Bro... this is one of the BEST explanations I've seen on using side spin since I started playing 4 years ago. My Boss is an absolute shark & I asked him how I can learn side spin shots & he said "You just learn it." That never made any semse to me (twice over) until about a year ago & watching videos like this have improved my game exponentially, so thank you & Merry Christmas! If you could put a pin on for Queensland, Australia please, I would be honoured! Cheers! 🤟😆🤟

Thank you for your effort in putting these videos together. They are very interesting and great for newbies, like myself, just getting interested in the game. Richard from Bozeman, Montana USA

Hi from Clacton, Essex. I watched this video about a year ago (for 15 years I've been playing, and could never quite get how to play with side), I had watch videos trying to explain it before, but none quite demonstrated and explained it like this one. A year on and I can play with side to an impressive standard. All the videos I had watch before either talked a lot with no real demonstration, or provided lots of demonstrations with no explanation. Just wanted to give you the thumbs up, honestly could never have got there without you.

Solid! I'm looking forward to trying out some sidespin next time I play. - Adrian from Queensland, Australia

Hello from Thailand. Thank you for great videos!!!

I learned more just now than I have from any other video or person about pool shots in years.

bit advanced for me at this stage but i'll come back to this. nearly beat my best break yesterday using a bit of top and a bit of back.

Thanks for the snooker knowledge, Prathamesh here from Mumbai, India

Helped lot.. kudos

Good explanation, thanks!

Easily understandable thanks for teach us with very effective way

Just joining the channel. It's a really great help 👍 Lasse from Copenhagen

Your instructions has really helped me with my skills, thanks alot bro. from Afghanistan.

Fantastic as always! Even though for me as a beginner I can't fully understand all the little nuances I still can't wait to get to the table and try it out!!!! Keep up the good work! You should have many more views and likes in my opinion!!!!!! I wish i could give more than 1 like!!!

Your videos helped me so much I really have improved with spin and all other tips and tricks I’m also from South Africa Johannesburg

thank you man from morroco

Quite possibly my favorite video of all time

this channel has made me want a snooker table so bad lol

I really love your videos, actually I have never played snooker in my life because of in my country it is not popular but I love your videos fur to that I use them to improve on pool ;)

I live in America and have never touched a Snooker table but I love this channel. Super engaging and informative content for anyone into playing/watching Cue sports at all (like me!)

Thank you sensei.

Really amazing

I need to watch this agian and agian and agian! LOL!

Big fan. Great techniques. Love from India 🇮🇳

Awesome Videos! Hello From Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

thank you. this video very useful for me. greating from Indonesia

love from Modena, Italy

thank you so much for your amazing videos. keep doing this great work Slim From Casablanca Morrocco :D

This makes perfect sense.

can we please actually discuss the trickshot with two cue balls because that was fire!!!

@renardmigrant

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like one of those shots you can't work out exactly, you just have to keep doing it until it works.

Just got back from 5 frames with my dad... he won.. gutted! I always got with the theory, don’t use side unless playing safety shots. Never works for me and I always miss the pot.. anyway keep up the good work. Great video as always!!

@bbb8111

3 жыл бұрын

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@francislea4700

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy playing with ur dad. I miss that. Nice of u to let him win lol.

@phillvisnaw1037

2 жыл бұрын

Just subscribed, been shooting pool for 60yrs plus playing games across the world & remember a lesson learned shooting 9ball in downtown Seoul, never gamble with a snooker player! Now I'm a student in search of a snooker table... My old 8ft Brunswick will have to do until I find a place to play... Thanks for the lesson on sidespin I already do everything you explain but it is nice hearing my old habits aren't so bad meaning to change stances for side spin shots but I did learn from you to calculate before going down and it's made a big difference... I used to change my mind while stroking the shot and that never seems to work out.. very informative taught this old pool dog some new information definitely a lesson in all the things I needed confirmation in! Thanks again looking forward to more snooker tips!

*Your tips are very helpful thank you for being a great mentor Hassan here from Lahore, Pakistan*

thanks for such a conceptual video PAKISTAN

Good teacher

great video. great channel... a new subscriber here. Looking forward to more videos.

Hi, I m Yassir from Nador, Morocco and I would like to thank you because without some of your KZread videos I'll probably be the same really bad player I was before. Thanks

Most important video to improve your game from basic to standard level

When I started snooker at 12 I was told I had a natural eye for the angles. I’d automatically moved the cue to different positions under my eyes to use side. Still do it now playing pool but sorely miss playing snooker.

