Snooker Eye View POV Snooker Sight

Have you ever wondered what a snooker player sees when they're making a break? Let me show you and do my best to explain while we find out how many century breaks I can make during this video. Still haven't helped much. I think we're gonna have a shot on a red. It's not great is it? Trouble with just smashing the reds open you never know what you're gonna How is that all blocked? Can't even cut this in. The best shot we've got is this up the cushion. See if we can get this too far away the way it hugs that cushion. Good to know your own table isn't it? All right the pink's not going on its spot that isn't a problem. I think I can just stun across a bit. Where's this pink going? So we're gonna see how many hundred breaks we can get before the end of the world championships. Let's see if we can stretch over. Should have screwed back a fraction more but never mind. Don't really got the angle to play that shot. That's stretching off. We'll get we got rid of the hard red as well straight away so this is good. So just stun down on and off the cushion so I can play the the red at an angle. I haven't really done that. So I'm gonna leave another thin clip from this side. It's pretty much there's nothing I can do to get the cue ball out. Hopefully I haven't gone too far. Fear I might have. We'll find out. I've just about got the kiss and potted the black. Right let's see what we can do here. Red down the cushion it is. Back on the black and back in position for five seconds. I've got two reds in the middle so it doesn't matter if that's or I think I have. There's still nothing going. So if we can do with getting rid of that one. That's okay we're just gonna have to screw back across the table. Yep top side of that one. The one in the middle but I don't want to bridge over. So let's just get top side of the blue. Oh I wasn't really paying attention to the red that one just went in. Right it's a red by the pink pot. No I should have pushed that pink so close to it. It's okay though we've got the one on the other side. That's not ended up in the right place. I didn't really think I could get that wrong. Nope that definitely doesn't go. I'm playing for the one I'm playing now but I was kind of expecting. It should be okay if I just drop this in. I was kind of expecting to. White's gone. I don't know what we can do with this. I was expecting to stun it a bit more. Right so we've got a thin cut which could work. Will pop through the yellow pot to the middle pocket. It definitely won't. So cut the black in it is. Didn't expect to go around the table. Well that's not gone too badly. I don't know why this break has to be so chaotic but. Right just going to leave an angle on the black. Just make sure we knock the red in. Come back off the cushion. Okay everything's still a bit safe here. I'm going to try and play for this one in the middle pocket hoping if I'm somewhere around here I'll either have that red or the one in the middle. That's a goal anyway. I don't know if it's going to work. I'm on both. I'm sort of thinking I should have played the cannon there but I could have got that wrong. Is that red in the way? It's not. I can't get on the pink from so I'm just going to play this. I think I should be able to run through for the black. Just don't want to push the red on the cushion here but might not be able to do anything about it. Priorities get to the black. Nope failed. Luckily the pink goes in the middle. Right the pink's going to go up on the green spot. So yeah I've got the red in the corner. I'm thinking of just dropping the pink in rather than taking a risk playing it hard in the middle. So I'm just going to drop it in. Yep. Worried about it rolling off there. That's why I played it right in the corner of the pocket but we're on this one. So leave a high angle on the black to play on and off the cushion. That's a goal. I don't know where it is. Fraction too hard then. Let's see. Plenty of angle there. I never think these are going to go as far up the table as it goes so we're right really. Yeah didn't even have to hit that hard. Could play the one in the middle and stay on the black. I prefer this one to actually potting it. It's just about controlling the cue ball. See if I can get it right. Get up on the blue. Not if you nearly miss it. Ah dear. It's been a few terrible shots hasn't it. Right I don't think I want a chance going round the table really. Do I? It's not going to be good is it. So easy if you just get topside. I think I'm going to be. There's what we got. Don't know. Really don't know here. I'm just going to stun it I think. Play the long red. Couldn't really do anything I wanted to do there. Right I think somehow I've landed on the perfect angle to just pop this and roll through for the black which is ideal. So I didn't think that'd be on. Yes just missed that red. Right the only easy one to play for for me is the one on the side cushion. I've really got to get into the white. So I've got to get the weight right and I've overheard it. I didn't want to underdo it. Look at that look. No control. I didn't know how hard I was hitting that really. I'm just going to have to drop this in again. Well I can't because I've got a bit on the black. So we've got two cushions. Oh yeah that's a good pot. That is a good pot. Right I think middle pocket just to make sure of it. We've got to get the white in the right place. Didn't want to play on the low one really. But oh well let's just make sure of it. I'm usually quite good at cutting the black in so take no chances and just pull it and drop it. There we go. Green's our next problem but we should have under by then. Tracer