I was invited to his home for a lesson in billiards and he was brilliant to watch. He had the best stance of a billiard / snooker player I have ever seen.

I'm new to billiards at the age of 73. The vid is great and I'm on its 3rd run through !

Absolute gem of a video ! Many thanks for a making it available.

0:20 - introduction 0:47 - fundamentals 5:36 - Natural angle in-offs #1 8:14 - using check side to narrow the natural angle 9:09 - use running side to widen the natural angle 9:47 - forcing in-offs 11:25 - other examples of forcing in-offs 12:47 - training your eye for natural angles, long loser from D 14:49 - middle pocket losers 15:48 - short jenny (beautiful instruction here) 17:08 - long jenny 17:52 - run-through in-offs 18:56 - kiss in-offs 19:33 - (double) kiss cannons 21:20 - long run through in-offs (Along the nap) 22:07 - long run through in-offs (Against the nap) 23:14 - screw in-offs 22:53 - run-off in-offs 24:35 - cushion first cannon, against the nap *Awkward positions* 25:29 - cue ball and red on opposite side of the long cushion 26:04 - cue ball and red along the cush 26:59 - ricochet off the cushion, using top check side, for a cannon 27:53 - long, screw check sides in-offs *Top of the table (TOTT)* 29:03 - Introduction 30:00 - The box & sequences leading to TOTT 32:32 - Recovering the opponent’s cue ball 34:32 - Postman’s knock demonstration 39:38 - Be patient in developing into postman’s knock position 42:12 - Using checkside to get high on the red without getting too close to the side cush 43:38 - getting to the ‘dribble’ position 44:17 - focus on getting opponent cb into the box 46:33 - Sequence leading back into ideal TOTT position (oppo CB back into the box) 47:16 - Sequence II 47:59 - Sequence III (Feather the red from a cannon, getting both balls together) 48:44 - Kiss Cannon into a box 49:30 - Slip-through cannon 50:43 - Sequence IV, Lovely, lengthy sequence on how to get back into ideal position 57:45 - gentle floating white, keeping it nice and close. 1:00:36 - Getting back to top of the table with opponent CB in the box already. 1:01:01 - Better to end up very high on the red than low. 1:01:46 - Intricacies in recovering the white to the center line 1:03:39 - sequences leading to the red ending on the pyramid spot because oppo CB occupied the billiards spot 1:06:20 - Discussion of drop cannons 1:12:40 - Epilogue 1:15:16 - Lovely story about Walter Lindrum 1:17:23 - Exhibition match between Bob Marshall and Robby Foldvari

I have my ear plugs in to listen while I reproduce every shot. Wow my game has picked up at least 40 extra points at top of table with the knock method. So thankyou very much for putting this video out there for all to learn from.

I think that he is using a Brady 2pce cue with secret joint, made in Adelaide, which might be the same cue that he used when i saw him in Melbourne at an exhibition in about 1987 (he must have in 1987 given up using his good old cue). He surprised everyone (1987) when he rolled the Brady cue across the table & it jumped & jumped koz it had a giant bend. And he then surprised everyone when he unscrewed the secret wood to wood joint. He called the Brady cue the best cue in the world. But i had a Brady cue, & looking back today i can see that it had a big heavy brass midjoint - most players today would say that it was a terrible cue. Today i have lots of cues with secret joints (the yanks call them sneaky petes) & some of the joints are brilliant, very light, not much brass, partly using stainless steel. Bob's Brady cue here looks to have a brass ferrule. In a 1965 exhibition i dont think that it had a ferrule, it looked to have a fat 2pce leather tip, with a plastic backing, & probly glued with a good old fashioned green wafer. The new Brady cue in hs 1965 exhibition was just his trick cue. Alltho in 1965 one or two shots look to be with his good old cue, that i think in later years he gave to Matthew Bolton's dad.

Thank You for this.

Absolutely brilliant video. It is incredible that any amateur player could be that good at any age but to still be that good in his seventies is almost beyond credibility.

Just realised there's a 300 break in that game , what a man!

thanks so much

One of best player in the world.

I remember playing pool in the Czech Republic. Got shouted at by a Czech because I was using an English bridge rather than a Czechy/American ie a ring by your finger version. Went on to tell me about Czech union of pool players and how everyone has do it this way. I just told him to**** off!