Excellent tips, I’ve changed my plan for this morning and I’m now off to the snooker club for an hours practice. Thanks for the lesson and advice Steve. 👍

Thanks Steve, you seem to know the things inside my head when I’m on the snooker table. Cheers 🍻 mate

Best teacher on earth,nobdy is better bless u steve

one of the best complete explanations I have ever seen THANKYOu

I found cue action is like when you first learn to drive. Coordinating and thinking about all the things you need to do and getting them to flow is difficult. But then it suddenly clicks with practice and becomes second nature. Your videos have been invaluable in helping me go from not playing for 20 years in February, to getting a 42 break last Sunday.

thanks for the session today Steve thoroughly enjoyed it lots to work on and looking forward to it 👍

Absolutely fantastic analysis. Thank you.

Superb video session. Very well explained. Thank’s a lot for your tips, your generosity to us, passionated snooker players.

Top notch !! - 👌 Clear, concise, and well filmed !

Thanks for the lesson and advice Steve. Very useful video.

This is PERFECT… thank you!!!!

I very much enjoy your videos and I specifically like the manner of your delivery and the attention to details that you highlight. There are lots of online coaching videos out there but by far I think I enjoy yours over all others. Keep up the excellent work. I am off now to try and correct and fine tune my cue action and delivery as for me this has always been my nemesis. When I am cueing good I am totally confident with my game and can pot anything no matter how difficult. I realize that in order to get my game to the next level I will have to spend those extra hours practicing the cue action.

Brilliant!!! That's exactly my problem. I always miss out on one of those technical details and miss the pot. Thank you so much Steve.

I finally have the screw shot consistent! I even managed an 8ft screw yesterday! Thanks for the technique videos they've helped a lot. Just need to do drills now because I feel like my technique is good, again, thanks to your videos. Hoping to get a 1to1 with you eventually

Great walk through!

Brilliantly explained Steve, 😊, little tips helping

Brilliant video Steve

"Moving the cue into the back of my hand...". That was a REAL game changer for me. Incredible improvement with hitting the CB. ❤❤❤❤ ty

Great job 🙏 thanks for ur tips

That is brilliant teaching

Thanks to your coaching videos I cleared the colours up for the first time ever, yesterday 👍

Great info ,steve 👍

Thanks Steve this will really help me with my match later

Excellent tip on the grip.

Awesome video as always!

Now I can improve my skills.... I like how you teach

Thanks Steve. Just wondering if you can give more sessions for safety shots and escaping from snookers.

Thanks

Excelent classe! I like so much. Thanks

As always sir ❤️

I made my first lineup clearence today, (132), i see your videos often and that has helped a lot

Damn this is helpful because I need help with this consistently

Good video Steve. Of course, one thing that I think can trip players up is thinking too much about these kinds of things when playing in a match. I can say from experience from playing in handicap tournaments that trying to forget the basics whilst still employing them is extremely difficult and takes time as well as learning to master the basics! One thing you can do is get the mind to focus on something else in matches like your fav song or a fav phrase so that you’re not having the mind wander onto whether you’re doing this or that right: difficult but it’s slowly working for me in matches.

Another great video Steve - thanks. A key question from this is how to best go about practising to ingrain each of these elements. For example, would you recommend in a one hour practice session focusing on just one element for the whole hour, eg “finish at the chest” and do “pause before the final delivery” at the next practice session? Or would it be better to do several of these over the hour, say each one for 10 minutes then on to the next one?

Coach Barton, hello from Hollywood, California. A question and a comment. Question: What part does the flat side of a snooker cue play in how you grip and stroke the cue? I only play 14.1 straight pool and here in the "Colonies" all of the cue butts are round. Comment: The three (3) pool players I follow and model my game after (Neils Feijen , Shane Van Boening and Dennis Orcullo) all pause their cue tips about 2 to 3 inches from the cue ball, before they shoot. Also, both Neils and Dennis have a pronounced forward cue slip stroke. Cheers

Great video Steve! Very interesting as always 😊😊Hope you are keeping well! Best wishes ! Ian

謝謝！

Hello Barton , make a video on side spin how to play or tips your all videos are 👍👍❤️ worth watching

Please make a video on safety shots 👍🏻

Hi Barton, congratulations for the excellent video. Thank you very much! A question, in the time 8:44 seconds to start the delivery: Should I focus on delivering the cue? the hand? or my elbow that makes this delivery? How to start this transition to realize the delivery?

Hi Steve. Another excellent video. I notice not that on the follow through you actually appear to release the cue up to the butt & then grip it again as you complete the shot. Does this have to be done on every shot depending on the power required? I've never done or seen that before.

