I have an original copy of his book “How I play Snooker”. It was very specific about stance, bridges, theory etc. His chin alignment was slightly off to compensate for nearsightedness in one eye. His chapters on screw, stun and especially masse were revelatory. I love that book. Thank you for the stuff about walking into a shot. Interesting concept.

@nuntana2

3 жыл бұрын

Ronnie’s mentioned that book a few times.

Great to see Billiards getting a mention, there’d be no Snooker without it !

Nice video keep up the good work Abdullah from Baghdad Iraq 👌🏻

Found you last week and loved the video. Another great one. Subscribed now and loving the videos. Looking forward to what is to come.

From Wisconsin in the USA and I gotta say I love these videos as a billiards player. Makes me appreciate snooker in a new light.

Your channel has helped me alot in improving my game, thanks mate keep up the good work

I have been looking getting into 3-ball billiards, with a 9-ball cue, this video has been great, I have skittles as well.

Really instructing vids. I'm from Bristol, England

Howdy from Perth Western Australia!! Love the videos...

The billiards explanation actually had me in stitches, brilliant stuff!

Long time snooker fan. This is one of the best snooker videos I have seen on youtube.

0:08 life wouldn't be half as fun without these mishaps. Greetings from Bologna, Italy.

Agree with the last post great to see a bit billiards and a nice little input with your humourous attemp at nursery canons

Great video. It helps a lot, Shamel from Dublin Ireland here

I was waiting for this kind of video for ages! Thank you very much! Great stuff. Could you make a video about how rules changed game of snooker, finals lost that otherwise wouldn't and so on? Dusan from Belgrade, cheers mate!

That tripped me out, lol. Listening at 2:51 am whilst engulfed in office work. Phone on the corner of desk playing great snooker feed...when he started talking to me. Thanks!!

I love this! Im from Redditch in Worcestershire

Class videos, keep them coming please

Great snooker history class! Greetings from Zagreb Croatia

Great video! Love the history. 🙂 From Beloit, Kansas, USA!

Largely on topic, well done.

Some useful tips as always, thanks again, Adelaide, Australia

Loved this video and the previous video about Stephen Hendry Maybe you could do one about Steve Davis or Ray Reardon

Fantastic videos and detailed explanation in each of them, definitly love this channal, Frank from Shanghai, China.

Great vid mate, very informative.

Hello from Singapore. Great insights into Joe Davies' game.

Brilliant videos, watching from Cork, Ireland.

Love the Vid's mate! Coming at you from Sunny South Shields ;)

Love these vids. Hello from NYC.

Enjoying your videos from San Francisco, CA. Keep it up! I am a pool player but recently have been playing snooker whenever I get the chance. I hadn't heard of the sport until you popped up in my recommendations :) I hope to see some American snooker professionals in the future now that your videos are reaching me, it would be interesting to explain the lack of interest from our cue players thus far! I know we have bigger pockets and balls but something tells me that's not the only deterrent. Thank you and cheers!

@trek520rider2

2 жыл бұрын

My guess is cost a 12 ft by 6 ft snooker table costs a lot more than a pool table and needs a lot more room.

Great video! We've featured it in an article about the great man! Thanks!

Morning mate cheers for another Vid

Loving the vids - from Cardiff, Wales 👍🏼

Cracking channel and vids! Would love my own snooker table in my house, maybe one day lol keep the good stuff coming 😎🎱 Jordan, Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales

Superb video mate 👍

love your content! all the best from Iran.

Love the content mate, hi from Las Vegas, Nevada

Hello from Hong Kong!! Love your videos!!

Hi from Ipoh, malaysia!

I'd like to see some Snooker Plus sounds like it could be good!

Love your videos, Ayden from Falkirk, Scotland

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

I’m actually up in Scotland this week, haven’t got my cue with me though

Great video just like the others :D I'm watching you from Hungary. :)

That break by Joe Davis was the best text book break I've seen it is the same as a straight pool break.