Awesome! I'm looking forward to trying out some sidespin onwards. - Afridi from Karachi, Pakistan

You're videos have helped me, I am from Bagalkot, Karnataka,India

Thank you so much for such a good tutorial i really appreciated now I'm trying to improve my game. ❤ love from Pakistan

Nice job from Churchill Manitoba.

I would love to see you in the international matches against world class opponents. You are too good bro. ❤️ From Pune India

Nice

Hey...wishing for your good health.. A question, can we change the side after getting down into the shot, by moving the bridge hand. One more thing, when we line a shot up our dominant eye is on that line ie behind the center of the cue ball, but if we are putting a side on the ball, where should our eye be, over the cue or behind the center of the cue ball, as there is a touch distance between the both. Thanks a ton :)

Good one 👍

@Breakfromlife

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ✌️

I love using side even though I’m pretty unreliable with it. When it works and the shot is perfect it feels fabulous 🥰

You know your stuff pal.

Hi from Oswaldtwistle Lancashire !

Super 👌👌👌 coaching

Thank you God for this mans teaching.

Legend watching after 1 years 🤗❣️ by the way thanks for this video

I going to have to watch this three times; there is a lot of information to take in.

@vincetate6239

4 жыл бұрын

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4 жыл бұрын

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@BlamBlam80

4 жыл бұрын

@@vincetate6239 Your product looks interesting but a bit rude advertising on someone's else channel, even if it is through the comment section. I hope your giving this man a cut of your profit. 🙄😁😁

@C--A

3 жыл бұрын

@@vincetate6239 That a training aid, all that goes out the window in a actual game of snooker. A Tricue or the Gravity cue are much better for potting straighter. And they are legal cues can be used in amateur and pro matches as well as casual games.

@vincetate6239

3 жыл бұрын

@@C--A Hi C A I have gravity cue and all other training aids unfortunately the gravity cue is not normal and does absolutely nothing...until you have tried the SA-1 you will never understand how it works cheers.

Great tips, but as i currently don"t own a snooker table and lockdown is on here in NSW, it's unlikely ill get back to the table anytime soon.

So, with the black shot demonstrating left hand side, have i got this right?… when playing it faster you are aiming thicker to allow for the more deflection to the right, but when playing the same shot at a slow pace you need to be aiming slightly thinner as the deflection in the cue ball has time to level back in line and a bit more? Is that correct only you said in another video when applying left side you miss to left of pocket and right hand side you miss to right of pocket which i get. But when playing slowly the opposite takes place as the cue ball has time to grip the cloth and goes back the other way? Is this correct ? Thanks.

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hello there, i want to ask when we use sides on a cue ball ,weather we have to move full stick or only the further tip point of the cue stick, if we move only the further tip then anlge of the cue stick also changes, i am confused...also when angle changes my stance goes in a wrong position ,what to do?

Good game bro

The only thing that's gonna get you better at using side, is practice!

Just simply aim to the right of pocket if your putting right hand side on and the left for left hand side the rest is just feel for the shot

0:35 did make me laugh, You was getting rdy to reset them haha.

So... which kind of side spin do you advocate using??? Parallel shift of the cue, or rotate the cue using back hand english? How do each of these methods cause changes in aiming? Side spin is a vixen that can cause great things to happen, or utter frustration in trying to pot balls.

Is the cue delivered PARALLEL to the intended line of the cue ball or angulated to the line? (When putting in sidespin)

Sir should we move our hand bride while applying spin onto the cue ball??

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Great video! hope I can play snooker one day, it's my dream, i live in Mexico, and here snooker doesn't exist at all 😂😂 hope to get at least a shout out

@Breakfromlife

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah have only heard from about 3 people from Mexico and all of you have said they must be one of the only people to have any idea what snooker is

@alsstewart8583

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf no snooker,, 😉 noooo, y don't u invest or build a snooker table 👍practice n play ppl for mulah🙏win win mucatcho

@francislea4700

3 жыл бұрын

Be the 1st to open a club. I would give some £. Speak to Barry Hearn as well.

@FNZ-jn5zt

3 жыл бұрын

@@francislea4700 It's so expensive to earn a table, but yeah, it's in my plans to open a club some day :D

hey at 5:14 you mentioned not to move your cue over but to come up with the exact spin? is this 99% correct? don't get me wrong i'm not that great of a player i'm also learning this but I cannot imagine this being correct all the time there are some scenarios that you have to adjust i.e. the cue ball is very near with the target ball but you need the cue ball to go on that specific direction i doubt it if adjusting the spin can cover or handle that but again i'm only a beginner player and i might be wrong if yes then please guide me, thanks!