right hand side just drop this up for the red. Not exactly great. Just to make sure of the pot I quit on it a bit. Well we're over 100 which is what we were really going for. It's a good start whatever happens here. Let's see if I can pop this though. I can't do anything else except stun over for the black. No nearly. Well good start. Let's go again. Okay let's try something a little bit more straightforward because I think last time that was the first first go I actually potted a ball off the break. Well actually it wasn't. It was the first time I potted a ball and got in position. So it's fairly unlikely I'm going to do that again too quickly. So we'll try something a bit more straightforward and try and get century break number two. It's looking good so far. Might have made this a bit too straightforward to be honest but after the last one at least it seems. Let's see what we can do with this. The point is not to it's not about how difficult it is about how many we can get. Slightly under hit that. Right let's just use the cushion then. I just need to roll it through right. Okay nothing much to say. We're just going to stun up for this red. I'm not going to apply it too quickly and leave it short. Right I'm just going to cannon that red over there. Maybe we won't. Yeah we did just tap it. That's perfect. I didn't want to move it too much. Push it closer to the cushion. I'm just going to drag this back up the table. A little bit back spin. It's pretty good. Use a ton of right hand side on this so we can stay on the black. Watch it spin. There it is. Okay up the table we go then. I don't know if we can stay on the black this time because I've just got unbelievably I think I've landed in the middle of nowhere. Why not have a pot? Oh no I've got that one. Okay now I can't stay on the black. Easily get on the pink. It's just too thin on this red. Just play it through the past the black. Red's in. Oh I thought I was going to stop about a foot shorter than that. Easy enough blue but could have been unmissable on the pink. Right just roll. Screw this back. That's nice. See after a bit of practice I'm actually potting all right. It's getting easier to get in position as well. Shouldn't have spoken so soon should I? It's okay because I can just screw this back. This is why I definitely need a new cloth. It's definitely not rolling fast enough. I was going to cut that red in but I fancy this one by the pink. Should be good. See how well we're queuing. One of the tricks of these is just try and take all the speed out when you can. Do it. Could have taken more out of it to be fair. Felt like I did it nice and slow even though I didn't. Right where are we going here? Just up for the blue because it's easy. Have I hit it hard enough this time? Yes. Getting the weight of the table. After about an hour of trying to get a break right or break off in the right position. This feels so easy after the last thing I was trying. I could pop that other one but there just seems to be no reason to. So I want the one next to the pink now. If not I'm on everything or I should be. Yeah just too far. Should have been there. I'm not quite getting it right yet. I'm running it through at the right speed but I haven't got the weight of the stone shut. How about screwing back? Just got to get belt just before where my hand is. There we go. Play the one closest to the pocket next. Just screw back a few inches. Yeah slightly underdid that after getting it perfect the last time. So much I could do here. Play off two cushions. The black and possibly the pink. If it stops. Yeah that's black or possibly pink. Yeah which I can't quite roll through behind the red over there which would be ideal. I'm just going to come back a bit and have that one in the middle. Does mean, well I can play for that pink again. I'll show you the shot I'm talking about if I can get in the right place. I want to be about there. Right just got to come back a fraction. It's not too much not to completely miss it there. Ideally though see we should have been here and I could just potted it and got that side for the middle pocket but I'm putting it in this pocket. Well the same pocket but like that. I can just roll behind that red more or less. Anywhere low on the black and we get back up towards the yellow. This is as far as we got with the last break. See if we can do a little bit better here. Just want to be low on the black. Yep that's pretty good. This is a perfect angle now. I didn't need to do anything but put the black and play with a little bit left hand side. That's just to get closer to the yellow. Felt like I under hit that and bad. Just wanted to be, because I have the perfect line, I want to be a foot closer I would have said. Make it unmissable. I did stun that really nice one in earlier didn't I? So I should be cueing these okay. Oh yeah. Didn't feel like I was going to do it. Felt like I was going to miss it but never in doubt. Right so we leave the angle low. You want to screw back a little bit there and I haven't. Just to make it difficult because it would be too easy if I didn't. Oh why did I do that? Right just going to make sure I hit this hard enough to drop it in. Definitely a bit hard enough. Now bounce off the blue. Yeah that's not very friendly and it's even touching. How has that gone wrong? Right if I pop this off the cushion it'll be brilliant. No well getting closer to the clearance anyway. Okay we're having a go with a line up now. As the first one was a bit harder we're going to have a go with an easy one. So we can see if we can get the clearance this time. Very nearly got it last time. I just messed up a bit. Double or dropping it on