Hi Steve … I’ve been playing snooker for some years now - never paused before delivering a shot till now … but now I’m trying to inculcate the pause at the end of backswing before delivering the shot but I’m failing to do so … I’m either missing the pot or I’m unable to judge the power of the shot … is there a way in which I could practice specifically to inculcate the pause ? Waiting for your reply … Thank you :)

Nice

When you come out here to australia i have a very good 3/4 heiron and smith table in the beer shed you can trim me up a bit then stevO

good brake down

Have you ever thought of turning professional?

Hi Steve, really good video. I got a 45 break today and I really think the last few videos have massively helped. I’ve always loosened my grip on the back swing and follow through but I still get the sea-saw action. Do you know what might be causing that?

Hi Barton, thank you for this excellent analysis. I have a few questions. (4:15) If I put the cue on the line, is that quite accurate? I can't see the aim line, because the cue is in between and blocks my view. (4:46) When you slide into the shot, is the position of the cue locked relative to the cue ball? So basically it's your hand sliding relative to the cue. Fine tunning is really fine (a few centimeters) (6:42) I think the relaxation of the elbow during the backswing is because you don't relax your wrist? If you open your wrist at the end, you can maintain the height of your elbow. However, during the forward swing, we need to bring the elbow back up to height. Barton, what is more accurate during the forward stroke? a) Coordinating the wrist angle and maintaining the elbow position b) Coordinating the elbow position and maintaining the wrist angle? (9:25) As I can see, during the pressure change between the front and back fingers, you released the cue completely? At the end (9:50) you hold the end of the cue, not so at the beginning (9:42). How consistent is this on your shot?

That que touch ur chest or not when u aiming before deliver..hope u can explain it😊😊 thank you

*thank you for this video* just 1 question based on this great video most coaches and pros say, get the cue tip to behind cueball. the way i play is i think shaun murphy does that, eg: as i get down my cue tip is above the cueball and i have to pull the cue back to bring the cue tip back behind the white, then start my featuring. does that cause problem ? and make the cue offline?

I dont seem to be able to save this to a playlist?. Or clip it.

Great video Steve, thanks for this. I did notice however that while you feather the cue ball you hold the cue about 4 inches from the butt, but when you strike the cue ball, the butt comes into the middle of your palm. Is that normal to let the cue go a few inches ahead of your grip?

What kind of grip do you hold? Please explain.

Hi, do you think John Parris Cues are worth it? I ordered JP Classic few months ago and hope it improves my game even just a little bit, or at least I'm then more excited to play with good cue

Hey Steve, thanks for you lesson and tips. I have a problem that really struggling me: I'm using an ash cue, and I found that the arrows twisted to right side after i potted balls, which suppose on top side. Is that my cue hand to loose or too tight? or I squeezed the cue?

Sir can i ask u something . Seems like your grip position is changing on the butt during delivery... In the begining of a shot it is almost 3 inches away from the bottom of butt.. But when u deliver the cue the grip has reached to the end of the butt he . How can u slide or control ur cue ? Is tht the right cue action?

At 05:02 you mention fine tuning, does that mean that it is ok to move the cue out of the initial line of aim (i.e turn a bit to the left or right) if you think that aiming was not done correctly? Thanks

Hey barton does a cue oil increase or decrease the power of a cue?? And does a cue decreases it power in humidity weather? I will be waiting for your answer

M still comdused about side..of cue ball..where to hit exactly..on red ball..can u plz sort out this problem....bro..

What're u thinking when your bridge hand hits the table, or are u thinking at all??

i realise you don't open the back 3 fingers that much. As the play gets longer we tend to grip the cue harder.

Steve, does the cue slip through your hand when at you chest? On the back swing you can see the butt of the cue beyond your hand but can't when at your chest

Moving the pressure from from to back hand is the real problem in ronnie case he just uses the pressure grip with two middle fingers that why he seems like he is not putting much effort in playing snooker plz guide how to transfer pressure from front to back,

I seem to cue across the hall a lot

Seems you change your cue action comparing to the previous videos. Can’t see the bottom/ end of the cue when you finished the shot.

You can see the cue butt sticking out from your grip at the back but I noticed that upon your final delivery, the cue butt disappears into your palm. Is this natural?

🙏🙏👌👌👍👍👏👏

Not trying to criticise at all, but it looks very much like the butt of the cue slides a few inches down your grip just as you deliver the cue, is this the correct technique?

Are you intentionally letting the cue slip through your hand on delivery

👌🌷💓🙏💓🌷👌

Sounds silly, but for a normal shot I know I've cued it nicely if my cue hand hits my nipple.

why does it look like the cue is sliding in your hand, Steve?

Looks like your cue is held lightly against your chest when cuing - yet no mention of this ???

All of that and you never mentioned your cue being in contact with your chin. It looks like that shot could have been done with less cue elevation but I think you've elevated for that chin contact.

Thanks