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

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.

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

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

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

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

Really instructing vids. I'm from Bristol, England

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!

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.

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

Class videos, keep them coming please

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

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

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

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

Great vid mate, very informative.

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

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!!

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!

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

Love these vids. Hello from NYC.

Loving the vids - from Cardiff, Wales 👍🏼

I love this! Im from Redditch in Worcestershire

Morning mate cheers for another Vid

Great snooker history class! Greetings from Zagreb Croatia

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

Largely on topic, well done.

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

Brilliant videos, watching from Cork, Ireland.

Love the content mate, hi from Las Vegas, Nevada

Superb video mate 👍

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

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

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

love your content! all the best from Iran.

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 from Hong Kong!! Love your videos!!

Hello from college station Texas! Love your videos!

Love your videos, Ayden from Falkirk, Scotland

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

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

Hi from Ipoh, malaysia!

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

Hey, watching from Verona Italy here 👋

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

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!

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

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

incredible! Diogo from Portugal!

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!

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

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

Love your videos a lot . . . Love from india

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?

Greetings from Wrocław!

Good video

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. 👍👍

Hi from Sydney, Australia!

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.

Great stuff. Im from fortaleza Brasil

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.

Hello from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!

Tom watching from Basildon, Essex United Kingdon

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.

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.

Watching from Kathmandu,Nepal.

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

Hello from Stirling in Scotland

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Hello from Minas Gerais, Brazil

do one on Ronnie

I'm from Norway, Oslo

Your class

Love from Sikkim,India.

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.

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

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

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.

Dylan Boston, Middlesbrough!

Love from India

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

Im from malta!! :)

Saludos desde Perú.... 👍

Was that Bruce Forsyth in the straight arm demo?

Nice video bro. I am from Pakistan Multan.

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

Make a video on Neil Robertson's exhibition shots.(My_favorite) Greatings from mian channu, punjab, Pakistan

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