top of the blue. It would have been fine if my table was alright and it hadn't rocked the blue rock back into its spot. So if that doesn't happen we're good. So we're using the 258 formation here. We'll talk about what's the best formation. The only difficulty with this one is trying to pop these bottom two reds. Well not this top one that we should be on here. Not that one. That's all fine. It's the bottom one that's a problem. So well it's the only one you can probably play well and it'll still miss. If I hit that badly it would have still gone in the pocket. I'll have to play for it now and I have no idea on this. Leaving a big angle. The car is making an awful lot of noise outside for no reason. Right drop this in along the cushion. Perfect. Didn't even touch the jaws. Right I feel like I'm queuing better. I'm not sure the position is any better. I felt like I queued quite well in the last one. Yes that's that's another awkward red under the pink if you want to keep getting on the black which we will until we can't anymore. I'm not going to do anything crazy but I'm still able to just rock it back onto the black like this. Not a problem. Taking advantage of this shot off the top cushion really. It allows us to get back down the table and yep we're okay again. If you finish fairly straight on the red you're fine. If you land in the in-between sort of zone you've got no chance of doing anything in terms of playing for the black but we can because we just use some room at this side here and watch the spin which would have been better if I'd queued it a bit better than that. Back up the table we go again. Nearly missed that. I think we've been lucky again. If you leave those two reds there you can still take a bit of a risk on these up here. For a little while it gives yourself a few more chances so you can play for those two above the pink and knowing I'll have the two below the pink if anything goes wrong. Just a fraction short so I'm gonna have to play this lowest one. I'm gonna use the cushion again which gives us less control but see if we can get the weight this time. I think we might be out of luck here. Yeah that's unfortunately that's it gone. It's boring because you've got to get high every time on this when you play a shot like that. Nope so now we're not going for it. We want to get rid of the one below the pink as quickly as possible because then that's the only one that's really difficult now and the one underneath the blue. That's absolutely fine if you can play for the blue. Right let's get down on the black nice and low. Pretty good. We're using a side cushion. I'm just going to judge the weight. We want to be on actually on that one next to the blue here. Just stunned for the blue. Yeah that's about as good as we can do. Screw it back. Just all the pocket to hold it. Normally I'd screw this back but I've got to take the blue out the other side so I've got to go around there anyway so I'm running it through. Right one more time for the blue. Yeah let's go over there for the pink. Get rid of that one next. Hopefully. Fairly good angle. Just got to judge the spin. Got into it really really well. It's fine we've just got to play for the black. If I end up where I was before it's not really a problem. I don't want to end this without clearing the table. There we go. Yeah just just slightly under hit it again. I'm not playing bad I'm just slightly under hitting some shots that are causing us problems. And again. Right let's see if we can stun it up the table for the colours. There we go. Again it was a fraction short where I wanted to be. Let's try some reverse side. Check it off the cushion. Right. Potted this shot pretty well last time. See if we can do it again. Get nicely through the ball. Oh yeah that's really good. Potting them fine just slightly not getting through the ball enough. I'm just going to leave the white over that side. You can tell the difference on an easy challenge where everything's pretty much working first time and a difficult one. I'm playing direct. Normally I play off the cushion here but I'm playing direct. I'm just worried about not getting on the blue again. Just making absolutely sure. Right I think we're potting the blue at least this time as we're getting closer to the clearance. Check side come on. Wow. Do you see what I mean about quitting on it? Right we can do it. I know exactly what the shot is. Let's play it. Okay it wasn't that. It was going to be a good black but I caught the dual. Right let's see if we can cut this in and we're there. No. I'll get it in a minute. I'll get it clearance in a minute. Okay we're going to have a go at this sort of Y formation which is quite good for controlling the cue ball in and around the black spot. You just did a little bit left hand side to get outside this V but it's all about controlling the cue ball in this sort of area too. So you've got these kind of shots like in these positions that you normally end up with when you play a regular break off. Not like the break off we played earlier but a sort of normal one. I'm trying to use the top cushion a lot to make it slightly easier to get around all the reds. Once you get rid of two or three you automatically have more options. So I'm low on it now. We're just going to use a bit of left hand side. Just pop this and get up on these reds. I was trying to pinch it there and then he missed the pot. Right so I can run this through get across the table to about where we were before. Okay we're looking quite good now. Got rid of most of the end ones which are kind of the important ones to get rid of. We've got the weight right for this. Just stopped. It's okay because I can