Hello from college station Texas! Love your videos!

Great video again mate. Small idea not sure if you've done this before, but have you ever thought about making a video of escaping from the most difficult snookers from Masters and World Championship 19? Think this would be very entertaining

hello love ur channel love from isaac from qawra malta!

Great vid, really interesting and so true Joshua, Blackpool, England

Great vid, all the way from Koh Rong Samloem, Cambodia

@scambodia147

5 жыл бұрын

Small world,just got back to the uk from Otres,have u got much rain there yet?

Love ur vids and I’m from Monmouth Wales(UK)

Hey, watching from Verona Italy here 👋

incredible! Diogo from Portugal!

Great vids and helps me improve my game! Watched almost all of them 😉 Andrew from Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦. Now living in London, UK 🇬🇧

I wish I could play snooker. I love it! But I have a sight issue so that when I see the cue perfectly straight and hitting the middle of the cueball, I am actually cueing across considerably to the left. I tried hard - and with Joe Davis's book as my guide in the early days, not realising that the harder I tried, the worse I would play! The sighting issue is so marked as to fairly consistently miss a straight blue across the table onto the left jaw. It took me 35 years to discover that sighting issue so it's too late now for change and improvement. I've hung my cue up - regretfully.

Really helpful vids from Essex but now living in Alta, Norway

Greetings from Wrocław!

You could put Chesterfield up on your map. Joe and Fred Davis both lived here when they were kids and had a snooker salon in the middle of town. Also, Mike Watterson who brought the snooker world championships to the Crucible in Sheffield lived here too and played snooker in the Chesterfield League. 👍👍

Great video! Loved break from life in 1927. Maybe do a video on how Ronnie changed snooker? Patrick from Sydney, Aus

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

That is the next one of those I’m doing. Not the next video but the next one of those

Love your videos a lot . . . Love from india

Good video content as usual (especially for those who don't know who Joe Davis was) with a dash of fun. :) Dont really get why 17 people don't like the video!

Hi from Sydney, Australia!

Love watching your snooker videos here in Columbus, Ohio. Home of The Ohio State University.

On Sat. afternoon tv in about 1963 he put the cue ball up on the top of the cushion, bottom right, sent the ball all round the table on top of the cushion finally falling into the hole where it started. I wish I knew how he did it.

This was very interesting, liked the one on Hendry too. I had no idea about the original billiards game but it looks like it's probably where 3 cushion comes from. Have you ever given that game a try?

I’m a young lad from Madrid Spain, honestly don’t know what to write, but it’d be cool to be in one of your vids. Keep up the good work!

Good video

Hello from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!

Tom watching from Basildon, Essex United Kingdon

Great stuff. Im from fortaleza Brasil

Watching from Kathmandu,Nepal.

Joe Davis wrote the book "How I play snooker" but when you see footage of him actually playing he breaks every rule that he expected new players to observe. He lifts his head as he makes a shot and he rushes every shot when his cardinal rule was to slow down. He was a long time world snooker champion at a time when hardly anybody played the game and very few understood the principles. He did contribute to the popularity of the game but he wasn't in the same class as modern players such as Hendry, Trump, Osullivan and a host of other top line players. To anybody who says that he was amongst the greats I would invite you to compare his stop start style with the smoothness we see in modern snooker. He wouldn't make the grade today.

Thanks for the great footage and tips ,useless bit of info but it looked like Bruce Forsythe in a few of the old clips.

@paulriggall8370

5 жыл бұрын

It was nice to see him, to see him nice.

@davebron4888

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing for a pair.

Hello from Stirling in Scotland

New snooker fan, and new sub from Madison, Wisconsin in the US! I have a problem with deflection, and am wondering what I can do to minimize this frustrating part of my game.

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

It depends if you mean you are striking the ball with sidespin intentionally or unintentionally. Either way finding the centre of the CueBall isn’t always straightforward

I've got a purple and orange ball. Online, they're about £100, but I emailed Thurston and they had them for £7 or 8 each. Barely used them haha

WHERE did you get an orange and a purple snooker ball from???

