In this recent thread Stephen Hendry seems to have done the somewhat easier line-up drill 10 times in a row, but not all blacks:
That would be 360 consecutive shots on a 6x12 snooker table.
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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That would be 360 consecutive shots on a 6x12 snooker table.
I only got 9 red+yellow so far when i tried...
I make this sometimes but all reds are below blue. Same way when i do it normally. It is crazy hard pick 2 below black and go back to yellow.
"In practice" and doing a drill are pretty much the same thing in snooker. Nobody practises by tippy-tapping the reds. They either open them up on the break or they set them up for a drill. Likewise, when you solo-practise rotation games you don't have a neutral racker or gaps between the balls or rack it higher or lower on the spot. When someone says they made a century in practice or they ran an x-pack in practice I think we all know what they mean. "In practice" means just that.
The 10 year old kid has the goods.
The 10 year old kid has the goods.
Now I'm from the UK, so sometimes things are lost in translation...
Here a drill of course is practice, but I've never once heard of anyone claim they got a break from a drill.
Getting a break of x in practice means getting that break in a match situation, not from balls in a line up (its a grey area if you're playing a 'match' against yourself, but when it comes up in commentary it typically refers to a match in a club against an opponent as opposed to in a tournament).
Perhaps the US terminology is different, but to me its very clear cut.
Now that's not to say a break is any better or worse than a line up, I remember reading a Steve Davis book when I was young and it said that he actually felt a drill in some respects was harder and would give him more satisfaction to complete as you can't get lucky with position in the same way perhaps you could in a normal match situation.
So in short anyone who can complete a challenging drill like that at such a young age must be a decent player, but that's a separate point to claiming they have had a 147 in practice.
The splash screen of the video should have been the tip-off. Unless you thought the balls could be in that configuration during a game, which is pretty ridiculous.