Me included. I've potted 35 of those balls on that drill. Trouble is I always miss the first red.
10 year old boy gets 147 doing a drill which to some is not the same as practice. This wasn't done during an actual game.
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2 separate and distinct issues here
1. clickbaity title
2. an impressive prodigy putting on a display I am grateful to have witnessed. Marvelling how cleanly he gets through some of those follow shots.
I believe there is no person alive that can make 147 on game if he have not been doing it earlier from drills and practice. doing 147 from drill is almost as difficult as in game. Only you can repeat it from same position and learn best ways to play it and if you are good enough you can do it. Game you have only one chance from that position and it will make odds really hard. No matter how good you are.
First kudos to the budding kid. They are the future. OTOH, players should leave the marveling to the fans and wannabes. Easy for me to say. Still, wannabes should get over errant sports barriers. 36 strokes? Go practice and start counting.
it's a good movie and no doubt a classic, but not quite as rewatchable as big lebowski. bill murray is a brilliant sport nemesis
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It is a drill. I have seen another very strong Snooker player (instructor) showing this same drill.
If anything that's more clickbait. As it's vagueness forces the reader to click in order to learn more.
"incredible shooting"?
Incredible shooting of what exactly?
My title
10 year old boy (fact)
gets 147 (fact)
in practice (fact)
What's in the OP
A video of a 10 year old boy getting a 147 in practice
That's not clickbait.
The thread title isn't vague, it's just false. Had the thread title been "10 year old shows mind-blowing snooker skills" it's still a must open thread, but the thread title is no longer false.
In pool, if you complete a simple drill involving ten object balls, you don't claim a run of ten, you just claim a successfully completed drill. A drill does not count as a run. If you do it ten times in a row, you haven't run 100.
It's both arbitrary and unnecessary to score a drill as it were a true inning of play.
Of course, we'll watch your thread titles carefully going forward. If your next thread is "Man Gets Screwed on Pool Table" we'll probably expect a video of a guy whose runout ends because of a skid rather than a video of something not suitable for younger audiences.
Nope... you can split the hair regarding the "in practice" distinction all you want, but in reality the young guy completed a drill. He was not playing the game, so therefore it was not "in practice" of snooker. "Scores 147 in snooker drill", sure
Scoring a 147 via drill is very impressive imo. However no where near the level of doing it in game.
Interesting... So if Reggie Miller had a 104 consecutive 3 pointer record in the NBA, would you then give the record to Stef because he did 105 on the practice court...?
Explain what is false about it, please.
Of course there is a distinction between practice and an actual game, but that shouldn't take away from this kid's accomplishment.
Just so you're aware, snooker is not pool. In pool, you can simulate a game of 9 ball by breaking the rack and trying to runout. You don't have that luxury in snooker. If you want to work on your break building, then practicing drills like the one in the video is the best way to do it.
Not all forms of practice are drills, but all drills are practice.
Thanks for the video. Some people never post content and only lurk to trash the content posted by others.
That kid's a straight shooter.
For these very few players out there that are extremely skilled in both pool and snooker (certainly not me in either) my hunch is they’d tell you that what that 10 year old snooker player did is on par in terms of difficulty with a player running 150 in straight pool in a practice session.
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Yes, I have played snooker about twenty times. What makes a 147 break so rare is that the reds, which begin in a triangle formation, all need to be developed, and doing so without ever losing position onto the black is very difficult. The feat can be done in competition or in a practice match. Solo practice with a full triangle of reds can be done, but requires that safeties are played until there is an opening of some sort. This gives you practice in both safety play and in break building in a typical game situation.
The drill presented here is excellent practice, but it's a drill. The drill covers some, but not all, snooker break building skills, most notably omitting developing the reds. The nine ball ghost is also a drill. A ten pack against the ghost should not be confused with a ten pack and nobody having any integrity who runs a ten pack against the ghost would ever dare make the claim of having run a ten pack without qualifying that claim by saying that it was against the ghost.
Although one can score them if they choose and in any way they want, drills are not scored in the same way as ordinary racks of pool or frames of snooker and when one talks of a run in pool or a break in snooker, one is not referring to the completion or partial completion of a drill. That's what's false about the thread title. If I do a drill, I might record that I completed the drill successfully on two of my ten attempts, but I'm not going to count each ball made consecutively as if it were a run. That would misrepresent and overstate my accomplishment.
I have already said that this kid's accomplishment is extremely impressive, even calling it mind-blowing, and I said that he shows great promise, but the thread title misrepresents his accomplishment. He scored 147 in a drill, and did not score a 147 in practice, which means something completely different.