just you always want to be getting high on these and I'm just like I was before. It's getting better but I'm slightly under hitting everything still. I'm going to go with left hand side here just because it makes the shot slightly easier where right hand side makes it harder. I've ended up dead straight there. A little bit fortunate but that's about as good as I can do. Right just got to get on them. Try and get on this fairly straight so I can get on the three on the other side of the table. I don't know if I've gone far enough. No it's perfect. So I'm going to get the better weight. Just got a straighter angle here so we can screw back over there. Yeah just not quite enough. I'm going to probably play the red below the pink. We're just going to stun off the cushion onto the black. Let's see if we can get a bit better from the other side. Yeah didn't want to be so straight that time. So because I am I'm probably going to play for the red this side and possibly one in the middle if I can't get back far enough. Yeah just couldn't quite get back far enough. That's okay we've got the one in the middle which is harder to get on back on the black with. The more of these we take the easier things will be in a minute if we want to keep taking blacks. See if we can just get the clearance. This time really I'm not too interested in everything else. Fraction more than I wanted. Can we get high on this red this time? About about three goes at it haven't I? Pinched the pocket as much as I could to get high and I still haven't done it. I think we're out of ideas here. Unless I can do anything with that or this. No they're both going the wrong way. I couldn't hit any harder because I would have missed the way I was playing it. Well that's a shame. Let's see if we can actually get the clearance this time. So we're going top side with blue. It's all going well up to that. Just roll it through. We want to leave at least one of those reds up here. If I've gone far enough I probably want to get back to about here if I can. I don't know if you could see where that was but just just top side of the blue this side. Haha just about. Right a tonne of left hand side now. Which means when it hits the cushion we get onto all the three of those reds there. Right made that a little bit harder than it should have been. Right back for the black. Just go around the red. Okay I'm going to go for the red on the other side. Loads more angle this time. Should definitely be able to get on it. And look at that. Done that last time we'd still be on for a 147. Not that much angle last time. So I'm going to leave it high again. So I think if I just hold it as much as I can. Yeah that's pretty much perfect. I don't think I need any side with this. Just roll it through. I should go past that red and on it. I'll make sure I land on this next one okay. Because that red by the pink is going to be a little bit tricky for position. So I'm just going to be stunning down past the black. And pinched it. Which has helped actually. Because I'm perfect to just screw back off. Well not off any cushion actually. Just past it. Past the red. Perfect angle I think. Maybe could have done with a bit more. I'm going to play for the blue now. Because I'm going to have to screw back at some point. So it might as well be on this shot when I'm perfect. Have I done it? Nope. I can never get topside can I? I just feel like I'm not quite completing the shots. And that's why I'm not quite going through far enough. I'll take the bump of the spot as I've got closer to the red. Probably left the worst angle possible here. I've got to punch it over there. A bit more straighter would have been fine. It's still easy enough. Just stop this in. Get past the blue. There we go. Right. So stun it up for the yellow. Get as close as possible this time. Yes. Got to at least straight. Had to go straight or a bit further. But straight's probably better because I could screw it on either way exactly where it is now. I think that's where it was wasn't it? Was that where it was? If it was. Yes. Right. We know what not to do. Let's definitely get on this. Make sure I don't leave too much angle. That's perfect. We actually get on this blue perfectly so I don't have to do anything. Then we can make it all simple. Simple. Yes. When I hit it our first thought was yep you've gone straight. Stunning it down a fraction. Stop it in. Stop, stop, stop. Always worried I'm going to hit that far too hard. So that's actually gone too far but a manageable amount too far. Have we finally got a clearance? We'll find out in two shots time. It's looking a lot better than it was last time. I still thought I'd get the black last one. Have we finally got a clearance? 100 bright number four. Let's see what happens. I could have got better on the black with this really couldn't I? That's still all right. Right there we go. Right red's in so let's see if we can get number five. Running out of energy quickly but and hit the spot. Massively checked up on the spot there. It's not really made too much difference. Still drop this in. Right. Stun through the gap and we're away. Just going to stop quitting on shots. Push through. Yeah did it nicely there. Just want to get rid of the red above the black spot next. That's pretty good for the angle. Get rid of the ones at this end and see how many reds and blacks we can take. I think we're going to get to a point where. Oh wow. Right now. I was trying to control that as much as possible. Just quit on it again. Keep doing that when I try and play the shot slowly. There's still pots. Don't know where the white's going though. Pink pot in here. Nope. That's terrible. I needed