Good video 👍 It's important to know the effects of sidespin and for me it's not fully clear how it works at different speeds and when playing with or against the nap. And is the object ball deflected more with slow or high speed? I am a beginner playing for 4 months and having 20+ breaks (if the reds are nicely open 😬) and I am using only center ball striking to learn the angles. Sidespin is too complicated for me right now, I use it only to escape from snookers.

@Breakfromlife

4 жыл бұрын

It is important to build up to things like this slowly. So you are doing the right thing

SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER- sometimes I get snoomered and miss the ball altogether and snooker myself again, but before the ball stops I'll push the cue ball further deliberately either with my hand or with my cue to prevent another snooker, is that just 4 points or do they get another 4 making it a total of 8?

much better explained than barry stark, he had a video explaining spins, he also used the baulk line as reference however he explained the side spin shot should've been exercised when the cue is moved parallel along with bridge hand(so the cue is parallel to the baulk line), however his method is just not possible to execute and doesn't make sense, the cue is always at a line that intersects the baulk line, or the bridge hand doesn't move nearly as much as the back hand, that's the only way the cueball can travel along the baulk line. I've never gotten an clarification back from Barry for that question.

That was a very helping video for me because I'm very bad player of side spin shots 😂 I'm Maeez ur Rahman from Pakistan in a city named Mian Channu

I am muslim from Pakistan . city .Karachi . awesome bro good job

When you were demonstrating the left and right side spin, across the width of the table, I noticed you weren't cueing parallel with the baulk line, left or right. Should you have been, or is that how your meant to apply the side spin, cutting across it slightly. In other words should you move your stance slightly left or right, depending on the spin being applied, or stand where you would if hitting a straight stun shot, but hitting slightly left or right of centre to apply the spin? I would have thought you would set up slightly left or right of the shot myself, but now not sure. Love the channel, by the way, great content 👍

@Breakfromlife

4 жыл бұрын

With that if I was cueing parallel to the baulk line at that speed the CueBall would have gone away from the baulk line. In that way the line isn’t helping to demonstrate this but what is more important is that I’m setting up in the right place instead of moving ther.

@Charlie_Crown

4 жыл бұрын

@@Breakfromlife Thanks 👍

That double on the blue at the end though

What saft you use?

Hi Break from life, you seem to play really good, what's your highest score at snooker ?, alone or in competitive play

@Breakfromlife

3 жыл бұрын

In a game against someone I had 132 a few years ago

Can you tell me where u got that stripped practice ball.

It's so dificult to me! Hello, from Brazil✌

Damn now this thing is crazy 😂

Guess your tutorials has done more change in my game, cause I now know too much information when striking a shot

@Breakfromlife

4 жыл бұрын

Now you have just got to focus on what you need to know

@MrSegopa

4 жыл бұрын

@@Breakfromlife - Thanks Break from life for every effort taken to do these live streaming videos, I wish God can bless you more for making it possible for us who always need snooker tutors, I am proudly subscriber 🙏

I'm from graz in austria

Woww

I've always aimed to miss the pot but allowing the side to bend the white onto the potting angle??? Whatever way you try..always guess work and luck involved maybe?

You say you don't aim differently? Do you aim the object ball to miss the pocket but hit at that angle with the side to correct it . Or . Are you aiming the object ball at the pocket, sticking your ghost cue ball where it needs to hit to pot.. and then imagine the route line of the white in order to hit the object ball at the right place? I know if I hit with left then you could aim the object ball to the right of the pocket and the amount you miss it by depends on the power and amount of side. That seems easier than trying to imagine the route of the white to hit the object ball in the right place to pot. Although this seems more difficult, it is the route my mind takes .

Is it possible to get position on the yellow ball?.... while having pot the black ball on it's spot keeping mind it is straight (no angle) and you are not aloud to use backspin

@Breakfromlife

4 жыл бұрын

It is but I don’t think I could get it first time. Or if I even have the cue power. But with enough side you will make a straight shot into a slight angle. Which could also help you get on the black

@fahdfahkri9251

4 жыл бұрын

Just to clarify from the black to yellow.... I thought about a stun run but lifting the cue from the back and punching the ball in .