I want you to make video why sometime cue fumble while playing screw shots

Do you reckon you could test the sight right? See if it helps at all

Shout out from Oldham, Manchester?

I read that Fred Davies only lost 5-1 in a pro match at the qge of 80 in the late 90s i think it was. Nuts how good they both were.

Love from Sikkim,India.

Hello from Minas Gerais, Brazil

Joe Davis was left eyed, which meant he had to stand over to the left in order to get that eye over the cue. That also meant he played with a ramrod straight left arm. Try standing that way and you'll see that its unavoidable. In addition, he played with his cue arm INSIDE the vertical, not vertically. If you watch footage carefully you'll see his elbow drop as the cue goes through. Indeed, all these points are addressed by Frank Callan in his teachings and his book, Frank Callans Snooker Clinic. Steve Davis and his father Bill also recognised the flaws in Joes technique when Steve was learning the game back in the early 70s. It is for these reasons that the modern game stems from Steve Davis rather than Joe. Steve was the first player to analyse and correct the "bible" which was Joe's book "How I Play Snooker". Until then, Joes word was law. There have been no further improvements to the accepted technique since Steve Davis set the standard in the late 70s/early 80s. It is the best way to cue for an even sighted player. Joe was left eyed, and simply couldn't play that way. All of this has been common knowledge for over thirty years. Incidentally, Joe did not make the first maximum break of 147. He made the first officially recognised one in 1955. The first maximum was in 1927.

@Muninman

Жыл бұрын

I was going to add some of this information, so well done for beating me to it. Yes, influential book in which Joe acknowledged his adjustments due to eye weaknesses. And Steve Davis used that as a template from which he improved the general technique. But I think we have to give Joe a lot of credit for his analytical mind.

@graememcgregor8407

11 ай бұрын

@@Muninman We'd have no modern game if it weren't for Joe Davis. I just want to tweak your wording in regard to the flaws in Joe's technique. With respect I think that idiosynchrosy might be a better word. If they were flaws then Joe wouldn't have been the player he was. Thanks for the info about the first max, I didn't know that. Do you know who made that break? When I Google it, I get conflicting information.

love your videos but a rail shot near those stacked boxes has to be a nightmare. I would move those boxes somewhere else.

Dylan Boston, Middlesbrough!

do one on Ronnie

Walter Lindrum the greatest billiard player that ever lived,absolute genius.

Was that Bruce Forsyth in the straight arm demo?

@Breakfromlife

Жыл бұрын

It was. I think he managed to host pretty much every TV show at some point

ok, i'll watch this again then

I'm from Norway, Oslo

Your class

Mason Fishell from Pittsburgh, love your videos and Love playing snooker. but where can I get those extra orange and purple balls?

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

I’ve got a set of American pool balls that was just the 4 and 5 ball. But I think you can buy them online

Im from malta!! :)

Joe D.....Mr Snooker himself!!! Swore like a trooper lol

Love from India

From Halifax West Yorkshire

I love these videos - please send your cue to me and I'll put a proper tip on it - its been bugging me for a while.

@Breakfromlife

4 жыл бұрын

It’s all good just need to sand it down a bit more at some point

Joe Davis 15 worlds vs each of 2 8's 2 7's and 2 6's. How people can say that Joe Davis is not even in the picture in terms of the greatest is ridiculous.

If you put me on the map could you say "yeehaw". I'm from Dallas Texas. Also thanks for your videos, they are super entertaining and very helpful even though I played American billiards.

next video please do it on Louis XIV and Marie Antionette who also played a pivotal role in popularizing billiards

@azngoku666

5 жыл бұрын

seconding this

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

Possibly, it’s actually slightly less abstract than video 5 for this series

One frome your old subscriber ❤❤ I see Morocco is empty on the map I m Bilal from Morocco 👍❤