Master Your Potting Angles (The Easy Way!)

Today we're looking at some techniques to help you pot balls regularly and impress your mates. Stephen walks through some essential practices that help master the process for lining up a shot and ensuring it goes into the pocket. We also look at some more advanced potting techniques such as aiming with side. The GoPro POV angle makes another appearance so we can all see exactly how Stephen lines up his shots. Let us know in the comments anything that you want Stephen to do a Cue Tip on in future videos!

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[troyberber]

I think I can speak for everyone reading this when I say how happy and pleased I am to have this access to the insight and training from the legend himself: Stephen Hendry.what a champion, and a role model. Thank you and everyone involved for starting this channel, and please keep it up. Cheers.

[AdarshNalam]

"Never lose your potting point." 20 years of playing and this game keeps teaching me new things. This channel is a gift!

[krishnabirla]

Amazing to see he didn't edit out the miss on the black. Great teacher.

[eljumbotron]

One of the best to ever pick up a cue giving coaching online for free. What an absolute banger of a channel

[reformaster]

I love how his not afraid of showing he misses sometimes. That's what makes me want to follow for more ;)

[mikedolan]

I never comment on anything. But really love the idea of this channel. Big fan of john higgins but Stephen hendry got me interested in snooker. Always followed you as a young lad. You and mark chatting was legendary. Both you guys are great characters. Hoping to see Judd get his form back. Love watching him play these days.

[andy.robinson]

Thanks for keeping the duff shots in the final edit. Many on YouTube probably wouldn't!

[akib]

This is unbelievable. Stephen is a GOAT of the game. My favourite player growing up. An absolute machine. And he's so good at explaining things in such a simple way. Makes me wanna go and play some snooker.

[RoyChadwick]

What an absolute professional this man was in the 1990s

1992-93-94-94-95 .

He won it 5 years on the trot . DOMINATION .

Also on 1990 and 1999 .

❤

[danielstevens]

This is definitely one of the best channels to learn from, especially from the 7 Times world champion. Keep it up!

[JakeMay]

Impressive how this channel didn't need any time to get up to speed with making excellent videos – great stuff

[MaffeyZilog]

These tips with the demonstration and explanation from a player the calibre of Stephen are just excellent.
Really like how the demonstrations aren't long-winded or over-explained.
These are things I've known and had explained before, but watching and listening to Stephen demonstrate them makes you feel like you've learned the tips and why they are used.
10/10

[asifbty]

First time snooker coaching from a 7 time world champion. Keep it up.

[TidusfromZanarkand]

The visualisation that made me actually understand and improve my aiming early on, was imagining the relative positions of the cue and object ball during their contact, I'll try to explain as simply as I can, because I've seen many people that struggle with learning the angles when they just started playing:

Imagine you are watching the contact from above for simplicity, and the two balls are circles (you can also grab the cue ball and place it touching the object ball, in order to visualise it better). When the contact happens, there is a spot on the surface of the two 'circles' where the two balls will touch, and this spot will be on the assumed line the centre of the cue ball and the centre of the object ball create when connected. If your aim was true, then the extension of that line towards and beyond the object ball will cross the heart of the pocket. When aiming, you imagine where the cue ball will need to contact the object ball, in order for their centres to belong in that line that crosses the pocket.

If you just look at the object ball, and figure out the spot on the surface of it where you need to have the contact happen, but you then get behind the cue ball and aim for that spot right on, you will miss. If your aim, aka the line that your cue makes which the cue ball will follow on the table, crosses the spot behind the object ball, the two balls will make contact before that, and you'll hit thick. Your aim should instead be for the spot you imagine the cue ball hitting, and getting the angle for the pot. It's like visualising the cue ball in contact with the spot 'behind' the object ball instead of just finding the spot on the object ball and aiming for that.

It would have been so much easier if I had an image to show you, but this is pretty much how it works. When I teach friends that don't play as often as I do, I grab the cue ball and place it with my hand behind their target object ball, to help them visualise where to hit when they check the angle. More experienced players or people that have studied geometry will take this example for granted but if you are a starter, this might 'unlock' something in your brain ;)

[Xtro]

Thank you for this. I'm one of those casual players who's missed these pots for 20 years and wondered why.

[dmkiii]

This helped to answer questions I had about how to aim with side that have been problematic for me for a long time. How fortunate are we to have Mr. Hendry himself as a personal tutor? This channel is wonderful. Thank you Mr Hendry for your time and priceless expertise in cue sports.

[janner]

Not long started snooker as well as previously being a pool player, but learning pretty quickly, thanks to channels like this, Thanks Stephen for taking the time for us all. much appreciated

[jamesgoddard]

I love cue tips, it's great to see the players in a relaxed environment away from the pressure of competing with each other you really get a better understanding of their characters and the pressure they feel during matches.
Think Stephen is doing a bang up job on presenting.

[kurtkensson]

I've never played a frame of snooker, but I'm liking this channel's content, so I subscribed. The information can often be transferred to pool.

[leiflindqvist]

Really great content. For us happy amateurs who have played pool or snooker for a long, long time without a coach, there is a lot to think about when watching these videos. Very good, hope it continues!