and back out in roughly the right position. I'm not sure how close I'm going to be able to get with this one so let's give it a go and see what the major problems are. The difficulty here was getting the speed right to get the rub off the pack and get in position for the pink. I think I've got it here but can I see enough of the pink? Yep, just about so this one definitely worked out okay. At the international championships before he became world champion Wu Yizhe was doing this potting this long red with an angle to screw the cue ball off the pink and pack of reds down the table which is an incredibly tough but also incredibly brave shot to be taking on. I want to get this one as quickly as possible because I really don't want to scatter the balls too far too often and have to keep putting so many of the balls back over and over again so hopefully this one doesn't take me too long to get right. Three attempts is pretty good didn't quite get the reaction off the pink that I wanted but I'm in really good position there so I'm taking it. The champion of champions is next and Neil Robertson here is really showing off his cue power. Look at how much he makes the cue ball arc on the way to the pack of reds here it goes so far out and then comes back in again but he judges the angle perfectly to rip the pack open and finish in position on a red from such a tough angle. In order to get this one right not only am I going to have to cue this incredibly well but I'm going to have to and I don't know how accurately I'm going to be able to do that but let's see what happens. I actually thought I'd done it on my third attempt when I struck the right side of the pack of reds exactly where I needed to however I couldn't push a red on I just needed to get into the cue ball a little bit more which I'm starting to do now I'm just struggling with the angle. I've hit the reds there but it definitely wasn't in the right place and it's so difficult when I'm having to give each shot to hit the right part of the pack I could have taken that one because I could have potted the red underneath the pack but again I want to hit roughly the same part of the pack as Neil that's proving a problem at the moment and I just can't seem to get the white in the right place as I'm really struggling both to judge the line and this huge arc this looks a bit better though I've roughly struck the right part of the reds and I'm definitely going to take that one. On to the so-called snooker championships now and you may remember there was a Judd Trump shot from that tournament that I simply couldn't play at the time I'm not 100% sure why this was maybe I was having trouble with my tip or I wasn't quite cueing the ball well enough either way I simply couldn't get enough reaction out of my cue in order to get down the table off this yellow and play the cue ball with enough left hand side to spin it off the top cushion towards the black and get the cannon I could get close I just couldn't get the side so let's see if I can finally work this out and play this shot one that I've never been able to play before so as we've seen I definitely can hit the red and get the cannon and leaving it in position but what about hitting the top cushion first once again this is extremely difficult to find the correct angle especially when the cue ball's arcing this much I'm also finding because I have to put quite a bit of left hand side on the cue ball that's affecting the shot as well both how the cue ball moves across the table and the contact with the yellow essentially straightening the shot up so it's really challenging to actually hit this one thin enough and find the correct angle this looks good just not quite enough side and it was too far away really but have I got it better here? oh just hit them together I know I can do better than that so let's give it another go until I actually get it properly because I definitely think if I get the line right I can get behind the red and hit the black on its own although maybe I should have stopped sooner but let's see what happens with this one that looks almost perfect if I get enough side yes I have a huge amount of side on the ball there and it's left me perfect on the red our next shot is from the UK championships in fact qualifying for the UK championships as Liam Pullen has found himself out of position on the last red on a maximum break and manages to somehow play a double from this position not only does he get the double he lands in just about good enough position on the black to allow him to play a shot pop the black get black to yellow and finish off the maximum this is an incredible shot in the middle of a maximum break so let's see what we can do with it well I've got it straight away and good position so the only question left is which of these doubles was the cheekiest Mark's shot gets him four and it would have got him more if the frame had still been live whereas Liam Pullen's shot gets him five and he's clearly this week's winner because he had a lot more on this on to the masters now and oh yeah this one yeah this is I think the Neil Robertson shot that's that started the whole danger shot thing because he has to swerve around the green here to hit the red now that in itself isn't really too much of a problem I think if I was just trying to do that I'd get it right more or less every single time however Neil also manages to pot this red while swerving around and it's such a big swerve that you really have no control of the cue ball you see as the cue ball slows down it swerves violently to the left across the table and if you get the speed slightly too hard or slightly too soft you can end up being way out just on a small amount of pace so hopefully this doesn't take me too long but let's see how many attempts it actually takes yeah that was a lot really difficult to judge I'm just so glad it's actually gone in next is the German masters and Kyron Wilson and I think this shot where he pots the black and spins the cue ball back down the table off the bolt cushion getting the perfect cannon on the red near the side cushion was the first ever viewer recommended shot we're doing these all the time now so for upcoming tournaments you can recommend any shot you think I should be playing and if it's good enough I'm definitely going to give it a go just comment on any one of my videos as much information as you can about the tournament the players playing the game the score of the frame and the score of the match the more information you give me the more likely I am to recreate your shot and I've