a millimetre more and it's fine. Right I think I can stun into the red. It's near the pink spot so we should be okay on something. Don't over cut it. Yeah I just flicked it up onto the blue. That's fine. It would be if that red wasn't in the way. We're going to have to go in and out of bulk. Caught the brown. Put it in the way of the yellow. So that could be a concern in a minute. Perfect in position though for now. Just needed to catch that a little bit thicker. Right let's just. What did I just pot? Blue. I'm just getting so tired I can't remember what book I'm on. Well I am on a red aren't I? Right play for the lowest red. Just got to get it completely short. Get it off the cushion enough. There we go. Right what's left? Few balls blocking the pink in the middle pocket which we could do with getting rid of as quickly as possible. So I might play up through this gap here to try and get on one of them. If we get the weight right. Got a bit hard. That's okay. Just nudge this in for the blue. Probably play the one I'm bridging over if those two over there weren't in the way. Okay on the blue nice. Let's see if we can get down there for that one. Yeah I think I'm on the one I wanted to be on last time. Yeah that's good. Get one middle pocket clear for the pink if we need it. I'm not going to hold this white enough. Right so we'll get to the other one next. Get that out of the way. Spot on. Go out for the blue because of the angle. Got the angle right. Right we'll play down for this red on this side because I can reach it. Others if I don't get on it. Not off. That's left that missable. Let's play up the table again. I think we'll play the easier of the two reds up here because that other one could be good to get on the yellow and brown at the end. As long as we get past it. Making all of this difficult now. Right two reds either side of the pink we've got to get rid of. We're about okay playing this from side. Right the one over there first. Got it right this time. We want to be about there somewhere to just roll it in for the other red. I'm really running out of energy now. Better get this to this quick. Right let's just screw back a little bit. I think I've underdone it. Need a fraction more than that. Yeah that's annoying. I can just drag it across the other side. We'll just play on to it in that pocket. Yeah let's do that because I've got the other red here anyway. I've just got to slide past it. I don't think I've quite gone far enough. Maybe I have. Yeah that's okay. A fraction further and it'll be spot on. Right so let's get this back up the table a little bit. Yes not enough. Dead straight on that. Not enough angle on this. Luckily though I can get the white in a good position with the black. Well I can but I don't think I have. Right the red thankfully goes in the corner and that can give us good position on the blue finally to complete the break. I was just hoping to go a bit further and get on the middle pocket but slightly undid it but didn't have a lot of angle. Right let's just nudge this in slowly. Got it. Right for as long as I can leave it low on this red I can roll over for the brown. That gets rid of that out of the way. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Yes. I didn't think it was possible to over hit it the way I played it but nearly. I would have preferred to roll it rather than play the stun shot because that couldn't have gone wrong. It's got a fraction far for a roll shot so it's stunning behind it. I think. Ha ha. Just gone awkward because if we were here next shot for the yellow this would be perfect but if I screw this back and brown's on is it easier to just stun the yellow in get back to here. If I leave the white there I think that's easier if I straighten this up enough. Just going to make sure I play it nice and straight. I think that's okay. If not I can probably screw back off the brown. It's just the brown was a fraction too much of the angle there. I think I've gone too far. Felt all right to start off with and the brown's not going to help us out so let's see if we can do something. Got it. A bit snatchy but that's pretty good. If you told me I could get there from there I wouldn't have believed you. Right. See if we can finish it off again. So we're going to drop it into about the brown spot. That's the green spot not even the green spot. I didn't think I was going to under hit that. I was so concerned about over hitting it. Just completely quit on it again. Right two cushions so I don't like hitting these slow. So we've got to get the two cushions right. One. I didn't mean to go across the other side of the table but I think we're there. Oh just wanted a fraction more. I wish I just fractioned. I was trying to stay on that other side of the table. Right it does cut the speed. I think I missed the pink. I think. I want to because then that gives us a better chance of getting back on the blue. Not the blue the pink. Right just got to get the speed right then. Don't hit it. Don't go in off. Oh no. Well this will be good for me won't it. I was so worried about missing the pink I wasn't really thinking where it was going. Missed the jewels that was probably quite good. Right. Do I drop it or do I go around the table? I think I just roll it in fairly slowly and see what happens. Well we got close. 500 breaks though so yeah that's quite good. Well that's not too bad five centuries and it means all that's left to do really is find Ian who's in Kings Lynn in the UK which is there. If you want to find out more about playing snooker and after all that you probably do then these two videos can help you out 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.