Gonna sound really big headed here. I know all this stuff... my only problem is I still can't do it!!!!! Thanks for vid!!!!

@brett6314

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. But miss often if its more than too far from the pocket or if I have to hit it hard

@Rob-ys6ot

2 жыл бұрын

@@brett6314 ha! Me too brother!

Another awesome video! Although I'm 100% confused about how the physics work on potting that black with sidespin! Have you ever done anything on the science behind snooker?

Will you ever be putting videos of you playing frames against people?

BFL, please clear something up for me. At 7:00 min, you say to keep your cue straight with the shot, yet, looking closely, nearly every one of your side-shots shows the follow through of the CUE TIP curving in the direction of the side spin. Follow is not straight. Is this an sub-concious effect, it seems your stroking arm is not staying with a straight stroke. Please reply. I have seen these tendencies in other forms, example: someone shoots and curves their body in the direction they want the ball to go, not knowing they have done it.

It's a dark art. Let's be honest.

@kaygee594

4 жыл бұрын

cruel too

@cz1mmt

4 жыл бұрын

It's dark because these snooker instructors never tell you snooker is played on directional cloth. Also the cue ball is slightly smaller than the object ball do you can float it on the nappy cloth.

@Schibbe

4 жыл бұрын

@@cz1mmt wtf is wrong with you

@BlamBlam80

4 жыл бұрын

@@cz1mmt that's weird

@saketsagar2156

3 жыл бұрын

Agree Snooker gives a sense of how mesmerising is the experience while playing the game

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As if it wasn't hard enough already... This is nigh impossible! Goes to show the genius and perseverance of the pros.

@Woody991

3 жыл бұрын

This is also why the pros generally try to play every shot without side spin. But they can do it pretty well if they have to. Then there’s Ronnie who plays every shot with side lolol

It's hilal from kabul Afghanistan.

Sir when i use back spin my cua ball jump bcz of cue miss

why do i find this so hard to understand! Can you just do one example of you potting a ball (the black at 3:30 seems a good example) with no spin and put some guidelines over it, then another example of you putting side on the cue ball with guidelines and compare the two so I can see your angle adjustment. Because I'm still slightly confused here. So am I right in thinking, if you put left hand side on it then aim slightly left, and if you put right hand side on it then aim slightly right? Is that correct?

The object ball should not be affected by the spin on the cue ball. At 4.56 you move the red away from where it was touching the cue ball, this is because the cue ball will deflect to the left with the right hand side you apply to it so the red would stop that happening and the shot couldn't be played. The shot played is really a very slight swerve shot, you move the red to allow for the deflection so that the cue ball played at the right pace can then swerve back onto the proper contact point on the black to make the pot, and as the cue ball has approached the black from where it was deflected it can make the correct contact from there without touching the red first, but not from where it started as the red was very slightly in the way from there. This shot cannot be played any softer or harder, it needs the right pace for the exact swerve to miss the red next to the black, any softer and the cue ball will swerve too much and contact the red first, any harder and the spin on the cue ball won't be able to grip the cloth in time to make the swerve and the black will be contacted too thin to make the pot. There should be no transfer of side onto the object ball except when there is a bad contact or kick when the friction between the balls is increased through dirt or chalk on the contact point or simply because the surface of the balls aren't smooth enough, which is a fault with the Aramith phenolic resin balls and which is why the pro game uses very finely napped cloths, table heaters, ball polish and chalk at £15 a block to limit these bad contacts. The old super crystalate balls didn't have this problem, they were a harder material and could be more finely polished for a smoother surface, less bad contacts and an all round better game, but Aramith bought the company that made them and stopped their production in favour of their own inferior material. Balls were the same weight so this was purely a business decision to create a monopoly, they now supply balls to all cue sports around the globe.

You can play pal ,what is your highest break ?

Kindly help me maybe it helps other subscribers also. When we hit cue ball with right hand side where will object ball go? Left or right? . And when we hit cue ball on left hand side where object ball will go? On right 0r left?

Practice practice practice. Also, always play these shots at a pace that's natural for you. The harder you hit the shot, the less side you need generally as well. On a decent table, you can pay with less side and therefore suffer less deflection, but the real cure for this is practice.

I don't quite understand how you say you are not changing your aiming to allow for the cue ball coming off at an angle (3:30 approx.). You are of course aiming differently than you usually would, you are aiming the cue more to the right. Do you really mean you are not changing the contact point on the object ball? @breakfromlife