recreated this one perfectly as far as I can see at the world grand prix this Joe O'Connor shot did really well because it looks extreme and really good at the same time as Joe manages to pot the red spin the cue ball back off the side cushion and back up the table avoiding the middle pocket for position I really struggle with this one at the time and I think I'm going to do so again because it's so hard to get into the cue ball with enough backspin and left hand side in order to get the white top side of the middle pocket so we might see me going in off here quite a bit it's also a really difficult shot to set up correctly this is taking me quite a long time to get the cue ball and the red in the correct position because if you just add a bit too much angle or a bit too little the shot itself doesn't actually work I think I've got it here but no I've gone in off in the middle pocket again I just need to get hold of it a little bit better than what I'm already doing and I'll be down the table easily but unfortunately as good as I can do at the moment keeps going in the middle pocket I've played a few when I've missed it that I've definitely cued it well enough to get back the right side of the middle pocket but I just haven't done it when I've potted it which is a bit annoying really I don't think this shot is really that difficult and I've got it here off the cushion yeah that's more or less perfect looking back at the players championship Judd Trump had the standout shot as he potted this red down the cushion and screwed a cue ball back safe into bulk using quite a bit of right hand side off the cushion so let's have a go at this one and see how long it takes me to line this one up correctly considering how difficult it is to judge a shot at this speed with so much right hand side I was miles away with my first two attempts so that's got to be more luck than judgment however I still couldn't get into the cue ball well enough to get back the same side as a yellow as Judd the Welsh Open and Neil Robertson gave us what I think is close to being the most unplayable shot of the year or at least in my opinion as the brown is so close to the corner pocket here yet Neil manages not only to pot it but screw the cue ball all the way back down the table from a position where he's only just in front of the D off two cushions in good enough position on the blue to be able to cut it and go on to make the clearance here and win this deciding frame I can't believe how significant this was at the same time as what an excellent shot this is and I'm not sure how long it's going to take me to get the right position on the blue it might not even be possible it wasn't the last time I tried it but I've got a lot of shots that I couldn't get before in this video already so let's see what happens what's happened so far is I've been able to screw the cue ball most of the way back I'm using almost purely backspin but a tiny bit of left hand side as well because the cue ball's coming into contact with the side cushion and that'll just help it back a little bit but I'm not sure how much left hand side to use here I've hit this one about as well as I can and that's as far back as I can get it I can't do any better unfortunately at the world open Mark Williams took the best shot as he managed to pop this brown and find the correct angle of two cushions to get the perfect cannon on the three reds not only hitting them but pushing them all on perfectly this is going to be tough to get the right angle but if I do that at enough speed everything should be about right my first attempt taught me I was using too much backspin so I reduced it heavily and this is the result couldn't have gone much better really we've got a Michael Shabachek shot coming up right after we find Sakswiz from Vanarasi, India which is there at the qualifiers for the world championships Michael Shabachek managed to play a shot that seemed completely impossible as he pots the black here and plays the cue ball around two cushions narrowly avoiding the green but also slightly arcing the cue ball around the green as it comes off the bolt cushion this allows him to get a cannon on the red that's near the side cushion and it's going to be one that's incredibly tough to recreate as the angle itself doesn't appear to be on or at least doesn't appear to be on when you look at it I've not only got to get the spin and the pot right I've also got to make it arc in the correct way as it comes off the bolt cushion either way this could take me some time I'm just really struggling to find the right angle here I'm either getting into the cue ball too much or not enough and going around the green like this seems to be something that happens every time if I fail to hit the jaw I just can't seem to judge this one correctly I'm trying to hit every different position on the cue ball and that seems to explain why I keep missing it but I'm not too sure about that I thought I had it then just flicked the edge of the green and that's the real problem here although I've missed it this time and it looks perfect I've got the cannon and I'm not going to argue with that let's move on last week of the world championships you chose shot I from Mark Allen this really impressive snooker at the end of the longest frame in Crucible history which he absolutely nailed so congratulations to Mark and as this is the best shots of the season I've now got to try and play it so let's give this a go hang on initially that's not quite as good although I seem to have got the pace correct I've just not hit the pink thin enough and this is the whole difficulty with this shot you've got to hit the right part of the pink otherwise you won't get anywhere near it and if you just hit it slightly too thin or slightly too thick you'll end up far up the table or too far down and the pace will look all wrong but it's just the contact with the pink and once I get that right I'm going to start getting incredibly close this looks good and I'm right in behind it really pleased with that one couldn't have gone much better so now you've got the chance to vote for any one of the shots in this video and vote for your shot of the season you can do so for free by using the link in the description and I'll announce the winner in the next video but if you can't wait until then why not have a look at the best shots from the entirety of the world championships with these two videos and remember don't just watch play and make the commitment to becoming a better player by subscribing to the channel and visit the website see you later